Notein:Handwriting Notes & PDF

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About this app

Handwriting notes, PDF annotation, and an AI study assistant — built for Android tablets and styluses. Highlighted at Google I/O 2025.

Notein is the note-taking app for students, teachers, and professionals who think with a pen: take handwritten notes, mark up lecture slides and textbooks, record the lecture, then let AI turn it all into summaries, quizzes, and graded practice.

🖊️ Handwriting That Feels Like Paper
Ultra-low latency ink with pressure sensitivity, tuned for S Pen and other active styluses. Fountain pen, ballpoint, pencil, highlighter, calligraphy pen, tape, laser, and 22 auto-recognized shapes. Ruler, layers, and 20 favorite pen presets.

🔍 Search Your Handwriting
Find any word in your handwritten notes, PDFs, text boxes, and tables. Recognition runs on your device — free, private, no upload.

📄 Import & Annotate PDFs, Word & PowerPoint
Import PDFs, Word, and PowerPoint files, images, or scan paper documents with your camera. Highlight, underline, strike through, add notes, and draw right on the page. Add pages from other PDFs, rotate, reorder, and split into new notebooks. Tap any word for an instant dictionary, or translate selected text in 30+ languages — on device.

🎙️ Record Lectures, Synced to Your Notes
Record while you write. Tap any handwriting to jump to that moment in the recording. Adjust playback speed, skip 15 seconds, or loop a segment for review.

🤖 AI Study Assistant (Notein Pro)
AI features are available in supported regions.
Summaries:
Key points, highlights, and terms — each linked to the page it came from.

Auto Outlines:
Turn any document into a structured, page-linked outline.

Circle to Ask:
Draw around anything on the page and ask AI to explain it, extract the text, or solve it.

Quizzes:
Generate multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short-answer questions from any chapter. Answer by hand or keyboard and get instant checking with explanations.

Grading:
Have a completed exam graded question by question, with handwriting transcription and worked answers.

Mistake Book:
Wrong answers are collected automatically and cleared once you master them.

Handwriting to Text:
Lasso any handwriting and convert it to editable text. Answers in your language: choose from 16 output languages.

🧠 Organize Your Way
Notebooks, nested folders with color and photo covers, labels, favorites, and pinning. Link pages with hyperlinks, connect two notebooks with bidirectional links, and build study guides or a personal knowledge base. Add editable tables for comparing topics or collecting mistakes. Write on classic paper sizes or an infinite canvas.

📐 Templates & Paper
Cornell notes, vocabulary books, mistake collections, memory-curve review, daily/weekly/monthly planners, meeting notes, music sheets, and more. Save your own templates, import custom fonts, and choose from 50+ covers and sticker packs.

⏱️ Stay Focused
A built-in countdown, stopwatch, and Pomodoro timer on the editing page — for timed practice and revision sessions.

☁️ Sync, Back Up & Lock
Sync across devices with Google Drive or OneDrive, with automatic cloud backup and version restore. Keep a local backup anytime. Lock private notebooks with your fingerprint.

📱 Made for Android
Split-screen and multi-window, tabs for switching between notebooks, and a customizable toolbar. On Android 14+, set Notein as your default notes app and start a note straight from the lock screen or your stylus button. Export as PDF or JPEG, or share the native file to another device.

Free to start, with optional paid upgrades. See the app for current plans and included features.

Don't just take notes. Create, explore, and think freely with tools designed for your Android tablet and stylus. Download Notein today and bring your ideas to life.
Handwritten notes, PDF annotation & AI study tools for your Android tablet.
Updated on
Nov 3, 2026
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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.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Location, Personal info and 5 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

13.4K reviews
Emily Colbourne
October 14, 2026
not a fan of the new layout at all, all my muscle memory is gone out the window and scrolling to get my colors for different pens in a pain it was much more convenient to have it all there. been using the app for 3 years and loved it
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ORION STUDIO PTE. LTD
October 15, 2026
I totally get how frustrating it is when a layout changes after years of muscle memory, especially with the pen colors. We appreciate you sharing this. You can actually customize the toolbar or use Pen Favorites to keep your most-used pens and colors right where you need them for quick access!
Navjot Singh
November 1, 2026
After the new update, whenever u take a snip from somewhere and place it to another place, it shows a rectangular outline around the snip that u have taken along with the place from where it was taken. It is so irritating. I think you should remove that thing, basically its the bidi link. There is no option to turn it on/off which is very dissapointing. Try to give that feature back in the next update. Not every snip needs a bidi link😕
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Aiman Syed
October 23, 2026
Hello, this app is generally great, but I have a serious issue. I created around 100 notes, and after the recent update, they are all ruined. The fonts and font sizes I customized have been completely reset to default, which makes all my notes look messed up😭😭. I would appreciate it if you could fix this or help me restore my formatting. Thank you!
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What’s new

New
• Ruler: angles, cm/in, two-point lines.
• Scribble erase and 6 tape patterns.
• Sidebar file tree: expand folders to browse notes.
• One-tap export of annotated pages.
Improved
• Easier copy/cut; hide bidirectional link markers.
• Adjustable laser duration; trails follow page zoom/scroll.
• Pen width adjustment.
Fixed
• Ink misalignment in PDF exports after adding margins.
• Image drag/crop and S Pen temporary eraser.
• Translations and other known issues.