Noteful is your one-stop note-taking app to experience the new paperless revolution on iPad.
Perfect for annotating documents, taking class notes or even building your personal knowledge system. It is time to put aside the paper clutter, as Noteful is a versatile tool that helps you to accelerate your learning and knowledge work.
Take Beautiful Handwritten Notes
• Natural, fluid and precise handwriting experience
• Precise handwriting on iPad with Apple Pencil native support
• Custom-built ink engine InfiniteStroke that captures and converts your strokes into high-resolution vector ink
• 3 brushes available: ballpoint pen, fountain pen and highlighter
• Switch between pen sizes and colours
• Recognise geometrical shapes
Markup, Highlight, Annotate
• Import PDFs, MS Office documents to a notebook
• Add images, shapes and typed text to notes
• Use multiple paper templates in a single notebook
• Export and share handwritten annotations as PDF
• Use Quick Create to create a new notebook for quick sketching
Powerful Tagging
• Organise quickly by tagging with #tag or even #nested/tag anywhere in notebooks
• More flexible than folders; Notes can be organised by subjects, by topics or by priorities
• Browse notebooks or pages by tags
• Rename, delete or re-assign tags to easily re-organise your library
Layers in Notebook
• Add annotation on separate layers without changing original content*
• Hide or show layers independently
• Rearrange layers
• Make it possible to composite complex layout*
All Your Notes, All the Time
• Sync to all your iPhone and iPad devices*
• Take textbooks, slides, handwritten notes and PDF documents with you wherever you go
• Notebooks synced with iCloud are encrypted via account-based keys
Powerful Editing
• Erase strokes with eraser
• Double tap on Apple Pencil to switch to eraser tool
• Move and resize annotations with lasso tool
• Unlimited undo, redo
• Support Split View for multitasking
Audio Record Notes
• Record audio while you take notes
• Audio playback position synced with the notes
Modern App Design
• A minimalist UI that maximizes content space
• Streamlined design that requires fewer taps for common functions
• Different orientations are available for the main toolbar
• A clean UI that lets you focus on note-taking and the content
We will be adding new features so please stay tuned for future updates.
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Noteful is free to use without time limit but with certain features (marked with*) only available to users who upgrade to Noteful Pro via In-app purchase.
Noteful Pro is available for one-time purchase and the features will be unlocked forever.
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If you have support questions or product suggestions, please contact us by support.
Wishing you happy note-taking!
Customer Support: support@getnoteful.com
Privacy Policy: https://www.getnoteful.com/privacy
Thank you so much devs for creating a wonderful app! The one-time purchase is so much more worth it than the more expensive subscription that other apps ask for! Even the free version has a lot to offer-- this is such an insanely underrated app!! I make sure to recommend it to all my friends over goodn0tes or n0tability I love how customisable the UI toolbar is, and the pen stabiliser feature is the best! It makes my handwritten notes look so much neaterA few suggestions:Please, please add an infinite canvas format! As someone that uses mindmaps to study this is a really important featureThe available page designs/formats are really limited compared to every other app. A community marketplace can be added for us to download pages designed by usersMake adding text easier. Could follow the text format of Apple Notes, where text is added separately and not as a textbox, to better combine handwritten and typed notes, since many people tend to use both note-taking methodsThank you again for a great app! I hope the feedback of the users can be taken into account for future updates! <3
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Keira LZ777
The app is definitely more productive and useful than other note taking applications I know since it does not constantly remind me to subscribe and the choice for using Noteful for free still has many things that can be applied. For example, the grid paper comes with many different sizes although things like the music templates are locked. This app is definitely recommended to y’all and it’s colours are very wonderful too!
Feedback
Henxhn
All round good notetaking app with simple and user friendly features! Just a suggestion to add a function to search for words across all documents, because currently we can only search for document titles or words within a specific document. This makes it much more convenient to search for documents without remembering where it is, by searching for keywords we want to locate within a document. I believe this will make it even better like other notetaking apps (e.g. goodnotes) ! Thank you
Suggestion for endless canvas in the future
Ayakane Aki
This is a great alternative for Goodnotes. It’s affordable and has nearly the same functions as any other productivity app in the market. Smooth writing experience. Great templates if you bought the Pro version. An almost solid app. Things that you never see ( or at least, I’ve thought off) is the tape function for those who wants to memorise words. I use this for learning korean vocabulary. What I sincerely hope for future updates is an option for an endless canvas.
- New: Lock images to prevent accidental movement.
- New: Options to change folder sorting in the document library.
- Changed: Reverted to the system font picker to improve reliability with custom fonts (e.g., missing fonts or incorrect names). While this may feel like a step back in usability, it ensures the most consistent behavior given iOS system constraints.
- Fixed an issue where image flipping did not work properly on images without a mask.
- Fixed an issue from the previous version where text boxes could be clipped while typing with some IMEs (e.g., Japanese and Chinese).
- Fixed an issue where the Hand Tool’s fullscreen mode had an incorrect layout when the main toolbar was positioned on the right.
- Added 0.38 mm pen size.
- Minor localization and UI tweaks.
Version 1.4.36
The developer, Noteful Technologies 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 .
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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Information
Provider
Noteful Technologies Ltd
Size
164.5 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 14.3 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 14.3 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 14.3 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 14.3 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese