Best Notes Free Writing Apps

4.8😐(641K ratings)

Free

Capture your thoughts, ideas, and important information with a versatile note-taking app. Attach various file types, scan documents, create checklists, and even sketch directly within your notes. Organize with folders, tags, and smart searches, and collaborate with others on shared notes.

What We Love

📝 Versatile note-taking app
🔒 Secure with password/biometric lock
🌐 Seamless sync across devices
🚀 Quick and responsive
📂 Organized with folders and tags
💻 Integrates well with Apple ecosystem

Room to Improve

🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches
🔍 Difficulty finding/retrieving notes
🔋 High battery drain when using Apple Pencil
📝 Limited formatting options (font, color, etc.)
🔒 Password reset issues with locked notes
🗑️ Accidental deletion of notes

Notes: Note taking & writing by Lutech-DN

Good quick notes & planner

Strong Contender

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FreeIn-App Purchases

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Capture ideas, create to-do lists, and sketch designs with a versatile digital notebook. Customize your notes with various paper templates, stickers, fonts, and colors. Effortlessly organize and share your work as PDFs.

Paper: Writing App, Notes by Mihhail Lapushkin

Write a book novel poem script

Worth Considering

NextNote: Notes & AI Writing

4.7😊(1.7K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

This app offers a clean and configurable writing environment for various creative projects. It supports Markdown and plain text, syncs with iCloud, and integrates with other tools. Users can publish drafts to popular blogging platforms and export documents in multiple formats.

What We Love

💗 Fantastic app
🎀 Great tool for writers
👍 Clean writing app
🤩 Awesome app
👍 Cute animations
🤩 Excellent app
👍 Sleek and elegant
🤩 Outstanding app
👍 Simple and easy to use
🤩 Amazing app

Room to Improve

🐛 Glitchy and unreliable
💰 Paywalled features
🐛 Lost files and documents
🐛 Cursor issues
🐛 Buggy and unstable

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Handwritten notes and drawingImage insertion and PDF annotationOrganize and search documents

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Handwritten notesAudio recordingsPhoto attachments

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Voice keyboard & Transcription

Dictate 4x faster than typing30+ AI transformation modesSupports 130+ languages

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Finger writing inputScrollable notepadSave and organize notes

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Full-screen distraction-free typingDropbox file synchronizationPlain-text and markdown file editing

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Beautiful typesetting and personalizationWYSIWYG photo editingBuilt-in cloud storage

Create and personalize beautiful articles with advanced typesetting and photo editing. Securely store your content in the cloud and easily share it in various formats or as a webpage. Organize your writing into booklets and export them as eBooks.

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Beautiful document layoutText formatting (bold, italic, underline)Text alignment

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All-in-one note captureAutomatic daily organizationInstant searchability

Capture thoughts, tasks, and ideas instantly in one unified space. This app automatically organizes your entries by date and makes everything searchable, syncing seamlessly across all your devices. It's designed for speed and simplicity, replacing multiple productivity tools.

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Quick notes - one note by one

This app offers advanced tools for managing and editing handwritten notes and documents. It supports cloud integration, vector graphics, and includes features for intelligent selection, reflowing text, and creating links. It's ideal for note-taking, brainstorming, and sketching.

Intelligent selection, erase, and move toolsReflow handwritten text with insert spaceCreate handwritten links and bookmarks

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Transcribe speech to text

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Voice recording with markersAI speech-to-text transcriptionSmart meeting summaries

Record meetings and lectures, then instantly convert speech to text. AI generates summaries and to-do lists from your notes. Organize action items and sync with your calendar.

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