![]() ![]() When I first got my iPad for school, I watched a few videos explaining the differences between the two, and ultimately bought GoodNotes 5. Its creativity and customization options appealed to me, and I used it to decorate my notes with flair. ![]() When I got to college, I decided to try out Notability. I get so many questions on which app is better objectively better, but to be honest, there is no better app. The “best” app will be different for each person. There are so many benefits and drawbacks to each that alter the user experience, and I’ll be explaining in depth about all the features Notability and GoodNotes have and which app is better for which type of notetaker. The way Notability and GoodNotes stores each note file is quite different. Notability has two layers of organization, dividers and subjects. With only two layers, there’s limited embedding, but you can see all the dividers and subjects all at once on the side bar. Your stickers will be imported into the GoodNotes documents folder. Its simplistic style of navigation sacrifices customization but excels in functionality. ![]() The selected tool will be represented in color, whereas inactive tools are colorless. GoodNotes and Notability both have wonderful eraser tools, but GoodNotes has the edge with a function called auto-deselect eraser, which allows the eraser tool to switch back to the pen tool after a single use, saving time. To draw shapes such as a perfect circle or a triangle in Notability, you draw the shape and hold the stylus down for a few seconds to the shape to snap into place. In GoodNotes, you select a shape tool (separate from pen tool) and they automatically detect shapes. This really comes down to preference, but my personal opinion is that Notability is more convenient since you don’t have to change tools every time you want to draw a straight line. GoodNotes has a sleeker photo input option and a screenshot feature that allows you to screenshot what you selected. Notability allows you to resize selected parts by using your fingers to pinch instead of having to tap “resize” like in GoodNotes. Notability has a good number of paper options, and have different sizes of each type. EDIT: It is the next day and I have gone and done a regular workload using GoodNotes while studying for math doing a mixed amount of drawing and writing with an apple pen. Notability only supports portrait-style paper while GoodNotes has both portrait and landscape paper. This time I got 4 hours and 30 minutes of usage out of GoodNotes which is well over double what I previously stated. Disclaimer, the reason for the higher battery usage. GoodNotes has a limited number of default paper options but you can also import your own paper templates, which makes GoodNotes a better choice in terms of paper. ![]()
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