In 2025, there are more handwriting note-taking apps than ever—but Goodnotes still gets most of the attention. Our database is still a work in progress, but from the apps we’ve fully analysed so far, Goodnotes stands out as one of the most complete.
On paper, Goodnotes obviously has more features. But does that actually make it a better app than Apple Notes in 2025? Have all the updates to Apple Notes culminated into something worth leaving paid apps for?
For a good user experience, you need more than just how an app looks. Sure a modern-looking app is great, but more important than that is how intuitive it is.
Prodrafts or Apple Notes? It really comes down to what matters to you most. Even though Prodrafts might be the better app with more features, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the right app for you.
Prodrafts has a lot of unique features that make it perfect for advanced note-taking. With great shapes, support for GIFs, and a good tape feature, should you be using be using Prodrafts in 2025?
TickTick is one of the most capable to-do apps on the market. With excellent organisation and an intuitive user interface, keeping your tasks organised is a walk through the park
Freenotes, initially came as a free app and grabbed a sizeable chunk of the market.
For me personally, it’s not convincing enough to leave Apple Reminders, though.
iPadOS 18 was a great update for Apple Notes because we got a lot of useful features for digital note-taking. So, what does that mean for note takers in 2025?
More and more handwriting apps are starting to expand beyond the Apple ecosystem in search of new markets. That is good news for those of us who have always wanted cross-platform support because we use several operating systems.
Have you ever used an app that has never crashed, never frozen, never not worked or lost your notes? Or taken an extra second to load for absolutely no reason?!
So, we’ve covered the basics of Goodnotes and Freenotes. Now we want to see all the different items you can add to your notes in the two apps, and just how easy or difficult it is to do that.
Freenotes is a great app, so naturally, we must compare it to Goodnotes – the most popular and the second most expensive handwriting note-taking app for the iPad.
Part two of this review was a little disappointing. Adding and interacting with items in Notes Plus X wasn’t as fun as just taking notes in the app. This
The first part of this series reunited us with a long-lost gem for the digital note-taking community. In this second part, we’ll explore all the items you can add in Notes Plus X.
Notes Plus is as old as Notability, and several years ago it had a lot of amazing features that made Notability and Goodnotes look like jokes.
This has to be the deciding video, right? I mean, if the third and final part doesn’t do it… I don’t know what will. From part two, some of you have already decided which app you would go for, and that’s great.
