# PageNote — Lecture PDFs into study notes > Lecture PDFs into study notes (iPhone/iPad app by Tiancheng Gao.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pagenote/id6803788070 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Tiancheng Gao](https://appshunter.io/developer/6803788072) - Category: Education, Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 14 MB - Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China) - Released: 2026-09-03 - Data updated: 2026-10-04 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pagenote/id6803788070/reviews.md ## What is PageNote? PageNote turns the lecture PDFs you already have into per-page study notes, and lines your problem sets up with how far your course has actually got. WHAT IT DOES • Per-page notes — open a lecture PDF and get a one-line summary, the key points, the terms that matter, and "how it's tested" for the page you're on. Not a summary of the whole deck: page by page, following your reading. • Problem sets that follow your progress — import a problem set and PageNote maps each question to the pages that teach it. Tell it how far today's lecture got — just the page number — and it pulls out the problems you can actually do now. • Write it out, then get it marked — do one problem per sheet with Apple Pencil, then ask for marking. It reads your working, says which step went wrong, and keeps what you missed in a mistake book. • Every problem, by subject — all of them in one place, filtered by To do, Wrong or Repeated. • Handwriting on the slides — annotate with Apple Pencil and export a PDF that combines the original slides with your handwriting. • Review — wrong answers and terms you keep forgetting go into one queue, spaced 1 / 3 / 7 / 14 / 30 days. One card at a time: think first, then flip. • Mock exam — before a test, pull a set of questions from a page range, with an optional timer. Mark yourself at the end; anything wrong goes into the mistake book. • Exam reminders and a Home Screen widget — set an exam date and get one reminder 7 days before and one the day before; the widget keeps the countdown and today's workload in front of you. FREE, AND WHAT COSTS MONEY Reading, Apple Pencil annotation and PDF export are free forever. Generate 10 pages of AI notes free on your first document — no key, no signup. After that a subscription covers the AI, you pick which model runs, and you can cancel any time in Settings. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS • PageNote Standard — monthly, or one semester (6 months), auto-renewing • PageNote Advanced — monthly, or one semester (6 months), auto-renewing • PageNote Pro — monthly, or one semester (6 months), auto-renewing In mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau there are two tiers only (Standard and Advanced): fewer AI providers are reachable there, so both tiers run the same set of models and differ in monthly credits, and they are priced lower than elsewhere. Everywhere else there are three tiers, each unlocking a further class of model. Standard comes with a 7-day free trial, once per Apple ID within the subscription group; Advanced and Pro have no trial. When the trial ends it converts automatically into a paid Standard subscription, charged at the Standard price for your region. To avoid being charged, cancel in your Apple ID account settings at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Prices differ by region and may change over time. The exact price and period for your region are shown in the In-App Purchases list on this App Store page, and on the subscription screen inside the app, before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Any unused part of a free trial, if offered, is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use (EULA): https://terryg907.github.io/pagenote-legal/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://terryg907.github.io/pagenote-legal/privacy.html ANCHORED TO YOUR PAGE, NOT A CHAT You can tap a suggested question or type your own, but every answer is about the page you are on — nothing else. No conversation thread, no history between questions, and off-topic questions are declined. Each answer is saved as an annotation on that page, not as a chat log. AI can be wrong. Check anything that matters against your lecturer's material. ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Standard · Semester | $39.99 | per 6 months | | Pro · Semester | $99.99 | per 6 months | | Advanced · Monthly | $14.99 | per month | | Standard · Monthly | $7.99 | per month | | Advanced · Semester | $79.99 | per 6 months | | Pro · Monthly | $24.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 4 releases) ### 1.3 — 2026-09-18 Added in-class recording: live captions, notes that automatically fill in what the lecturer said on top of the slide, and a full class recap once the lesson ends. Tap the question mark on any line in your notes to ask about it — dig up to three levels deep, then try a practice problem based on what you just learned. The whole notes pane has been redesigned for a cleaner, more consistent layout. Also: handwritten work can now be marked, and the privacy policy has been updated to cover how class recordings are handled. ### 1.2 — 2026-09-08 This release adds a few things you'll want before an exam, plus a batch of subscription and pricing-display fixes. NEW • Mock exam — pull questions from a page range, optional timer, self-mark at the end, and anything you get wrong goes straight into the mistake book. • Today's review — terms and due mistakes in one card queue, coming back on a 1 / 3 / 7 / 14 / 30 day interval. • Exam reminders — set an exam date and get one reminder 7 days before and one the day before (needs notification permission). • Home Screen widget — a countdown to your next exam, plus how many problems and review cards you have today. FIXES • The subscription screen no longer shows prices or offers that are out of date. Product details used to be fetched once per launch, so after a price or offer changed on the App Store the screen could keep showing the old one. • The subscription screen only shows the free trial to accounts that are actually eligible for it. • When entitlement lookup lags after a first subscription, the screen now waits and shows the correct subscription state. • After you move up a tier, the credit figures switch to the new tier straight away instead of staying on the old limit. • Tier descriptions now reflect the models actually available in your region. In mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau, Advanced and Standard run the same set of models and differ in credits, so Advanced no longer claims to unlock a further class of model. • Notes that occasionally needed two or three taps to generate: when a model's output is cut off by length the app now retries automatically, and the server raised the output ceiling. MAINLAND CHINA • If the App Store region is not readable at first launch, the app now retries instead of failing to reach the server for the whole session. HONG KONG AND MACAU • Every cloud request (notes, follow-up answers, suggested questions, marking and problem-set parsing) now carries the region tag, so none of them can be routed to a model that is not offered there. OTHER • The Done button in the reader no longer has an empty gap next to it. ### 1.1 — 2026-09-04 New • Add image: place a picture on any page from Photos, Files or the clipboard. Drag, resize, crop and rotate it to any angle, and it's included when you export to PDF. • A tidier reader toolbar: the tools you use most stay put; the rest expand with a tap. • AI-generated notes are now clearly labelled, on screen and in exported files. • Users in mainland China now connect to a server inside China for faster, more reliable generation. Fixes • Switching from monthly to semester now clearly shows that the change takes effect at your next renewal, instead of appearing to do nothing. • The credit cost shown before grading now reflects the model you selected. • Merging two copies of a worksheet no longer loses handwritten work present in both copies. • Coordinates like (1, 0) are no longer split across lines in worked steps. • Subscribers in Hong Kong and Macau are now warned when a renewal payment fails. • Assorted polish and English wording fixes. ### 1.0 — 2026-09-03 No release notes. ## Apps similar to PageNote | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [知格闪卡](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/id6766411237) | — | Free | Education | | [PTE WFD: Write From Dictation](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pte-wfd-write-from-dictation/id6791514840) | 5.0 (2) | Free | Education | | [路觅教育](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/id6757464081) | — | Free | Education | | [EqualMath](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/equalmath/id6749845326) | — | Free | Education | | [WoosApp +](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/woosapp-plus/id6449350080) | — | Free | Education | | [万能班长](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/id1339155546) | — | Free | Education | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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