Drimo by Indian Drivers

I have been using Notes Plus for years and just attempted to switch to Notes Plus X. This app does not function well and has many issues with the handwriting recognition. I am disappointed that I spent the money on this. My original Notes Plus app is not working now and I am going to have to switch to another platform.

I have to chime in here… I've read other reviews and can't speak to their experience, but I haven’t lost anything. I've tried notability and goodnotes and other writing apps and there are some things this app just gets so right! Above all, the effortless way of circling anything, then rotating, shrinking/expanding it, or moving it around. It's so basic and powerful, I dislike working with pen and paper! I love the ease of a back-and-forth horizontal line deleting anything it touches. And the conversion to text does surprisingly well! I would've given it 4.5 stars because a gesture for undo (instead of tapping that small button) would make things more fluid (3-finger drag left, like iPhone?), and a cut command, in addition to copy and delete in the contextual menu for highlighted text would be helpful. But it's an extraordinary app for something as primal as writing, where one wants immediacy, ease of use and intuitiveness.

It used to be a very stable and great App. The support is not responding now and backups are incompatible with new versions.

It would be nice if you could actually open a pdf in a program designed for that purpose. FAIL!

I was using this App for years, BUT……Developer has completely abandoned this App and the companion App Notes Plus. Both Apps by this developer are no longer supported. These were the best handwriting apps available. But both are now very buggy and unreliable. Many users, like me, have experience loss of important files. For example, I had one research file consisting of 61 pages of notes, created over a two year period. It just disappeared and could not be recovered. Bottom line: look elsewhere unless/until developer fixes bugs and restarts support.

Despite the reviews I really wanted to see what this app could do. I’ve been a long time (but inconsistent) user of the original Notes Plus and really loved it but it was lacking in some table-stakes functionality I really thought should be there. This app is worse. While it does have more functionality, the bugs are even more pervasive. Just handwriting a note I find myself having to rewrite every other word or half-word because the app deletes it just after I write it. Honestly I think I’ll just go back to OneNote, even though I had issues with it they were nothing like this, and at least it’s Microsoft and we have a chance of regular updates. 🙏 Save your money, but more importantly save your time and aggravation. Just pass this one by.

Writing and script is buggy. He’s a lot of work. As you’re writing and script the letters disappear as your writing. i’m getting the whole paragraph and page is useless. if you right in print it’s good but that’s slower. needs to update real bad !!!!!!!!!!

I use Notes Plus almost daily when attending meetings and taking notes. It’s always had its issues but never experienced any major issues with Notes Plus. I upgraded to Notes Plus X and the experience has been totally different. I don’t understand how something that was so good can get upgraded to something so bad…. Files that were imported to X can’t be opened correctly. Even new notebooks don’t display the page lines. I wish there was a way to get my money back.

I don’t know if “handwriting engine” is the proper term, but you will be amazed at how the letters look like a fine flowing fountain pen. I see many reviews (mostly 2 years old) that call it glitchy. I’ve not experienced glitch in the new Notes Plus X. It did take a little getting used to to understand the file structure that was improved over the original notes plus. The app has seen several improvements that I appreciate. I would like to see an easier way to access/mark up/and save PDFs, but it is not my highest priority. I did use notability at one time, but they have gone the way of perpetual pay. I just don’t use any app enough to keep paying and paying each year. I know the perpetual pay proponents say it is to encourage and support app improvements, but my experience has been that most improvements are simply bug fixes. If an app truly gets improvements, roll out a new version and I’ll pay an upgrade cost. [end of diatribe!]

I love the app and it does everything I need, except the pages do not scroll sideways, like a notebook. Can you add an option for pages to scroll sideways?