New content-planning templates for creators — social feeds/stories, short-form and long-form video, and more.
UnivNote — A Fast PDF Note-Taking App for Students
Annotate textbooks, lecture slides, and research papers directly with iPad and Apple Pencil. Instead of piling on complex features, we polished the actions students use every day — pen, highlighter, lasso, copy, paste, add page.
▶ What Makes It Different
· Lasso → Instant Action Popup
Lasso a stroke and Copy / Cut / Duplicate / Delete buttons appear right away. One tap and done. No long-press menus or hunting through options like other note apps.
· 4-Direction PDF Page Margins
When a textbook leaves no room at the edges, expand the page top, bottom, left, or right — right inside the app, no external tools. Write freely in the new space.
▶ Key Features
· Pen / Highlighter / Eraser — many sizes and colors, smooth curve rendering
· Lasso Selection — move, resize, and rotate strokes in one gesture
· Image Paste — drop in photos and screenshots, then rotate or crop
· Text Box — type with font, size, and color control
· Page Manager — add, delete, duplicate, rotate, flip, multi-select pages
· Sidebar Search — unified search across PDF text and text boxes
· Folder Library — Notability-style folders with color tags
· iCloud Sync — same notes on every device
· Localized — 한국어 / English / 日本語 / 简体中文 / Español / Deutsch / Français
▶ Pricing
· Every feature is free
· No ads, no subscriptions
· Want to chip in? Pick up the optional "Early Supporter Pack" (one-time purchase)
▶ Privacy
· No data is sent to third parties
· Notes live on your device or your own iCloud only
· Only standard Apple diagnostics (crash reports) are collected locally
▶ Recommended Setup
· iPad (Apple Pencil recommended)
· iPadOS 17 or later
· Optimized for both 13" and 11" iPad Pro / Air
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Features
- Fountain pen — pressure-driven thickness, tilt multiplier, calligraphy nib direction, smooth start/end tapering, 1€ filter for clean jitter cleanup. A separate line style alongside the solid pen.
- 11 new designer templates — Negotiation (Prep Sheet → Goals & Standards → After-Action Review) and Creator (Weekly Content Calendar plus 7 planning sheets covering social feeds/stories, short-form video, long-form video, and microblog posts). Two new categories.
- Reorder folders freely — long-press a folder in the library sidebar and drag it to a new position. A horizontal indicator shows the insertion point.
- Word-aware highlighter — long-press and drag on PDF text to highlight aligned to word boundaries.
- Text selection menu — Look Up as an in-place popover, plus Translate and Pause / Resume for spoken text.
- Library folder navigation persists — the app reopens to the folder you were last in.
Fixes
- Lasso pinch outside the selection — two-finger pinch outside the visible lasso path used to scale the selection unintentionally. Now scaling is restricted to inside the visible path.
- Text mode pencil tap on empty area — selection now properly clears.
- Folder navigation race — currentFolderID was lost on a transient fetchAllFolders failure.
- Note title banner — now hides immediately when content reaches the top of page 1.
Localization
- 11 new template strings + 2 section headers (Negotiation / Creator) added in 6 languages (English / German / Spanish / French / Japanese / Simplified Chinese).
Version 1.9
The developer, Jeonghwan Ryu, 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 Collected
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