Notebooks – Write and Organize

I wanted a simpler (and better looking!) alternative to the excellent DEVONthink, so I revisited Notebooks after 10 years away. Hugely improved and very easy and attractive to use even with nearly 6000 notes and archived docs. I use it as a paperless home office to store all my scanned paperwork and historic documents - as well as current notes and jottings. I have a feeling I’ll find a lot more uses over time!

Hangs, crashes, hangs, crashes. Great idea but cannot handle iCloud or large libraries.

If you want a super reliable, like a Swiss Army knife among note taking apps, this is the one you should buy, for IOS and Mac. It isn’t often I run out of superlatives, but this app really does cover it all, elegantly and intuitively with everything you need for short and long form writing, including the ability to scan documents to PDF. It is, quite simply, the best word processor I’ve ever used.

I think I have tried and/or bought every notebooks app — with a decent specification — released on the Apple Store in almost two decades. There is only one that does all I want (and probably more than I need) that has remained on my iPad and Mac ever since: Notebooks. The support provided by Alfons would be the envy of most software developers: specific to the issue you describe, rather than the robotic ‘tick box’ reply that makes it clear they haven’t actually read your message, and thus far, effective. I have no links or benefit with the developer, but after suffering a host of apps that, IMO, should never have made it to the App Store, I appreciate a great product that is supported by enviable customer support. If you need a reliable, effective notes application, you need Notebooks.

I love this app! Perfect for making notes and viewing my admittedly quite large collection of years of notes… I would absolutely give this app 5 stars, but i’m unable to do so as I use an external location for my notebook. It’s all stored on a server, which I use a VPN to access. When I enter the notebooks app, I need to reselect my external location each time… The app is never open when I connect to my network, or leave home, when the VPN automatically connects (all my phone’s network traffic goes through it) - If this issue could be fixed, 5 Stars all the way… I plan on keeping my purchase, but hope this issue is looked in to.

Long term user & the present software is first class. I use it everyday tool. Now I have removed my expensive Evernote account. Very helpful for me to store research & past published articles. 5 star from me!

This is an example of a ‘Truly Amazing’ app! Nowadays, there’re so many apps that are just rubbish acting as cool and want to fleece your money from you. Not this one! This is the old school, real deal, great app, great developer, great value and it’s updated with regularity. The amount of different features the app offers is insane! You can write a book, keep account of any number of subjects, if you can imagine it as a writing ‘thing’ you can most likely do it here. An honest, non-greedy developer, who cares about the app and the customers. I see a reply to near all reviews, answers emails quickly. The absolute best of its class, buy with confidence!

The only thing really irks me is when I copy multiple docs from another document app they all have the same name; that of the first doc. Anyway thanks for a good programme. David G.

I’ve used quite a few of these apps, but have only just discovered this one. It’s very well thought out whereas many others seem like “me too” variations. Being able to add items via Finder/Files is fantastic. It adds so many more options for automation. The design is very clean and “Apple”. WebDAV & iCloud is much better than storing on unknown servers. Top marks for privacy. I still have a lot to explore. Looking forward to it. The only thing missing so far is extensions for Firefox/Chrome. I guess one can build them with URL links.

Amazing app. My no 1 app on iPhone. Have used it for years for all my notes goals references and todos etc. The support is amazing whenever I have any questions etc.