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October 6, 2026 · 19 min read
The best Goodnotes alternatives in 2026, and when not to switch at all
We make Kastoro, one of the apps on this list, so you have every reason to read us with suspicion. That is why every price and every feature below links to its source, why we say where each rival beats us, and why the first question is not which app to pick but whether you should leave at all.
First, the honest part
Goodnotes is not a bad app that people are fleeing. It holds Apple’s Editors’ Choice badge and a 4.7-star average from about 460,000 ratings on the US App Store [14], and it has more than 25 million monthly active users [16]. If you opened this page out of curiosity and Goodnotes works for you, the cheapest and safest move is to stay.
Something did change, though. In September 2025 the company replaced its plans with a new structure and launched a redesign that it chose not to call Goodnotes 7 [1]. Today there are four ways to pay [2][3]:
- Free: 3 notebooks, 100 MB, watermarked exports and 20 minutes of audio per notebook.
- Essential, $11.99 a year: unlimited notebooks and basic AI, but no sync between Apple and other platforms.
- Pro, $35.99 a year: adds Goodnotes Cloud, which syncs your library across iPad, Android, Windows and the web.
- AI Pass, $9.99 a month: about twelve times more AI credits, on top of a paid plan.
There is also a one-time Special Edition for $35.99, but it is Apple-only and not eligible for Goodnotes Cloud [3][5]. People who bought Goodnotes 5 can keep using it inside the current app [11].
Why people go looking
We read the 500 most recent US App Store reviews of Goodnotes, written between June and October 2026 [17]. Recent reviews skew negative, because people write when something goes wrong, and 268 of these 500 gave one or two stars. Among those 268, about four in ten talk about price, subscriptions or paywalls. A smaller group points to sync issues, and 26 specifically mention AI. We ran the same count on Notability and found almost the same pattern, which tells you something: the frustration is with the category’s business model, not with one company.
Read together with Goodnotes’ own documentation, the reasons fall into five groups:
- Paying to sync across platforms. If you write on an iPad and review on a Windows laptop, you need Pro, not Essential [5]. The old Android and Windows yearly plan was retired [4].
- Second-class platforms. On Android, Windows and the web there are no flashcards, no
.goodnotesexport, no full library backup and no audio replay [6]. The Android app averages 3.9 stars on Google Play [15]. - AI everywhere. A request for a way to turn Goodnotes AI off has been open since November 2025 [13].
- The 2025 redesign. A thread asking for the old toolbar collected 459 votes. Goodnotes listened and shipped a customizable toolbar in November 2025 [12], but the episode stuck.
- Wanting to own the app. For anyone who paid once years ago, a yearly fee feels like a step backward.
If none of those issues sound familiar, stop reading here, with our blessing. If any of them do, the rest of this guide is for you.
How we judged them
We judged each app on six things that matter when you leave a notebook app, and ignored the rest:
- The pen: whether writing feels immediate, and whether the page behaves like paper when you need it to.
- PDFs: whether you can import a 300-page textbook, mark it up and find things in it again.
- Platforms: which devices it runs on, and whether the Android, Windows or web version is the real app or a lesser copy.
- The real cost of a year: not the advertised price, but the plan you need for the way you work.
- The way out: whether you can export everything in a format another app opens.
- What happens after class: whether it helps you review and remember, not only write.
We have not run timed latency tests on every app, and we do not pretend to have used each one for a semester. Where a claim is about how something feels, we say so. Where it is a fact, it links to the vendor’s own page.
The alternatives, one by one
Notability
- Best for
- Lectures and meetings you record; a one-time purchase that still syncs across devices.
- Runs on
- iPad, iPhone, Mac, web and Android. The Windows app records meetings, so on Windows the notebook runs in the browser.
- Price
- Starter is free with 5 notes. Lite is $14.99 a year, Plus $19.99, Pro $99.99 (list prices). Classic is a one-time $39.99 on notability.com or $49.99 on the App Store.
- Watch out for
- The move to its own sync service has drawn complaints about missing notes, and paying users report too many upsells.
Notability’s signature trick is still the best in the category: while audio plays, tap any word you wrote and the recording jumps to that moment [22]. If your notes are mostly a record of what someone said, nothing on this list does it better.
In 2026 it also got more interesting to switchers. The one-time purchase came back in July as Classic, with sync across iOS, Android and the web but without the AI features [19], and a native Android app arrived in August [20]. The Windows and Mac “desktop app” is something else: it records meetings and needs a Google Calendar connected [21]. Learn, its AI study mode, makes quizzes, flashcards and summaries from your notes and recordings on Plus and Pro [23].
The weak spot is the transition to Notability Cloud, its own sync service, which replaces iCloud once you migrate [24]. In our sample of 500 recent reviews, about a third of the one- and two-star ratings mention price, and many describe the migration or upsells [17]. Notability also has history here: in 2021 it announced a subscription that would take features away from people who had paid, then reversed course after the backlash [26].
Noteshelf 3
- Best for
- Anyone who wants the Goodnotes experience, with a lifetime purchase and apps beyond Apple.
- Runs on
- iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android and Windows. No web app.
- Price
- Free to start. Premium is sold yearly or monthly, or as a lifetime purchase ($14.99 on the US App Store at the time of writing).
- Watch out for
- Prices vary a lot between offers and stores, and some reviewers find the subscription expensive.
Of all the apps here, Noteshelf will feel familiar fastest to a Goodnotes user: shelves of notebooks with covers, paper templates, PDF annotation, audio recording, and handwriting recognition in 65 languages [27]. It is well rated on both the App Store (4.6) and Google Play (4.4, more than a million downloads) [27][28].
Its main advantage over Goodnotes is that it sells a lifetime premium and runs natively on Android and Windows. Its main weakness is that it has no web version, and the pricing on the App Store lists several yearly SKUs at once, so check what you are offered before you pay.
MyScript Notes (formerly Nebo)
- Best for
- People who want handwriting converted into clean, editable typed text.
- Runs on
- iPad, iPhone, Mac with Apple silicon and Android. The old Nebo for Windows still works but gets no new features.
- Price
- Subscription or a lifetime purchase, after a 7-day trial. The free version is limited to 5 pages per notebook, with no sync and no AI.
- Watch out for
- The free tier is tight, and reviewers find its PDF handling less smooth than its handwriting.
Nebo changed its name to MyScript Notes in September 2025, and people who had bought it kept lifetime access [29][30]. It is still the best app we know of at turning handwriting into text: it recognizes 66 languages, converts math, lets you edit with pen gestures (scratch out a word to delete it, draw a line to split one) and can reflow handwritten paragraphs like typed text. Its AI can summarize, explain and quiz you on your notes.
Choose it if what bothers you about Goodnotes is that your handwriting stays a picture. Skip it if you spend your day in PDFs.
Apple Notes
- Best for
- Free note-taking on iPad, iPhone and Mac, without notebooks or templates.
- Runs on
- iPad, iPhone and Mac. In a browser on iCloud.com, with limited features.
- Price
- Free, included with the system. Storage counts against your iCloud plan.
- Watch out for
- No page-based notebooks, no paper templates and no Android or Windows app.
Apple Notes has quietly become very good with a pencil. Smart Script cleans up your handwriting as you write and can paste typed text in a style similar to yours [31]. You can search handwriting, mark up PDFs inline, and since iPadOS 26 write with a calligraphy reed pen, draw 3D graphs in Math Notes, and import and export Markdown [32]. It records audio and transcribes it in ten languages [33].
What it lacks is the paper metaphor. A note is one long scrolling page, there are no notebooks with covers, and outside Apple’s devices you only get iCloud.com in a browser [34]. If you used Goodnotes as a big notebook with dividers, you will miss that.
Microsoft OneNote
- Best for
- Windows users, Microsoft 365 households and anyone who needs every platform for free.
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android and the web.
- Price
- The app is free. Copilot AI needs Microsoft 365: Personal is $99.99 a year, Family $129.99.
- Watch out for
- On iPad it cannot convert handwriting into typed text, and pages are infinite canvases rather than sheets of paper.
OneNote is the only app here that is free and native everywhere. On Windows, with a pen, it is excellent: ink becomes text, shapes or math. Its notebooks, sections and pages are a good way to organize a whole degree.
On iPad it is weaker. In March 2026, a Microsoft Q&A answer confirmed that OneNote for iPad cannot convert handwriting into text [37], and its pages are infinite canvases, which some people love and others find messy. Copilot comes with Microsoft 365, and AI features are available only to the subscription owner [35][36]. One housekeeping note: the old OneNote for Windows 10 app became read-only in October 2025, so use the current OneNote [38].
Samsung Notes
- Best for
- Owners of a Galaxy Tab who want something free and well-integrated.
- Runs on
- Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets, plus a Windows version made for Galaxy Book laptops.
- Price
- Free. Samsung says the basic Galaxy AI features it provides are free.
- Watch out for
- It lives in Samsung's world, with no app for iPad.
If your tablet is a Galaxy, the best Goodnotes alternative is probably already installed. Samsung Notes handles the S Pen beautifully, imports PDFs, and on recent tablets Galaxy AI can tidy up, summarize and translate your notes, solve math and transcribe recordings [39]. It is free and needs no account beyond your Samsung one.
The catch is the fence around it. Samsung Notes is built for Samsung’s devices, and that is where your notes stay: there is no app for iPad.
Flexcil
- Best for
- Studying from PDFs: textbooks, papers, slides.
- Runs on
- iPad, iPhone, Mac with Apple silicon, Android and, since recently, the web.
- Price
- Free to start, with one-time upgrades from about $9 on the US App Store.
- Watch out for
- No iCloud sync between devices, and some reviewers find the selection mode confusing.
Flexcil was built for reading with a pen in hand. You highlight with gestures, link passages between documents, merge and reorder PDF pages, and record audio synced to your handwriting [40][41]. Developed by a South Korean company, it is a local favorite for studying from PDFs and recently launched Flexcil Web [40]. Its Android version has a lower rating (3.7) than its iPad one.
CollaNote
- Best for
- Students on iPad who want a lot for free.
- Runs on
- iPad, iPhone, Mac with Apple silicon and Vision Pro.
- Price
- Free, with an optional lifetime premium for $13.90.
- Watch out for
- Apple-only, and some users report instability in long sessions.
CollaNote earned its reputation as the generous one: dozens of pens, PDF and PowerPoint markup, flashcards with images and audio, real-time collaboration, and audio recording with transcription, without a subscription [42]. It holds a 4.7-star average from more than 14,000 ratings.
ZoomNotes
- Best for
- Power users who think in maps, outlines and links rather than in pages.
- Runs on
- iPad, iPhone and Mac.
- Price
- $7.99 once, with every feature. ZoomNotes Lite is free.
- Watch out for
- A steep learning curve and an interface that looks dated.
ZoomNotes is the odd genius of the list. It zooms almost without limit, nests pages inside pages, links anything to anything, has layers and edits PDF and Office files [43]. It asks for patience in return, and has no AI.
Freenotes
- Best for
- People who want Goodnotes' look and an AI assistant at a lower price.
- Runs on
- iPad, iPhone, Mac and Android.
- Price
- Plus is $9.99 a year, Pro $39.99 a year, or a lifetime Plus for $29.99.
- Watch out for
- Despite the name, the free tier now has a cap on the number of notes.
Freenotes looks and feels a lot like Goodnotes, adds AI summaries, PDF chat, transcription and flashcards, and is well rated on the App Store [44]. It is now enough of a rival that Goodnotes published a comparison page about it in September 2026 [45]. Its free version is no longer unlimited, so check the current cap before moving a library there.
On an Android tablet
English-language lists tend to forget that Android has its own favorites. StarNote sells its Pro version as a one-time purchase and is often described as the Goodnotes of Android tablets [46]. Kilonotes has more than ten million downloads on Google Play [48]. Notein, popular in China, is no longer on the US Google Play store: its makers ask US users to move to a new app, Orion Notes, by exporting and re-importing their notes [47].
If you want to leave the tablet behind
E-ink tablets are a different answer to the same tiredness: no notifications, no apps, just a pen. In the US, reMarkable’s Paper Pure starts at $399 and the Paper Pro at $629, with an optional Connect subscription for cloud features [49]. Amazon’s Kindle Scribe ranges from $429.99 to $629.99 for the Colorsoft model and needs no subscription [50]. They are lovely for writing and reading, and slow for anything else.
Kastoro (disclosure: ours)
- Best for
- Studying: reading PDFs, asking them questions and turning what matters into flashcards.
- Runs on
- Any modern browser today, on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chromebook or a tablet. The iPad app is not on the App Store yet.
- Price
- Free for your first 3 documents. Pro is US$11.99 a year with unlimited documents. AI is an optional add-on at US$3.99 a month.
- Watch out for
- It is young. No native Android or Windows app, no real-time collaboration, no import of .goodnotes files, and handwriting on the iPad is still on its way.
This is the part of the article where you should be most skeptical, so we will keep it to facts and to what we are not.
Kastoro is a notebook built around what happens after class. In the browser, today, you can write typed notes, import PDFs and highlight them, sketch on a whiteboard, and create decks of flashcards. The flashcards are scheduled by FSRS-6, the open algorithm that the science article on our blog explains in detail, including where Anki’s version is more accurate than ours. With the optional AI add-on you can ask a page a question, have a voice conversation about a PDF, and generate quizzes from your own material. Nothing is sent to a model until you ask.
Three decisions might matter to someone leaving Goodnotes. First, sync between the web and the iPad app is part of every plan, Free included, and Pro costs the same as Goodnotes Essential [51]. Second, AI is a separate, optional purchase, so if you do not want it, you neither pay for it nor see it pushed. Third, if Pro ends, nothing is locked: your documents stay readable, editable and exportable.
What it is not, yet: a full replacement for a Goodnotes library of handwritten notebooks. The iPad app, where the pen lives, is still on its way to the App Store, and there is no Android or Windows app beyond the browser. If your days are spent writing by hand on an iPad, look at Noteshelf or Notability first and keep an eye on us.
Side by side
| App | Runs on | Free tier | Paid from | One-time purchase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goodnotes | iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android, Windows, web | 3 notebooks | $11.99/yr (cross-platform sync needs Pro, $35.99/yr) | $35.99, Apple only, no Goodnotes Cloud |
| Notability | iPad, iPhone, Mac, web, Android | 5 notes | $14.99/yr | Classic, $39.99 web / $49.99 App Store |
| Noteshelf 3 | iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android, Windows | Yes, with limits | Yearly or monthly plans | Lifetime premium |
| MyScript Notes | iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android | 5 pages per notebook | Subscription | Lifetime option |
| Apple Notes | iPad, iPhone, Mac (iCloud.com in a browser) | Everything | — | — |
| OneNote | Every platform | The whole app | Copilot via Microsoft 365, $99.99/yr | — |
| Samsung Notes | Galaxy devices, Windows | Everything | — | — |
| Flexcil | iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android, web | Yes, with limits | — | From about $9 |
| CollaNote | iPad, iPhone, Mac | Most features | — | $13.90 |
| ZoomNotes | iPad, iPhone, Mac | ZoomNotes Lite | — | $7.99 |
| Freenotes | iPad, iPhone, Mac, Android | Capped number of notes | $9.99/yr | $29.99 |
| Kastoro | Any browser; iPad app coming | 3 documents | $11.99/yr; AI add-on $3.99/mo | — |
US prices on 6 October 2026, from each vendor’s page or the US App Store. Prices change by country and during promotions; Notability’s are list prices, without the back-to-school discount that was running that day.
What a year really costs
The advertised price tells you little; the plan you need for the way you work tells you everything. Take one common setup: you write on an iPad and want the same notes on a Windows laptop.
- Goodnotes: $35.99 a year, because sync outside Apple needs Pro [5].
- Notability: $14.99 a year for Lite, or a single $39.99 for Classic, using the web app on the laptop [18][19].
- OneNote: $0. It is the honest winner of this scenario, as long as you can live with its iPad app.
- Kastoro: free up to 3 documents, then US$11.99 a year, with the laptop in the browser, once the iPad app is out.
Now add AI. Goodnotes’ AI Pass is $9.99 a month, on top of a plan [3]. Notability puts its AI in Plus and Pro. Microsoft puts Copilot in Microsoft 365. In Kastoro, AI is US$3.99 a month, separate from Pro. If you never use AI, the cheapest path in every case is the plan without it.
How to move your notes out of Goodnotes
No app we found imports .goodnotes files, and Goodnotes itself says that format “can only be opened in Goodnotes”
[7]. Its full-library backup is a .zip meant only for restoring into Goodnotes
[10]. The way out is PDF, and on an iPad it is less painful than it sounds:
- Export whole folders at once. In the library, select one or more folders and choose Export as PDF. Goodnotes
produces a single
.zipthat keeps your folder structure [7]. On Android, Windows and the web you can only export one document at a time [6]. - Choose the right kind of PDF. A flattened PDF with handwriting recognition turned on keeps your handwriting searchable in other apps; an editable PDF keeps outlines and links but not searchable handwriting [8]. For most people, flattened with recognition is the better bet.
- Or let it export continuously. Auto Backup on iPad can keep a PDF copy of your library in Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or WebDAV [9], which is a calm way to migrate over a few weeks.
- Import into the new app. Unzip, then use the new app’s import. Notability, for example, can import a whole folder with its subfolders [25]. Kastoro imports PDFs in the browser and in the iPad app.
Two warnings before you start. Your strokes become part of the page: you can read, search, highlight and write on top of them, but you cannot edit the old ink. And on Goodnotes’ Free plan, exports carry a watermark [3], so if you have a lot to move, one month of a paid plan may be worth it. Keep Goodnotes installed until you have checked that everything arrived.
What the research says about the pen
Many people choose a handwriting app because they have heard that writing by hand helps you retain more. The truth is more modest. The famous 2014 study that found an advantage for pen over laptop [52] did not hold up well: a 2019 replication found no advantage on conceptual questions [53], and a 2021 direct replication found no difference in quiz scores [54]. A 2024 meta-analysis of 24 studies found a small advantage for handwriting when students also reviewed their notes (g = 0.25), while typists captured far more content [55].
So the pen helps a little. What helps a lot is what you do afterwards. Of the ten study techniques reviewed by Dunlosky and colleagues, only two earned the highest rating: testing yourself and spreading study over time [56]. Rereading and highlighting earned the lowest. And students who tested themselves remembered more a week later than those who reread, even though rereading felt more effective at the time [57].
That is why, in our view, the most important question about a note-taking app is not about the pen. It is whether the app helps you come back to what you wrote at the right moment, and ask yourself whether you still remember it. Several apps on this list now try, including Goodnotes, Notability, CollaNote, MyScript Notes and Kastoro. Pick the one whose way of doing it you will actually use.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best free alternative to Goodnotes?
If you only use Apple devices, go with Apple Notes: it is free, searches your handwriting, records and transcribes audio, and marks up PDFs. If you need Windows or Android too, OneNote is free on every platform, although its iPad app cannot convert handwriting into text. On a Samsung Galaxy tablet, Samsung Notes is free and comes with Galaxy AI. CollaNote is the most generous free notebook app on iPad, with an optional one-time upgrade.
Is there a Goodnotes alternative with a one-time purchase?
Yes. Notability Classic costs $39.99 on notability.com or $49.99 on the App Store and includes sync across iOS, Android and the web, but no AI. ZoomNotes is $7.99 once, CollaNote's lifetime upgrade is $13.90, Noteshelf 3 sells a lifetime premium, and MyScript Notes offers a lifetime option. Goodnotes itself still sells a one-time Special Edition for $35.99 in the US, but it is Apple-only and does not include Goodnotes Cloud.
What is the best Goodnotes alternative for Android?
On a Samsung Galaxy tablet, start with Samsung Notes, which is free and preinstalled. Otherwise, Notability launched a native Android app in August 2026, Noteshelf 3 and MyScript Notes have mature Android versions, and StarNote, Notein and Kilonotes are popular Android-first apps. Goodnotes also runs on Android, with a 3.9-star rating on Google Play and some features still missing there.
What is the best Goodnotes alternative for Windows?
OneNote, which is free, native and has the best handwriting tools on Windows, including converting ink to text and math. Noteshelf 3 also has a Windows app. Notability's Windows app is focused on recording meetings, so on Windows its full notebook runs in the browser. Kastoro also runs in the browser on Windows, for typed notes, PDFs, a whiteboard and flashcards.
Can I import my .goodnotes files into another app?
No. Goodnotes says the .goodnotes format can only be opened in Goodnotes, and we found no other app that imports it. The way out is PDF: on iPad, select whole folders and export them as PDF, which gives you one .zip with your folder structure intact. Your handwriting becomes part of the page, so you can read, search and annotate it in another app, but not edit those strokes.
Is Goodnotes still worth it in 2026?
For many people, yes. It has an Editors' Choice badge, a 4.7-star average from about 460,000 ratings on the US App Store and more than 25 million monthly users. If you only use Apple devices, Essential costs $11.99 a year and works well. The case for leaving is strongest if you need to sync with Windows or Android, which requires the $35.99 Pro plan, or if you dislike AI being built into everything.
Goodnotes or Notability: which is better?
Notability is better if you record lectures or meetings, because tapping your handwriting jumps to the moment in the audio, and if you want a one-time purchase with cross-platform sync (Classic). Goodnotes is better if you live in big paper-style notebooks with templates and want the most mature Windows and Android apps. Both have AI study tools and flashcards, and their recent App Store reviews show similar complaints about pricing and sync.
Try it on a document you care about.
Kastoro opens in your browser, works offline once it's open, and your first three documents are free.
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Every page was consulted on October 6, 2026. Prices are US list prices on that day unless a country is named; app stores change them by region and during promotions.
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