If you want to navigate your page yourself, this is a good option to have.Īpple Notes doesn’t have a zoom tool, neither can you zoom in and out of pages. Once you do, though, it’s pretty easy to use. You can turn off auto-advance to use the navigation tools on the right of the zoom toolbar. Auto-advance in GoodNotes is a bit difficult to get used to. When using auto-advance, the zoom tool will move to the next line and start from the margin. In GoodNotes, your zoom tool lets you add a margin to your page. For some, it can even improve your handwriting. The zoom tool lets you fit more information on a page. Writing toolsĬomparing the pen tools in GoodNotes and Apple Notes. It feels natural writing in both GoodNotes and Apple Notes. Both apps have accurate handwriting representation and have no lag. The handwriting experience in either app comes down to your personal preference. The vector ink in GoodNotes doesn’t pixelate as you zoom in. Apple Notes use raster ink which loses its resolution as your zoom in on your pages. GoodNotes uses vector ink for all its pen tools. GoodNotes does not have a pencil tool, and you can’t adjust the opacity of your pen tools. In Apple Notes, you can add custom colours to a secondary colour palette. You can’t change these, which you can in GoodNotes even though it only displays three colours at a time. Apple Notes measures opacity in percentages that show on the tools as you customise them.Įach tool has five default colours are the end of the toolbar. They both have five fixed sizes only, not a wide variety. For both writing tools, you can adjust their opacity and thickness. Each time you want a new thickness that’s not already on your toolbar, you have to replace one of the three, which can be a bit uncomfortable.Īpple Notes has one pen and one pencil tool. However, your toolbar only accommodates three thicknesses and colours. The app gives you a wider range of pen sizes than Apple Notes. You can decide the exact thickness you want for your pens in GoodNotes. Your pen sizes are measured in millimetres from 0.1mm to 2.0mm. GoodNotes has three pen types, a fountain, ballpoint and a brush pen. GoodNotes’ toolbar is fixed at the top or bottom of the app, depending on whether you are right or left-handed. You can move it around the page or minimise it, depending on what you are doing. Page customisationĪdd custom paper templates to app’s libraryĬomparing page customisation in GoodNotes and Apple Notes.Īpple Notes has a mobile toolbar. You have to rename every notebook you create to avoid any confusion. In GoodNotes, your default notebook title is Untitled Notebook. You can edit the title if you’re not happy with it. Every new notebook in Apple Notes has a unique title. Apple Notes doesn’t have the option to rearrange your pages in the app since you only have one page.Īpple Notes automatically generates a title for your notebook from the first words in your notes (handwritten or typed). You can rotate, copy or move them around. In GoodNotes, you can select multiple pages in a notebook to edit them. All your pages in Apple Notes have one colour. Exporting your notes out of the app is, thus, difficult. It’s difficult to get a sense of their sizes in Apple Notes. They continue extending downwards for as long as you keep writing. Your pages are vertically infinite with fixed widths. If you don’t like any of the templates in the app, for both pages and covers, you can add custom ones.Īpple Notes has three paper templates: plain, grids and lines with three line-spacing options. Notebook covers: simple, solid, black & white, enclosed, bright, celebration, brown, plain, patterns.Ī notebook, in GoodNotes, can have pages of different colours, sizes, grid lines and orientations.Page orientation: portrait and landscape.
#GOODNOTES DESKTOP VERSION WINDOWS#
GoodNotes doesn’t have a web or windows version. It has a web version that works on any operating system, as long as you have an Apple ID.
#GOODNOTES DESKTOP VERSION FREE#
Apple Notes is free and comes pre-installed on your Apple devices. It is now a universal, one-time purchase for your iOS, iPadOS and macOS. GoodNotes is a paid app, costing $7.99 for all the versions of the app.
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