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Microsoft OneNote

Microsoft OneNote

Capture Notes, Ideas and Memos

1.1M ratings
2547 reviews
#65 in free Productivity
📚 Education
📊 Productivity
Free
In-App Purchases

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Microsoft Corporation
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Capture thoughts, ideas, and plans in a digital notepad. Organize, search, and secure your notes, memos, and sketches. Sync across devices for access anywhere, anytime. Collaborate with others on shared notepads.

✓Capture thoughts and ideas
✓Digital sketchbook
✓Organize and search notes
✓Sync notes via OneDrive
✓Collaborate on shared notepads
✓Handwritten notes and drawings
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What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Microsoft OneNote. Based on 1.1M reviews and a 4.7/5 average, it highlights the 16 positives and 17 negatives reviewers mention most about this Productivity app.

Positive things

  • 🚀Simple, works well
  • 👍Great for planning
  • 👍Powerful note-taking app
  • 👍Invaluable tool for note taking
  • 👍Used for years, couldn't be without this app
  • 👍Helps keep up with college
  • 👍A+ for getting life organized
  • 👍Best app to get organized
  • 👍Excellent across ALMOST all platforms
  • 👍Excellent for work and school
  • 👍Wonderful app (better than Evernote)
  • 👍Paperless uni student
  • 👍EVERYTHING in one place & mega easy to find
  • 👍Amazing. Especially since it's free
  • 👍Awesome app
  • 👍Using it for years

Negative things

  • 🔨Could be better
  • 🔨Formatting issues on mobile app
  • 🔨Buggy widget, no dark app icon
  • 🐛Glitchy, crashes often
  • 🐛Terrible sync speeds
  • 🐛The drawing tool switches to text tool without being selected
  • 🐛Crashes since iOS 17
  • 🐛Dude, please fix scrolling issue
  • 🐛Bugs, lots of bugs
  • 🐛Terrible on iPad, very slow
  • 🐛Glitchy af now
  • 🐛Strokes vanish randomly when writing with Apple Pencil
  • 🐛No easy way to select large amounts of only highlighting
  • 🐛Unbelievably unreliable
  • 🐛Wildly inconsistent syncing
  • 🐛Very glitchy, too risky
  • 🐛App crashing
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What's New in Microsoft OneNote

16.113.2

August 24, 2026

This month’s update is bug fixes only. Thanks for using OneNote! We listened to your feedback and updated the application with optimizations to help improve your note taking experience. Having trouble? Send feedback in the app (OneNote->Settings->Send Feedback) Have an idea? Add to our feature suggestion box at https://aka.ms/onenotefeedback

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Subscription plans

Microsoft 365 Family

Premium apps for up to 6 people

$12.991 Month
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Charts

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This app dropped -1 position in Productivity chart.

Last updated on August 28, 2026.

User reviews

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I find this app very difficult to use. It is not intuitive.

I have to do so much work to understand how to use it. Google keep for instant is so much easier to use. Onenote is not at all intuitive. Sorry.
MarkyuuMarkyuu

Lost 7+ years of notes

Lost all my notes after an update. Went to onedrive and everywhere. Couldn’t restore anything… dont use if you care about your notes.
mokhoshmokhosh

Good

It’s like notes but better
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This is the worst

This has ruined my life of teaching
The worst ever app…..6767The worst ever app…..6767

Awesome

OneNote is intuitive, easy to use, robust, and a delight to work with! I find using this for all my projects, any upcoming event, events, or anything in general that I need a planning tool this works the best!
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User experience

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Reported Bugs

9 issues

Cursor positioning is erratic

Bug

Search function does not work well

Bug

Ink to text conversion missing on iPad

Bug

Syncing issues, notes not syncing properly across devices

Bug

Crashing, freezing, and performance issues

Bug

Scrolling issues, page jumping to top unexpectedly

Bug

Eraser tool deletes more than intended

Bug

Formatting issues when importing/exporting

Bug

Inconsistent behavior between desktop and mobile versions

Bug
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Requested Features

11 requests

Native Markdown support and merged cell support

Feature

Ruler, ability to choose or create notebook covers

Feature

Ability to password protect app or individual notebooks

Feature

Option to open on last opened page instead of Home

Feature

Ability to turn note into task that appears on To Do and Planner

Feature

Search for tags, more Evernote-like search features

Feature

Ability to select text using 3D Touch

Feature

Option to limit page to A4 size with framing

Feature

Pencil feature like Notes app for drawing

Feature

Ability to delete notebooks

Feature

Ability to delete notes from Apple devices

Feature

FAQ

What does this app do?

This app functions as a digital notepad, allowing you to capture thoughts, ideas, memos, and sketches. It helps simplify planning, track errands, and create digital sketchbooks. You can also save images directly into your notes.

What are the key features?

Key features include capturing anything from ideas to pictures of whiteboards, powerful organizational tools for quick searching and pinning, syncing sticky notes across devices, and the ability to collaborate on shared notepads. It also supports handwritten notes and drawings with drawing tools.

Is this app free or paid?

The app is free on iPhone and many other devices. While the core functionality is free, there are monthly Microsoft 365 subscriptions available for purchase within the app, which will be charged to your App Store account.

What devices is this app compatible with?

The app is designed to be accessible across all your devices, whether you're at home, in the office, or on the go. It syncs via OneDrive, ensuring your notes are available on any device you use.

What are common use cases for this app?

Common use cases include planning events, capturing moments of inspiration for creative projects, tracking important lists of errands, making memos, using it as a digital sketchbook, and collaborating with others on shared projects or ideas.