Goodnotes Introduces AI-Powered Features for Professionals: Collaborative Whiteboard, Document Creation, and More
Notetaking application Goodnotes, traditionally serving educational users, unveils professional-focused enhancements today. These improvements encompass a collaborative whiteboard function, document creation capabilities, and an AI assistant to aid users in content summarization and generation.
The Goodnotes AI is compatible with various input methods such as handwriting, typing, drawing, and voice. The company claims that the assistant can condense meetings, generate visuals like charts and diagrams, proofread text, and provide templates for document creation and note-taking.
Last year, the company acquired a South Korean startup specializing in meeting and video summarization. Goodnotes is now leveraging technology from this acquisition to drive these new features.
Simultaneously, Goodnotes introduces a whiteboard feature enabling users to collaborate on a shared canvas utilizing text and diagrams. The platform also allows users to create documents featuring text, images, GIFs, and tables.
Goodnotes is not the only productivity tool integrating documents into its system. Platforms like Grammarly and Canva are encouraging users to generate more content within their applications, providing context for AI assistants to respond effectively to user queries.
Steven Chen, GoodNotes founder, shared with reporters that while the company maintains a substantial student user base, it aims to expand its product’s utility to cater to professionals. He stated, “Text documents are widely used in offices by heavy typists, and a whiteboard is ideal for collaboration using various tools. Our vision is to evolve GoodNotes into a comprehensive notetaking app suitable for every situation and device.”
Goodnotes introduces two new plans—Goodnotes Essentials and Goodnotes Pro—replacing its previous numbering system. Essentials, priced at $11.99 annually, offers access to new file formats, AI-powered Q&A, and math. Pro, costing $35.99 per year, includes integration with Google Calendar and OneDrive, private link sharing and collaboration, a desktop AI bot for meeting recording and transcription, and AI-driven content recommendations.
The startup disclosed that AI usage is limited, even on the Pro plan. It also offers an AI pass priced at $10 monthly, granting unlimited AI credits.
Goodnotes continues to offer a one-time purchase option for Apple device users, priced at $35.99 but excluding cloud sync and cross-platform support.
Initially launched as an iPad app in 2011, Goodnotes has since expanded its compatibility across iOS, Android, and Windows. The company boasts over 25 million monthly active users, up from 21 million in 2023.
