Notes

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 100 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.

1. [R2] 5/5 · CA Love it: 😍
2. [R4] 5/5 · CA GREAT!: I love notes! I am on a journey I’m going to need my notes to write some things down so I highly recommended to everyone! Have a good day people.
3. [R15] 5/5 · CA why are you asking me to rate this bro it’s the notes app: it’s the notes app bro, what more is there to say. it doesn’t need to be rated. that’s like asking to review the air. it’s there and i’m breathing it cause that’s just what you’re supposed to do. chill.
4. [R16] 5/5 · CA Notes: Flexible and I love
5. [R17] 5/5 · CA No pen/no paper/no problem: No pen/no paper/ no problem 🥰 Microphone a wonderful addition to keeping notes on the fly 🥰 get a taste what it might be like to have a personal assistant🙃
6. [R30] 5/5 · CA ICYRHBM: Great for venting..not good for nosey parent
7. [R49] 5/5 · CA Great reminder.: I love it cuz I put reminders in there. For example I enter the things I want to discuss with my doctor. And stuff like that. It works great for things like that. Or recipes etc.
8. [R60] 5/5 · AU My life would be in tatters without it: Love a note. Use the audio function for thoughts and dreams
9. [R28] 3/5 · CA Please rate this helpful: It’s a good app, i like how you can lock notes, but im sad that notes with video, audio, tags, PDF, or file attachments or using features from a newer version of Notes can't be locked. What’s the reasoning behind that? Please fix this.
10. [R31] 4/5 · CA Note Lock: The note lock function is a great feature. That is… when I could use it. After a while, I forgot the password. Problem is, in order to change or delete the password, I need to enter said forgotten password. Which is a problem. I’ve had two locked notes that I’ve wanted to either open or delete, but I can’t, because I need the password.
11. [R51] 5/5 · AU Simple to Use, yet Private: So good that you can encrypt all your iCloud Notes for safe keeping and share across devices👏
12. [R61] 4/5 · AU My go to Notes app: Quick, minimal, works across all Apple devices. Would love reminders to be integrated and the images inserted to be resizable with ability to annotate. Also ability to have overlay text and objects over sketches.
13. [R85] 4/5 · AU room for improvement: does the basics well enough and syncs with Notes on all apple devices (except watch iirc). does some nice things like if you copy in some text with bullet points from (say) a webpage it will convert to numbered lists and checklist styles and remove the text glyphs from bullets. stuff like that. would be great if we could define our own Text Styles and include space before/aft
14. [R88] 4/5 · AU Good app! But have some sugestiones: I really like the app! But I have some suggestions. Add a zoom in feature Make the Texters have sparkly and shiny options Add a blending option so then you can blend colours I use the app for drawing because it’s good for that. Great app!
15. [R1] 1/5 · CA Dont use: It deleted my notes while writing in class that too law class! Never gonna use them
16. [R5] 1/5 · CA pos: all my notes got deleted, absolutely everything. all my passwords, dream logs, lil things for me to remember, my poetry, all gone. never everrr use this app if u wanna put important things down, rly ain’t worth the risk & i honestly can’t describe how sad i am abt everything being gone
17. [R8] 1/5 · CA Glitch: 3 years later and the glitch is still here😭 the glitch is all your notes are gone suddenly and you cant make any new notes it will just dissapear
18. [R9] 2/5 · CA Great! Until…: I have had this app for five whole years and kept literally everything on it. But then it all just randomly disappeared? After five whole years? That kinda like really sucks actually. I have so much stuff on there I can’t get back now
19. [R6] 2/5 · CA Shared notes bug: The shared notes don’t sync very well, there should be a refresh or update note option
20. [R12] 3/5 · CA Needs an upgrade: - Shared notes dont work properly, if I update it on mine, it doesnt show properly on the other persons. - the drawing/highlighting free hand doesnt work - needs more features
21. [R93] 1/5 · AU Shared notes bugging: Shared notes won’t let me type what I want without the phone having a stroke thanks
22. [R3] 1/5 · CA Annoying Autocorrect that can't be turned off!: I’ve used this app a lot, and I’m so fed up with all the lines that continually pop up when I’m using my pencil. There should be a way to turn that off! Apple says I have to turn off autocorrect, but that affects every app. I want autocorrect everywhere else, just not on this app. I’m looking for a new Notes app.
23. [R7] 1/5 · CA Cannot save notes to File - Glitch!!!: It stopped working. Instead of saving the note, it saved my label printer app front page. So when I open the file, it's the front page of the label printer, instead of the notes I want to save.
24. [R10] 1/5 · CA I’m actually mad I can’t give 0 stars: Wrote a 10k word count story, selected all and accidentally pressed paste instead of copy. I tried to click undo but the button wasn’t working, lost a months worth of work because you can’t program correctly
25. [R13] 3/5 · CA Some of handwriting is removed after scratching out feature: Using iPad Air 11-inch (M3), IOS version:18.6, Appel pencil (with USB type C) I’ve noticed that after I delete some of my handwriting in notes using the “Scratch out” feature, it sometimes rearrange my previous handwriting (in same notes), and sometimes some of them removed. Overall handwriting with Apple Pencil works ok, especially A
26. [R18] 4/5 · CA Crashes sometimes: Not amusing
27. [R21] 1/5 · CA It’s good but there’s a bug: It is helpful but when I locked my notes the password did not work to unlock it and still don’t work
28. [R25] 1/5 · CA Syncing issue: Probably the worst app in Apple's lineup. I used to track almost everything here. Last month I bought a macbook pro, and was wondering why the data didn't sync from my iPhone. So in order to resolve it I tried multiple steps, and then in the end, someone recommended signing out and back in on both the devices. Doing so, I lost last 8-9 months of data, because for some reason it took
29. [R33] 3/5 · CA Smart Tables: You guy should really consider adding smart tables or database tables to the notes applications. It’s a good apps, and I enjoy using it. But I keep having to go to other apps for this function whereas I would prefer to use the application that already comes with the device.
30. [R36] 4/5 · CA Good but missing feature: I love this app, it’s the classic but it really needs an option to change the colour of the writing.
31. [R53] 5/5 · AU Apple - Notes: The best to use and remember things - better than a diary. Colour coding will make it better
32. [R24] 1/5 · CA Can’t find some words in the search bar: In the search bar you sometimes can’t find words. They’re in fact there in some of your notes, but not always. That’s pretty ridiculous and unacceptable that a company like Apple can’t even have a functioning simple app like that. That’s like the least sophisticated app you can have (just text) but it’s broken? And before you get me started with iCloud, no
33. [R65] 1/5 · AU SCAM: I paste a URL into notes so I can trim off the tracking parameter that Facebook adds. I use the backspace button to review the part of the URL I do not want. Then I select the remaining URL and press ‘Copy’. Unbelievably, when I paste it, the tracking parameter is back!! Disgraceful!! Apple’s ‘Notes’ app is a SCAM! It isn’t work, it tricks the user!!!! Beware!!!!! 😡😡😡😡
34. [R34] 2/5 · CA Love Hate: When it’s working as it should, it’s great. But then it s l o w s d o w n… to a …. c r a w l. One letter at a time. Drives my insane!
35. [R63] 1/5 · AU Keeps freezing: Notes app constantly freezes and has delays when typing. You would think phones as expensive as apple would not have these issues!
36. [R74] 3/5 · AU Laggy notes: It’s been quite laggy when using tables in notes.