Noteful: Notes & PDF Markup

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1. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Not working. My app isn´t working I can write but cannot erase with the eraser , I’ve updated the app and my iPad and still nothing.

2. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

   Saving pdf is not responding. Tried to save an external pdf in noteful pro but it is not working. Too frustrating from noteful

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   CALLIGRAPHY pen does NOT WORK. Purchasing pro version was a mistake. I thought that the app had a calligraphy pen but you cannot see any difference between marker, pen or calligraphy. OTHER note taking apps work MUCH MUCH BETTER

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Poor optimization. The app is very neat graphically. However it offers a lack of customization when it comes to UI options. The amount of control it offers as well for the sensitivity or touch control is very slim, and the amount it does offer is poorly implemented at best. The Palm rejecting is there for show and nonfunctional, many times my writing would be undone or not recorded. I will be moving to Good notes and implore all others to try their app instead.

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Just get notability. 14 dollars a year and much cleaner interface and easier to use no diss but notability is better

6. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Its not that good. So basically, I was just trying to make math notes and it’s just so many tools and I couldn’t focus on one and the starter pack thing Doesn’t really explain what to do and it’s a bit too difficult to understand when when there’s so many a big advantage to people who who are not good at paying attention to one thing like me and I also think that they need to update their actual whole system. It doesn’t look the best and yeah there’s no ads but I mean it’s also a note taking app so I mean that’s not really a thing but anyway so yeah I think it’s just not the best notetaking app like I got like influenced thinking that it was really good, but it’s really not. Please try to find a different one. This will be like your last resort one so please just find a different one before you get this.

7. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   One huge issue. This app is amazing, but one issue has decreased my rating rapidly. I tried to copy page link and accidentally clicked clear page and I couldn’t undo it. I looked it up to make sure I wasn’t the only one who had this issue and I wasn’t. Therefore this is an issue with the app. I was up late finishing something for a meeting and it just all went to waste. If this gets fixed, this app will be 5 stars in my opinion.

8. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   DO NOT USE THIS APP. All of the notes I took were reduced to the last page. I can not come up with an example of something I’ve used working worse. For your own good use something else. -unsatisfied user that had their money wasted

9. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Paywall paywall paywall. Limited number of colors, notebooks uploading abilities, and a bunch of other stuff unless you want to pay 10$ a month

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Difficult to put custom fonts. It takes so much to search for the right custom fonts for this app and most of em don’t even show

11. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    App needs improvments. This app is kind of low quality the highlighter pisses me off 24/7 and I need the option to blur stuff snd the eraser is bumpy and weird idk how to describe it isn’t the worst but needs better things I used this the the free version and nothing has been deleted but that has repeatedly been an issue for others

12. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not good on MAC. OK I didn’t see the warning about the MAC but Apple shouldn’t allow it on the App Store if not proven for the Mac. Know a person who uses it on iPad and it’s like night and day

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Love having to restart 5x a day!. Well, I’ve been using Noteful for over a year. I have to restart the app several times a day because it stops accepting text (when starting a new note/title) and record function simply stops working. I use the app all day at work and I am about done with it. What a shame because everything else is great, especially the recording feature (when it works). Oh, I’ve been waiting for a reply from support for 8 months!

14. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    Good note taking app but notes/pdf reading app. I want to read my notes in full screen , no need for top tool bar while reading give option to hide , this is so irritating while reading my notes/PDF in the app this top toolbar I always have pinch and zoom . Now the home screen why there is no option for minimise the side bar like apple note’s so irritating , if we could minimise we could have much more space

15. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

    Actually the worst. I spent 4 hours on notes, which wasnt even everything i needed for my final exam that is TOMORROW MORNING and i reset my ipad because the app was glitching and the app deleted JUST THOSE NOTES. Nothing else. Those notes were for my final exam and i dont have all the materials for the notes i needed to rewrite everything which also took 4 hours. 4. Right before my exam and i cant do anything about it. Never ysing this app again and i do not recommend

16. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

    All my notebooks erased. I wrote 10 pages worth of notes and the next morning it’s all gone. Do not use if you have important notes

17. ★★★★★data, history or progress disappears

    Two years of work gone. I’ve been using this app for 2 years for my college classes, had sync on and everything. For some reason apple deleted the app and all of my work is gone. Hundreds of pages, gone right before finals. I don’t know what to do. I had so much saved and I loved this app. So much I can’t get back and without notes I’m going to fail these finals.

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Terrible. Some features just flat out don’t work¡

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No Convert to Text? Does Not Sync. I can’t complain about the nominal fee of $4.99 it charges for all the great features, but I hate my handwriting and there is no convert to text and also, I’ve spent hours and watched YouTube videos trying to figure out why this app isn’t syncing across my iOS devices, and they have been updated to the latest version. I need these fixed otherwise I will have to move on to either Goodnotes or Noteshelf, and I really wanted to like this app.

20. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    I love this app but…. I love this app. It’s miles better than GoodNotes. However, I can’t give it the 5 stars it deserves because I have the same complaint as other note taking apps and it really needs to be fixed. I am sick to death of ROUNDED CORNERS WHEN DRAWING SQUARES. I’m not the only one with this complaint but for some reason the devs continue to ignore it for zero legitimate reasons other than pure obnoxiousness. I also don’t like the long press when clicking a link elsewhere.

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Non-existent customer service. I have been reaching out for the longest about my inability to purchase the paid version of this app on my iPad. It does not even allow me to select that option within the free version as I usually get that spinning circle that never stops. I am literally trying to reach out to them so that I can be able to buy their product which puts money in their pocket and can’t even get the benefit of a response. I have now maxed out the number of notebooks I am able to use on the free version which now makes the app obsolete for me and now unfortunately I will have to migrate to another note taking app. It’s been 4 weeks of sending messages so I tried, but so long and farewell.

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Lacking basic features. Why does this have no alignment or snap tools? That’s a really basic feature I cannot do without. Additionally, there’s no option for the fill color of a shape to be different from the outline color, which is also a really basic feature. Finally, the free version only lets you use _three_ total colors in a pallet. I get limiting certain features to pro, but heck, how am I even supposed to spend enough time using it to decide if it’s worth paying for the pro version if I have to make whole bunch of different color pallets and switch between them? Making the free version super annoying to use is not a good way to convince people to upgrade, especially when you’re also lacking other basic drawing features that similar apps have.

23. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

    Terrible Palm Rejection. As per title… Palm rejection is terrible. I mean, TERRIBLE. Wish there was an option for two finger panning, like in Goodnotes.

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Having problem. in iPad 9.7 (2018) ,some times ink disappears while writing

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Great app but keeps crashing. I have a 80mb pdf file. The app is never able to upload it to Google drive because it keeps crashing. Even when I'm working on other PDFs, the app keeps closing and interrupting my work flow.

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    🙄. It's not that good. I can't figure anything out. If I was this desperate to journal I would have bought a real one. This made me buy a real one, don't waste money on this instead you could get a 12 $ journal kit in real life that is better because it's easier to navigate and do stuff with.

27. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No search options. I got this app because I kept reaching my file size limit in the apple notes app when drawing handwritten notes. However, the notes app can find search words even when handwritten in cursive, not so in Noteful. I’m switching back to apple notes because a huge advantage of digital notes is being able to search by keyword.

28. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Has everything except handwritten search. Not buying until this feature is implemented. Such a shame.

29. ★★★★★search fails to find what is needed

    Cannot Search Handwritten Notes. For a note taking app, it’s a shame that we can’t search for texts written by hand.

30. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not enough tools to manage my notes.. I can’t even zoom in or out when I’m doing a freehand crop. How can I get a precise crop out when the photo stickers are so small? Kind of a waste of money when it’s just so Basic and not enough diverse tool avaliable . Seem like an old app that needs some updating.