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PDFsam Basic vs. Goodnotes

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricPDFsam Basic

by Sober Lemur

Goodnotes

by Goodnotes

Overall rating4.24.7
Review count49123
Ease of use9.29.3
Ease of setup9.69.3
Quality of support8.28.8
Meets requirements9.29.1
NPS40.81632785.714286
Small Business42.9%75.0%
Mid-Market32.7%14.8%
Enterprise24.5%10.2%
Total page views81744
Total LLM citations1,18214,722

PDFsam Basic

PDFsam Basic, a free, open source, multi-platform software designed to split, merge, extract pages, mix and rotate PDF files.

Pros

    Goodnotes

    Goodnotes was founded back in 2013 and currently has offices in Hong Kong and London with 200+ employees from 30+ nationalities. Our app offers industry-first digital paper, powered by AI, and with over 26 million monthly active users and average rating of 4.75/5 from 1.8 million user reviews, Goodnotes is the No. 1 App for Productivity on the App Store. We won Apple’s iPad App of the Year for 2022. Goodnotes 6 is a powerful note-taking app designed to provide a seamless and natural handwriting experience on digital paper.

    Pros

    • Ease of Use
    • Organization
    • Note-taking
    • Features
    • Simple
    • Easy Setup