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Element Note 4+
Handwriting Note & PDF Markup
Soysauce Lab
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Element Note is the next-gen note taking, PDF annotation, and light sketching app. We stripped down the unnecessaries and carefully polished the elemental functions for a digital notebook. With a modern look and powerful features, Element Note strives to provide an elegant writing space free of distractions.
Features:
Unique brushes
- Pencil (HB Pencil, Mechanical Pencil)
- Pen (Pen, Line Pen, Fountain Pen)
- Brush (Art Brush, Round Brush)
- Marker (Marker, Round Marker)
Best-in-class note rendering engine
- Smooth and fluid drawing powered by Metal technology
- Support gradient ink for more expressive notes
Powerful attachments
- Text
- Shape
- Sticker
- Image
Universal Search
- Search through your PDF & Handwritting using on device OCR
Smart Darkmode
- Smartly adapts all of your notes to the system darkmode without changing the paper or stroke colors.
iCloud Sync & Collaboration
- Sync via your personal iCloud (No data is passed to our server)
- Collaborate through iCloud collaboration for up to 100 users.
Desktop class organization
- Intuitive multi-select drag and drop gesture to organize your notes or pages
Element Note is free to try for up to 3 notes.
Unlock the full app with an in app purchase to create unlimited notes.
Terms and Conditions
https://elementnote.app/terms
Privacy Policy
https://elementnote.app/privacy
What’s New
Version 2.3.1
* Add tags support
* Performance and UI tweaks
* Fix long hold sensitivity for drawing smaller object
* Fix app freezing issue introduced at 2.3.0
Ratings and Reviews
Thoroughly Excellent
This is by far my favorite note-taking app I have used thus far for my iPad Pro. It is one of the only ones that even has (customizable) pen stabilization which put it at the top all by itself. All the UI is easy to navigate. My single gripe with Element Note so far has been the hyperlinking feature. Having found a variety of templates online to import into the app, a lot of them have hyperlinked tabs and dates to bring you to a certain location within the notebook; the problem is the buttons only work correctly about 10% of the time. For example, I will click the “July” tab, and it will bring me to the monthly overview of July. After scrolling away from that page, I click the “July” tab again, but this time it brings me to some random date in September. From that point on the hyperlinks do not bring me to the desired location within the notebook. Happens on every template I try it with. Would love a fix for this!
Amazing handwriting
For context I’m a student and take all my notes on iPad. So far, none of the typical note taking apps have really satisfied me at all, until I found this app.
This app has the best handwriting I’ve ever seen from the various note taking apps for iPad. My handwriting is so clear that I don’t need OCR to clean it up. It feels telepathic how well the words turn out the first try, I can finally just focus on writing and not worry about aesthetics. That said, this app is missing features that I consider essential for my needs as a student. OCR, audio recording, auto shape lines, and those other nice to have features are absent. It’s unclear whether they will be added later although I hope they are. I’d personally love to see these features added or the ability to import my element notes to nebo and use their OCR and miscellaneous functions. I hope the developer considers the latter option as I could see it being a huge advantage over other apps.
Amazing app!
I got this app mostly for the variety of pens and aesthetic design. I love all the variations and ability to note take very easily. Everything is easy to navigate and it’s my new favorite handwriting note taking app. However since this app is still new, I am excited for the future features they will add! I also especially love the one time payment! It’s one of the main reasons I got it! I really didnt want a subscription and this was perfect!
Additions that could be helpful:
- I would like if this app could please keep the page background color when exporting with Dark Mode rather than switch everything to light mode when exporting.
-More importantly: when i download a large pdf to take notes on it, it take a second for what I write to show up on the screen, which is reasonable. However, on other programs it does not lag. If this could be fixed I would really appreciate it.
App Privacy
The developer, Soysauce Lab, 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
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Soysauce Lab
- Size
- 66.8 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Soysauce Lab
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Lifetime $9.99
- Element Note Yearly $3.49
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.