# Notebook – AI Notes, Notepad

> Voice Memo, To-Do & Planner

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id973801089](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id973801089)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id973801089`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Zoho Corporation
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (23,850 ratings)
- **Version:** 6.9.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-16
- **First published:** 2016-05-22
- **Size:** 222 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-18
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/notebook-ai-notes-notepad/id973801089)
- **Website:** [https://zoho.com/notebook](https://zoho.com/notebook)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html](https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html)

## Description

**Notebook by Zoho** is a free, ad-free note-taking and productivity app for capturing typed notes, Apple Pencil handwriting, voice recordings, checklists, files, PDFs, scans and saved content. AI features can transcribe audio and video, summarize notes, create mind maps, translate text, draft checklists, improve writing and suggest tags.

Use Notebook for meeting notes, lectures, research, journaling and daily to-dos. Search across notes, transcripts, images and handwriting with OCR, organize content into nested collections, and collaborate through mentions or shareable links. Notes sync across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and other devices, with offline access, encryption, password or biometric locking, Siri support and on-device Knowledge Graph features.

## Rankings

- #10,449 — Overall
- #48 — Powered by Apple Intelligence
- #5 — notebook
- #27 — note
- #34 — task
- #77 — pdf

## Review summary

Users praise Notebook for its flexible organization and easy-to-use interface, ideal for keeping recipes, to-do lists, journals, and long-term ideas. However, frequent issues undermine the experience: cross-device syncing is unreliable, crashes occur after updates, and some users report data loss and difficulty closing accounts. Support responsiveness is commonly criticized, with broken help links and slow responses. Premium features like OCR/search sometimes don’t work as advertised, and subscription restoration problems add frustration. Overall, its strongest point is organization, but stability, data integrity, and support problems heavily impact the user experience.

### Pros

- Flexible organization: supports diverse note types and folders for everything from recipes to journals.
- User-friendly, clean interface that makes note-taking straightforward.
- Well-suited for long-term storage of thoughts and ideas.
- Valued by long-time users for its design and overall usefulness.

### Cons

- Unreliable cross-device syncing and updates; notes and changes fail to sync properly.
- Frequent instability: crashes, freezes, or screen blinks after updates.
- Data loss and account issues: notes disappearing after transfers or difficulty closing accounts or deleting data.
- Poor customer support with unresponsive or hard-to-navigate assistance and slow subscription help.
- Premium features sometimes misrepresented or not working (OCR/search), plus subscription restoration problems.

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