A GoodNotes alternative for people who ran out of page
GoodNotes is a superb digital notebook, and a notebook is exactly what it is: bounded pages in a bounded book. Mena keeps the Apple Pencil feel and the PDF annotation, then removes the page edges and adds structure — seven board kinds, an on-device knowledge graph and spaced repetition.
Free to start · No account · Private iCloud sync
- Infinite canvas with a minimap, plus a vertical Note kind when you do want a page
- Import PDFs, scans and photos as a paginated document and ink on every page
- 9,147 vector stencils across 41 libraries, searchable and offline
- No account and no vendor cloud — sync runs through your own private iCloud database
Keep the pages you actually want
Blank, lined, dotted and grid paper are all there, drawn procedurally so they stay crisp at any zoom. The difference is that a page is now a choice rather than the only option, and a note can become a board or a deck without being copied.
Notes that do something afterwards
Highlight a passage and it becomes an FSRS-5 flashcard. Frame a region and it becomes a presentation slide. Write for a month and Topics shows you the themes and concepts your pages keep circling, built on-device with nothing uploaded.
Frequently asked questions
Can Mena annotate PDFs like GoodNotes?
Yes. Imported PDFs, scans and photo stacks become a paginated document with a thumbnail sidebar, in-document search, per-page Apple Pencil ink and PDF export.
Does Mena need its own account?
No. There is no Mena account and no Mena server. Everything syncs through your own private iCloud (CloudKit) database.
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