Bring ideas to life with Notebook. Write notes, add files, create to-dos, sketch ideas, record audio, capture moments and more. Notebook instantly syncs across your devices and to the cloud.
NOTES, TO-DOS, FILES
- Start a note with text, then add images, sketches, checklists, or audio — all in the same note
- Add PDFs, Word docs, spreadsheets and more with file cards
- Get stuff done with dedicated checklist cards
- Record ideas, meetings, and lectures with audio cards
- Capture moments with photo cards
- Scan business cards, documents, and more
- Film your thoughts and lectures with video cards
- Handwrite with Apple Pencil
BOOKMARKS
- Save articles, videos, recipes, and how-tos — Notebook formats them as beautiful Smart Cards
- Read articles offline and ad-free
NESTED COLLECTIONS
- Group notes into nested collections to find them fast
VIDEO CARD
- Record screen and self simultaneously
- Add chapters to longer videos for easy navigation
- Share videos with a public link
JOURNALING SUGGESTIONS
- Personalized journaling prompts based on your activity, to build the habit
TAKE NOTEBOOK ANYWHERE
- All your notes sync across devices and to the cloud
- Work offline, pick up on another device when reconnected
QUICK SEARCH
- Search by title, content, tags, collaborators, or notebook
- Filter by type — text, checklist, photo, audio, video, sketch, file, contact, or link
- Find text inside photos and handwritten notes with OCR
- Search inside a single note to jump to a phrase
- Sort by date or relevance, with auto-suggestions and recent searches
- Works offline and across multiple languages
- Previews of locked notes stay hidden until you unlock them
COLLABORATE REAL-TIME
- @mention to share and collaborate with peers, friends and colleagues
- Create Public Notes with shareable links
PERFECT NOTEBOOK FOR iOS
- Text-search your audio notes
- Share notes via iMessage
- Use Siri to dictate text and checklist notes and search for photo notes
- Get to recent notes from the Notification Bar
- SharePlay your notes during a call
MORE PRODUCTIVE ON iPAD
- Drag and drop, split view, slide over, multiple windows, and stage manager
- Handwrite and sketch with Apple Pencil
ON APPLE WATCH
- Record audio notes, scribble new notes, check off lists, and create photo notes from your wrist
- Use Watch Face complications to record audio in one tap
NOTEBOOK FOR EDUCATION
- Submit assessments on time, record lectures and search the transcript later, scan textbooks
NOTEBOOK PRO
- More storage, longer notes, larger file attachments
- Email-In to save emails as notes
- Premium notebook covers
- Custom recurring reminders
NOTEBOOK AI (ADD-ON)
AI MEETING NOTES
- Transcribe meetings, lectures, and voice notes into searchable text
- Jump to the moment with timestamps — no replaying long recordings
- Get structured meeting minutes — title, participants, decisions, and action points
- Transcripts live inside your notes, alongside your highlights and follow-ups
- More at zoho.com/notebook/ai-transcription
AI MIND MAPS
- Turn long notes or a meeting transcript into a clean visual mind map
- Spot connections, plan next steps, and structure complex ideas
- Great for revision, project planning, and brainstorming
WRITING ASSISTANT
- Summarize long notes and simplify language
- Improve grammar and refine tone — Casual, Professional, Friendly, Direct, or Confident
- Translate notes into any language
- Write a note, create a checklist, write code, build a table, or apply a template from a single prompt
- Ask anything across your notes with conversational AI
- Get tag suggestions automatically
See all Notebook AI features at zoho.com/notebook/ai
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I rarely do reviews, but I can honestly say that I have been in love with this app for several years now. It has every feature, well, except one I can think of, that I, personally, could ask for in an app like this! I love the tagging, the customization (personal wallpapers for folder), the easy PDF converter/sharing, the easy app integration with other apps…the list goes on. The only feature I would like, and to be honest, I don’t even think you can do it with any app other than the ones that come in the phone (maybe not), is when you search for something on the main screen of your actual phone it doesn’t seem to search through the app. I was looking for some information I know I had saved the other day, but I could not recall where I had saved it. I had to open the app and search within here to find it. Frustrating because I almost gave up thinking maybe I didn’t save the information in the first place. I thought apps used to be able to do this without having to open them, but I can’t recall anything anymore. Again, maybe I’m doing something wrong, but it’s not the worst thing. All the other features out surpass that one negative thing in my opinion. Totally worth, at the very least, checking out!!
Developer Response
Thank you for sharing us a positive review. We're glad to know that you like the app. Regarding the search option, we request you to try using the option 'Show more notes; which will use our server search with better results.
Please fix the text to type — It’s unusable
MJDmel
I don’t want to leave a negative review because I don’t think that’s constructive, but as a longtime user (~5 years), I would appreciate a few fixes. First, the type to text feature is unusable. I can’t see a way I can simply write, which makes this app one I won’t use much now because I like the tactile feel of writing notebooks. Until the text to type feature is actually working, there should be a way to simply write. And actually, I think there should always be a way to write. Am I missing it? Also. There should be stationary for writing — storyboard/legal, dots, regular lined paper, along with the existing blank paper. As for the text to type, it turns text to type long before it’s given me a chance to finish writing a word. It will do this after I write ‘I’ for ‘if’ or ‘o’ for ‘of’. It wont convert a handwritten ‘a’ to anything but ‘A’. But the biggest problem that makes it unusable is what happens when you reach the end of the typewritten line. It doesn’t matter where you write, it will take whatever you write and insert it into the middle of other words. It means that you spend your time at the end of every sentence trying to type enough words so you can write a few words again until you have to type again or give up on the project when you realize you’ve spent more time correcting than writing, have lost an important flow needed to write, and still have a document riddled with typos. It’s still a great app. Please fix this! It would be fantastic if it worked! 👌
Developer Response
Hi, We appreciate your review, and sorry that you have to go through such issues, especially when writing in a note. We are keen to have this briefly checked and analyzed and get it fixed for you. Request you to share a screen recording of this behaviour and send it to support@zohonotebook.com. We shall look into it ASAP.
This is amazing! But it just needs a few more!
Blue Doodlez
I’ve downloaded a bunch of journaling apps and I absolutely love this one for notes too. I love the interface and the organization of it. I like to write down all my thoughts because I don’t have the friends to share them with. Despite the amazing appeal of it, there isn’t much you can do when it comes to writing. You’re not able to change the font of certain areas or highlight anything. I love being able to add audios and be able to draw but when it comes to the scribbling part, you’re making a separate photo rather than actually drawing on the notes that you wrote. What I think would make this app be one of the best note taking apps if they were able to add the ability to highlight text, change fonts, change the color of text, and be able to draw ON the text. It really upsets me that I’m other apps I’m required to pay them even though I can just do the same thing for free on an art program and also do the same exact thing easily for free with a real notebook and some pens, or on google docs we’re able to highlight and change the colors and all that. This addition would especially be helpful for me and many others during the pandemic since most of us are online learners.
Very good. 👍👍
Krug j.
Has been a good note taking app, but was always a bit glitchy when navigating a work in progress. This seems to have improved just lately though. Has some nice features, which work very well. This is why I’ve continued using it over some others. Lately though a number of app makers are going the way of some other greedy app developers by changing to subscription’s. Subscriptions are for magazines, who have totally new content every month. "Most apps don’t." I’ve never had a subscription app, and I never will. I will pay a fair one time price, for a good, and well supported app… I’ve now been informed that everything with the current non subscription plan will remain the same as it was, and you can still write notes up to 30MB, Upload files of a size up to 100MB, Get 24x5 support via Email, Community forum and access to the NB knowledge base, Get Complete offline access to your notes, Rollback to any of the past 10 versions of any notecard, Setup recurring reminders to your notecard, Lock your notes, Private Share and much more… So from the response that I and others have received, I’ve gathered that they are assuring us that we will continue to have all the same features and great support we’ve become accustomed to.
Developer Response
Hi Krug J, We can understand how you feel about the app. The free version of the app would still remain same and we've not compromised any features we provide you on free for a paid plan. We're not going to change the whole app to a paid one. You get to use all the existing features on the app with the same free version. It's just that you have to go for a paid plan for extended features and services we offer you. You can still write notes, Upload files, Get support, Set up Recurring Reminders, Get Offline access to notes, Lock them and much more. And we can assure you that we odder you best features in free version as well as in paid when compared to other competitors. We can still compete with any free app with the features we provide. We hope you understand our concept and reconsider your rating.
You can now import and export notes in Markdown and HTML formats directly in Zoho Notebook.
- Import any .md or .html file into the app instantly, or export your notes in either format to use them anywhere else.
- Whether you're migrating from another tool or just want your notes in a portable, widely supported format, it's now seamless.
Version 6.8.37
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