Microsoft OneNote

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

   Keeps corrupting data. Switching to Google drives notes. I was once a believer in one note, but since the update it has corrupted my notebook data twice costing me 8 or more hours of study time to try and save my data. Very unhappy with the new product.

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

   No sync. It doesn’t sync with the onenote on my desktop

3. ★★★★★an update broke a familiar workflow

   Keeps crashing while typing notes. Since the last major update, OneNote crashes every few minutes while I an authoring notes.

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

   Not easy to use. You can’t even alphabetize notes, really?

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

   Let me use it first. Can’t use app because this survey pops up every 10 seconds

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

   New Phone. I recently went to a new phone but my notes did not transfer. I can not find a good place to be able to fix that.

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

   Doesn’t work. I cannot create a new notebook with this app on iPhone or iPad no matter what I do I cannot interact with a new notebook creation area to create a new notebook. Looks like there’s more bugs to squash here.

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

   Bugs. They big you a lot for reviews

9. ★★★★★saving, exporting or sharing the result fails

   Never worked. It doesn’t work. I downloaded it. Opened it and kept getting error messages. Waste of time.

10. ★★★★★cross-device sync is unreliable

    Personal & business accounts & computer v iPad dont synch. Always have issues a OneNote

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

    App is really laggy. Unable to use app as it is so laggy on iPhone 17 pro max.

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

    Hard to use. When it works it works great but they’ve made it so difficult to just want to take some good note and sync them to use across platforms. The whole one drive system needs to be better

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

    更新更个寂寞. 工具栏还是挡着最后几条笔记，你就不能最后一条笔记下面留出一段空白吗？？？？？这样也可以保持最新一条笔记在视野中央

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

    This is way too complicated. No way for me to understand this!

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

    Wtf. The app sometimes tweaks and doesn’t allow me to write with my Apple Pencil or upload files like the button I’m trying to click isn’t working

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

    IOS update. Still unable to send sms text messages to Android phones

17. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    No search feature. No search feature unless you want to pay for a subscription. Also, just difficult to manage on the iPhone. It becomes read-only, etc. hard to organize, too.

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

    Worst note taking app. Hardest app to use for taking notes. Would strongly recommend finding another app.

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

    By Now It Should Be Better. Electronic notes are not new. Microsoft is a fabulously wealthy corporation. It is shocking how elementary and bad this program is. The functions that record cursive work well. In fact, I have enjoyed taking notes in cursive and embedding pictures and webpages as record what is happening. But Microsoft hasn’t spent any time making it easy to combine notes pages into PDFs, for example. I have to export each page individually and then email them to my work account so I can combine them into an Adobe. This is pathetic. The cursive to text part of the application is absolutely abominable. There’s nothing intuitive about it and it is filled with bugs that are just maddening. If the internal teams at Microsoft haven’t fixed it yet, I would suggest they hire a few teenagers, one to test and the others tp program to get it right. Start from the beginning, reduce all the ridiculous complexity, and just focus on the basics. But will Microsoft listen? Probably not.

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

    Experiencing 7+ bugs consistently. Unfortunately a worse experience than the default Notes app, it’s much more reliable than OneNote. I’m not surprised as microslop probably had copilot take over as project lead. Thank God I’m not locked into the ms stack

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

    New update is totally stupid and adds so much junk that no one will use... New update adds so much useless junk. I am thinking of using a new note app it is so terrible. The persistent menu in the bottom right corner is huge and cluttering and stupid……… (old review) Bug: seems that upon opening notes, often it goes to “draw” feature and you scribble instead of scrolling.. Could easily be 5 stars if this was fixed and there was a feature added to search within a note…. Such a simple and great note tool that is missing… Also, i can’t believe you can’t update name of notebooks on the app…

22. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Synch is broken. Every time I try to add notes to my notebooks a copy of the he notebook is spawned. According to OneNote on my iPad I have 5 notebooks with the same name, and according to OneNote on Windows I have something called an “open object” that has hits when I’m searching for items within the 5x iPad notebooks. Update May 2026: somehow it’s worse.

23. ★★★★★cross-device sync is unreliable

    Constant synch problems. Notebooks do not synch across devices. I have to use an old version of the desktop software to do some things the newer 365 apps won’t do. I have ghost notifications I can’t remove or find where there are pointing. Notebooks load extremely slow at first whether you are on the phone or desktop or web versions. So many bugs, but still useful software.

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

    Jus why?. So you’ve put in the ability to draw in OneNote with your fingers and lose the notes underneath now there’s a way to undo that I can’t find it. Perfect example of not thinking something through. So please tell me how do I get my notes back because this is called OneNote not finger painting

25. ★★★★★crashes, freezes and errors

    Very Crash Prone. Application is very crash prone. I have been using for conference notes over the last two days and it has crashed 15 times.

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

    Another slop from Microsoft. Half the features won’t work as expected. Even basic like textbox resizing doesn’t work.

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

    Trouble syncing. It always give me an error saying we’re having trouble syncing please sign in again.

28. ★★★★★cross-device sync is unreliable

    No synch. Synch issue !!!!

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

    It’s fine. It’s fine, it just keeps prompting to rate it while I’m trying to do something else, which disrupts my train of thought.

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

    Impossible to get help when something is wrong. I love this app, but it’s impossible to contact someone to get help. I have a menu that covers my list of pages and can’t get it out of the way. Chat on ms website sent me to a useless page with no chat support. Totally garbage support so you get a garbage rating