Best Stylus Notes Apps

244+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.4 avg rating
19 free apps
Updated October 2026

With an average user rating of 4.4★, the stylus notes category is one of the App Store's strongest. Browse all 244+ apps we track, sorted so the most loved ones surface first.

Compare top Stylus Notes Apps (October 2026)

#AppPriceRatingAdsIn-App PurchasesUpdated
1Notes: Aesthetic NotesNotes: Aesthetic NotesFree—NoYesOct 2026
2Stylus Labs WriteStylus Labs WriteFree4.8★ (295)NoYesOct 2026
3Microsoft OneNoteMicrosoft OneNoteFree4.7★ (1.1M)NoYesOct 2026
4Draw Pad Pro - Sketch NotesDraw Pad Pro - Sketch NotesFree4.0★ (159)NoYesSep 2026
5Notes: Color Notepad, NotebookNotes: Color Notepad, NotebookFree4.5★ (4)NoYesOct 2026
6Stylus Labs Write ProStylus Labs Write Pro$8.994.5★ (40)NoNoSep 2026
7Evernote: AI Notes & NotebookEvernote: AI Notes & NotebookFree4.4★ (78K)NoYesOct 2026
8Feenote - Notes and listsFeenote - Notes and listsFree4.8★ (2.1K)NoYesOct 2026

Top Picks for Stylus Notes

Stylus Labs Write#2

Stylus Labs Write by Matthew White

Handwritten notes
Strong Contender
📊 Productivity
4.8😊(295 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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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.

What We Love

  • ✍️ Freeform note-taking and movement
  • 🎨 Nice color and pen style options
  • 💡 Efficient and uncluttered feature set
  • 💾 Notes as SVG files for long-term access
  • ↔️ Automatic page extension (right/bottom)
  • ✅ Essential features are present
  • 🧑‍🏫 Good for studying and organization
  • 🖊️ Natural writing experience with stylus
  • 🖼️ Image insertion and writing over them
  • ✨ Clean interface
  • 💯 Works well for class notes
  • ➕ Great tools that others lack
  • 💻 Cross-platform availability (Windows, Linux, Android, iOS)
  • 🔖 Line-level bookmarking with zoom
  • 🚀 Game-changer bookmarking for table of contents
  • 👯 Split screen functionality
  • ☁️ Syncs with Nextcloud
  • 💖 Loved by users, used on all OS

Room to Improve

  • 🖱️ UI is a bit clunky
  • 💅 Look and feel not as polished as competitors
  • ❌ PDF export is necessary but not possible
  • 🐛 Randomly loses data/writing
  • 🐛 Inconsistent data loss makes app unreliable
  • 🤔 Premium option details unclear
Microsoft OneNote#3

Microsoft OneNote by Microsoft Corporation

Capture Notes, Ideas and Memos
Worth Considering
📊 Productivity
4.7😐(1.1M ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
#81in Productivity
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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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FAQ about Stylus Notes

Are there free stylus notes apps for iPhone?
Yes — 19 of the top stylus notes apps we rank are free to download, including Notes: Aesthetic Notes and Stylus Labs Write.
Notes: Aesthetic Notes has no ads and offers in-app purchases, according to its App Store listing as of October 2026.
We track 244+ stylus notes apps on the iOS App Store as of October 2026, ranked by rating, recency, and analysis of real user reviews.