Notewise - Note-Taking & PDF

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4.3
16.3K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
PEGI 3
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About this app

🏆 Google Play's Best of 2024 Winner! 🏆 Unlock the power of note-taking with Notewise on Android! Notewise brings an iPad-like experience to your Android device, combining creativity and productivity in a seamless app. It's perfect for capturing ideas, sketching on a freeform canvas, organizing your thoughts, or annotating PDFs. Designed for students, professionals, and creatives, it enables effective note-taking, collaboration, and organization.

Next Level Handwriting and Note-Taking Experience
• Experience natural, iPad-like handwriting with low-latency responsiveness.
• Write effortlessly with your finger or stylus, featuring palm rejection for smooth note-taking.
• Customize pens, highlighters, and line styles, with pressure sensitivity for precise control.
• Use Notewise as your digital notebook or canvas, ideal for creative and professional projects. GoodNotes® and Notability® users will find the handwriting feel very familiar.

Collaborate, Sync, and Share Notes
• Collaborate in real-time; perfect for brainstorming.
• Sync your notes across Android, iOS, and web with Notewise Cloud.
• Share your note-taking creations via URLs, QR codes, or export them as PDFs, images, or Notewise files.
• Offline work with automatic syncing.

Powerful Tools to Enhance Your Notes
• Import PDFs of any size for annotation – a key feature for those used to GoodNotes® or Notability®.
• Lasso tool to move, crop, or resize your content on the canvas.
• Add shapes, text boxes, and images.
• Pre-made templates, including grids and blank canvases. This enhances the note-taking power.

Organize Your Notes Like a Pro
• Unlimited folders to organize work, memos, and plans.
• Duplicate, reorder, or merge pages.
• Personalize folders with colors and labels. Manage all your important notes.

Advanced PDF Annotation
• Annotate PDFs with highlighters, text, or signatures.
• Reorganize, duplicate, or resize pages within your PDFs.
• Open external links from annotated PDFs.

AI-Powered Note-Taking Tools
• Hold to Draw Shapes: Create perfect shapes with AI.
• Handwriting-to-Text Conversion. All these helps with capturing notes efficiently.

Your Digital Freeform Canvas
• Combine handwriting, images, and text on a limitless canvas.
• Journal, sketch, or brainstorm freely.
• Creative note-taking with endless possibilities.

Your Notes, Your Way: Flexible Payment Options
• Notewise offers both one-time purchase and subscription options, giving you control. While apps like GoodNotes® and, to an extent, Notability®, focus on subscriptions, we offer choices.

Your Notes, Anytime, Anywhere
• Fully optimized for Android: phones, tablets.
• Perfect for journaling, organizing PDFs, brainstorming on a freeform canvas, or managing your notes with ease. A complete note-taking solution.
• Features familiar to GoodNotes® and Notability® users, plus flexible payment.

Make the Switch to Notewise! Experience Notewise: power, flexibility, and features you love, with payment options in your control, unlike the more rigid approach of primarily subscription-based services. Perfect if you are looking for an alternative to GoodNotes® or Notability® on Android. Your effective note-taking journey starts here. Capture, create, and organize your notes effortlessly.

Download Notewise for Free Today!
Updated on
Apr 24, 2025
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Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Personal info
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.0
4.79K reviews
Dazzletoad
December 31, 2023
Gave this app 1 star because of an annoying paste popup issue. Developers responded quickly and now I will buy the app 🤭 I only rate it 3 stars however, because I dislike like begging and the app has a messy and unintuitive layout, which really should be polished because functionality-wise, it's actually pretty good. The lined paper could use a margin and a thicker white band, and a blue graph paper template would be useful, unless we can import them. Thank you to the developers for responding.
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Notewise
December 31, 2023
Dear user, please refer to our FAQ at https://notewise.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/150000168602-how-to-fix-paste-option-keeps-appearing on how to turn off the paste option. If this is helpful, do leave us a 5-star review as an encouragement to the team!
Roberto
April 26, 2025
overall, this is the best notes app for studies that i have found. but some extra features would still be nice. edit: when splitting screens on the same file the app will not save that file in real time so it seems it will pick randomly between the two instances to save from once you exit the file. furthermore all editing history is erased aswell once closing so no undo. got a paper due Sunday and hours of my work was just erased because of this nonsense. DO NOT USE FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
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Madison H
April 1, 2025
I was looking for an app to plan and have notes for my new book, And I was gonna settle with just a normal notes app but THIS is amazing!! it's super visual, you can add images and texts and drawings to have a better visual for your notes, and it isn't just for writing or whatever. it's great for things like- planning a book, party, presentation, ect because you have All the visuals there! definitely recommend.
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What’s new

• Snap to align: achieve pixel-perfect drawings with ease.
• Supports a new freeform polygon shape.
• Supports more flexibility for curve shape.
• Supports manual ruler angle control.
• Supports configuring tabs to close automatically.
• General bug fixes and performance improvements.