OrigNotes vs Star Editor

OrigNotes is a powerful, free digital note-taking app built for iPad and iPhone. Whether you're taking handwritten notes, annotating PDFs, organizing ideas with mind maps, or capturing inspiration with images, audio, and video, OrigNotes gives you the tools to keep everything in one place. Write naturally with Apple Pencil, convert handwriting into editable text, search through your notes, and customize your workspace to fit the way you think and work. OrigNotes is free to use, and we're committed to keeping it that way. If you're enjoying OrigNotes, we'd greatly appreciate a 5-star review. Your support helps us continue improving the app and building new features for everyone. Have an idea or feature request? Leave us a review or contact us directly through the app. You can also check our Future Plans inside OrigNotes to see what we're working on and follow the progress of upcoming features. KEY FEATURES • Handwriting & Drawing Enjoy a natural writing experience with a variety of pens, brushes, and creative tools designed for Apple Pencil. • PDF Reading & Annotation Import PDFs to read, highlight, annotate, draw, and take notes directly on your documents. • Mind Maps Create mind maps to organize ideas, study topics, and brainstorm visually. Add topics and subtopics, drag and rearrange nodes, and customize your mind map to fit your ideas. • Handwriting to Text Turn handwritten notes into editable text for easier editing, organizing, and reuse. • Powerful Search Find information faster by searching handwritten notes and text inside PDFs. • Images, GIFs, Audio & Video Bring your notes to life with images, animated GIFs, audio, and video—all within your notebook. • Personalized Notebooks Customize covers, paper templates, and themes to create a workspace that feels like your own. • Custom Toolbar & Tool Box Arrange your favorite tools around the way you work and keep the ones you use most within easy reach. • Smooth Writing Experience Optimized handwriting, palm rejection, and Apple Pencil interactions help writing feel smooth, responsive, and natural. • Easy Organization Organize and sort your documents, bookmark important pages, and quickly get back to the content you need. • Data Protection & Backup Multiple backup options and improved data protection help keep your important notes safe. • Cloud Backup Back up your notebooks to cloud storage for easier long-term storage and management. MADE FOR THE WAY YOU TAKE NOTES From class notes and study materials to work documents, PDF annotation, brainstorming, and everyday ideas, OrigNotes gives you a flexible space to capture, organize, and develop your thoughts. Simple when you need it. Powerful when you need more. Write. Think. Create. Organize. All in OrigNotes.

Star Editor builds real websites without code. You write directly on the page, arrange it by dragging, and publish with one button to a web address you own. Pick a starting point — research project, portfolio, blog, club or group, event, travel journal, recipe collection, sports team, link page, or blank — and your site opens already designed, with clear guidance in every empty field. Choose a look, a colour palette and typography, and start writing. BUILDING • Write on the page itself. Tap any text and type; what you see is what visitors see. • Add designed sections: title banner, photo and text, cards, timeline, event, key numbers, FAQ, pull quote, call to action, contact and file downloads. Or plain blocks: text, headings, photos, galleries, video, buttons and quotes. • Arrange mode: press and hold anything on the page and drag it into place, or onto another page. • Drag photos and PDFs straight in from Files, Finder or Photos. • Six looks — Paper, Poster, Notebook, Portfolio, Ledger and Studio — each with curated palettes and typography. There is no way to make a page that looks broken. • Everything can be undone. Photos are resized for the web, and their location and camera data are removed before publishing. PUBLISHING • One button builds the site and puts it online at its own address ending in pages.dev, viewable on any phone or computer. • Your site is hosted on your own Cloudflare account, on Cloudflare's free plan. Account holders must be 18 or over. Star Editor walks you through setup in plain language and never shows a raw error. • Publish as often as you like. YOUR WORK, YOUR FILES • No account with us, no server of ours, no analytics, no tracking. • Export a complete backup of any site — every page and photo in one file — and open it on another device. • The last ten published versions are kept, so you can go back. • Your Cloudflare access key is kept in the keychain, never in a file. DETAILS • Published sites are plain HTML and CSS: fast, readable on a phone, and friendly to search engines and screen readers. • Everything except publishing works offline. • iPhone, iPad and Mac. No subscription, no in-app purchases and no ads. • VoiceOver labels, Dynamic Type, and a full menu bar with keyboard shortcuts on the Mac. Star Editor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cloudflare, Inc.