Notes Writer Pro: Beyond PDFs

• Price: $9.99
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Last verified 31 Jul 2026

4.6 3180 ratings · App Store

1. 4/5Beautiful and useful!🤎

   Your app is wonderful and truly useful. It has been with me since my undergraduate studies and continues to support me now during my master’s journey. Thank you so much for adding the Arabic language, and I really appreciate your responsiveness! 🤎 I would be very happy to see improvements in the following areas: Improving the pen tool to make it more flexible and smoother to use. Adding a modern sticker library and removing outdated ones. Enabling audio file import and export, and improving the voice recording feature by syncing it with written notes. Adding a long-press feature to help straighten lines when selecting text. Further enhancing the app’s user interface. Allowing file sharing with others through an online link. Making it possible to open multiple files (for example, 10 files) at once with a single action. This feature is extremely important for researchers, who often work with many files simultaneously. Being able to select and open multiple files at once would greatly improve workflow and productivity. Improving the lasso (freeform) selection tool. Adding the Hijri date alongside the Gregorian date and the day, with an option to enable it in settings. In the annotations section, it would be helpful to include an image of the page, rather than only showing the page reference, font color, and date.

   رهف RAHAF🇸🇦 · 31 Jul 2026

2. 5/5Fantastic app!!

   I have been taking a training course that references PDF documents with 300 to 400 pages each. While the instructor makes a presentation, I need to quickly highlight text and images on the corresponding (password protected) document, and annotate it with commentaries and diagrams. At times I need to take a picture of a complex diagram that the instructor draws on the board and insert it into the PDF. Notes Writer allows me to do all that, and presents me with a multitude of editing options that I use to adjust and revise my notes after class. I reported to the Studio 5 Team a couple of small usability issues and suggested some enhancements to the app. I was surprised by the immediate same-day courteous reply addressing my issues, but more so when two weeks later two of my suggested enhancements had been added! When I initially searched (about two months ago) the internet looking for best-in-class apps of this type, Notes Writer did not come up on any of the lists. I find this very strange because the competing apps that are listed appear to be inferior. Go figure...

   Placentero · 31 Jul 2026

3. 1/5Very Disappointed

   I have been a customer since you began with NotesWriter. Since then I have updated to every new version that has come out. When you started with NotesWriter it was without a doubt the best app of it’s type available. But now and for some time there have been problems with saving a file, with moving a file, and with even moving from one version of the notes apps to another. It has been frustrating to say the least how you started with the very best product available and each time you’ve added or upgraded, the app has suffered a degrading of abilities and become less reliable. I have put up with this and worked as hard as I can to overcome but it is past time for me to let you know that by continuing to make this more and more capable of different things in different abilities you have diminished the services of what you started with. In other words perhaps too much of a good thing reduces what you already had by cramming too much into it. I truly hope there is a way for you to return to the quality you had and the reliability you had with the first. I have faithfully paid you each time for the upgrade only to find that it was not an upgrade but a downgrade. I would be satisfied if I could just have the very first product that I bought which did everything that I, and I am sure most of your users were satisfied with, but you seem to have made that unavailable. What a shame. It was perfect for wordprocessing and writing sermons and manuscripts.

   Exousia1 · 31 Jul 2026

4. 4/5It’s the perfect app but...

   NotesWriter has the potential to surpass GoodNotes and Notability in my eyes but it’s just missing a couple of things. I’m constantly drawing diagrams for my engineering courses and it’s a hassle having to switch to the shapes tool. Instead, it would be great if I could just draw the shape and hold the pencil to create the shape. Also adding a feature where you can zoom in on a specific area and still have the whole page available to look at. Furthermore, it would be nice if I could format my notes like I would in LaTeX and still be able to use my pencil when taking notes. I really love the ability to include equations into my notes. Plus having the ability to snap things would be great. For instance, if I’m using grid paper I would like to draw line along the grid so that it could snap onto it. I find it annoying that when using the scissors tool it’ll include other pieces of my writing that I did not intend to. Usually when I write my notes it’ll glitch out and cut out small pieces of the letters I wrote down. Like it’ll cut the bottom part of ‘t’ but when I switch to the eraser the bottom half reappears and disappears when I switch back to the pencil. Maybe include the option to delete an entire line stroke. Including the option to switch back to the pencil after erasing would be nice. By including these features and removing those bugs it will definitely make NotesWriter the most efficient note taking app on any device!

   xHellboy · 31 Jul 2026

5. 1/5Poor customer service

   I have the old Notes Writer on my old IPad Pro. I purchased a new IPad Pro and the old app transferred when I set it up, but then it wouldn’t open on my new Ipad. It shows it is there but just blips open and closed. So I was dumb enough to pay for the Notes Writer Pro thinking this would fix everything. I upgraded on my old Ipad to the pro from within the old Notes Writer thinking the files would just switch over. No such luck. I have written several times for help & after a week, they might get back to me and give me instructions that get me no where. I have begged for help and the things they tell me to do don’t go to the screens they say it does. I have even reloaded my new Ipad in hopes that would work but it doesn’t. I would really like to get my money back on the Notes Writer Pro since it is obviously useless to me and no one wants to help. If they would just call or give me a number to call so I could tell them what shows up on my screen where they are saying something else should be showing up so we can figure out the problem. I don’t recommend upgrading. I am going to have to go to a different program and just copy and paste all my documents since you can’t get help with this app. I have been using it for years and never had a problem before.

   Elizabethm870 · 31 Jul 2026

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