Good Notes Free

Format: iPad
Price: Free Lite (upgrade 3.99)
Vendor: iTunes


GoodNotes lets you take handwritten notes, sketch diagrams, mark-up PDFs and organize them on a beautiful bookshelf. Turn pages with a swipe, highlight or add notes to any page, and share your notes with anyone. GoodNotes will automatically save your notes and has full backup function to prevent data loss.

RH: This is the free version of GoodNotes. This app provides a number of templates including lined, blank, squares, and music note sheets. The free version limits you to two notebooks and the upgrade is a little pricey at 3.99. I really like the ability to enlarge your paper as you write and then shrink it back at will. You can also import images and be able to write all over them.

Penultimate

Format: iPad
Price: $0.99
Vendor: iTunes

Pretty good handwriting app for note taking or doodling. Handwriting is very smooth and there is a clipboard tool available for moving various words or diagrams around or to other pages. This app has line, grid, and blank pages available.


RH: There are a lot of free handwriting apps out there and you will use the one that becomes familiar to you. This was a few dollars but because of the smoothing out effect on handwriting is a good deal.