Freenotes®: AI Notes Taking

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

   not free anymore. Love the app but I won't pay $10 year for it, maybe $10 for lifetime. Until then I'll be using other apps

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

   Used to be free. I've been using this app ever since it was free!? There was no need for an upgrade in order to continue usingbthe app! Like what the heck?! I had hopes for this app being free for those who afford or don't have money to buy a monthly/ year plan. This is a betrayal to those who have been with this app since it was free.

3. ★★★★★desktop is the workshop, phone is the display case

   Changes to the premium versions of the app. I have used this app consistently since its launch and have enjoyed all of the great features and updates introduced. Additionally, I have never had any issues with the app up until now. However, the pro version of the app has recently downgraded to the free version and the app is essentially locked behind a paywall. Though I have been a loyal user for the past couple years, I now have to pay a never-ending subscription in order to access basic features. I am totally unhappy with the directions the app developers have taken and I believe that at the very least a lifetime purchase option should be offered as well. I will not be using this app anymore and I recommend everyone else to find somewhere else to take their notes.

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

   Change your app name atp. The name is deceiving now. You basically have to pay to use this app. I understand if you want to earn money, you’ll limited some of the features. However, you just limited most of them making the app useless at this point. I’ve been using the app for little over a year now. It was amazing for schoolwork and I never had a problem with anything. Now I can’t say the same. It’s honestly disappointing that I have to look elsewhere when I truly loved this app. It was fun while it lasted…

5. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   no longer free - has several limitations now. i have been using this app for 2 years like a lot of people have said previously. it was originally great and a wonderful alternative to paid notetaking apps. over time, they've started putting in useless AI features and limiting the amount of notebooks you can make before paying. even IF the "free" in freenotes meant freedom like they claim, it's still deceptive at the end of the day. i will be switching to an alternative.

6. ★★★★★forced, un-disableable AI pushes out exactly the loyal core

   Lost my Profile. I had this app since 2023/2024. I’ve used it for a very long time. When I went to use it again, I’ve lost my profile. I haven’t received an email to reset my password and I now have to pay this account before using it again. I don’t have an issue with paying however, the app told me that I had the app free forever. Now I have to pay and have a limit on the use of this app. I will probably uninstall and find something else but it’s very disheartening to loss access and haven’t received an email or anything. Also when I use the app and ai feedback feature, it disappears when I leave the app and go back to it. Very disappointing.

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

   What the heck?. Updated the app and now I can't expand a page unless I pay $10. This is outrageous.

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

   Lost my account despite signing up for lifetime. When I signed back into my account despite me signing up for the lifetime access, it later kicked me out then said I had to upgrade

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

   依托lj. 删除个软件 里面文件全没了 绝了

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

    弹窗烦人. 总是弹窗通知送VIP，打开就显示过期，但是还反复弹

11. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    A review. It was a good free app to use and rely on till it became paid

12. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    It was great until it wasn’t free anymore. I’ve used this app for almost 2 years now and it has only gone downhill. They started with adding in ads and then put in the AI features that were needed to be paid for. I didn’t mind that but now they have made it impossible to use the app without buying some sort of subscription. The only reason why I haven’t deleted the app is due to needing it for school for the next few months. This used to be a 5/5 star app. Please stop forcing people to pay for an app that says free in the name.

13. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    This app is not free anymore and should change their name. This app was good for students that can’t pay for an app, until they asked for subscription to get more ability to have more features, now I can no longer have more notebooks. I would recommend buy an app that already has all these features without lying to people saying that is free

14. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Annoying :\ I would rate 0 if I could. It doesn't work whenever I try to open a new blank page; it only works if I use ruled lines. Honestly, I don't understand why the screen freezes every time I try to open a blank layout. I don't like the lines, unfortunately they make me dizzy—I just want to work on a blank page. Is that too much to ask? EDIT: I even tried to pay, to see if that was the problem, cuz a don’t care to pay for any app that makes my life easier, but this app keeps freezing every time that I want to either pay for a subscription o create a new note like ????

15. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Free notes? This name doesn’t apply anymore. App is ok. Used to be free, till they started a subscription just to keep the app being usable midway through the school year. They keep adding tiers and unnecessary AI features. I only paid their subscription because I already had notes on the app. I wont be giving my money to a company that will take away existing features and lock behind paywall, especially when their branding is “free”. I don’t trust they won’t take away more. If you are gonna pay for a notes app, choose one that is forthcoming with their charges. Oh and please don’t demean your customers about the meaning behind the name. We aren’t stupid and know the original intention was free of charge, not freedom to create. Your decisions already clash with your branding, don’t make it worse. Please rethink your approach

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

    not free anymore. lol

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

    viết không smooth, làm đổi nét. làm nét chữ xấu đi

18. ★★★★★ads disrupt the experience

    To many adds. I used to like this app but there are now SO many adds you can’t do anything without having to sit through and add, I literally can’t delete a not without it playing and ad EVERY TIME ne it has completely ruined the app, do better

19. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    “Free” notes. > calls app Freenotes > exorbitantly strict free tier Couldn’t think of anything better to paywall than the basic parts of a notes app?

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

    双标的恶心app. 里面一堆广告就不说了，系统非常臃肿，而且对用户双标，我必须付费才能使用而我朋友就是免费的😅 吃相难看

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

    NOT FREEZ. Why call the app ‘free notes’ if you have to pay. Talk about a scam.

22. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Pay for no ads just to get ads. As the title says you can pay to get rid of ads but it won’t actually do that. $10 one time payment but since you aren’t subscribed to their super awesome AI helper, annoying banner ads telling you to upgrade will show up every time you open the app. There’s just a clear downward trend in how “free” this app has been advertised as over time.

23. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    DONT BUY IF YOU WANNA USE POWEPOINTS. I purchased the lifetime subscription so that I could edit my PowerPoint for my anatomy of physiology class but when I imported it does the same thing as the free apps and doesn’t use the correct picture for the slide and doesn’t correctly line up the labels to the images properly. I wasn’t able to test this out beforehand because my PowerPoint was too big to test it out on the free version and I’ve tried to get a refund and Apple has denied me twice. I will be disputing with my bank because this is very upsetting as a college student, I do not have time to waste trying to find an app and also waste of money on one that doesn’t even work!

24. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Lifetime membership. Paid for it but never got it. Sent an email and did not receive a reply

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

    what. انهو ليس فيه العربيه

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

    Sucks. Cant place my hand on the screen while i write. Writing starts going crazy making extraneous lines. Really unfortunate bc it has usually been reliable. You have to fix your app bc its currently borderline unusuable

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

    WHY NO MORE NOTEBOOKS????. Can only creat 3 notebooks before the app asks for money smh

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

    Save. How to save the file or book after finishing my adding notes

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

    Not happy. It was just not easy to work with

30. ★★★★★forced, un-disableable AI pushes out exactly the loyal core

    Auto-backup should support PDF format, not just FreeNotes format. I really like using FreeNotes for taking notes, but I’m quite disappointed with the auto-backup feature. The backup is saved only in the app’s own format, which makes it difficult to access or review outside the app. It would be much more useful if there were an option to automatically save backups as PDF files. That way, users could easily open, share, and review their notes on any device without needing the app. Because of this limitation, I’m giving this app 1 star. I hope the developers consider adding PDF auto-backup support in future updates.