Best Note Taking Apps

4.7😊(453K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

#80in Productivity

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Capture ideas, enhance productivity, and unlock insights with advanced AI features. This app offers tools for professionals, students, and creatives, including infinite whiteboards, AI-powered transcription and summarization, and customizable digital notebooks.

What We Love

🚀 Excellent note-taking experience
👍 Intuitive and user-friendly interface
🚀 Smooth writing with Apple Pencil
📁 Powerful organization with folders and notebooks
🖼️ Ability to annotate PDFs and documents
🌈 Customizable paper styles and covers

Room to Improve

🐛 Glitches and crashes
🔍 Syncing and iCloud issues
🔍 Lack of flexibility with text input
🔍 Limited eraser and highlighting options
🔍 Subpar performance on Mac app

Notability: AI Notes & Planner by Ginger Labs

Daily notebook & study journal

Strong Contender

4.8😊(456K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

#73in Productivity

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Capture, organize, and enhance your thoughts with a versatile digital notebook. Seamlessly blend handwriting, typing, and multimedia to annotate documents, record lectures, and generate summaries. Ideal for students and professionals seeking to boost productivity and learning.

What We Love

🚀 Great app for note-taking
👍 Smooth handwriting experience
📝 Excellent organization and file management
🎙️ Useful audio recording feature
🔍 Handwriting recognition and search
🌈 Customizable colors and themes

Room to Improve

🐛 Sync issues with iCloud
🔍 Limited search and organization options
🖍️ Frustrating highlighter behavior
🔒 Concerns about subscription model
🔧 Buggy after recent updates

Microsoft OneNote by Microsoft Corporation

Capture Notes, Ideas and Memos

Worth Considering

Freenotes®: AI Notes Taking

4.7😐(1.1M ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

#75in Productivity

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.

What We Love

🚀 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

Room to Improve

🔨 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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