Notewise - Note-Taking & PDF

In-app purchases
4.1
17.3K reviews
1M+
Downloads
Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

🏆 Google Play's Best of 2024 Winner! 🏆 Unlock the power of note-taking with Notewise on Android! Notewise brings an iPad-like experience to your Android device, combining creativity and productivity in a seamless app. It's perfect for capturing ideas, sketching on a freeform canvas, organizing your thoughts, or annotating PDFs. Designed for students, professionals, and creatives, it enables effective note-taking, collaboration, and organization.

Next Level Handwriting and Note-Taking Experience
• Experience natural, iPad-like handwriting with low-latency responsiveness.
• Write effortlessly with your finger or stylus, featuring palm rejection for smooth note-taking.
• Customize pens, highlighters, and line styles, with pressure sensitivity for precise control.
• Use Notewise as your digital notebook or canvas, ideal for creative and professional projects. GoodNotes® and Notability® users will find the handwriting feel very familiar.

Collaborate, Sync, and Share Notes
• Collaborate in real-time; perfect for brainstorming.
• Sync your notes across Android, iOS, and web with Notewise Cloud.
• Share your note-taking creations via URLs, QR codes, or export them as PDFs, images, or Notewise files.
• Offline work with automatic syncing.

Powerful Tools to Enhance Your Notes
• Import PDFs of any size for annotation – a key feature for those used to GoodNotes® or Notability®.
• Lasso tool to move, crop, or resize your content on the canvas.
• Add shapes, text boxes, and images.
• Pre-made templates, including grids and blank canvases. This enhances the note-taking power.

Organize Your Notes Like a Pro
• Unlimited folders to organize work, memos, and plans.
• Duplicate, reorder, or merge pages.
• Personalize folders with colors and labels. Manage all your important notes.

Advanced PDF Annotation
• Annotate PDFs with highlighters, text, or signatures.
• Reorganize, duplicate, or resize pages within your PDFs.
• Open external links from annotated PDFs.

AI-Powered Note-Taking Tools
• Hold to Draw Shapes: Create perfect shapes with AI.
• Handwriting-to-Text Conversion. All these helps with capturing notes efficiently.

Your Digital Freeform Canvas
• Combine handwriting, images, and text on a limitless canvas.
• Journal, sketch, or brainstorm freely.
• Creative note-taking with endless possibilities.

Your Notes, Your Way: Flexible Payment Options
• Notewise offers both one-time purchase and subscription options, giving you control. While apps like GoodNotes® and, to an extent, Notability®, focus on subscriptions, we offer choices.

Your Notes, Anytime, Anywhere
• Fully optimized for Android: phones, tablets.
• Perfect for journaling, organizing PDFs, brainstorming on a freeform canvas, or managing your notes with ease. A complete note-taking solution.
• Features familiar to GoodNotes® and Notability® users, plus flexible payment.

Make the Switch to Notewise! Experience Notewise: power, flexibility, and features you love, with payment options in your control, unlike the more rigid approach of primarily subscription-based services. Perfect if you are looking for an alternative to GoodNotes® or Notability® on Android. Your effective note-taking journey starts here. Capture, create, and organize your notes effortlessly.

Download Notewise for Free Today!
Updated on
29 May 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Personal info
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.8
5.08K reviews
Icez
8 June 2025
In 2022, the team made significant progress in improving the app. I saw great potential in it and decided to purchase a one-year subscription. However, recent updates have been disappointing. They introduced a few minor improvements along with several unnecessary features that no one asked for(e.g. Apple Intelligence integration), while user-requested features, like handwriting recognition, continue to be overlooked. I'm quite disappointed.
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Notewise
18 March 2025
Dear user, we're sorry that you're not having a good experience. Would you mind sharing more details at support@notewise.dev so we can better assist you?
Cameron Davis
29 May 2025
the app is fantastic, very smooth. it would be my note taking app on Android except that it's missing one feature - infinite canvas. I've been looking into different note taking apps for mind mapping, and not having infinite space in every direction forces you into a more linear, and less effective, method of taking notes. otherwise, the app is great, and I would happily purchase the essentials pack
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Aparnaa V
7 June 2025
I love using this app for editing my PDFs to include my own comments for later study. Couple of necessary changes though - 1. Although Notewise cloud is there, I am unable to directly upload anything into it using my PC. And whatever is already there is also not editable there. It would be better if the same PDF were editable through Notewise across different kinds of systems, instead of just tab and phone. 2. Try to integrate with AI such as ChatGPT from OpenAI. Would augment text interaction.
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What's new

• Introducing links: easily connect to different pages, notes, or websites.
• Add rounded corners and borders to images for a polished look.
• Snap to ruler graduations for more precise drawing.
• General bug fixes and performance improvements.