GoodnotesPappper vs Goodnotes.
Goodnotes is a polished handwriting app with offline notebooks. Pappper is a worksheet workspace in the browser. Here is how to choose.
Side by side
| Pappper | Goodnotes | |
|---|---|---|
| Made for | Worksheets and PDFs | Handwritten notes and PDF markup |
| Runs on | Any modern browser | Apple, Android, Windows and the web |
| Offline | No | Yes: notebooks work offline and sync when you reconnect |
| AI | Select a region and ask, or have answers written into the blanks | Limited on Free, more on paid plans, with math help on Essential and up |
| Live collaboration | On the free plan, with an account | Joining from Essential, and hosting from Pro |
| Free plan | More boards with a free account, 100 MB and a starter AI allowance | Up to 3 files and limited AI |
| Paid from | CHF 4.80, €5 or $6 per month, by region | $11.99 per year for Essential, $35.99 per year for Pro |
About Goodnotes, from Goodnotes’ pricing page. Plans change, so check before you decide.
Choose Goodnotes for handwriting all day
If you take notes by hand for every class, on a tablet you carry everywhere, a dedicated handwriting app with offline notebooks is hard to beat. Goodnotes has spent years on exactly that. If you might be somewhere without a connection, that matters, and Pappper does not work offline.
Choose Pappper for worksheets that move
Pappper suits worksheets more than notebooks: when you switch between a school computer and your own laptop with no installation, when you are working through one with a classmate, or when you want to draw a box around an exercise and ask about it. Lewis structures, graphs, typeset math and the periodic table are also on hand as tools that place their result on the page.
The two can sit side by side. Keep your notes in one and do your worksheets in the other.
Questions,
answered
Is Pappper a good Goodnotes alternative on Windows or a Chromebook?
For worksheets and PDF markup in a browser, yes. Goodnotes also runs on Windows, Android and the web now, so compare the two on your device with a real worksheet.