Notewise - Note-Taking & PDF

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4.3
16.2K reviews
1M+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

šŸ† Google Play's Best of 2024 Winner! šŸ† 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. GoodNotesĀ® and NotabilityĀ® 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 GoodNotesĀ® or NotabilityĀ®.
• 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 GoodNotesĀ® and, to an extent, NotabilityĀ®, 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 GoodNotesĀ® and NotabilityĀ® 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 GoodNotesĀ® or NotabilityĀ® 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
4.78K reviews
Madison H
1 April 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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Audra Moore
9 January 2025
**Please add the ability to change scroll direction.** I recently downloaded Notewise onto my Samsung tablet for digital planning & journaling purposes. I love the functionality and customization, but I have one major issue with it. You can only scroll endlessly in the vertical direction. Every other app I've tried (Goodnotes, Samsung Notes) you can change between vertical and horizontal scrolling. I would like to scroll through my notes like a book. Adding this feature would be 5 star!
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Anthony Silva
23 November 2024
Honestly the best productivity app ever! I was using MS Word for client notes and Google Drive for client docs. Notewise fixed that! There's no lag when marking up PDFs like there is in other apps. Additions I'd love to see: 1. Ability to copy folders. 2. Ability to insert calendar reminder. 3. Ability to save a PDF from my laptop directly to a specific Notewise folder, or ability to "print PDF" to Notewise. 4. Windows desktop app. 5. Ability to share specific folders with other Notewise-ers.
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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.