Others type the answer. Scriven writes it.
On your page, in handwriting, as ink you can still change. And the notes app is free.
| Scriven | GoodNotes | Notability | Apple Notes | ChatGPT | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The whole notes app, free | Yes | Limited free | Limited free | Yes | Not a notes app |
| Answers on your page, in your handwriting | Yes | Single words | No | Maths results | No |
| Graphs and circuits as ink you can edit | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Marks your first wrong line | Yes | Reportedly | No | No | No |
| Notes app and AI | Free, or $12 a month | $36 a year + $9.99 a month | $79.99 a year | Free | $20 a month |
The whole notes app, free
- Scriven
- Yes
- GoodNotes
- Limited free
- Notability
- Limited free
- Apple Notes
- Yes
- ChatGPT
- Not a notes app
Answers on your page, in your handwriting
- Scriven
- Yes
- GoodNotes
- Single words
- Notability
- No
- Apple Notes
- Maths results
- ChatGPT
- No
Graphs and circuits as ink you can edit
- Scriven
- Yes
- GoodNotes
- No
- Notability
- No
- Apple Notes
- No
- ChatGPT
- No
Marks your first wrong line
- Scriven
- Yes
- GoodNotes
- Reportedly
- Notability
- No
- Apple Notes
- No
- ChatGPT
- No
Notes app and AI
- Scriven
- Free, or $12 a month
- GoodNotes
- $36 a year + $9.99 a month
- Notability
- $79.99 a year
- Apple Notes
- Free
- ChatGPT
- $20 a month
Prices and features from each company’s own website, checked October 2026. GoodNotes, Notability, Apple Notes and ChatGPT are trademarks of their owners; Scriven isn’t affiliated with them.
Bring your notebooks.
Move over from GoodNotes, Notability or LiquidText. They come back as ink you can keep editing, in a folder named for the app.
- From GoodNotes. In GoodNotes’ library menu, choose Cloud & Backup › Manual Backup › Back Up Now. One zip holds every notebook.
- From Notability. In Notability’s Settings › Connected Services, turn on Third-Party Backup with NTB as the File Format. Every note goes to your cloud.
- From LiquidText. LiquidText exports one project at a time: save each as a LiquidText file to one folder in Files, then bring the folder in.
