MarginNote 4: AI Notes·MindMap

MarginNote 4: AI Notes·MindMap

Read & Flashcards All in One

709 ratings
547 reviews
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  • Released
  • Updated
  • May 12, 2024
  • July 16, 2026

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This app integrates reading, note-taking, mind mapping, and flashcards into a unified study environment. It supports active learning with features like study sets, book compilation, and dual-article views. Enhance your understanding with visual learning tools and AI-powered content extraction for long-term memory retention.

Integrated reading, note-taking, mind mapping, and flashcards
Quick Extend Note and Handwriting Layers for annotation
Study Set for organizing PDFs, EPUBs, videos, and audio
Mind Map and Concept Diagram for visual learning
AI Content Detection for formula and chart extraction
FSRS spaced-repetition algorithm for reviews
iCloud sync across Apple devices
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What's New in MarginNote 4

4.4.4

July 16, 2026

This update focuses on enhancing AI Extract Questions and AI Breakdown, Custom AI, document and mind map export & print, Markdown text box, and plugin management. It also fixes various stability issues. AI Extract Questions - Improved recognition accuracy for questions, answers, explanations, order, cross-page questions, and multi-column layouts. Optimized question-answer matching and hierarchy restoration. - Support for more question number formats, chapter titles, bracket labels, and textbook layout styles. - Enhanced recognition of English question types. - Enhanced recognition of "exercise books with extend note". Even if an exercise book contains multiple blank spaces, questions can now be accurately recognized and excerpted, adapting to the blank space practice scenario. - Updated the AI Breakdown interface, optimizing the breakdown workspace, task progress, and interruption recovery entry for a clearer workflow. Custom AI (Max Feature) - New Custom AI support (Max feature). You can configure your own AI provider, model, and API Key in Settings. - Once Custom AI is configured, all AI features will use your custom AI by default without consuming MarginNote AI credits. Export & Print - Document export now includes page selection. You can select specific pages via thumbnails, table of contents, page range, or annotations. - Mind map export now supports two formats: "Mind Map" and "Card Outline". Mind map branches can also be individually exported as a mind map. - When exporting a mind map, you can now print level by level and adjust the density. Markdown Text Box - New Markdown text box, allowing you to insert and edit Markdown directly in a document. - Markdown text box supports adjustable width and font size. - Markdown text box supports URL links. - You can find Markdown text boxes through document keyword search and on annotation pages. Other Improvements - Added an image cropping feature. - Added a document positioning button in the title link pop-up window. It can automatically open split view and navigate to the original text location of the concept card. - Support for auto-repairing missing excerpt images. - One-click pause and resume plugins in the plugin toolbar to reduce the impact of plugins on app stability. - Optimized plugin resource cleanup, start/stop state synchronization, abnormal configuration protection, and runtime diagnostics. - Optimized the display of the collapsed mind map count in recall mode. - Optimized the operating experience and scrolling performance of the extend note expand/collapse button. - Optimized OCR image processing protection to avoid crashes caused by abnormal or oversized images. - Optimized handwriting and excerpt shortcuts in Immersive mode, adding shortcuts for various excerpt and annotation tools. - Optimized the document menu in Immersive mode; temporarily opened documents are now displayed in a separate group. - Fixed the issue where excerpt tool colors were displayed incorrectly in Immersive mode.

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User reviews

功能建议

在不同设备云同步后会造成部分卡片脑图位置改变。卡片分组看版请在过滤中不要默认全选或至少加一个全部反选,否则项目过多只要其中1个很麻烦。 再有搜索卡片点击显示所在脑图都须排列縮放至合適大小,能不能直接显示不要调整。还有卡片手写时难免手触碰屏幕,能否不让卡片来回划动甚至手写一半划到别张卡片。

Each update adds more bugs.

And they also remove negative customer feedback.

최고의 정리앱

이번 한글 패치로 드디어 완벽한 앱이 되었다고 생각합니다!! 엄청 두꺼운 전공책에 한해서 자기의 방식대로 구조화 하면서 마인드맵을 만드는 기능은 이 노트를 따라갈 수 있은 앱이 있나요. AI 기능도 다른 앱과 다르게 네이티브단에서 지원을 하고 내용 기반 마인드맵 생성, 학습용, 퀴즈로도 활용이 가능합니다

Response from developer

Thank you for your support and encouragement. To us, having ambitious goals and the means to reach them is truly inspiring. We are excited about all the opportunities we have, opportunities to make a difference in this great group. And now, it is up to us. We must make it happen.

Woww

Nice app with so many well layered feature, and inexhaustible ways it can be used. That being said the learning curve is quite steep and you learn new things about this app quite often.

Mac client need in app purchase

I already bought the iOS client, this needs 40 dollars more.

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User experience

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Reported Bugs

3 issues

Disappearing annotations when using extend function

Bug

Inability to restore accidentally deleted mind maps

Bug

Inconsistent behavior with PDF file management

Bug

Requested Features

4 requests

Improved iCloud/cloud sync reliability

Feature

More intuitive and user-friendly interface

Feature

Better support for external document libraries

Feature

Ability to disable auto-excerpt selection

Feature

FAQ

What does MarginNote 4 do?

MarginNote 4 is a comprehensive study application that combines reading, note-taking, mind mapping, and spaced-repetition flashcards into a single workspace. It aims to help users preview, consolidate, practice, review, and remember information using proven study methods.

What are the key features of MarginNote 4?

Key features include Quick Extend Note for adding extra writing space, Handwriting Layers for managing ink, Study Sets for organizing various media types, Mind Maps and Concept Diagrams for visual learning, AI Content Detection for extracting academic data, and the FSRS algorithm for spaced repetition reviews. It also offers iCloud sync across Apple devices.

How much does MarginNote 4 cost?

MarginNote 4 offers a free 'Basic' tier with limited features. 'Pro' and 'Max' tiers are available as one-time purchases or upgrades, unlocking advanced features like on-device OCR, AI extraction, and multi-window support across all Apple devices. All plans include a 14-day free trial.

What devices is MarginNote 4 compatible with?

MarginNote 4 is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. It supports iCloud sync across these platforms, allowing users to access their study materials and notes seamlessly.

What are common use cases for MarginNote 4?

Common use cases include annotating PDFs and EPUBs, creating mind maps to visualize connections between ideas, generating flashcards for memorization, organizing research materials from various sources like Zotero, and preparing for exams through active recall and spaced repetition.