ZoomNotes Lite

I’m a Professor of Art + Design, writer, theorist, designer and illustrator. ZoomNotes, while more complex than similar apps in their class simply offer a greater range of use; formatting text, import images, adjusting those images, handwriting, PDF import/export, layers, tools, color manipulation work together providing the best qualities of digital and traditional technology. While the UI isn’t particularly attractive ZoomNotes offers the user complete freedom in adjusting menu, color, location. I give it 5 despite the dated interface and or the occasional glitch. Because the range of use far outweigh those sporadic issues, and it is simply a better app than the others. Use this app with an iPad Pro and pencil. 15 June 2018 Update: improvements and updates are fantastic!

I like it so far, it has a lot of features, but I still like the good notes 5 better, that's why I gave it a 3 star; I'll update this if they fix the bug and correct mistake. I download this xoom lite at first just to check the apps, but find out you have to buy a lot of stuff to fully use and be able to do what the apps can do. I went ahead and pay $7.99 for all the features thinking it would give a link or update to get the full version of XOOM NOTE, NOPE!!!! So, they get 3 star for shame on you for taking my money and not give me the full version of the apps. The full version of the apps is $7.99 so, I thought I'll get the full version. Anyways, I tried to contact them, click a few links to get to the help, section of their website, and file a complaint or at least let them know what is up. Did I get a reply, NOPE!!! They just don't seem to have a customer service down, I guess. That's all I can say about this apps. I'll be surprise if they even read this review.

I needed an app where I could make handwritten notes because I’m studying math and you can’t exactly type out math symbols easily and it’s just faster to hand write it. I wanted to be more organized by keeping things electronic so then I could easily transfer notes between devices and I won’t lose them as easily. In comes this app. I only use this app for note taking in college classes and lectures using Apple Pencil and this app does the job really nice! I like how the settings are pretty customizable and versatile for my needs, even in the free version. I also like that when my hand or skin touches the pages, things don’t go crazy nor do random things pop up (like with default Notes app). What really made me choose this over other apps was that I could export my handwritten notes as a pdf file which is just super convenient when transferring my notes to my laptop in the end of each week. Other apps I tried require you to pay for this feature. So if this sounds good to you and serves your purpose, then I highly recommend this app!

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I can’t have the same document on more than one device. If this is important to you maybe look elsewhere. The best way to prevent the app from crashing every few minutes is to turn off iCloud backup. Depending on the size of the document, you can’t export it without the app crashing. So where ever you start that may be the only place you can have access to that doc. For example, planner I have on my iPad can’t be exported with out the app crashing. And I can’t share via iCloud back up because that makes the app crash. I bought this because I thought it would sync to the desktop app and it would be easy to have 1 document in multiple places. The feature that made me want to purchase the app is unusable and causes the app to crash. I am very frustrated. The rest of the features are great and I really just wish that there was a way to access a document from more than one device.

I have every note-taking app including Notability, GoodNotes, NotePlus, Procreate, and each one seemed to be missing one thing I needed. So I had to import/export between apps to get what I wanted. Zoom Notes has everything I need, plus so much more. I tried out the lite to make sure it worked, and within 20 mins just bought the full version. And sure, I had to read the user manual to figure out how to use some things, but the 20 mins was well worth it. This app is GENIUS! I can write, type, add anything to any document, add tables, endless layers, endless documents and sub documents. Wish I’d seen this app first before I’d wasted my money on the others.