Purple Notebook for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By Purplenotebookreviewer

  It has potential

  It is a great idea that is well layed out, but the auto correct miscorrects almost every word and the effects only occasionally work

  
  
• By _/(*~*)\_

  Refused to work properly!

  I was hopeful when I downloaded this app because it seamed to have everything I was looking for, but unfortunately my joy was short lived. Immediately I started to notice problems. I started out by making a bookshelf and attempting to add some books to it. I started on the first one and l quickly became frustrated with it. Not long after I had gotten everything how I needed, It deleted all that I had been working on. After typing it all out again I attempted to add photos and it refused to do that as well. I thought maybe it was the particular photo I was trying to use but no. Absolutely nothing would work. I gave up on that and thought maybe there was a problem with that particular book. I attempted to set up a second book and I was not surprised to find that it wouldn’t even add a second book. I went into my settings hoping to find an answer but even after allowing everything that it wanted and trying it all again. It still refused to work. So as a last ditch effort I deleted the app and all it’s filed from my phone and redownloaded it in hopes that it had downloaded wrong the first time. No. That wasn’t it. This app just doesn’t work. I loved the lay out and was truly hopeful but I ended up going with CollaNote which has worked perfectly.

  
  
• By Meg17523

  Will not save your notes

  Let me start this with the things I like, I like the idea of having the notes look like a noteook on shelves but other than that this app lacks everything I need in a note taking app. Now for the bad things, this app has only saved my notes I've taken for two different classes out of my 6 classes and one of them that did save the next time I went back into it and continued notes for the class not only did it not save what I wrote that class but all my notes for that class disappeared when I next went into it making it so that I had no notes for my first week in all classes except one. Another thing that I hate about this app is the sizing, you can only have 4 sizes 3 of them being different size headers and the paragraph one being far too small. Lastly the bold/color/italics thing on this works ok except you have to go back up and click out of the lttle bar and then go back and click where you left off to begin typing again which while it may not seem too bad it is very annnoying while trying to keep up with notes in college when your professor goes faster than you can manage with this app; not that that matters anyways because all your notes will be gone the next day since it doesn't save.

  
  
• By Plastictastic

  Good Concept but Very Flawed

  I really wanted this app to be good. After looking through all of the note taking apps, this was my first choice because it seemed simple and streamlined. The reality is, this app is unpolished and unfinished and has numerous glaring problems. Here are 4 examples that I discovered during my first day of use: Sometimes the text I typed did not save to the note. I would change to a different note, and when I came back, everything I had added was gone and it reverted to a previous state. The bold/italic/underline shortcuts would be very efficient and useful if they only applied to the text between the marks. Unfortunately, if you use them on a couple of words, it locks in place and begins applying the effect on all future words. You can't even remove this effect by clicking the format icons at the top! You have to re-type the shortcut on some new text to unlock the effect. When you copy and paste from a document outside Purple Notebook, the text will be oddly spaced and distorted in the app, and vice versa. Finally, when your text reaches the bottom of the app window, it dips below the edge at the bottom in such a way that you cannot see what you are typing. To prevent this, you have to keep extra blank lines at the bottom of your notes to "push" the bottom edge away as you type. Sorry. I wanted to like it, but its just frustrating. Go with a notetaking app that offers a polished experience without so many bugs.

  
  
• By Jiubreyn

  Pen and pad anyone? Try this one.

  While I am not a traditional student, I do love to keep notes when learning something new. I prefer to use pen and paper but am trying to bring myself into the digital record keeping age by implementing an Microsoft Pencil and iPad for easy sorting, etc. After downloading several apps, mostly the suggested options with in-app purchases, I came across this one for Purple Notebook. Right off the top, it’s different from the others. It’s the closest app I can find to using an actual notebook with the notable exception that Microsoft’s “scribble” functionality is the default turning your handwritten notes into text. I would prefer to have the option to turn that on/off at will. I will dig around the app some more to see if I am missing that. Other than that, I appreciate that this app is not full of in-app purchases or requiring a subscription. It does what it says it does without extra clutter. I cannot wait to see what comes down the pipes from these developers in the future. Thank you to the team! Best wishes.

  
  

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