Best Stylus Notes Apps

242+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.3 avg rating
19 free apps
Updated August 2026

With an average user rating of 4.3★, the stylus notes category is one of the App Store's strongest. Browse all 242+ apps we track, sorted so the most loved ones surface first.

Compare top Stylus Notes Apps (August 2026)

#AppPriceRatingAdsIn-App PurchasesUpdated
1Stylus Labs WriteStylus Labs WriteFree4.8★ (295)NoYesSep 2026
2Microsoft OneNoteMicrosoft OneNoteFree4.7★ (1.1M)NoYesSep 2026
3Notes: Note taking & writingNotes: Note taking & writingFreeNoYesAug 2026
4Draw Pad Pro - Sketch NotesDraw Pad Pro - Sketch NotesFree was $4.994.0★ (159)NoYesSep 2026
5CollaNote: Notes & PDF MarkupCollaNote: Notes & PDF MarkupFree4.7★ (14K)NoYesSep 2026
6Stylus Labs Write ProStylus Labs Write Pro$8.994.5★ (40)NoNoAug 2026
7New Note Notebook - Draw MemoNew Note Notebook - Draw MemoFree2.0★ (7)YesYesSep 2026
8Feenote - Notes and listsFeenote - Notes and listsFree4.8★ (2K)NoYesSep 2026

Top Picks for Stylus Notes

Stylus Labs Write#1

Stylus Labs Write by Matthew White

Handwritten notes
Editor's Choice
📊 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.

Microsoft OneNote#2

Microsoft OneNote by Microsoft Corporation

Capture Notes, Ideas and Memos
Strong Contender
📊 Productivity
4.7😐(1.1M ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
#69in 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
Notes: Note taking & writing#3

Notes: Note taking & writing by Lutech-DN

Good quick notes & planner
Worth Considering
📊 Productivity
0.0(0 ratings)
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.

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FAQ about Stylus Notes

What are the best stylus notes apps for iPhone?
Stylus Labs Write tops our stylus notes apps ranking as of August 2026, with a 4.8-star average from 295 App Store ratings, and it's free to download.
Yes — 19 of the top stylus notes apps we rank are free to download, including Stylus Labs Write and Microsoft OneNote.
Stylus Labs Write has no ads and offers in-app purchases, according to its App Store listing as of August 2026.
We track 242+ stylus notes apps on the iOS App Store as of August 2026, ranked by rating, recency, and analysis of real user reviews.
Stylus Labs Write is a powerful application designed for managing and editing handwritten notes and documents. It provides a unique set of tools for intelligent selection, text reflowing, and creating interactive elements like links and bookmarks within your handwriting. It also includes standard drawing and note-taking features.
Key features include intelligent tools for selecting, erasing, and moving handwriting, a tool to reflow text by inserting space, the ability to create handwritten links to bookmarks and websites, and the option to save clippings for easy pasting. It also offers unlimited undo/redo and a split view for working on multiple documents or parts of a document simultaneously.