# PolyNotes: AI Notebook & Notes — Writing App, Notepad & Study

> Writing App, Notepad & Study (iPhone/iPad app by Yarub Alhaj.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/polynotes-ai-notebook-and-notes/id6812057174 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Yarub Alhaj](https://appshunter.io/developer/6812057176)
- Category: Productivity, Education
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 28 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-27
- Data updated: 2026-11-08

## What is PolyNotes?

PolyNotes is the notebook app for students. Handwrite your notes, mark up your lecture slides, and ask an AI tutor that answers from your own course material.

TAKE NOTES YOUR WAY
• Write with Apple Pencil on a whiteboard that grows as you go, or type.
• Import lecture slides and PDFs, then mark them up with a pen, highlighter, text and photos.
• Bring in notebooks you've exported from other note apps.
• Keep quick notes on your Home screen.

YOUR LECTURE COMPANION ON IPHONE
• Open a lecture to read the slides and write on them.
• Photograph the board. Photos taken during a class are filed to the right module.
• Record the lecture, even with your screen locked.
• Ask the AI about a module while you're in class.

AN AI TUTOR THAT KNOWS YOUR COURSE
• Get answers from your own slides and notes, with the source cited.
• Work through problems step by step with the built-in math solver.
• Turn a lecture into flashcards, a summary or a quiz on the Pro plan.

STAY ON TOP OF YOUR COURSES
• See your timetable, deadlines and exams, with a countdown as they get close.
• Find your university and sync your courses from Moodle, or from Canvas.
• Plan your degree with a roadmap, and keep your CV up to date.

ALL YOUR DEVICES, IN STEP
• Sign in to keep your timetable, courses, deadlines and lecture notes on iPhone, iPad and Windows.
• Photos and recordings from your iPhone reach your other devices.
• No account needed to start writing. Sign in when you want the AI and sync.

PLANS
• Free: 1 module and 3 AI actions a month.
• Essential: unlimited modules, Moodle and Canvas sync for every course, and the AI tutor and math help, with 30 AI actions a month or 300 a year.
• Pro: everything in Essential, plus AI flashcards, summaries and quizzes, clean handwriting, equation plots and an AI degree roadmap, with 50 AI actions a month or 500 a year.

Subscriptions are billed through the App Store and renew automatically until you cancel. Manage them in your Apple account settings.

AI answers are a study aid and can be wrong. Check anything important, and follow your school's academic-integrity rules.

Terms: https://polynotes-legal.yarob1028.workers.dev/terms
Privacy: https://polynotes-legal.yarob1028.workers.dev/privacy

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Essential (Monthly) | $4.99 | per month |
| Essential (Yearly) | $29.99 | per year |
| Pro (Monthly) | $9.99 | per month |
| Pro (Yearly) | $59.99 | per year |


## Is PolyNotes safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess PolyNotes.

## Is PolyNotes legit?

PolyNotes: AI Notebook & Notes has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for PolyNotes is 50 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.0.3 — 2026-11-06

A new design across the app, Learn with summaries and flashcards, and your courses, timetable, deadlines and lecture notes in step with the new iPhone app. Pick your university to connect Moodle. Open and edit Word documents in your modules, with equations, and save them as Word or PDF, Diagrams added, Better shape recognition,  Scribble to text, search across notes, Brush pen, Apple Pencil Pro squeeze, Yearly plans cost less.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-30

• UI and design improvements 
• You can now sing in with your Microsoft account

### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-29

• Ask AI about anything you circle: select part of a slide or your notes with the lasso and it goes straight into the chat as an image.
• Send photos to the AI tutor and the Concierge — handwritten problems, diagrams, textbook pages.
• The AI tutor now reads every question on your tutorial sheets, understands "the 3rd question from the first tutorial", and formats answers with headings, tables and properly rendered math.
• New fountain pen: your line follows Apple Pencil pressure, with smooth tapers. The ball pen stays an even width.
• Faster, more responsive drawing, with fixes for loops appearing in fast strokes.
• Shape snapping works again — hold at the end of a stroke to snap to a line, rectangle, square, circle, triangle, polygon or arrow.
• Adjustable pen and eraser sizes.
• Redesigned "add deadline" card, and a deeper blue status bar in Notes.
• Sign-in is now required to use PolyNotes.

### 1.0 — 2026-10-27

No release notes.

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