UnivNote — Smooth PDF Note App
UnivNote makes the fundamentals — writing, reading, and organizing on PDFs — fast and reliable, instead of leading with AI.
Write on textbooks, slides, papers, and books with iPad and Apple Pencil — open your notes on iPhone and Mac. Recent updates added layers, shapes, memorization tests, exam countdowns, and study time tracking while improving speed, heat, and battery on stroke-heavy pages.
▶ What Makes UnivNote Different
· A simple writing tool without AI clutter
Responsive pen, fast lasso, easy copy and paste, and a stable PDF reader come first.
· Layers — keep the original and your notes apart
Keep handwriting, answers, and corrections on 5 layers per note. One tap hides or shows the answer layer everywhere; lock layers to protect originals, move lassoed ink between them. Unused, they tuck behind one button.
· Study tools for memorization and review
Cover answers with the masking highlighter, tap to reveal. Hide or show all masks, self-grade right/wrong tests, move down the mask list — flow never breaks. Each subject folder shows an exam countdown and logs study time.
· Shapes you can re-edit anytime
30+ shapes — lines, arrows, polygons, cylinders, cones, spheres. Drag handles after inserting to tune an ellipse's flatness or a cylinder's shell thickness — great for math and science.
· Fast writing with lower heat
Input stays responsive as strokes pile up; eraser, paste, undo, and lasso stay smooth. Heat and battery keep improving under load — Split View, screen recording.
· Built for lectures and class notes
Laser pointer, reading mode, gesture shortcuts, recording, handwriting-synced playback. Recordings survive crashes and continue in the background.
· Extend PDF margins on all four sides
Add the mm you want per side for problem solving and notes.
· Word-aware highlighting on PDF text
Long-press and highlights snap to words; text stays black, never washed out.
▶ Main Features
· Pen, highlighter, eraser, fountain pen — widths, colors, line styles
· Layers — 5 per note, hide, lock, rename, move via lasso
· Shape insertion — 30+ flat and 3D shapes, re-edit with handles
· Masking highlighter — masks, right/wrong tests, mask list
· Exam countdowns + auto study time per subject
· Lasso selection — move, resize, rotate, copy, cut, duplicate, delete
· Eraser capture delete — wipe all ink inside a closed area
· Paste images — photos, screenshots, crop
· Share sheet import — PDFs and photos from any app
· Audio synced to handwriting — tap a stroke to jump there, up to 3x
· Backlinks — all links pointing to this note
· Text boxes with text style presets
· Favorite pens + per-note tool memory
· No-Pencil mode — finger writing, two-finger scroll
· Page manager — add, delete, duplicate, rotate, multi-select
· Sidebar table of contents — detects and edits PDF Outline
· Unified search — PDF text, text boxes, note titles
· Reading mode, laser pointer, gesture shortcuts
· Design templates — study, planner, journal, creator
· Folder library — nested folders, colors, favorites
· iCloud sync — notes stay on device when off
· WebDAV — import and full backup upload
· 27 languages — 한국어/English/日本語/简体中文/繁體中文/Español/Deutsch/Français/Italiano/Português/Nederlands/Svenska/Dansk/Norsk/Suomi/Polski/Čeština/Magyar/Română/Ελληνικά/Русский/Українська/Türkçe/Tiếng Việt/ไทย/Bahasa Indonesia/Bahasa Melayu
▶ Pricing
· Free for up to 20 notes
· Unlimited Notes is a one-time lifetime purchase
· No subscription · No ads · Family Sharing supported
· Early Supporters automatically get Unlimited Notes
▶ Privacy
· No note data is sent externally
· Notes stay on your device or your own iCloud
▶ Recommended Setup
· iPad + Apple Pencil recommended; iPhone and Mac supported
· iPadOS 18 or later, optimized for 13" and 11" iPad Pro / iPad Air
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