Notes Plus

Used it for years, tried so many others. It still is the best one for written notes, with annotations of pix and typed entries. For those of us who think more clearly as we write in cursive, so great to do drafts on Notes Plus, use the handwriting recognition (that gets better and better), then copy the converted content out to a word processing app like Word or Pages. Always satisfies.

It crashes, it drops whole words, it won't save work. It's a big fat mess!!!

UPDATE 11/25/2024 NOW WORSE THAN EVER. MORE AND MORE BUGS….LOSS OF FILES CONTAINING YEARS OF WORK. DEVELOPER HAS LEFT THE PLANET. ZERO RESPONSE TO PROBLEMS. SKIP THIS APP. UPDATE: 11-2024 WHAT WAS GREAT ABOUT THIS APP IS BECOMING NOT SO GREAT! Developer has disappeared. Now totally unresponsive after several months of trying to contact support. With each IOS update, App gets buggier and buggier. I’ve now had to switch to NOTEABILITY. 10-2023 I’ve been using this App for 8+ years. Like all apps it’s has had some bugs. However, I’ve emailed the developer about the bugs and found the developer very responsive and engaged with me to get a full understanding of the bugs. This is hands-down the best hand writing app with best organizational capabilities you can get. There is a learning curve to fully understand how to use Notes Plus so don’t be discouraged by the negative reviews. PS..NGUYEN DUY….you need to update the app to make the Apple Pencil Pro fully compatible.

This app has five ink styles including "no ink effect" which is a plain, slightly too-thick line and "fountain pen" The rest including plain ballpoint are $1 extra. So I bought the ballpoint pen and it's identical to the "no ink effect" and does not resemble the "try it here" sample. Who needs this kind of nickle and diming? It cheapens an already chintzy static palette.

I'm one of those authors who can think and write better while writing by hand than by typing, but I always hated having to go back and type my notebooks after writing them. The handwriting to text feature saves me /hours/! The other features make it easier to change things and move things around faster than you could in a normal notebook. Pro tip: The handwriting to text feature converts cursive with better accuracy than print even if your cursive is terrible like mine. You don't have to write in cursive, but I'm all about making changes to save time, in this case when you are cleaning up the converted text. There's only reason I'm giving this four stars instead of five. On a previous notebook app I used that was discontinued and is not supported by newer versions of iOS, it gave the option of creating a custom dictionary (Aside from that, I consider it for the best that I had to switch apps, because Notes Plus is superior in every other way). As a fantasy author, being able to have technoloy recognize fantasy terms was incredibly helpful on the other app. I keep hoping Noten Plus will add a custom dictionary. I guess I'll have to keep waiting. For the time being, I still recommend this app with no hesitation. Update: I have to bump it down a star because the latest update broke it. When I do the convert page to text, it now puts a paragraph break between each line even when I have the setting to not recognize line breaks turned off. It also now adds at least two, sometimes three or four, unnecessary spaces between words. I ended up making a macro in Word to clean up the text after I pull it from Notes Plus. I emailed support, and though they used to be very responsive, I've received no reply after several follow-ups.

I’ve had this app for a while and have much important information there for my business too. This is the second time it’s glitched and all my info has been lost, I had to download the app again, and it’s empty. There’s no way apparently to log into to an account and store your info like with pages or Apple notes. All my work is lost I’m so annoyed. This is unacceptable and very wrong for this app to not have back up or to provide your own account where your info is stored. Especially since it glitches all the time. Unacceptable. I’ve lost all my notes and folders now. Don’t trust this app

Have been using (and loving) this app for years but for the past two months or so, it is either crashing when opening or it freezes and I cannot do anything. I have years of work locked up in it!

It crashes all the time and sometimes some pages that I wrote disappear suddenly! Disaster!

i used this app for a while and i rly liked it, i am an engineering student and had all my classes neatly separated with folders and notes. randomly during class, it glitched and i lost all my files. i can’t open the app. i’ve restarted my ipad and the app multiple times but im left with a black screen with random gadgets at the top that don’t move or function. the app doesn’t respond at all. i am very disappointed and just want my notes back :/

Overall I love the app but it's buggy... Sometimes when I open one book a different one opens. I password lock a folder, it turns out they all have the same password. I've tried uninstalling - restarting etc. and it's the same buggy, buggy program. I hate writing this review because the developer has been great but I have to warn anyone who is a writer to consider something different. MrJeuqe. Update. I used the program for years writing a very personal journal along with work and other writings. I thought they where all safe until recently I opened the app and found all my material, years of writing all gone and no way to retrieve them I’m so disappointed I don’t know what to do.