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Note Annotation Apps

Capture your ideas anytime and customize to your style. These apps let you take notes, sketch ideas, annotate PDFs, and share your documents all in one place. Perfect for teachers and students!

MarkNote - Markdown Note
MetaMoJi Note
MarginNote 2
MarginNote 2 Pro
iPaperFree

Best Apps

Highest scored apps in the category

MarkNote - Markdown Note
MarkNote - Markdown Note

MarkNote

淑敏 孙

Take notes with markdown

Take notes with markdown.
Sync notes into iCloud.
Access your documents with any of your mac or iOS devices.
Share your notes with your friend.
You can easily embed photos, format text, create tables, send rich formatted mail message, and share and edit notes from any devices.

FEATURES
- Embed photos and images into note
- Live preview while writing
- Auto save
- Send mail with rich...

MetaMoJi Note
MetaMoJi Note

MetaMoJi Note

MetaMoJi Corporation

MetaMoJi Note is a note and sketchbook app, PDF annotation tool, voice memo and digital scrapbook for your life

MetaMoJi Note is a note and sketchbook app, PDF annotation tool, voice memo and digital scrapbook for your life. Capture your ideas anytime with quick voice recordings, advanced handwriting recognition and handwriting to text conversion(*), or annotate Office and PDF documents.

(*) Requires purchase of mazec Handwriting Input Method for this functionality.

Use the app as a high resolution sketchbook with a...

MarginNote 2
MarginNote 2

MarginNote 2

Sun Min

For those who want an annotation tool with outline, mind map, and flashcard features.

MarginNote lets you read PDF and EPUB documents. You can outline and create a mind map along with turning your notes into flashcards easily. The app also supports importing, exporting, and syncing.

MarginNote 2 Pro
MarginNote 2 Pro

MarginNote 2 Pro

Sun Min

*** Reading & Studying will NEVER be the same

Add notes to your PDF files, books, and documents with this helpful productivity app.

Also Good

Apps with average score

iPaperFree
iPaperFree
iPaperFree

iPaperFree

iGlobe Apps, Inc.

iPaperFree is the highly rated Document Viewer with advanced reading, annotation and conversion to PDF capabilities. It renders PDF quicker than most other apps.

People use iPaperFree as their "go-to app" for taking notes on lecture slides, annotating important business documents and much more.

CaptureNotes 2
CaptureNotes 2
CaptureNotes 2

CaptureNotes 2

G8R Software LLC

Capture Notes 2 could be higher on the list if the next update focused on improving the writing experience and less on the other features. Currently, handwriting looks pixellated and jagged, which admittedly could be due to the fact that the app hasn't updated for retina display iPad 3 yet,...

Other Apps

Could be good for special cases

AnnotDoc - Annotation for MS Office and PDF

AnnotDoc - Annotation for MS Office and PDF

EncGoo

The ONLY iPad app to support all these: Annotation on MS Word! Annotation on PowerPoint! Annotation on PDF! Reached Top 1 in 7 App Stores around the world!

*****"a handy little application that provides big results. This is a must have app" *****
Rick Rockwell, AppPicker

*****"AnnotDoc offers an impressive number of features at a comparatively low price tag", ***** AppAdvice.com

*****The only iPad app to support annotation on PowerPoint documents. Very useful and friendly. For this price, I give 5 stars and will recommand to my friends. ***** User review from appolicious.com.

AnnotDoc supports annotation on popular document formats including MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and PDF. It is the only iPad app that supports annotation on all of these document formats, and it outperforms iAnnotate, GoodNotes, and Notability! It provides more features than all the other annotation applications, with newly introduced features like bookmark, sticky note, and link. It also provides the best user experience. The newly added submenu helps users easily switch among different annotation tools and change settings. Please check the impressive videos below in the support website.

Now you can use your iPad to show a PowerPoint presentation to your customers, and make notes to address customer comments directly on the PowerPoint document. You can also sign a PDF document and email it out. In addition, you can do math and physics assignments, handwriting equations and drawing diagrams, with the help from handy features like zoom-in editor, auto alignment, and built–in wavy/dotted lines. You can take notes directly on the text in class. You can even create an empty PDF document and take note. Please check the support website for great user experience from our customers!

To support large documents, you can add colorful bookmarks to your text book documents. As a salesperson, you can bookmark important technical specs before meeting customers.

AnnotDoc also offers in-app-purchase for adding links and sticky notes (one in-app-purchase of $0.99 for BOTH powerful features). You can add colorful sticky notes to your document. AnnotDoc shows a table of all the sticky notes you added to a document, so you can easily go to the note you added.

Link is another very powerful annotation tool. You can add link for the following purposes:
*A link to a website for reference
*A link to a textbook for a concept definition you learned before
*A link from an assignment back to the textbook that explains how to approach a problem
*A link from a presentation to its original data source
*A link from a technical spec to a help document

Please check the screenshots for the wonderful features AnnotDoc supports.
Features:
* Support annotation on MS Word 2003, MS Word 2007 (2010), MS PowerPoint 2003, MS PowerPoint 2007 (2010), and PDF.
* Highlight document with different colors and different degrees of translucence;
* Underline;
* Add PDF watermark;
* Add colorful sticky notes;
* Add external links;
* Add internal links;
* Add colorful bookmarks;
* Portrait mode and landscape mode viewing and annotating;
* Hand writing notes, in English, Chinese, Japanese, or your preferred language;
* Fill forms and sign PDF documents;
* Auto-align for hand writing equations. Now you don’t need to use the MS Equation any more for your math assignments.
* Build-in wavy line and dotted line for diagram drawing. Specially designed for Feynman diagram drawings.
* Show/hide annotations.
* Type on documents using 19 different fonts, include English, Chinese, and Japanese.
* Icon stamping. Select from 85 high quality build-in icons.
* Export MS Office documents with annotations to PDF.
* Email documents.
* Sync with iTunes.
* Integration with popular Dropbox and Box.com;
* File management and folder support, including creating/renaming/deleting folders and duplicating/renaming/moving/deleting files;
* Open-In feature.

支持网址有中文帮助网页!

Notes Pro - PDF, Notes and Documents

Notes Pro - PDF, Notes and Documents

Masalasoft (Pvt) Limited

Notes Pro is a must-have app for anyone who reads or annotates PDF documents or want to create or edit notes and formal documents in open standard format which can be opened and edited in any standard word processor like Pages, Microsoft Word or Open Office.

The application allows you to mark up documents with highlights and handwriting, insert text and stamps, sign and even insert pictures in your documents. Good Notes is the best choice for filling out PDF forms right on your iPad and iPhone.

You can open various file formats such as iWork, MS Office, Power Point, text files, images etc. Get these files from desktop computers, email attachments and “Open in" from other applications.

FEATURES :
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Annotate PDF Documents :

+ Read PDF documents in landscape or portrait mode with full page or thumbnail view, multiple bookmarks and much more.

+ Highlight Text in PDF. Mark important things in books, journals or documents you want to review.

+ Hand-write your comments and notes on PDF.

+ Insert pictures from your photo album or camera roll into your documents

+ Sign documents using your finger or stylus and send it through email or fax right from your iPhone or iPad.

+ Draw with your finger and use it to make handwritten notes or highlight text in scanned books.

+ Make Multiple Bookmarks.

+ Review Documents, Mark up errors and place special emphasis on important sentences.

Create / Edit Notes & Documents :

+ Create documents in open standard html format which can be opened or edited in any standard word processor like Microsoft Office, Pages or Open Office.

+ Create Worksheets in standard dat format which can be opened and edited in any worksheet software.

Create Voice Memos :

Create Voice Recordings. Record meetings, customer visits, class lectures etc and store it along with your documents on your iPhone or iPad.

Create Hand-Written Notes & Drawings :

Unleash your artistic skills by creating drawings or taking casual hand-written notes.

PDF Converter :

Convert Microsoft Office documents to PDF

Read PDFs with ease :

Good Notes has one of the best PDF viewers for iPad and iPhone. It opens large files in landscape or portrait mode with full page or thumbnail views and multiple bookmarks.

Copy Files From Mac or PC via Wi-Fi and USB :

Use iTunes file sharing to transfer files directly to your iPad or iPhone via USB cable. As an alternative connect your iOS device running Good Writer via Wi-Fi and operate it like a wireless flash drive. No additional software is required.

Open Email Attachments :

Open attachments directly from the Mail app. Also, you can open PDF files from any other application on the iPad or iPhone via "Open In..." dialogue.

Fax Documents directly from your iPhone or iPad :

You can send fax directly from your iPhone or iPad. For this feature, the app integrates with Interfax service. To use this feature, you need to already have or create an account with Interfax.net and they charge a few cents per fax which goes directly to them.

Share Files With Your Friends :

Email files directly from Good Notes 5 with all annotations you made.

Creative Notes

Creative Notes

Mahmoud Yacoub

Take Notes with Audio, Video, Annotate PDFs, Convert any docs to PDFs and SYNC to Google drive, Evernote ..etc

Save your time looking for the best note-taking app for iPad

Convert any doc to PDF with

One document, many sources
Just open any word, excel, PDF..etc file from the web or your email in Creative Notes to convert it into a PDF format. So you can merge multiple document source into a single logical document, may they be from different PDF files, Everything can be mixed dynamically as one file.

Convert everything to PDF
With Creative Notes, you can create PDF documents on the fly from many supported file formats, such as Word (doc, docx), Excel (xls), PowerPoint, Numbers, Pages or even websites. Those documents then can be opened and annotated from your email or any other source.

Annotate PDFs with a state of art Annotation Toolbar
Annotations can be created on the fly (e.g. with selecting text) . Creative Notes also provides a great default toolbar to create annotations and related operations, like changing the drawing color, undo or redo operations.

Audio & Video Recording
With Creative Notes, you can record an audio / video and combine it with the notes you make, so you make sure that you will never miss a word in lectures or presentations

Send via Email or share on Facebook, Twitter and Annotation Flattening
Creative Notes provides a action to send the current page or the whole document via email. The user can choose to optionally flatten the document to render the annotations into the page itself.

Save on Google drive, DropBox or Evernote
You can upload any notes you have to Google drive or Dropbox, SandBox or Evernote so you make sure that you can access your work from any other device

Print on the fly
With Creative Notes, you have an option to print all the work you have done from your ipad

Custom Color Picker
Creative Notes has a great support for color editing, with similar, beautiful many color palettes as Pages for iOS, and an advanced HSV color picker for advanced usage.

Flexible Display with Zooming in and out
The View Controller can be used in full screen or as a child controller. Rendering is faster or to skip the thumbnail and padding between the pages

Internal Web Browser
Creative Notes has an internal web browser. Actions within the browser can be taken as well. (Copy Link, Open in Safari, Mail Link, Print) or convert certain web pages into pdf

Night Mode
For pilots or people that work in dark areas it has a night mode that inverts the document and can dim down the screen with an additional software layer until it’s almost completely dark. This is already used today in many cockpits around the world.

Thumbnails
Creative Notes uses advanced caching to be that fast. You get a thumbnail overview page and a bottom bar to navigate between pages.

Bookmarks
Bookmarks can be added per-page and bookmarked pages will be specially marked in the thumbnail overview. A long-press to the bookmark icon shows the bookmark controller where bookmarks can be edited or even renamed.

Page Transitions and Dual Page Mode
Creative Notes has 3 different page Transition styles, each of it in a horizontal or a vertical mode: Magazine-like side-scrolling, Safari-like continuous scrolling or Page Curl. You can choose to show only one or two pages, optionally also with a cover page. The document can be anchored to the screen height or width.