Goodnotes in a few pages, for writers, partners and anyone curious: the facts, the people, the money, the products and the news. Put together by ToolGPA, not by Goodnotes.
Goodnotes is made by Goodnotes, a privately held company headquartered in London with offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. It earns money from paid plans for its note-taking apps, business subscriptions and a marketplace for digital stationery, and says it has over 25 million monthly active users.
Founded
2011
Based in
Headquartered in London
Chief executive
Steven Chan
Team
300+ people
Ownership
Privately held
Unofficial. Put together by ToolGPA from Goodnotes’s own pages, news reports and our own grades, read Oct 18, 2026. Not made, paid for or approved by Goodnotes. toolgpa.com
Part 01 · Company
The company
Who they are, the facts in one place, and the people who run it
2011
The year Goodnotes was founded, in Headquartered in London
In a sentence
Goodnotes is made by Goodnotes, a privately held company headquartered in London with offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. It earns money from paid plans for its note-taking apps, business subscriptions and a marketplace for digital stationery, and says it has over 25 million monthly active users.
In a paragraph
Goodnotes was founded in 2011 and is based in Headquartered in London, remote-friendly, with offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. Steven Chan is its founder & CEO. 300+ employees in 30+ countries, as its press page states.
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Fact sheet
Company
Goodnotes
Founded
2011
Based in
Headquartered in London, remote-friendly, with offices in Hong Kong and Singapore
Team
300+ employees in 30+ countries, as its press page states
Website
goodnotes.com
Products we list
Goodnotes
Ownership: Privately held
Privately held. Its About page says Goodnotes began as a one-person project that was bootstrapped and profitable from day one, and TechCrunch reported a $6 million seed investment from Race Capital in 2020.
Leadership
SC
Steven Chan
Founder & CEO
Hiring
4 open roles on its job board: two in data and insights in Singapore and London, an AI consultancy director in London and a software engineer in London.
Part 02 · Funding
The money
Every announced round, who put money in, and what it was last valued at
Self-funded
By its own account: no outside investors
Goodnotes says on its About page that it was bootstrapped and profitable from day one. TechCrunch reported in January 2024 that the company had taken a $6 million seed investment from Race Capital in 2020 and that founder Steven Chan said it had no plans to raise again. No month was given for the seed round.
What they make
Goodnotes, as ToolGPA grades it: five subjects, a letter for each, and a GPA.
Goodnotes
Handwritten notes, PDF markup and whiteboards with an AI assistant
Note-Taking AppsFrom $11.99 per yearFree plan4.7 on the App Store
3.6GPA
Best for handwritten notes and PDF markup on an iPad. You scribble in a notebook or straight onto a PDF, and it can still search what you wrote.
AValue
CFree
AFeatures
AEase
APlatforms
What reviewers praise: Writing notes by hand on an iPad and still being able to search them is the combination reviewers and commenters keep naming. Importing PDFs and writing straight onto them with the Pencil is a use that reviewers and commenters describe again and again.
Goodnotes’s grade as a badge for its own site, free: it updates itself and links to the review. Code at toolgpa.com/badges.
Part 04 · News
News and contacts
What they have announced lately, and every official channel
This media kit is ToolGPA’s own summary of what Goodnotes’s pages, news reports, investors’ announcements and public filings said on the dates shown, with our own grades. It is not made, paid for or approved by Goodnotes, and Goodnotes’s names and logos are trademarks of their owner. Grades are our judgement under the rules at toolgpa.com/grades. ToolGPA uses affiliate links and may earn a commission from them, and it works with sponsors; no one can pay for a grade. Product pictures are Goodnotes’s own, from its website and app-store listings.
