Mental Note Lite ๛

This app is awesome and just what I dreamed of plus more! I have been looking for an app for 8 MONTHS that could be just like the app notes for iOS that comes preloaded on every iPhone and iPad and iPod, but I wanted more features to it such as pictures, copy and pasting pictures and anything, and then when I opened this app it showed that I could add voice, pictures, audio, and FINALLY an app that can type on a piece of paper without having to use a stupid text box! I hate all apps that use text boxes for notes because it gets really confusing and old when you want to type long notes, or you want the typed words directly on one line. Thank you so much this is my dream app!!! I AM DEFINITELY UPGRADING TO THE PRO VERSION!!! People that are reading this review it is true, this app is amazing. why have I never heard of this app-- it's not popular and It has so many great features to it, I think it is better than notability even though notability has more features, this app is the ultimate best. People, please make this app go to top charts, it deserves to be in 30th place or so!!!! AWESOME APP THANKS SOOOO MUCH CAN'T BELIEVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS APP UNTIL TODAY!! Bravo!

I have a lot of thoughts going thru my head all of the time and I usually like to keep a pen and pad somewhere near my usual thinking places, but then I have small notes everywhere and the thoughts I thought I was saving become lost among the papers. Sooo I found this app while frustrated by my influx of thoughts (end of month at work, end of semester in school, and beginning of summer which means setting out goals)... Let's just say this app was the RELIEF my mind needed. I can put it all out in drawings or typing or any of their other options and it's all down in the same place available for review on a object that's always with me, my phone sure my brains always with me but not always so organized. Let's just say i feel this app was made for me :)

I really wanted to like this app; the feature set is pretty good, but there is a problem with Asian language text (Chinese or Japanese) on a note. You can enter the text in the note fine but any the Asian language text simply disappears when the note is e-mailed as a pdf, while other text (even in Greek, Cyrillic, and Hebrew alphabets) remains. If the note is e-mailed as a picture, the Asian language text appears, but then you cannot copy and paste it. I see that no specifically Chinese/Japanese fonts are options in the app, but this should not be an obstacle, given that in Apple's Notes, you normally have *no* choice of font, but it still understands when you are inputting Chinese and switches automatically to an appropriate font. Similarly, NoteMaster has no problem with Chinese/Japanese even with the same font (Helvetica) chosen as I had in Mental Note, and AwesomeNote also handles Chinese/Japanese with the default font setting. Maybe the difference is these other apps all export text as text, not as a pdf. But the inability to export text by e-mail is my other main objection to MentalNote. If the language support doesn't matter to you and your focus is more one audio and images, rather than text, then this is a nice app. It would be better, though, if there were one universal app, rather than separate iPad and iPhone apps.