OrigNotes is a professional digital handwriting note-taking app designed for iPad and iPhone.
It helps you create, organize, and manage high-quality handwritten notes with ease, including handwriting, drawing, image insertion, and PDF annotation.
We are committed to keeping the app completely free to use.
If you enjoy using OrigNotes, we would truly appreciate a 5-star rating. Your support means a lot to us and motivates us to keep improving the app. Thank you very much!
If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to leave a comment in the review section or contact us directly through the app.
To help you better understand where the product is heading, we have also added a Future Version Plan inside the app.
You can check what features we are currently working on and follow the development progress at any time.
We will continue to improve every detail and work hard to build a note-taking app that is truly useful, free, and worth using for the long term.
Key Features:
- Supports handwritten notes, drawing, image insertion, and PDF annotation
- Quickly organize and search documents, with customizable or rule-based sorting for easy access
- Freely customize note covers and paper styles to create your own personal note-taking experience
- Multiple themes available to bring different visual styles and user experiences
- Unique palm rejection and writing settings, so your fingers and Apple Pencil each work as intended
- A variety of brushes and tools to support different writing and creative needs
- Optimized writing performance for a smoother and more natural handwriting experience
- Supports more writing styles with flexible pen case management
- Add bookmarks to important pages for faster access later
- Multiple backup options to better protect your data
- Cloud sync support for faster and more convenient collaboration across devices
OrigNotes is a free, simple, and easy-to-use handwriting note app that helps you create and manage large amounts of handwritten content on mobile devices.
Whether for study, work, or daily idea capture, it helps you stay organized, improve productivity, and focus on what matters most.
I’ve been using this notebook app for school and work, and I literally cannot get over how perfect it is. As an app that’s completely free, I expected to be bogged down with pop up or banner ads, to reach a notebook capacity, or something else that I encounter on every app, but this one has… none of those. It truly amazed me when I first started using it, and it’s exactly what I needed. Seriously, the only recommendation I would give is the ability to upload your own notebook cover photos. But it’s so amazing, that’s literally my only complaint. Keep doing what you do, because it’s so wonderful!
Developer Response
Thank you for your support and feedback. You can customize the cover and paper template. Please configure it in Settings - Cover and Paper.
App accessed my private PDFs that were elsewhere on my iPad, not linked to this app.
specialappssk
I did NOT agree to the privacy policy that popped up- it had links to 3rd party SDKs entirely in Chinese for example (how can I agree to something I can’t read?) BUT when I went to DELETE the app immediately after reviewing these policies, it instead showed a preview of all my documents in the app. Somehow without granting any permission whatsoever, the app read my private PDFs that I have generated elsewhere on my iPad, from years ago, and placed them within their app. I never gave access to any of my data through this app, because after I read their privacy policy I did NOT AGREE, and I immediately took steps to remove the app from my device. This serves as notice that this developer/company must remove and delete any data gleaned or viewed through the installation and opening of this app, as I did NOT agree to the privacy policy and I did NOT grant permission for that data to be used.
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback. We strictly adhere to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. Regarding third-party SDK agreements: these are provided by the third-party platforms themselves and cannot be modified by us. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.Concerning the ability for OrigNotes to access PDF files: this functionality is part of Apple's system rules. If an app can open PDF files, a long-press on it within the system may trigger a quick action menu to help users select PDFs. This is a system-level feature provided by Apple, not a function built into our app.We appreciate your feedback and understanding.
A little fix
planderlinde
So I switched to this app right after the other app ‘Collanotes” started crashing. They said they were gonna fix it but the update hasn’t come. And my exam is in less than few days so I can’t have that disadvantage. With that being said OrigNotes is amazing so far. My only complain is that your “dark color” does not work properly. For example, I used you dark paper to write paragraphs with white pen. But when I share my pdf, my friends aren’t able to see my paragraphs because apparently, dark background just becomes white when I share it on my text message. So o encourage that you guys fix that. And thank you for this amazing app!
It’s practically perfection.
OddityTheAlienOddball
I really do love it, it’s practically a perfect notes app. It’s still a little buggy but it’s not bad. I do however wish there were more types of pens or materials to write with, like an airbrush or like pastels (low-key), but that’s just a want. Oh, and washi tape. I wish there was that, but I’m pretty sure I could definitely manage to make that on my own, being that this app has allowed me to be very customizeable within it. But there is this weird glitch where it zooms in on itself and the like notebooks themselves have doubled for some reason after the update.
1.8.5 Update Log:
Fix BUG:
1. Fix the problem that adding links may disappear in continuous mode
2. Fix the problem that the data is returned and restored after eraser erasing
Version 1.8.5
The developer, Hangzhou Future Writing Technology Co.,LTD., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Diagnostics
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Accessibility
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Information
Seller
Hangzhou Future Writing Technology Co.,LTD.
Size
84.4 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
