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Microsoft OneNote App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Do not get if you have an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil 2Erasing any drawn text is excessively laggy and will heat up the device and drain battery excessively. Writing is laggy when compared to my other app I use the pencil with. All in all, Microsoft appears to be sabotaging the OneNote Apple experience..Version: 16.30
✓ Ordering pagesWould be improved with the facility to order pages by date or alphabetical heading instead of having to do it manually. Collaboration is difficult when multi users are editing the same document - say at a group meeting. End result is a mess of conflicting pages that need to be untangled..Version: 16.30.1
✓ Cant undo, can’t export/ save fileI enjoyed it at first but then realized I can’t press undo so accidental deletions or improper placement of items are permanent and I have to deal with fixing it to get it back. Secondly, I spent a ton of time creating a document that I’d need to download and then share as a non- one note document but it seems the app doesn’t allow for that. I was not able to download the file and instead spent quite some time copying and pasting parts of it at a time. Do not use this app if you need to export or download the document..Version: 16.51.1
✓ Useful but can be improvedI like the sync between phone and PC plus general layout and way of breaking down notebooks (prefer the desktop application when working on PC). On the iPhone app snapping a photo of a document direct into OneNote is very handy. However I really, really want a way to lock the position of containers relative to each other as currently things can so easily get accidentally moved around and that leaves me nervous and takes away any benefit to making notes over the top of something else like a screen shot, diagram or picture. Also would like to see text and table formatting improved so they get closer to simplified versions of Word and Excel. For example it is a bit slow to Embed Excel docs but the OneNote table features are just a bit too clunky compared even to a very basic spreadsheet so I find too often I end up wanting to go back to Excel for things that naturally would live with notes. Not for massive spreadsheets or complex calculations but with data entry and editing that more closely matches Excel when used for making lists and comparison tables..Version: 16.13
✓ Latest version of OneNote is unresponsive on iPad ProI rely on OneNote heavily and loved it until the latest app version was released a few weeks back. It turned OneNote into a totally unresponsive app with massive lag! I’m desperate to get it working again but don’t seem to be able to roll back to a previous version. Help please Microsoft, fix this buggy version of the app ASAP!.Version: 16.36
✓ Requires a Microsoft accountNo option to work locally. Requires a Microsoft account. So no good for medical, legal information..Version: 16.34
✓ Can't sync0xE4010641 it can't find the server but I can connect to outlook.com, so how that works.Version: 16.77
✓ Countless syncing issuesI’ve been using OneNote for a few years, and every few months it tends to have some syncing problem or another - and it takes me ages to figure out how to get it to work again, because all the go-to methods never seem to work. I also almost lost all of my notes at one point - but luckily they were all backed up on OneNote online (through my browser) but now I have the opposite problem - all my notes are on my phone, some are on my desktop app (but it hasn’t synced the updates from my phone) and OneNote online has absolutely nothing on it! I’m tired of having to troubleshoot it all the time and scratching my head over what’s going on. I’ve also heard stories of people losing 5 years worth of notes and going to Microsoft for help, but never getting any resolution. Microsoft would benefit from having a better customer response team, because it isn’t intuitive to who I can contact for help. It’s a great app… when it works..Version: 16.62
✓ Great app, but terrible at syncingIt’s got some really nice features, but what kills it for me and prevents me from giving it a higher star rating is it’s sync feature. It’s painfully broken and takes forever for it to work. I work on my iPad and write notes with my Apple Pencil and it seems very broken when it tries to sync with the computer. Today I deleted the app off the iPad (thinking all my work was safe) and then redownloaded it to try and get it to work but I ended up losing a good chunk of my notes. I lost about 5 lessons worth of maths lessons. Sometimes it works fine, but other times it’s a dreadful process. The syncing feature is just so confusing and unclear, and would be great if there was an area to see which notebooks are perfectly up to date, like an overview rather than having that little emergency icon next to a notebook. Next time I’ll be more careful because now I know not to trust Onenote fully..Version: 16.30.1
✓ Terrible Sync, Can’t add page within a noteI recently lost my note for almost the entire term because if you write note without adding another section, it’s a huge page of pdf. But I want to view my note in one file…. And the sync is terrible. The last time it succeeded to update data to my computer was half year ago…..Version: 16.55
✓ CrashesIt started to crash after the latest up date Not sure if my large PDF is the cause of its crash please fix.Version: 16.35.1
✓ Syncing issuesI used OneNote on my Mac and iPad and there are constantly issues with syncing the changes I make to notes on either device. Very frustrating. Also one note on iPad should allow for audio recording while typing/writing..Version: 16.24
✓ How can search be this bad?I use OneNote all day every day. It generally is a pretty good app across iOS and web on PC with occasional glitches but broadly extremely good. However it has one flaw so basic and extreme that I have to give it 2 stars in the hope it gets read and they prioritise fixing it…. I will be happy to edit my review to 5 stars if this is fixed. The search function DOES NOT WORK! You can type in the exact title of a note you just created in the search box and it will not return the note. Maybe one time in 20 it seems to find the note you are actually looking for but it seems to be entirely random what results a given search term will return. This experience would have been frustrating and sub-standard in 1992. How they can ship a product with a core feature that is clearly not functioning at even a basic level! This has been an issue across web and iOS app platforms for as long as I have used the product regularly (at least 5 years) although I do think that when I used to use the windows desktop app it was a lot better. I can’t use it on my current work laptop otherwise I would continue with this. My sense is that search is ever so slightly more reliable on the iOS app than the web app but this is purely in relative terms - it is still by many orders of magnitude the worst search function I have ever experienced. PLEASE FIX IT! I’m so fed up of manually searching hundreds of notes every time I want to find something! I will be forever grateful!.Version: 16.67.1
✓ App CrashingI've been using OneNote for years with no issues until this week. The ipad app just keeps crashing! It opens OK but when you start to navigate around, it just closes down to a black screen. I've tied turning off and restarting the ipad, but it doesn't fix it. I'm hoping this is resolved quickly so I don't lose my data and don't have to migrate to another program..Version: 16.79
✓ IOS Onenote app is broken!I cannot save a webpage into Onenote as it will no longer scrape Title and URL. I have stopped using it as it is now useless..Version: 16.82
✓ Lost important notesI use OneNote for work, and it was working well up until the past fortnight when it stopped syncing properly. Since the issue has started, I have lost several notes that I have taken. I have raised this with the community but after nearly a week of troubleshooting, I have not yet come to a solution. Only the administrator of my account is able to speak with technical support, which would require me to give my iPad to them overnight since technical support is not open during normal working hours where we are based. I have had to resort to paper notes during this period so prevent the loss of further notes and it has slowed down my productivity greatly..Version: 16.22
✓ My Main NoteTaking AppMy favourite part about OneNote is that it is easily accessible on all platforms. It has an easy to use interface, spell check, styles and other essential features from any Microsoft Office product. I enjoy the ribbons, the to change the backgrounds between black, lined and grids. I love taking notes on my iPad, then adding more to the notes on my Mac. Although Mac continuity features supplement the copy and paste between the two devices, I still love being able to edit my notes on both apps. Sadly, that’s where my love for OneNote ends. The UI is slow to update, there are still many glitches in OneNote. For instance, if I try to write with my Apple Pencil where there is text or an image, the page jumps around. This makes annotating notes and PDFs in OneNote difficult. Another feature that has been missing in OneNote is the addition of a dot-grid background, isometric background, or custom backgrounds. Sadly, OneNote is often slow to update and catchup on features present in other apps. I’d still recommend OneNote as one of the best free options for NoteTaking apps, but I would strongly recommend looking at some of the other NoteTaking apps available for purchase..Version: 16.61.1
✓ Needs some workI switched to Notability: 1. Annotation glitches. Multiple times I have had all my annotations move down by about an inch. This can be hugely problematic for some projects 2. Annotations consistently move slightly between where they are on my iPad and where they are on my PC 3. No double tap support for Apple Pencil 2.Version: 16.23
✓ Won’t workI downloaded Microsoft OneNote, thinking that I FINALLY found the note-taking app that fits my needs. As soon as I enter the app, my music stops playing, the app notifies me that I need to check my wifi connection, then it crashes. I tried it again and again, checking each time that my wifi isn’t messing up. It isn’t. The app is just buggy..Version: 16.35
✓ So many bugsI purchased an ipad to download OneNote for note taking in lectures. And ive been usng onenote for a month and have encourtered sooo many bugs! Constantly jumping back to the top of the page, resulting in having to scroll back down happens so many times , there is alot of other bugs to. Im looking for another note taking app after this semester is finished..Version: 16.76
✓ Good for notes but always stops workingThis is the first semester using this app and I like it a lot for writing. But, just out of no where when I’m writing or erasing, it just stops working and that loading icon just pops up and it keeps going and going no matter how long I wait, so it just wasn’t doing anything. I would have to keep exiting out and refreshing the app, but it keeps happening. This happened before but I had to delete the app and redownload it. I’m not sure if it’s because I have “a lot” of information stored in the app but I did have to delete most of my notes the first time it happened, and I don’t want to keep deleting notes. Another problem is not being able to switch through notebooks or pages. It’s usually stuck on one page and even if I tap on different different tabs, it’s still stuck on one page. I offloaded the app and deleted it so many times, even restarted my iPad but the problem stays the same. I have all of my handwritten notes in the app and I guess the app can’t handle more than 5 pages of writing. There is almost always a sync error which is confusing since I am connected to my internet which is perfectly ok. Even when I try to sync it, it apparently just doesn’t sync so that error is there all the time. I thought an app like this would work better with tablets..Version: 16.53.1
✓ Some issues but a great appI’ve used OneNote for a good few years now and absolutely love the application and it’s features. Also great support and user experience with the Surface pen. My only issue )which has been there for years) is some of the tweaking needed to get OneNote to sync successfully across multiple devices. I have found that big documents will struggle and content often doesn’t make it across the other devices. So I workaround this by keeping documents shorter and separate them more often which seems to improve this issue. Also it doesn’t like being offline for ages and than having to catch up on a sync. (I have actually lost pages of notes due to this!) So if you make notes when out and about, always have a data connection active to make sure this doesn’t happen. Apart from that it is a great application and the cloud / multiple devices support is good overall. If the sync worked flawlessly without having to think about it or tweak document length than it would be pretty much perfect..Version: 16.58
✓ There are no clear instruction or TutorialThere are no clear instructions on how to show student to work on there OneNote pages (that are not Word Documents- no self-respecting math teacher is going to do all of their student assignments in Word.) I need graphs, I need to use the “Line Tool” under the draw feature. I have gone through hours of Tutorial Videos on “how to..” but none of them have show me a student perspective so I can explain to the students how they turn their assignment and correctly link it to their OneNote Page. (My students are all using a new 7th generation iPad.) OneNote may have done some updates in the last week or so, so I found how the teacher can assign and Link a OneNote page to the Assignment Tab in Teams, but the students cannot write on the page, even though Teams indicates that each student can edit their OneNote Page. I want my OneNote Assignments turned in in Teams and I want to use the “Grade” tab/menu in Teams to grade the assignment. The Grade tab give me the perfect way to open each assignment, write comments, or mark up the page, then return it to students with my comments. Why can’t there be some clear instructions on how to do this using iPads, OneNote, & Teams..Version: 16.42
✓ Catching up with EvernoteI was a huge Evernote fan for years, and converted hundreds of my students to use it - but couldn’t stand how they combined a price hike and severely limited the free version at once, making me feel like they were holding my years and years of data to ransom. So, to OneNote. There are many things that bug me about it after a year, mostly structural (Urgh, moving notes between notebooks, *so* slow; poor support for tagging; limited levels of Notebook > Section > Page > Subpage which I assume is kept simple for simple people, but is limiting), but it is chasing Evernote well feature for feature and bang for buck there is now no competition. If there’s one feature that might force me to consider another solution, it’s how incredibly the app is to load on both MacOS and iOS (and lack of quickotes on Mac). The most important thing of ANY note taking app is that YOU CAN TAKE A NOTE(!), as soon as the thought etc. occurs. You DON’T want to be waiting even 2 or 3 seconds just to write a few words. I’d really give this 3.5 stars but since I can’t I’m going 4 just to spite Evernote and their ridiculous $$$ grab..Version: 16.27
✓ Why’d you change it?I’ve been using this app since January for school. It used to be easy to graph with it with the grab and rotate lines. now when you try to grab the line, a quick tool box pops up with the rotate option, but does nothing. Give me my rotate back!.Version: 16.22
✓ Lost my dataUsed it for half a term. It starts to crash and lose data!!!.Version: 16.5
✓ New iPad Pro screenPlz adapt to the new iPad Pro.Version: 16.19
✓ Ongoing sync problemsI really like using onenote and have been using it for a couple of years now however i experience ongoing problems with syncing between my Mac and IOS devices. I follow the guidelines issued by Microsoft and the problems still occur. There is no way to fix them if i want to keep using the notebooks other than to waste another hour or more of my life revisiting internet guides on how to fix the problems, deleting the app, recreating notebooks from OneDrive addresses etc until it all works together again and until I inadvertently use the app on my iPad when it is still open on my computer or the other way round and although i constantly try to make sure i sync notebooks when i have finished ... the problem inevitably occurs again with annoying regularity. It appears that syncing between devices is not straight forward and requires an attention to detail that inhibits flexible use between eg computor and ipad. Maybe this problem is specific to using the apps on apple devices however there seems to be no acknowledgement of a problem - i have never had a response to feedback or queries from Microsoft So despite one note being great to use this really spoils it for me and am moving away from using it..Version: 16.8
✓ Microsoft has abandoned OneNoteIt's with a heavy heart that I have finally decided to give up on OneNote, similar to how the developers have done so these pasts 2 years. What was once a staple piece of software for any note taking enthusiast, is now an abandoned tool with countless issues and no sign of any of them being fixed or any essential features being implemented. The app has issues, such as a second delay between when you tap and when the application decides to listen to your input, tables that were created on pc glitching on mobile, and sync issues. I have reported several bugs, and none of them have been fixed months later. Why? Because Microsoft decided to kill the only and only place where you could submit feedback (uservoice). Not only does this mean literal application breaking bugs do not get fixed anymore (even though Microsoft pushes an update every month with nothing apparent new), but no new user requested features has been acknowledged and implemented. In the past 2 years, there have only been two new features. Dark mode, and a pride month theme. 2 years for just 2 themes bug fixes which aren't noticeable. Meanwhile note taking competitors have utilised those 700+ days to add new features, content, and greatly enhance their user experience. With the release of a new alternative that I will not name, I have decided to jump ship and take my notes to a platform where they will receive love and have a bigger future than OneNote will ever have..Version: 16.51.1
✓ Want to love itWhen this app works, it’s an amazing way for me to organize my documents and notes for classes. However, I have had so many technical issues that I can’t endorse this app for iPad users without a disclaimer. I have had to delete and re-download this app so many times because it will always get to a point where it tells me I’m offline and asks me to sign-in again and again, and it basically never registers that I’ve signed in but instead keeps me in a perpetual state of offline use so none of my files will sync. It even gives me error messages on my files so I can’t see the pdf slides I’ve already uploaded. The Mac version of the app doesn’t have this same issue. I’m not sure if there’s something corrupted about specifically the iPad/mobile version of the app, but it’s SO ANNOYING. The only thing that fixes it is to delete and re-download the app, which I’ve now had to do 3-4 times since downloading the app the first time. It’s just extra work to reset everything that I shouldn’t have to do so many times. Wish they could fix this issue..Version: 16.67.1
✓ Would be nice if I could writeThe app does all the basics of OneNote good but would be nicer if all the features accessible in desktop could be brung to iPad. It’s super annoying not having good integration with The Apple Pencil, you can’t write and let it convert into text (either via Microsoft writing to text or apple native write to text even in a pop up text box). The only thing not making me make this my full time note taking app is not being able to convert or live write in Apple Pencil and convert to text which could be done with apples native scribble if they put a pop up text box in. Also for some reason can’t get rid of notebooks once I open them on iPad..Version: 16.48
✓ Apple pencil sucks with this appApple pencil has delay and feels terrible with onenote. Very frustrating..Version: 16.52
✓ Using this more and more!Looks deceptively simple and quite intuitive and easy to use. Mainly use it for taking notes/using as a jotter for planning out uni work, draw feature is excellent, especially for diagramming, and I like how easy it is to combine sketches, text and photos and drag and drop. Use this on iPad, iPhone and PC and working between them with OneDrive, it’s pretty seamless, streamlined experience. One of my pet hates is wrestling with software and it’s shortcomings and peculiarities- this version is better than previous versions - this one simply works. My only issues are that I’d like an option to save pages as jpegs or other image formats and I would like a handwriting recognition tool for pen input- If there is one, I haven’t found it. Excellent otherwise..Version: 16.31
✓ Add Miro canvas features to OneNoteOneNote’s canvas leaves a lot to be desired. What was once a revolutionary and leading software for notes (10+ years ago) is now stale compared to other tools out there. It’s clunky and difficult to spatially organize information on a page. It’s not very agile. Please bring the new and rich features from Miro into OneNote: Grids, frames, text boxes (that aren’t a pain to move around), snapping, arrow system, grouping, tables, mind maps, cards, etc. OneNoe’s section and page system is currently the only feature that beats Miro when it comes organization. I’ve personally started pay for and use Miro as my main note taking app. I’m transferring everything over to it with the hope that they add a section/page system. I’d gladly keep using OneNote if the pages were as feature rich and capable as Miro’s, but at this point it doesn’t really get the job done for what I need to do which is take notes for 3D art techniques. I use a lot of pictures and things get moved around a lot as new information comes in. I like to go back to notes and make updates when new techniques are found. OneNote just doesn’t allow the information to evolve over time as well as Miro.Version: 16.52
✓ Almost thereIt’s missing many features that I would argue, as would most of the internet from what i have read, are key. There is no ruler function and the drawing to shape function is unreliable at best and is not a suitable replacement. There is no writing to math or writing to text as there is on the desktop version even though those are features that make far more sense on an iPad. The eraser is very buggy always delayed compared to the pen, and the stroke eraser is not resizable which is annoying considering that the bubble it displays is not a good indicator..Version: 16.23
✓ New app breaking bugI cannot write with the text feature anymore. Everything I take my pencil off the screen the app reverts back to text mode..Version: 16.72
✓ Just gets worse and worseNo ability to webclip from Safari, not smart enough to fetch a webpage based on its url from within OneNote, strange reliance on weird app interface and colours without regard for your chosen system colours. Microsoft Office just gets weirder and weirder. If you imagine they’ll fix things anytime soon, don’t hold your breath. It seems obvious their apps are just teaser versions to attempt to lure users to their “full” Windows versions. They are forever promising to bring features in line but year after year it never happens. They rely on keeping Windows users captive and will never bring other versions of their apps to match features. This is especially true of their more business focused apps, such as Excel. It’s surprising Apple doesn’t invest in getting apps such as Numbers to properly tackle Excel with professional features such as pivot tables, and even basic features such as the ability to protect cells in sheets loaded with formulas, rather than focusing on cuteness. Apple’s Notes app should feature a webclip function. Apple should strive to release Microsoft’s captives. Break the chains..Version: 16.41
✓ Slow and clunky, with bugsSlow, clunky, and after a while you really start to get annoyed with this app. I used OneNote for the longest time on my computer, so I was excited when they made an app. I use OneNote for quick and simple note-taking, usually just for jotting down ideas. But for that, this app fails. It always takes several seconds to open, in which it shows you the purple landing page. Often I wonder if it's going to open at all. Switching pages takes time as well, and there's these weird bugs where the page won't load correctly and will just look weird. There's also a personal annoyance for me that you can't switch off Auto-Capitalisation. It's already off in my iOS settings, but OneNote overrides it, and that's annoying. Finally, every time you exit the app, let's say to go to another app that you were using, OneNote will close the keyboard automatically. I often switch back and forth between two apps and that is really annoying to me. I know all of the above sounds like petty things, but after using this app for a long time, I have decided to move away from it to something like the in-built iOS Notes app simply because it's faster and it doesn't have any of the annoyances of the above..Version: 16.8
✓ An Unbridled “meh”The default notepad on iphone is just fine. I downloaded this because the app store on apple watch made it seem like i would be able to take notes on my apple watch and sync them to the phone which in turn would sync them to the cloud etc. Nope! You can only make them on the phone and then sync them to the watch and cloud from there. You can view them on the watch but everybody’s apple watch notepad app does that, so who cares? This is like getting offered a free ride in a Porsche by your rich buddy. however; upon getting in you find out the seats are not the “bucket seats” your friend talked up, but are instead actual buckets turned upside down and nailed to springs. Also the seatbelt has been cut out so he can only drive at 3 miles per hour for safety reasons. In short: underwhelming disappointment from what a software developer that is the biggest of the big names. Like going to the store to buy cheese and finding one you haven't had before but its from a maker you trust but when you get it hone and take it out of the package its just a pile of rotting leaves and melting wax that has been painted to look like cheese. But then again why am I complaining it was free after-all, but then again most compost is.Version: 16.39
✓ Not optimized for iPad allBesides the watered down feature set brought to OneNote on the iPad, the app itself is barley useable at some points. As a veterinary student, I have to take rapid notes during lectures daily. Taking notes at such a pace is impossible with the iPad version whether it be the lasso tool lagging by seconds or just glitching out, slow sync times even on Ethernet, and even pencil marks just straight up disappearing. It’s beyond difficult to keep pace with the lecturer when I have to wait for app to load or go back to fix errors from the app with everything also being plagued by lag. I’ve gone through every troubleshooting tip, have made smaller notebooks and sections, reset my iPad, restarted, disconnected, and re-paired everything, but nothing can fix this app and make it run smoothly. The iPad version of OneNote is clearly neglected and not up to any standard. What makes it worse is sitting next to people in lecture with ancient windows tablets and seeing the app work seamlessly for them even with old hardware..Version: 16.78
✓ Deleted notesPlease add a feature to confirm before deleting notes or notebooks. Or a section where it is possible to recover lost notes. Accidents happen..Version: 16.24
✓ Can’t record and write notes at the same time like on HP Elite!This is the best app ever on my work HP Elite x2. But completely useless to me on the iPad simply because I can’t record and take notes at the same time! Come Microsoft why are you giving different features for different devices! Please sort this out ASAP! I want to use this app but can’t and am presently using Notability instead, which has the recording linked to by handwriting as I write, but not the versatility of OneNote! I would pay if you got this sorted!.Version: 16.20
✓ Nloody terribleLag, lots of it. Sometimes just lags out and deletes my work, and then i can’t undo. Does not let me put my work in front of the online page, so it either goes behind so my teacher can’t see it, or beside, which makes a lot harder to work with. But the worst thing is that it takes forever to sink, so my work only shows o my teacher like 2 days after I posted it there. This app used to be good, but the more you use it the more flaws you see..Version: 16.36
✓ New update made it stop syncing!!I’m in the middle of university final exams Microsoft! Can you please fix this ASAP and NOT screw with students during exam times! Why must you constantly push broken updates..... :(.Version: 16.23
✓ It works better on a computerI have used OneNote since I was in Year Four and it hasn’t ever let me down, though the thing is, if you were to download it onto your iPad or iPhone you may experience some troubles with uploading videos or creating recordings. If you were to install this app onto your LapTop or computer you wouldn’t have to deal with these situations. This is extremely hard at the moment because during one of my classes in high school, we are required to upload a video of our lego robots walking around but are unable to and instead have to show the teacher manually instead of him checking our OneNote pages himself. All in all, it is a great app that you can use even without an Apple Pen or special pencils. 7/10 for the iPad version..Version: 16.34
✓ Less functions than in a computerReally annoying with flipping screen when using in ipad. It seems like it was trying to sync all the time. Ipad Claims that it can work like a computer so it should have the functions similar to the software that installed in the computer. But in fact there are less functions. For example the ink to text and the math are not included in this app. iPad has an incredible pencil but it’s not work well with Onenote. Oh.. I know your reason, it’s just a product from different creators, so you don’t want to make it better. No sign of improvement despite you have said you are happy for the feedback..Version: 16.32
✓ Would be incredible if it wasn’t so laggyOn an iPad it works smoothly until you try to move around notes within sections or notebooks, then you’re crossing your fingers that it doesn’t crash. The lagginess is definitely better on the iPad than it is on the computer but still significant enough to cause headache. If it wasn’t for the lag and crashes, this app would have a five star rating. No other app thus far has the key feature of being able to import multiple pdf’s into one note for annotating and giving an open space so you’re not limited to the edges of the slides/pages on anything you import, or the plain page of a note itself. I use OneNote as a medical student so these features are crucial, I love being able to have an open canvas, take notes on top, beside or wherever I want on a PDF, then import photos (useful for importing pics I take of a presenter’s missing slide into the note and placing it next to the slides before and after in the series, I can do this quickly while in lecture), create summary note pages on an endless canvas, and also organize notes into sections and notebooks If only notability had the open canvas thing... would so quickly switch since the lag is killing me. Will put up with lag for open canvas but can a developer please make an app that doesn’t require the sacrifice?.Version: 16.19
✓ Crashing since IOS 17The app is crashing all the time since IOS 17. Look like to be an issue when deleting text and syncing I guess..Version: 16.78
✓ Some ideasThis app is v useful for sharing song ideas with my band, since we can all have our own sections, but the typing in boxes thing doesn’t really work on phones as much as on PC. it’d be cool if you could just take the boxes out completely, so you can just type wherever. it makes it really difficult to type where i want, and stuff gets moved to where i don’t want it and i can’t move it back. another thing that would help is if we get notified whenever anyone edits a shared document, and not just when new sections are added. then i could see when people are working on my lyrics or adding new audio files. and for other projects and businesses it would help a lot too so they’d know who made what changes and when. also when my partner locks a section, it doesn’t make me type in a pin?? worrying bug.Version: 16.17
✓ New update is terribleI used to love this app, but it now causes me so many issues I will be swapping to another programme It is super laggy and shuts down so often that I can’t even use it during classes (as I use it to take notes in lectures). It’s syncing ability is terrible and it won’t sync my notes to my computer off my iPad no matter what network I am on - have tried making new notebooks and moving pages etc. really wish these basic issues could get sorted out because at the moment this app is not useable.Version: 16.25
✓ CRAPThis app gave me awful headaches.Version: 16.44.1
✓ Search function doesn’t workI use OneNote for school. About a month into using it, the search function just decided to not work properly. If I search for something it’ll do one of three things: 1) give me results from only a few places, 2) give me results from just the first few months of notes or 3) say no results can be found even though I am physically looking at the word on my screen. It’s a great note taking app, but this issue seems to be very common. I tried every method I could find to fix the issue but nothing works. And when I looked online for solutions, it looks like Microsoft doesn’t even know how to fix the issue and they just give answers to other people that give them the “run-around”. It’s not just an iPad issues either. The search function doesn’t work on my HP laptop or my iOS devices. Other apps have great search functionality and Yet Microsoft being the great company they are, can’t even fix this issue? Advice...unless you won’t be using the search function for school then this app is great, if you will be using it, I’d suggest finding a different note taking app..Version: 16.36
✓ Almost thereOneNote is a reasonably flexible tool for managing work and personal information. It includes smart clippers and integrations for easily transferring data into the notebooks. The backend folder structure is a little clunky requiring you to select required folders to display on each of your devices and ensure your searches include all data. The biggest gap is the lack of reminders within the app. While there is the option to integrate with Outlook tasks, this does appear to work with iOS devices running Outlook (no Tasks). Evernote’s integrated reminders provides a simpler experience..Version: 16.10.1
✓ Great, but very glitchyOneNote has been an awesome note taking tool, and I absolutely love that the pages have no edges which is a really handy feature for ad lib notes, but I must admit after using it for a few months the consistent glitches are getting really annoying. Randomly the pen stroke thickness will double the width I have selected, usually following an undo or eraser function, which means I have to stop, erase it, try again and again until eventually I click on and off enough times that it gets back to the right thickness that I have selected. This happens a lot, very annoying and disruptive to work. I have also noticed when I insert a photo and draw over the top of it the app starts to lag and sometimes when I go to draw with the straight line tool it goes nuts and randomly draws it somewhere else. Also, occasionally when I switch tools or hit the undo button the page will refocus at the very top of the page meaning I lose my place on the document I was working on. Apart from these few complaints it’s really great! Just wish the glitches weren’t so disruptive and could be patched out, it would improve the overall experience massively!.Version: 16.49
✓ Pas écoleC pour l’école 🤢🤮.Version: 16.79
✓ No easy way to select large amounts of only highlightingThis is a massive issue when, for apparently no reason, highlighting will shift completely out of place and cannot be mass-selected and out in its original place without adjusting typed text (which was not ruined by the app being wonky). This is extremely upsetting, as I *was* depending on this app for my class notes, and now half of them are unreadable..Version: 16.65
✓ Love using this for note taking but has a big issue...I LOVE this app for note taking. I do mainly hand written notes since I have the Apple Pencil and both the app and the pencil work great together, and also I don’t type fast enough to take notes. I love the current features, I love easily adding shapes and arrows. Adding different pens to be available right there and then is awesome. Most of this app is great. I mainly have one issue with this app and it’s a big one for me. The entire eraser tool. When I use the eraser it will erase the letter that I just wrote down which is what I want buut it’ll take other things with it. Some times it’ll take more than one letter away, or parentheses and other symbols. This is a very frustrating issue with both the regular eraser and the stroke eraser. It’s annoying, please fix that. I want to be able to delete one letter at a time with one tap on the desired letter to be deleted. Not one tap equaling multiple letters or symbols being deleted. It’s also annoying that you can’t adjust the size of the eraser. You can with all the pens but not with the eraser?.Version: 16.34
✓ Won’t syncWorst app ever. Not syncing neither on the app nor on web despite whatever you do..Version: 16.56
✓ A lot of bugs!!!I have been a long time OneNote user on my iPad Pro. The more I use it, the more I see the clear bugs and glitches. Couple that with many features missing from the app, Goodnotes is clearly a better option. For instance, the ink to shape does not work 75% of the time. I am drawing a line with a arrow head but the app does not seem to recognize it. Just the overall user experience is not up to par with what I associate an iPad app to be. Developers if you are reading this, I would urge you to look at your competition and see what things you can do better and try to implement them in the app. Thanks a ton!.Version: 16.60
✓ Bugs are still thereYou guys made an amazing app which many people are using and loving but you insist on pushing people away through the consistent bugs. every time we are told " This month's update is bug fixes only" yet often times the same bug is there and if its fixed at occasions, on the next "updates" i find the same bug! And when we try to convey the issues we encounter with you guys we find no response! currently my Onenote is shutting down suddenly every few minutes, and the pen keeps on doing weird things like dragging the pages down and not appearing on the page. The app also doesn't open the last page i was in it opens the last line of my page..Version: 16.46
✓ Beware of syncing problemsJust bought an iPad for grad school to complement my MacBook. OneNote was fine on the MacBook, not great, still had minor issues here and there regularly but fine. Then I got the iPad. Things were fine for a week and then I started having syncing issues. My iPad couldn’t sync in real time. Then one day it stopped syncing altogether. I tried everything to fix, exited OneNote on both devices, tried restarting both, logged out and in of my account in OneNote on both, and finally uninstalled OneNote on the iPad to try and get it to sync. That was the final, wrong step. I now can’t access my notes on either device AS WELL AS online where they were supposed to be backed up to. All of them just say “content not yet available” even on my iPad where the original notes came from. So essentially my notes are now lost forever. SO moral of my story here, if you are going to try OneNote, back up all your own notes daily don’t trust the upload to OneDrive since it also has the potential to glitch and screw you over, and don’t expect syncing to be in real time if you have more than one device..Version: 16.29
✓ I used to be a OneNote fanOneNote sync has become terrible across devices. It certainly doesn’t support speedy realtime co-authoring like it used to. It has been years since we’ve seen any innovation in this app and leads me to believe it doesn’t have the same investment from Microsoft that it used to. OneNote still plays an important role in EDU with class notebooks. But I have a feeling that Microsoft Loop will displace it eventually..Version: 16.58
✓ Loved it untilNow I have to work off line, and it won’t sync anymore 😕.Version: 16.23
✓ No audio recording for iPadI take my notes on my iPad for school. It is really odd that OneNote doesn’t allow to record audio while typing/writing your notes. I like the layout and organization of this app but the audio is really a make or break feature. I will use Notability instead of this app because of it..Version: 16.17
✓ Unbelievably unreliableOnenote on face value seems to be a wonderful solution to note taking, promoting cross OS compatibility as a main feature. Three times in the last month onenote has failed to sync to the internet and then deleted my pages. I managed to recover the last two after several hours of searching for resolutions which is made all the more difficult by MS releasing a plethora of different versions all under the same name. This last time seems like it isn’t recoverable as it’s on iPad instead of PC. What seems to have happened is the iPad failed to sync and the next time it connected it overwrote the page with the old page from my phone. Great job. Now I have to sit through a two hour lecture recording again and retake all my notes. What a colossal waste of my time for something that should have a built in failsafe. Will be looking for alternatives as I don’t need extra stress like this on top of anatomy exams thanks..Version: 16.41
✓ Bugs, lots of bugsOneNote is an awesome tool, but I wish they would tidy up the annoying bugs. Such as having to restart the app every time I wake up the iPad, or bring the app to the front, or parts of a “print to note” doc being invisible until you write over it, such as the mess that is authentication and syncing against the business version of O365. Even worse is their lack of communication and connection with users. Many of us submitted bug reports about problems with Bluetooth keyboards and OneNote for several years, but that never got fixed (or maybe it has now, I used an iPad Pro with the attached keyboard). Not to mention going offline for long periods - days to weeks where it just won’t sync..Version: 16.72
✓ Great app not without its issuesSo overall I love the app, but it has syncing issues. Sometimes I finish something on my computer, and come on my iPad a bit after to continue working, but the images haven’t synced. My iPad is always connected to the wi-fi and the signal is great, and also the Auto-sync option is enabled, so I don’t know what the problem might be. Also, this is not that big of a deal but I’d like it if there was an option to always see the sections like on PC, so when on a page and want to move to a different section, we could just click on it instead of clicking on the arrow and then selecting the section. Other than that, great app!.Version: 16.34
✓ Great app but have a few areas to improve1. Writing experiences. Please improve this cause it just doesn’t feel as smooth as notability or good notes 2. Add a audio recording feature that is like the one on notability, this would help ALOT of the peoples, I’d really appreciate it if you guys can make that into a feature 3. The lag when u import an image. When you import an imagine, move an image, the lag is just ✨astronomical ✨like it’s even laggier then trying to run Mc on intel i5 without graphics card. 4. Pages not showing when you scroll fast. When you scroll down or up just a little bit faster, it becomes incredibly frustrating, the pages turns white and you gotta wait for a while before keep scrolling down, makes it super hard for me to find the part that I want 5. Multi task functions. If it’s possible, you guys should make it so you can open two pages at once, side by side, this is literally gonna help liek SOOOO much But yeah this app is really great in my opinion.Version: 16.41
✓ Great - a few improvementsFirst of all - this is fantastic for making notes on the go, and it seems to be getting better all the time, so thanks to the team constantly working on this. I use OneNote pretty extensively at work - and have bought the personal 365 subscription for use in my personal life as it … just works. I like the integration/syncing with the mobile/desktop/web apps, but the mobile OneNote is a little bit behind in terms of features. I use the embed spreadsheet quite a lot for making notes of BoMs and costs, and like how on the desktop app it creates a preview (which is just an image) of the spreadsheet in OneNote for you. On the mobile app, the image is visible but it doesn’t give you the option to update preview if the underlying excel document is changed. Can this be looked at please..Version: 16.75
✓ There are better alternatives[Context] I’ve used onenote daily for my engineeering degree for past 6 months [Review] The one thing I like about this app is that you can easily access your notes on all devices and folders are logically organised. But that’s about where the praise ends. This app inconsistently drains more power than other note taking apps, on average I get about 6 hours on my new M1 iPad Pro before I run out of charge, even with sync turned off. At times it gets uncomfortably warm during use so it explains why. I get around 10 hours on other apps. The performance is also inferior, the responsiveness when writing is halved when compared to other apps. When I double tap for eraser it takes longer to respond and sometimes doesn't at all. You can run a quick test and scribble on onenote vs other drawing apps and you will know what I mean. The sync doesn’t even work half the time. There was also this one time where it didn’t sync AND I LOST AND ENTIRE DAY OF WORK. I was connected to wifi the entire time. When I uninstalled and reinstalled the app too, it took ages to sync everything over. Overall the app is okay, but there are better note taking apps such as Goodnotes, or Nebo if you want infinite pages. Solves all the problems I mentioned above..Version: 16.65
✓ IPhone version has needed updating for years!Multi platform note taking app. Only 3 stars because the iPhone app is so limited in comparison to what Microsoft includes for OneNote on other platforms and even in their other apps for iPhone (eg: drawing, styles, date stamp, highlighting etc in MS Word). As a note taking app using an iPhone it is surpassed by the basic Apple Notes App. For those of us who use multiple devices for different situations and have a Windows 365 account, it is a poor offering, despite multiple recent updates - which have added no obvious features in terms of functionality.Version: 16.17
✓ Apple Pencil Stroke, Search Feature, and Pages!!!I love OneNote BUT it needs some extra work to make it perfect. I use it for all of my classes as an undergrad student in college. I’m currently on an iPad Pro with a 2nd gen Apple pencil. My biggest issue is that with the Apple pencil the calligraphy feature automatically turns on mid note taking depending how much pressure or how I hold the pencil. PLEASE MAKE A TOGGLE FEATURE TO TURN THIS OFF!!!! I hate when the writing looks bigger sometimes and normal other times. Next, please make an option to make the page printer size so I can print my notes! I love being able to free form note taking but not always!!! Same goes for importing documents and PDFs — please make it option where it fills the entire screen rather than just pasting on top of the page. Lastly, the SEARCH FEATURE needs to be able to search more than one word and the option to click through like ANY other CTRL+F/CMD+F feature. These simple fixes would be life changing for me as a student..Version: 16.57
✓ Terribly slow on ipadI have used the Onenote the most in my life among all other apps. And finally transferring my notes to Apple notes and Notabilitiy. This is unbearable for how they are caring for their Apps. ios Onenote has been like this for many years and my patiences have ran out. It’s obvious this lack of performance is intentional. There is no way ipad can’t handle few notes displaying and typing and gets this slow. Wake up this is 2020 and the one of the fastest device on the market can’t even handle writing mostly a text notes right. Bye bye shabby business for causing pains to every regular people’s life. you’re not helping but causing pain. This is why more people are running away from the Windows. As for a note, all of my outlook accounts asks to reenter password so much more often and it doesn’t even acticate apple keychain during that process. It’s painful to copy and paste my passwords for 5 different outlook account once every few days. Funny thing is that if I use their app, it just works fine. They can claim it’s Apples fault but even when it is, if they care for their own app, they have to find a way to make it work. So shabby and shoddy. People know who’s the most mean company. It’s probably among MS, Google and Apple. Don’t be the first one..Version: 16.43
✓ Needs A4 TemplateI love the syncing between devices and the organization of notes, but I can’t seem to set an A4 paper size within the iPad app, which makes it difficult if I ever want to print out any notes for studying..Version: 16.35.1
✓ Constantly crashingI like OneNote, but recently it keeps crashing whenever I make any edits. This is extremely frustrating and limits my productivity. Restarting, reinstalling, or shutting down the app has not helped..Version: 16.82
✓ Why so slowUsing an iPad10.5 Pro, after upgrading from an iPad Air2 I expected Onenote to accelerate. O accept it may well be my fault but as an archivist and researcher I search and records numerous subjects. Subsequently this has grown to at least 50 different notebooks. Every opportunity to record a note or link I relied Onenote to be there when needed. Each notebook relates to a specific subject and sometimes data is cross-linked to another analytic reference. As with the former iPad Air, things began to slow down and before long after spending time online I would want to place a link and comment in an associated notebook. This became unusable as I was forced to wait whilst some feature (I assume checking for any updates) took forever. I the end I was forced to restart. I can't understand why such a delay occurs. Surely validating in real-time would eliminate any need for this cycle and the working page should be instantly available. It may be my fault even if I was using 100 notebooks it is difficult to comprehend why functionality stops, after all the number of notes must not be a factor, therefore the current page is the only relevant issue. I watch as each notebook is processed. unnecessary agony denies a simple update with wasting any time. The only other issue may be transient memory but using the browser and Onenote alone, the problem remains. (e&eo accepted).Version: 16.51
✓ I hate this app but it’s better than anything elseI absolutely hate this app. I use it because it’s better than writing lengthy pages of lecture notes on Word or google docs. This app needs a lot of work until it is Office standard. Word online is great but I use an iPad so I use the OneNote app. I like the flexibility in moving the text around a blank page but everything else is awful. The language settings, spelling and grammar is so bad. I have UK English as my language but it still auto-corrects to US English. There aren’t enough features and the few ones there hardly work like changing the bullet points in a paragraph without using keyboard shortcuts is impossible. I find this app so frustrating to use. Instead of updating whether we can have a OneNote widget please fix the in app functions to a computer standard. - This was a rant, usually I can ignore all of this but it’s getting annoying. Thank you.Version: 16.61.1
✓ Sync is buggyUsed on iPad the sync function messed note book. Disappointing cause I spent time trying to recover the lost notes. Now I don't trust it. Will be doing backups or looking for another platform.Version: 16.52
✓ IPad/Win10S versions need lots of improvements.Crashes all the time. Slow as a crawl when handling large notes, try undoing something! Cursor positioning is erratic. Search function is also erratic and clicking on the”next find” or “previous find” buttons often misbehaves, especially after some editing. Draw needs a lot of additional functionality: ability to erase parts of an object, ability to choose adequate erasers, ability to draw shapes without needing to use the primitive “ink to shape” facility, ability to fill an object with a color or pattern, interference between draw and text, inability to peg text to a specific place in the drawing canvas. Try for example something as simple as to draw a chessboard! Inability to create links to locations in the same note or in other notes. Missing menus and features when compared to PC or Mac versions. No recovery from data accidents, I lost notes more than once because of sync issues. Inability to store notes in the Apple iCloud. Poor integration with phone/tablet hand and pencil gestures. Inability to save drawings and text together to the same PDF. No diff feature. I could go on. And ah, an unresponsive development team, I have seen Internet traffic on some of these deficiencies dating from years ago..Version: 16.67.1
✓ Notes that I’ve typed out on my computer won’t show up in the app.The title says it all. I’ve spent long hours typing out notes on the OneNote website, but they’re not showing up on the app. I’m not gonna spend all this time re-typing my notes out..Version: 16.23
✓ Good but wont be usingIt’s a good app but my notes keep clearing themselves and breaking. This results in me being unable to write on them and having to restart my note and all that work. A good app is not worth losing an hour’s worth of work. (I use an iPad pro).Version: 16.59.1
✓ Ink to Text update needed!The iOS version of this app is significantly inferior to the windows version. There needs to be an update to include ink to text conversions or the ability to search through written ink. users have been asking for these features for many years, please can these be features added to improve the usability of this app!.Version: 16.58
✓ Poor excuse of a version of OneNoteThis is by far my favourite app... on windows. Unfortunately, that has been severely tainted by shocking attempt at a Mac version. Not only is the Mac version below average with a lot functions missing, but the iOS version makes the Mac version look like a Megan Fox in Transformers. The lack of functions the iOS version offers makes it nearly unbearable when coming from a windows device. Please, for the love of God, if you’re going to make a Mac or iOS version of a windows app, have the decency to actually make it the same app, rather than a completely trashed down version that happens to share the same name and logo. Otherwise, do us the courtesy and just don’t release the app at all. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk..Version: 16.46
✓ A clunky, buggy messI rely on OneNote for so much of my life and the Windows 10 desktop program is snappy, reliable, and all around fantastic. All I want from a mobile version is to be able to quickly jot things down or update existing notes. A few months ago, this app was so broken that you couldn’t even hit return twice without the text field breaking. That’s been fixed, but there are still are sorts of odd sync issues and crashing when opening/closing notebooks (granted, not something you do every day). It still feels incredibly clunky and unreliable for quickly and reliably taking notes. I love OneNote. This app makes me seriously consider taking a look at other note-taking platforms..Version: 16.26
✓ OneNote reviewI have been using OneNote for about three years for school work, it has always been a bit laggy but is pretty easy to use. But I do have one big issue that started a few days ago. I had needed to get my iPad repaired and when I got it back it wasn’t too different. The only problem is the drawing feature, e.g, if I needed to write an answer to a question with the drawing feature almost all the time it would only show half of what I had written. And when I rubbed it out, it would show as two different drawings instead of one. Please fix this problem soon, if not I may just switch back to using that app Showbie for my lessons..Version: 16.66
✓ Great app but feels like I’m a prisonerIt’s one of the best note taking apps out there but I feel like I’m a prisoner to OneDrive. OneDrive has numerous issues least of all its seemingly inability to correctly sync. Also drive space restrictions means the number of notes I’m able to take are limited. As a student this is unacceptable. Whilst one can import notes say from local or other cloud services, one has NO CHOICE, but to save these OneNotes to OneDrive. Word, excel and PowerPoint allow saving to other locations, and, in my case as a student with free unlimited google drive space, they sync perfectly fine with google. Edit a document on the iPad whilst having open on my PC or Mac and google alerts that an updated version is available, refreshing on PC or Mac brings up the changes made on the iPad. Great for drawing pics and making annotations. But no such facilities exist for OneNote. Which is sad. As I can only keep a couple of subjects notes at a time. OneNote used to allow save as to alternative location, time to bring that feature back. Give users freedom, don’t keep us prisoner to a failing OneDrive. #setOneNoteFree.Version: 16.25
✓ Useful but glitchyI’ve used this app for around a year for work and it’s been useful as it syncs and allows for easy organisation of notes. The issue is that when you move the cursor using your finger (as you would in any text based app on an iPhone) the cursor seems to mis-click and goes right to the bottom of the note, causing you lose your place in the note and often the associated thought that went with it. As I use this app for note taking on the go it’s really important that I can move up and down the document easily and add/remove elements. It’s disappointing to see that many other people have this issue with no fixes (a quick google of the issue finds plenty of others experiencing this or similar). Additionally many of my colleagues using a variety of models of iPhone and iOS have the exact same issue. I end up writing notes in the iOS Notes app and then pasting it across it’s that frustrating. Please fix this issue and you’ll have a great app!.Version: 16.57
✓ Slight lag with Apple PencilReally love OneNote for all of my university notes due to how easy it is to use between devices, however since I have purchased the 2018 iPad and the Apple Pencil I have noticed that there is a slight lag between the writing and the pencil touching the screen. I have other note taking apps such as notability that I have found eliminate this issue, however as a long time user of onenote I would prefer to continue with using it provided this issue is resolved. Pressure sensing strokes would also be a bonus to make the pencil really feel like actual handwriting!.Version: 16.19
✓ I Just Wish It Would SyncThis is a great note taking app let down by the lack of one primary function: It’s inability to automatically sync and the lack of a method to Force Sync. I’m continually having to log out and log back in to force it to sync. I use this app for business: recording and collating information from construction sites for use in site documentation. A fair bit of travelling is required to get to these sites. It’s scary frustrating when you arrive and start work and find that OneNote has not updated. OneNote is a good product but I will dump it as soon as I find a more reliable app with the functionality and cross platform support..Version: 16.68
✓ Hopelessly unreliable syncingToo many hours spent trying to fix syncing problems that appear on a regular basis. As convenient as OneNote is works properly, we have had to abandon the platform due to the amount of hours spent re-entering or recovering notes that were lost due to fail syns between Apple devices. If you can;t afford to lose data, you can't afford to use OneNote..Version: 16.24
✓ Apple pencil and formattingI really enjoy using this app, able to access very easily across my iPad, MacBook and Windows PC. However, my main flaw with this is the lack of “convert ink to text” feature that’s only present on the Windows PC version of OneNote rather than iPad and MacBook. It makes the most sense to add this feature to the iPad version of OneNote and not make it PC exclusive. Or else I’ll have to wait till I get home to switch my handwriting to text in OneNote. Formatting on OneNote seems to be very slack. Word and Excel and other various apps have very great formatting options for the document but there is very little formatting options in OneNote.Version: 16.59.1
✓ Strokes vanish randomly when writing with Apple PencilWhen use Apple Pencil in drawing to write some text, some strokes are preserved, some just vanished randomly..Version: 16.54
✓ Very Glitchy, Too RiskyI’ve used OneNote for the past 3 or so years. My primary use is for taking notes and scratch paper for homework. I’ve always had issues with the app freezing, glitching, and crashing but I usually found some workaround to get it working again. I only use this app because of my school’s integration of Office365; other than that it has no further benefits. After this last update and iOS 12, the app has become unusable. The keyboard frequently (twice a minute) pops up while I’m writing. The pen can’t be reselected after the keyboard pops up until I select the eraser or another color pen which lag behind. The app freezes after it feels like I’ve written enough, which is constantly. Notebook, section, and page graphics constantly scroll and bounce when I’m trying to work with them or add more. I’ve tried restarting my device, reinstalling the app, removing and adding notebooks, and contact support multiple times with no success. These issues cost me time and effort, and when fast pace notes and homework are involved, this app becomes too much of a risk. Just pay for GoodNotes, like me, or just use the Apple stock Notes app, either is at least 100% more reliable. Best, your University student, BS Mechanical Engineering..Version: 16.17
✓ Glitchy af nowI used this app frequently for school, but recently it’s been super glitchy. Every time I uninstall and download it again to my device, a new glitch pops up (1st: was deleting random notes or not syncing properly/consistently, so I lost tons of work. 2nd: wouldn't let me “draw” - would switch to “text mode” no matter what on the draw tab. 3rd: a) won’t let me change my drawing pencil or select *anything* in draw tab - doesn’t allow me to select pencil or eraser drop down either. b) won’t allow me to select *anything* on the insert tab so I can’t insert anything.) Go back to the drawing board fellas 😜.Version: 16.54
✓ App crashes after a while - frustratingI loved the app when I first started using it but now I cannot use it because it keeps crashing for some reason. I cannot sync my notes either which is even more frustrating because I need to study for finals. I loved it at first, and then this made me change my mind about the app. Please fix this issue. Thank you..Version: 16.60
✓ It’s not EvernoteThere is so much to like about ‘Onenote’, and it truly has the potential to lead the pack, if only the developers would listen to their users, and answer some of the requests put forward.. not elaborate ones, just simple ones that would make the whole experience, so much better. As it stands, it’s ‘good’ but it’s not an Evernote competitor.. I know that there will be many Microsoft fans who will argue the point, but Tags alone, is where the competition excels. Mac and iOS users are also out of luck with Date change features, I’m assured that they are available in the Windows version, again from an organisational point of view, without the ability to edit document creation date and the aforementioned tags, this product simply does not work as a serious document or note taking application..Version: 16.41
✓ Keep crashingSame problem as a lot of user that reviewed the app. Keep crashing on Ipad 12.9. Useless..Version: 16.81
✓ FIX THE SYNCING PLEASEMy notebooks do not sync across devices properly no matter what I do. It takes so many attempts to just refresh a single page. Please fix it!.Version: 16.75
✓ 1 year and still logs out randomly, everydayI moved over from evernote because this was so good. But no excuse for not being able to fix the random logout bug for over an year now, both on iOS and macOS. Found myself between meetings, struggling to login and with 2 step auth, it is just a nightmare. Have moved to Apple Notes, which has very few features, but at least works and syncs reliably..Version: 16.7
✓ DudePlease make it so that it doesn’t randomly keep scrolling all the way to the top of the page when I sometimes undo something or select a new pen or literally anything.Version: 16.77
✓ Space for improvementLove the app, especially for note taking for uni. But I wish it would have an option to limit it to an A4 size with framing instead of having just a blank space to write/draw on, because when I print my notes out it comes out so tiny and thin because I had gone over the ‘invisible’ a4 framing which I can never be aware on where it is. Please improve that, its such a great app other then that..Version: 16.11
✓ Fine if you have 365 from work or schoolIt’s a decent note-taking app with some good functions. I have two main gripes: Wildly inconsistent syncing, and a bug that randomly scrolls the page to the very top while not-taking. Every study session, a gray bar pops up that says it couldn’t connect to the server and my notes aren’t syncing. Also, forget about syncing large notes on a single page - I had two pages that had a chapter’s worth of notes on each page that ON would not sync at all. It was only when I meticulously copied and pasted sections of those notes one by one that I could access them on my other devices. As for the scrolling, any accidental touch of the blank space in the ribbon will send you back to the very top of the page, very frustrating to have to scroll all the way back to the bottom when all you wanted to do was change the pen. Fix these issues and add handwriting recognition and you’ll have a 5 star app. If you get office 365 for free from work or school I would use this app, otherwise notability or GoodNotes is probably the move..Version: 16.38
✓ Missing critical features specific to the iPadOneNote first off is wonderful. I’ve been using it for a long time for school and it is very good. With such good integration with Office and other apps there’s nothing else like it. The drawbacks of this app though are pretty severe. You cannot use 2 OneNote applications in split view, only one so you cant have a note open on one side and another on the other. This is such a productivity killer and needs to have that feature implemented; other Microsoft 365 apps have this for the iPad already. The next drawback is that ALL Microsoft 365 apps use iOS 12’s text edit touch tools as opposed to the new features implemented in iOS 13. You cannot hold the cursor down and drag it, instead, iOS 12’s touch controls bring up the ancient magnifying glass which is honestly a nightmare. Connected to this problem is at the Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro almost has no support for text editing. It feels like I’m just using a finger as opposed to hovering over text with the “I” like on other documents. This is due to iOS 12’s touch controls that need to be updated. The current iOS used when writing this review is iOS 14. I cannot select individual letters without having to hold down left click and wait for the magnifying glass to come up. It is very annoying and Microsoft please fix..Version: 16.41
✓ The drawing tool switches to text tool without being selectedThis disrupts work flow and impedes usefulness. Also on the iPad I can’t find a way to upload a pdf template.Version: 16.78
✓ IPAD users bewareUnbelievably frustrating. Super glitchy (sometimes the drawings jump around, images dont show up etc) and crashing CONSTANTLY (either just exits the app and forgets the last 30 seconds of work, or suddenly doubles its storage size on my iPad and locks me out for minutes at a time stating "One Note needs at least x amount of storage to operate"). Started happening after a few months of notes. Takes up an egregious amount of space, even with class notebook that stores old notebooks on cloud. Also has ridiculous syncing issues: just about every single one of my notebooks has a syncing "error" attached. If these issues were to resolve I would have given the app 3.5-4 stars because overall it go the job done and was simple to use once I learned how to use it. ALSO: your capabilities are very limited on iPad. There is not much you can do in terms of saving the information on an external hardrive, sharing the files, etc. There are not many setting items that you can mess around with either. Pretty annoying for troubleshooting issues. Normally dont write reviews, but I felt I had to considering the amount of time I threw into this app, and how disappointed I was in the end. (I was very happy with it in the beginning). Would have been worth it to buy another app specifically designed for Apple products..Version: 16.45
✓ Still not stableThe presentation and structure of this app is very good compared to other note taking apps, but frustrating given the scale of bugs which constantly undermine it. I have dropped the use of this app twice and gone to other apps like notability but back again due to its classification ability for a further try. This is my last attempt at trying it out but already get unexpected app shutdowns mid-edit. Difficult to take it as seriously as you need these apps to be as you don’t know when it might let you down. Still staying with it for another 2 weeks, hoping !!!.Version: 16.24
✓ BugChaque jour j’essaye d’utiliser bloc notes mais il y a toujours des bugs.Version: 16.77
✓ Can’t Sign InOneNote works fantastically on my Mac, but I recently attempted to use it on my iPad Pro. Every time I open the app, I see the screen saying “Get Started,” but once I tap the button, the app throws an error saying that there is no network connection and quits. I have tried restarting my iPad, reinstalling OneNote, and using several different wifi networks, but to no avail. Despite the fact that every other app is connecting to the network without a problem, OneNote refuses to. Very disappointing..Version: 16.35
✓ Latest Update SucksLatest update removed the ability to double tap the Apple Pencil to switch from eraser to pen. It works fine going pen to eraser but won’t switch back. Needs a fix ASAP..Version: 16.49
✓ Latest updated ruined the appI used it for simple notes as sticky notes now you need to create a notebook not a sticky note thats like a file. So annoying. Theres no way to make simple sticky notes.Version: 16.82
✓ Great app but has iPad issuesI use this application for work on my HP and use my iPad (M2 12.9”) as a digital notepad… I am finding that the app works mostly great but has some crashing issues on the iPad only (not on the desktop) where I have to close and reopen the app 3-5 times daily. This is a bummer because it sometimes crashes in the middle of my efforts to write the note and it interferes with what I think would be one notes’ main purpose - to be a stellar digital note taking program for the most used digital note taking platform…. I am also finding that the scribble function is not worth using because it seems to be confused as to where I want to write… this could be easily fixed by having users define where they would like the scribble text to be written ahead of time via some gesture or bottom (or both). Moreover, the app has some awesome features that I love and will keep me coming back and that’s its ability to sync cross platform with my work computer which will always be PC because of the software I am required to use..Version: 16.73
✓ Great app, multiple windows not supportedThis is such a great app for keeping all of my univeristy work organised! I love how I can import my lecture slides and write on them and organise everything into different notebooks and sections. One of the downfalls of this app is that multiple windows aren’t supported on it. It would be so much better if I was able to have two windows of one note open in split screen so that I could look at two different pages at the same time, please make this possible!!.Version: 16.59.1
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