Summary vs Goodnotes

What reviewers actually said

Built only from these 120 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. [R1] Summary 1/5 · US Doesn't work: Feels like a scam... is glitching
2. [R19] Summary 1/5 · US Poor quality of output: Multiple speakers are captured as one speaker so it’s hard to base your notes on incorrect speaker notes captured by this Summary AI notetaker app
3. [R67] Goodnotes 1/5 · US GoodNotes 5: Crazy how you pay for something and then a company just decides to remove features you paid for and try to force you into a subscription to get the features back. Should be illegal actually. Must pay to use internal links suddenly, when it’s always done it. I would never pay you a dime more for this reason. I’d rather pay a more honest developer.
4. [R68] Goodnotes 5/5 · US The best!: The best of all apps like Good Notes. I use it daily!
5. [R11] Summary 5/5 · US Easy to use: Easy to understand and very efficient program
6. [R58] Summary 1/5 · US Hard: Hard to used.
7. [R66] Goodnotes 3/5 · US Good most of the time.: For the most part it’s great! I do experience some bugs sometimes where it will start deleting stuff that I have written as I continue my notes then it will continue to give me an error message if I try restarting the app and I have to restart my IPad to get it to work properly again. These are recent bugs for me as I used to not experience them.
8. [R81] Goodnotes 3/5 · US Overall, it’s decent: The app itself is a great app. The issue comes up if you’re using an Apple Pencil. The latency is high and the lines cross slightly (giving you a small hook) when you lift the pencil to start the next word\letter. i will tend to look like an upside down r I ensured the reduce latency was on and tried it off, pencil is new but still tried swapping the tips, and i disabled th
9. [R16] Summary 1/5 · US Not reliable: Not reliable
10. [R25] Summary 1/5 · US App does not work: I verified my mobile phone number, then once confirmed I use the dialer in the program to make a call. None of it was recorded. None of it was transcribed. Thank God I took notes anyway I’d have to call back. Not happy at.
11. [R91] Goodnotes 1/5 · US Fails badly: I bought it to record audio and transcribe a 12-hour meeting. Turns out the transcription uses tokens. When my token allotment ran out 2 hours into the meeting, the recording stopped too. The next day, I go back to review the transcript, or at least the audio: nothing past hour 2. And no warning that the recording had stopped, nothing about tokens being used or needed to keep going, jus
12. [R119] Goodnotes 5/5 · US Major issues with login and account syncing: I have encountered numerous issues with syncing Apple accounts, Google accounts, Microsoft, you name it. Just poorly designed account management system. Imagine being unable to edit your notes and documents at any random update or change of credentials, with support taking forever to reply. The app itself is okay, but no good if you can’t use it.
13. [R22] Summary 1/5 · US Pricey!: Beware! You only get three days of a free trial and after that you are paying $8 a month. You should disclose that before downloading the app.
14. [R60] Summary 1/5 · US Can’t try without paying: This app is poorly designed from onboarding. It asks for a 5 star review before I can even use it, and the forces a “trial” before I can even see how it works.
15. [R76] Goodnotes 1/5 · US Locked Out Even With Payment: This app used to be great, I loved it for keeping a recipe book and a budget planner as well as other random things. I paid several years ago the $10 or whatever it was to have full access to everything and now I’m locked out of the unlimited notebooks simply because they want to scam me into paying the monthly subscription? No thank you. I feel like those of us who p
16. [R94] Goodnotes 1/5 · US Lifetime isn’t lifetime: I purchased lifetime subscription but they don’t honor that. They force updates that require paid subscriptions or the app limits you to 3 notebooks.
17. [R56] Summary 1/5 · US Customer Support: No problem one is responding. I upload a video and the summary never begins. This started 3 weeks ago. I have PAID for the app. NO ONE WILL HELP!
18. [R117] Goodnotes 3/5 · GB do NOT get this app: The stars was just so i could reach people, please don’t put trust into this app. I have had an issue of notes going blank before exams which is frustrating. They will literally just make your notes disappear. My note books are all blank. They don’t have a phone number for the purpose of ignoring you when you email them. The customer service is genuinely terrible. They will gi