At Goodnotes, we’re committed to building an intuitive note-taking experience. We’ve listened closely to your feedback and are continuously refining the app with new features, usability improvements, and essential fixes.
From making handwriting smoother to bringing AI-powered tools to your notes, we’ve introduced major enhancements to boost your workflow across all devices. Whether you're sketching with more precision, quickly summarizing audio recordings, or generating visual aids, these updates are designed to make note-taking smarter and more seamless. Here’s what’s new!
🚀 The Big Updates
✍️Handwriting
Stroke Stabilization
Say goodbye to wobbly lines! Stroke stabilization will ensure your handwriting looks clean and professional. We recommend using <30% for regular writing, and >31% for drawing diagrams, calligraphy, or more precise work.
Line Straightening (Apple Only)
With just a tap, straighten up your notes for a cleaner, more organized look. Whether it’s fixing bullet points that shift or straightening slanted handwriting, you can tidy up your notes and keep everything neat and easy to read.
🧠AI-Powered Smart Tools
Generate Diagrams with Ask Goodnotes
Turn your notes into visual aids with the new diagram generation feature in Ask Goodnotes. Whether you're a student creating a quiz with hidden nodes, mapping out historical timelines, or a professional organizing workflows and reports into clear flowcharts, this tool helps break down complex information into structured, easy-to-understand visuals.
AI-Powered Audio Summaries (Apple only)
Quickly generate summaries of key meetings or lectures, making it easier to find important points without reading everything. Use it to highlight next steps from meetings, extract key ideas for revision, or drag and drop summaries into Cornell notes for organized studying.
Linked Timestamps
No more endless scrubbing; find key moments in your audio recordings with linked timestamps. Whether you're a student reviewing lectures, a professional revisiting meeting decisions, or a researcher analyzing interviews, this feature helps you get straight to what matters.
🍎 Mac/iOS
Quicknote Widget on iOS
Need to make a quick note of something? Jot down ideas or reminders by accessing Quicknotes straight from your home screen—no need to open the app first. Create and access Quicknotes directly from the home screen for faster note-taking.
AI Image Generation with Apple Image Playground
Generate and insert AI-created images directly into your notes with the image tool, adding visual clarity and creativity. Available on devices that support Apple Intelligence.
🪟 Windows, Android, and Web
PDF Search
Locate any content in your PDF documents with PDF search on all devices. Users can now search preloaded text in their documents, making it easy to locate relevant content in PDFs.
🛒 Marketplace Upgrades
Saved Lists
Keep track of your favorite Marketplace finds! With the new saved lists feature, you can bookmark items you love and revisit them later—perfect for when you're browsing for the best templates, covers, or stickers to add to your collection.
Custom Washi Tape Patterns
Add a personal touch to your notes with custom washi tape patterns, now available on Goodnotes Marketplace! Now you can choose from a variety of unique designs in the Marketplace to decorate, highlight, or organize your pages just the way you like.
🎉Quality of Life Updates
Major feature updates may steal the show, but the smaller ones still matter! From subtle UI tweaks to essential bug fixes, they’ve all contributed to a better overall experience.
🍎 Mac/iOS
💻 Windows Management on Mac
- Preserve window size on reopening.
- Drag and drop tabs between windows effortlessly.
- Proper title menu display when multiple tabs are open.
- Drag-and-drop files between windows.
- Create a new window by dragging a document tab to an open space.
🔧UX/UI Improvements
- Thumbnail previews update dynamically in documents.
- Notebook thumbnails are properly aligned in split view.
- Folder icons no longer appear blurry.
- A native scroll bar is now available in Mac documents.
- Various hover states and tooltips added for better mouse/trackpad interactions.
- Removed duplication when pinching image.
🔗 Hyperlink Enhancements
- Internal links now redirect correctly when duplicating a document.
- Hyperlinks remain intact in editable PDFs.
- External links in text boxes are preserved when exporting PDFs.
📁 Improved Import/Export Flows
- "Copy link" added to the Share menu.
- Folder colors preserved when importing from a backup zip file.
- More accurate template previews when adding pages to imported PDFs.
- PowerPoint and Word documents now import without errors or crashes.
🧭 Sidebar & Navigation Improvements
- Adding a new page from the sidebar now immediately navigates to it.
- The sidebar correctly displays the Goodnotes logo when minimized.
- On iPad, you can now swipe left to close the sidebar.
- Disable "Pull to Add" feature in reading mode.
⌨️New Keyboard Shortcuts
- Quickly rename, print, delete, select all, find text, and toggle the sidebar.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Fixed incorrect "Send Link" label when exporting all pages.
- Resolved an issue where unzipped PDFs from imported .zip files were placed in the wrong folder.
- Eliminated page auto-scrolling when importing certain .goodnotes files.
- Fixed an issue with editable PDFs having an invisible layer that prevented element selection.
- Improved app stability and reduced crashes for Goodnotes users
🪟 Windows, Android, and Web
🔧UX Improvements
- Record audio while taking notes so you can capture everything said and stay focused on the present moment. Currently available in English and Latin languages, with support for other languages in development.
- Users can now manually check for and install updates.
- Faster and smoother transitions when returning to the library.
- Vietnamese & Canadian French language support added.
- Select multiple pages in your documents to rotate, trash, and move.
🎨 UI Improvements
- Smoother transitions when returning to the library, reducing flickering.
- Better document padding to clearly define page limits.
- Optimized thumbnail alignment to display more documents and folders at a glance.
- Improved error messaging for login and registration, making issues easier to understand.
- Enhanced Type sorting in the library with name-based secondary sorting for better organization.
🎭Performance Improvements:
- Improved app stability so you’ll experience fewer crashes
- Faster document loading times
What Our Users Are Saying
Loving these updates, they’re total game-changers! Stroke stabilization and line straightening are exactly what I needed to make my notes look cleaner and more polished. And the new audio features? A lifesaver for reviewing meetings and lectures; it will save me so much time! Plus, the Quicknote Widget is so handy for jotting things down on the go. Goodnotes just keeps making life easier and more efficient! - Esmeralda Cevallos
I love how I can now head into brainstorming sessions at work with my iPad and Goodnotes, knowing I’ve got AI-powered audio summaries backing me up. It means I can revisit key parts of the actual conversation I might’ve missed while taking notes by hand. If only I had this feature during my uni lectures and tutorials! As always, it’s amazing to see Goodnotes genuinely listening to their community and constantly innovating with tools that make a real difference.” - Samuel Suresh
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