Coconote alternatives
Coconote users often seek alternatives due to significant issues with recording reliability, data loss, and problematic billing practices. Many also find its AI features inconsistent or irrelevant, leading them to look for more stable and focused note-taking solutions.
Why users look for alternatives to Coconote
- Users experience frequent issues with recording lectures, including recordings stopping without permission, not saving, or getting deleted too easily, leading to significant loss of important content.R4R10R24R26
- Many users report being charged unexpectedly or incorrectly, often for expensive annual subscriptions after a free trial, with difficulties obtaining refunds or contacting customer support.R14R20R28R38
- The AI features, particularly the AI generator for quizzes, are criticized for being inconsistent, generating irrelevant questions, or providing incorrect answers.R12R34
- Some users find the app unreliable, with glitches, slow performance, and problems with sharing or accessing data.R1R3R16R26
- Specific features that users valued have been removed, such as certain games or 'Professor Profane’s Podcast'.R22
The alternatives
Notes is not mentioned in the provided reviews, so there is no user feedback to describe its offerings or suitability.
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Head-to-head: Coconote vs NotesNotability is not mentioned in the provided reviews, so there is no user feedback to describe its offerings or suitability.
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Head-to-head: Coconote vs NotabilityGoodnotes is highly regarded for its digital handwriting tools and PDF annotation capabilities, making it a strong choice for students, teachers, and professionals who rely on handwritten notes and document markup R52R53R58. Users appreciate its creativity features and organization for journaling and planning R55R58. It offers good cloud syncing between devices, which is better than many other apps .
Better for: Goodnotes is better for students, teachers, doctors, or anyone who needs an excellent tool for digital handwritten notes, journaling, planning, and PDF annotation R52R53R58. It suits users who prioritize reliable handwriting recognition and cross-device syncing R53.
Head-to-head: Coconote vs GoodnotesEvernote is not mentioned in the provided reviews, so there is no user feedback to describe its offerings or suitability.
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Head-to-head: Coconote vs EvernoteTurbo AI is not mentioned in the provided reviews, so there is no user feedback to describe its offerings or suitability.
Better for: There is no user feedback to determine who it suits better.
Head-to-head: Coconote vs Turbo AIYou should stick with Coconote if you find its AI-powered note organization and summarization features genuinely helpful for studying or meeting notes, especially if you have ADHD or dyslexia and it helps you process information and build confidence for exams . It can be a game-changer for organizing difficult material into bullet points and short sentences .
Evidence note: Notes, Notability, Evernote, and Turbo AI have too few reviews to judge their offerings or suitability; their pitches are based on the absence of user feedback in the provided set.
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What reviewers actually said
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- [R4] Coconote Issue: There is a issue with recordings too easily being deleted. There should be a trash the retains for a few days. I’ve lost a lot of important content.
- [R10] Coconote Not good: It screws up recording and the playback gets messed up regularly too. Not a good purchase.
- [R24] Coconote Didn’t work: I tried recording my lecture and after I was al finished it said it was an error and got rid of the entire lecture
- [R26] Coconote Unreliable: When it works, which is most of the time, it works well. However, it glitches more times than it should and only saves a few seconds of a recording that was hours long. I can’t trust it because of this.
- [R14] Coconote App is great but Support is AWFUL: I used Coconote for about a year. Overall it was good. Not amazing, but good enough that I kept using it and let the subscription renew. When it renewed, I was charged $129.99 and immediately after that the app logged me out. Since then I have not been able to log back in at all. All of my notes from the past year are gone. There is no customer support email or p
- [R20] Coconote I am very upset.: I was offered a free trial, and when I took it I was fully charged $77. I have tried contacting the developer but Im only able to chat to an AI bot. There is no credible email I can find and I currently cannot afford to lose $77. This app is misleading and confusing. Very upset!!
- [R28] Coconote Billed before end of trial: Buyer beware I was offered a seven day trail but I was billed before the trial ended
- [R38] Coconote Wrong subscription.: I had accidentally purchased the annual version of this app and requested a refund so I could then use the monthly. My refund was downright refused without any reasoning from Apple and without any reasoning from Coconote itself. I explained my situation and with the economic climate being difficult I was horrified with their decision. I will use the app due to having no choice
- [R12] Coconote Inconsistent: Not good for nursing students I guess. The AI generator will test me on questions that are irrelevant to the lecture. For example, if my professor tells me to revert to a certain page to review important information, the app will give me a quiz question on which page I need to find that information on. It’s very inconsistent and just recently hasn’t been letting me login. Too many is
- [R34] Coconote Not worth the money- generated questions with wrong answers: Do not waste your money on this- this app generates content with incorrect answers which is disappointing as the material I put into it was legible and clear. You may find yourself memorising incorrect information and not even realize.
- [R1] Coconote Won’t work: This sucks because it won’t let me make a new note
- [R3] Coconote Great program with lots of garbage attached: The program itself is pretty good but if you want to share it, that’s a nightmare. It’s a nightmare it once you do scan codes that don’t work another word to make it impossible to share or use the data.
- [R16] Coconote Not very good app: The translation of the app is good, but the opening and closing of it is really bad. I’ve had to delete and had many times.
- [R22] Coconote Missing features: I used to LOVE this app! Now they’ve taken away a few games. But the feature I used MOST was Professor Profane’s Podcast! I was devastated the other day when I couldn’t choose him!
- [R52] Goodnotes Excellent: Good notes is phenomenal, if your student, teacher or even doctor this will help out tremendously.
- [R53] Goodnotes Doesn’t Need AI; wish it just stuck to handwriting: Love the basic writing tools and ability to recognize and search your handwriting. GenAI integration is wholly unnecessary, I’m only interested in its capacity for digital handwritten notes and pdf annotation. I bought lifetime access for GN6 (I do not pay for subscription), but likely will move away from this app once I find a suitable replaceme
- [R55] Goodnotes I love this: I give you 5 stars for the app because I love 💕 the creativity and more stuff
- [R58] Goodnotes My go to for notes and journaling: I love good notes! It’s one of my favorite apps that I use every day. Great for just taking aesthetic school notes, journaling, songwriting, etc.
- [R17] Coconote Incredible: Helps incredibly when having to write repetitive notes, especially with having adhd. Love love love
- [R25] Coconote LOVE LOVE LOVE: So worth the price of the app! As someone who struggles with dyslexia and studying this app has made school so more doable. I love how it allows for so many options and keeping everything simple to understand.
Synthesized from 64 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store