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Take Notes Anywhere With These Apps

For those who enjoy the experience of pen and paper get to have the best of both worlds. These apps let you take handwritten notes on your IOS device so you can organize, sync, share, and much much more!

Nebo: Notebook & Daily Journal
Notes Plus
Pen and Paper

Best Apps

Highest scored apps in the category

Nebo: Notebook & Daily Journal
Nebo: Notebook & Daily Journal

Nebo: Notebook & Daily Journal

MyScript

Create beautiful notes and professional documents by hand, sketch ideas on an endless canvas, and annotate PDFs with our dynamic notebook tool

Create beautiful notes and professional documents by hand, sketch ideas on an endless canvas, and annotate PDFs with our dynamic notebook tool. Powered by the world's best AI handwriting recognition, seamlessly mix handwriting, text, drawings, diagrams, and images on the expandable canvas. Edit effortlessly with pen gestures, converting handwriting and shapes to typed text and perfect forms. Redefine your note...

Notes Plus
Notes Plus

Notes Plus

Viet Tran

Record, write, or type your notes with a handy app for iPad.

Notes Plus for iPad is a full-featured note-taking app with handwriting options with support for left-handers, audio recording, importing and exporting, Dropbox backup, folder management, and a built-in browser.

More than plain notes
Penultimate

Penultimate

Evernote

Penultimate is a one-stop note-taking hub

Penultimate is a pure handwriting note app for your iOS device that syncs with Dropbox and Evernote.

Turn your iphone into a personal notebook
Pen and Paper

Pen and Paper

Vivid Apps

Put away the keyboard and take notes with your own hand-writing.

Pen and Paper by Vivid Apps offers hand-writing, typed text, photo editing, PDF support, and integration with Dropbox, Box, and WebDAV. The app also provides options for shapes along with various fonts, sizes, and colors for writing or drawing.

Notepad+ Pro
Notepad+ Pro

Notepad+ Pro

Apalon Apps

Fully optimized for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil

Fully optimized for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil!

Notepad+ is pen and paper right on your iPad exactly when you need them. Take notes, draw, make sketches, annotate PDFs, create lists and memos, export your notes, and discover other great features. From now on you can be more productive than ever!

CREATE & ANNOTATE
- Take notes in lectures, seminars, business...

PenPaper Note
PenPaper Note

PenPaper Note

ACE CAD Enterprise Co.,Ltd.

Use this App to create your notes, memos, ideas, sketches, handwriting and drawings

Use this App to create your notes, memos, ideas, sketches, handwriting and drawings.
- Easily organizing, editing and viewing your book files.
- Page thumbnails function.
- Importing the photos or taking photos into a page.
- Exported as PDF and Image file.
- Sharing your handwriting, stickers or sketches in Community or Communication Apps.

*** Fine, precise and perfect pressure sensitive performance
- You can...

Handwriting Note Lite
Handwriting Note Lite

Handwriting Note Lite

Planet Computer Technology co.,Ltd

This is a very practical electronic notepad

This is a very practical electronic notepad.It can record information fast and convenient.
It has the main features as follows:
1.You can use it record any information you want to write down simply and easily.
2.You can easily find the note you have saved in the list menu.
3.The note can be saved to your iPhone album and can also be send by Email.
4.According...

Inkflow Visual Notebook
Inkflow Visual Notebook

Inkflow Visual Notebook

Qrayon, LLC

Inkflow is a note-taking and brainstorming experience unlike any other

Capture your notes with a pen and resize them using your finger with Inkflow Visual Notebook. Jot down a list, sketch an idea, and organize your thoughts easily.

Note Always
Note Always

Note Always

Always Sunny Ltd.

“Write smoothly

“Write smoothly. Correct intuitively.”
Note Always is a dedicated notebook app for Apple Pencil.

- Outstanding feel
The fastest response. Realistic, smooth renderings of blurring and blotching.
Because this app is just for the Apple Pencil, we were able to achieve this outstanding feel.

- Circle, grab and move
All it takes is enclosing the part you wish to move in a circle...

Also Good

Apps with average score

Notepad+: Note Taking App
Notepad+: Note Taking App
Notepad+: Note Taking App

Notepad+: Note Taking App

Apalon Apps

Fully optimized for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil! Take creativity further with support for pressure and palm rejection with Apple Pencil. Make notes or sketch on iPad Pro’s beautiful, large screen like never before.

Notepad+ is a great assistant in study and business, also being perfect for writing down your ideas...

Livescribe+
Livescribe+
Livescribe+

Livescribe+

Livescribe Inc.

Note: Livescribe+ is designed to be used with the Aegir and Livescribe 3 smartpens from Livescribe. 

Livescribe+ pairs with your Livescribe 3 or Aegir smartpen to instantly sync everything you write on paper directly onto your iPhone or iPad. Your notes become more useful, more quickly when they’re organized, tagged, searchable,...

Memoz!
Memoz!
Memoz!

Memoz!

Kais Karim

Memoz
Simple Handwriting Notes , For iPhone and iPad.

Memoz provides you with an simple, clean and easy to use interface to hand write your quick notes or sketch a drawing quickly. It comes with different color options and stroke sizes. In addition to that, the ability to add text too!

With...

Notepad – Organize Ideas
Notepad – Organize Ideas
Notepad – Organize Ideas

Notepad – Organize Ideas

Alejandro Melero Zaballos

Use our practical and simple interactive notepad app to write down your ideas, create shopping lists or to-do lists and organize them.
Take notes, scribble or sketch a draft, do the grocery list, draw or do whatever you want with this notebook! Write notes, memos, messages, sticky notes, shopping lists, check...

Jotter (Handwriting Notepad)
Jotter (Handwriting Notepad)
Jotter (Handwriting Notepad)

Jotter (Handwriting Notepad)

groosoft

Jotter is a barebones app that does little more than let you take handwritten notes. While the handwriting works well, the lack of connections to online services and clunky user interface make it difficult to recommend Jotter over the other options in this Guide.

Notebook Pro-Notes&Handwriting
Notebook Pro-Notes&Handwriting
Notebook Pro-Notes&Handwriting

Notebook Pro-Notes&Handwriting

YI FEI

Notebook Pro lets you take beautiful handwritten notes and annotate PDFs. You can also type your notes, record audio, draw shapes, sketch ideas, sign contracts, fill forms, print documents, and more right on your iPad. Syncs with Evernote and works with all popular cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Drive...

Note Taker HD
Note Taker HD
Note Taker HD

Note Taker HD

Software Garden

Note Taker HD is a polished, professional app that took a leap forward with a recent update supporting the new iPad's retina display. The app is a great option for anyone wanting to take notes on the iPad without a zoom function (which the app does have), as it has...

Movable Write
Movable Write
Movable Write

Movable Write

PettyFun.com

[Movable Write] is open sourced: http://blog.yjpark.org/blog/2012/04/22/movable-write-open-sourced/

[Movable Write] is not like writing on a paper, it's like typing with your finger/stylus.

Written words are fully editable, found out missed a word in last line, no problem, you can just insert new word anywhere. You can break long lines into paragraphs too,...

Notebook Lite - Take Notes & Handwriting
Notebook Lite - Take Notes & Handwriting
Notebook Lite - Take Notes & Handwriting

Notebook Lite - Take Notes & Handwriting

YI FEI

Notebook Pro lets you take beautiful handwritten notes and annotate PDFs. You can also type your notes, record audio, draw shapes, sketch ideas, sign contracts, fill forms, print documents, and more right on your iPad. Syncs with Evernote and works with all popular cloud services such as Dropbox, Google Drive...

MyHandWrite
MyHandWrite
MyHandWrite

MyHandWrite

P5Tech, LLC

App for building Great Human Relations.

Every hand writing is Unique. Handwriting is as easy as typing with this app.

MyHandWrite app make your own handwrite while you are typing the letters through the on-screen keyboard or by using the voice keyboard.Once you completed typing, you can share on any Social Media...

UPAD for iCloud
UPAD for iCloud
UPAD for iCloud

UPAD for iCloud

PockeySoft

UPad is so quick to respond to a user's handwriting that it's almost like writing on real paper. Although UPad makes your handwriting look smooth and fluid, it sometimes fails to register some lines or strokes, especially with the palm rest activated. This seemingly minor issue makes UPad difficult to...

Pencil Note
Pencil Note
Pencil Note

Pencil Note

Magitech Corporation

Gather your thoughts in a flash using Pencil Note! With support for the new Apple Pencil, you can create sticky notes and save them on a digital bulletin board. Choose from 4 different paper types: pink or yellow sticky notes, graphing, or cardstock paper and two pen colours: red or...

Notepad Pro - Annotate PDFs, Notes Taker
Notepad Pro - Annotate PDFs, Notes Taker
Notepad Pro - Annotate PDFs, Notes Taker

Notepad Pro - Annotate PDFs, Notes Taker

Lee Peng

AKE NOTES IN STYLE
• Feel the fluidity and smoothness of our pens, pencils and highlighters that rival the real ones.
• Our unique ink pens produce a beautiful calligraphic effect that makes any handwriting look gorgeous.
• Choose from a selection of 70 tastefully designed notebook covers, ranging from classic leathers to...

Other Apps

Could be good for special cases

WritePad I Handwriting to Text

WritePad I Handwriting to Text

PhatWare Corp

Writepad for iPad is narrowly focused on converting handwriting into text, and as such does not offer a standalone handwriting mode. However, Writepad does include some other unique and, if we're honest, somewhat odd features, such as the ability to make a phone call from the app by clicking on a phone number, a built-in calculator, an admittedly well-designed shorthand mode, and the ability to load URLs. These extras would be great if Writepad were better at its primary purpose, notetaking. The handwriting conversion process is slow and thus makes writing awkward in full screen mode. The zoomed mode only supports one line of text and forces you to choose one of the app's suggested conversions even if none are correct. In addition, one of the app's features, "detect shapes" doesn't work properly; instead of improving drawn circles and squares, Writepad thought many of my letters were shapes and tried to correct them, which made it nearly impossible to write effectively.

Use Your Handwriting

Use Your Handwriting

Gee Whiz Stuff

Use Your Handwriting® (UYH®) lets you finger write quick notes, lists and messages on your iPhone or iPad and view them on your Apple Watch. Its unique handwriting engine simulates the physics of a fountain pen to produce smooth and fulfilling drawing strokes. Your handwriting will flow beautifully and come out looking elegant with natural variations in darkness and thickness.

The beauty of UYH is accompanied by a powerful set of features: multi-level lists, quick alarms, sync across devices, visualize notes online, calendar and hands-on tutorial for every feature. Use it to take notes, for brainstorming, to outline your ideas, as a whiteboard, as a calendar for task management, or as a replacement for sticky notes.

NEW! Shop with UYH on your Apple Watch. Simply "pinch out" your shopping list to make it appear on your Apple Watch.

UNIQUE FEATURES

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BEAUTIFUL CALLIGRAPHIC WRITING STYLES

No matter what your 4th grade teacher told you, you have beautiful handwriting. What you couldn’t do with a pen, you can do with UYH. Choose between five different writing styles and your calligraphy will be amazing everyone in no time.


LEAN AND MEAN CALENDAR

Plan your weekly schedule in UYH by annotating days with your handwritten notes. It's quick but also powerful. Use it to jot down a quick todo and see it in Notification Center, or to take down elaborate categorized logs. Calendar notes scheduled for today appear in the UYH app on your Apple Watch!


QUICK HANDWRITTEN ALARMS

Need a reminder? Scribble a note, press and hold it and pick a time. You will be alerted in time even if the app is not active, or your device is asleep. The alert will even show on your Apple Watch!


TAKE NOTES OF ANY LENGTH

With UYH, there’s no limit to expressing yourself. Your long notes are automatically broken into multiple lines at word boundaries.


EMAIL/FACEBOOK/TWITTER YOUR ARTISTIC NOTES

Why? Because handwritten messages to friends mean so much more! Create your own colorful greetings for any occasion and email them to that special someone, or cut and paste them in other apps, such as MMS.


CREATE POWERFUL LIST HIERARCHIES

Want to drill down into something? In UYH, any item in a list can become its own sublist, so there’s no limit to how many lists and notes you can make.


HARNESS THE CLOUD - SYNC AND MORE
[In-app purchase required]

You can sync notes across any number of devices via www.myuyh.com. You can even publish your notes as web pages and view them online. The website lets you view your notes in several formats suitable for brainstorming and mind mapping.

This feature is part of our premium package, "Best of Use Your Handwriting" which is available as an in-app purchase. The purchase activates a subscription that auto-renews monthly, charging $0.99 (or rate applicable in your country) to your iTunes account. The subscription can be canceled anytime up to 24 hours prior to the end of the current period by going to Account Settings. Further details in our terms of use: http://www.myuyh.com/terms_of_use.txt.


AND MORE...

* Hassle-free writing - To add a new item, simply press '+', start writing, and hit 'Done' - it's as simple as that.

* Tutorials that teach you how to use the features of UYH by actually using them

* See high priority todo items blink, like Neon Lights

* Dim low-priority todo items

* Toggle easily between lists with 2-finger swipes

* Customize the title of each list with a name or a doodle

* Icon badge to show the number of current items

Equil Note

Equil Note

Luidia Global Co., Ltd

Equil Note is the ultimate note-taking app for everyone who wants to capture, enhance, stream, share, and organize their paper and whiteboard notes: business professionals, educators and students, parents and homemakers, designers and project managers, and more!

ANY PAPER, ANY WHITEBOARD
Equil Note, when used with Equil Smartpen and Equil Smartmarker, lets you write notes and diagram ideas on any paper or whiteboard surface––and save them to your favorite device in real-time. Notes can be digitally reviewed, edited and enhanced on the fly, or later, when it’s convenient.

DIGITAL WRITING AND EDITING TOOLS
Use a variety of tools and colors to highlight key ideas. Customize your notes using different pen colors, line thicknesses, and various backgrounds. Annotate, insert photographs, record audio, resize sketches, and more.

STREAM YOUR IDEAS
Host a live session––called a Note Stream––with remote colleagues and friends by streaming your paper or whiteboard notes. Or, collaborate and participate by joining someone else’s Note Stream.

TRANSFORM YOUR HANDWRITTEN NOTES
Convert your writing into editable text using the handwriting recognition feature, available in 11 languages through in-app purchase, or by connecting Equil Smartpen 2 or Equil Smartmarker. Send text in an email, insert it back into your note for better readability, or convert your writing into a title or tag to make your notes more searchable.

SAVE YOUR NOTES TO MEMORY
Using Equil Smartpen 2 or Equil Smartmarker, record your notes anytime your device is not connected to your Equil product. Import your saved notes when you are connected.

STAY ORGANIZED
Organize your ideas into notes and collections. Tag your notes to make it easy to find important information with the search tool.

SHARE YOUR IDEAS
Share drawings, notes, and collections instantly with colleagues, students, family, and friends. Attach your notes to an email or share them on Facebook and Twitter.

ACCESS YOUR NOTES EVERYWHERE
Sync your notes between devices using iCloud or Dropbox. Access your notes from anywhere by linking your Evernote account!

Equil Note HD

Equil Note HD

Luidia Global Co., Ltd

Equil Note is the ultimate note-taking app for everyone who wants to capture, enhance, stream, share, and organize their paper and whiteboard notes: business professionals, educators and students, parents and homemakers, designers and project managers, and more!

ANY PAPER, ANY WHITEBOARD
Equil Note, when used with Equil Smartpen and Equil Smartmarker, lets you write notes and diagram ideas on any paper or whiteboard surface––and save them to your favorite device in real-time. Notes can be digitally reviewed, edited and enhanced on the fly, or later, when it’s convenient.

DIGITAL WRITING AND EDITING TOOLS
Use a variety of tools and colors to highlight key ideas. Customize your notes using different pen colors, line thicknesses, and various backgrounds. Annotate, insert photographs, record audio, resize sketches, and more.

STREAM YOUR IDEAS
Host a live session––called a Note Stream––with remote colleagues and friends by streaming your paper or whiteboard notes. Or, collaborate and participate by joining someone else’s Note Stream.

TRANSFORM YOUR HANDWRITTEN NOTES
Convert your writing into editable text using the handwriting recognition feature, available in 11 languages through in-app purchase, or by connecting Equil Smartpen 2 or Equil Smartmarker. Send text in an email, insert it back into your note for better readability, or convert your writing into a title or tag to make your notes more searchable.

SAVE YOUR NOTES TO MEMORY
Using Equil Smartpen 2 or Equil Smartmarker, record your notes anytime your device is not connected to your Equil product. Import your saved notes when you are connected.

STAY ORGANIZED
Organize your ideas into notes and collections. Tag your notes to make it easy to find important information with the search tool.

SHARE YOUR IDEAS
Share drawings, notes, and collections instantly with colleagues, students, family, and friends. Attach your notes to an email or share them on Facebook and Twitter.

ACCESS YOUR NOTES EVERYWHERE
Sync your notes between devices using iCloud or Dropbox. Access your notes from anywhere by linking your Evernote account!

Awesome Notes - Inkflow Notebook, Annotate PDFs

Awesome Notes - Inkflow Notebook, Annotate PDFs

Long Rice

Functional, Flexible and Powerful, Notebook+ is the best notebook for your iPad. One Notes provides you with smooth and comfortable experience when you’re writing, texting, taking notes, or just doodling. One Notes supports adding pictures and photos from your iPad Photo Album and camera. One Notes is perfect for your everyday use, as simple as you’re writing on the actual notebook with your hand, with much more productivity and convenience.
One Notes is pen and paper right on your iPad exactly when you need them. Take notes, draw, make sketches, annotate PDFs, create lists and memos, export your notes, and discover other great features. From now on you can be more productive than ever!

CREATE & ANNOTATE
- Take notes in lectures, seminars, business meetings, and conferences
- Аnotate PDF documents
- Organize notes on a virtual board
- Quickly assign a unique title to each note
- Change the template of any note in seconds
- Protect sensitive notes with a password
- Always pick up where you left off with the autosave feature

CUSTOMIZE & EDIT
- Choose your template from 8 template galleries (Basic, Education, Lifestyle, Business, Sports, Games, Photo Frames, Music)
- Enjoy the editing options you're used to: easily cut, copy and paste any content
- Make the most of ink pens, highlighters and colors for true handwriting experience
- Zoom in and out to pay attention to details while sketching or drawing
- Add photos to make your notes more visually appealing
- Reorganize your notes with a drag-and-drop gesture, sort them by date created or modified
- Use the iPad keyboard to type your notes
- Experience all the advantages of maximum portability when using Smart Keyboard for iPad Pro
- Use your finger or stylus when writing or drawing
- Use Apple Pencil to create sketches or take notes without accidental marks or blots applying palm rejection function
- Adjust the palm rest to prevent marks
- Photo extension: mark up images right in your iPad's Photos app, use pens and highlighters to add notes and captions easily.

EXPORT & SHARE
- Share a page or the whole notebook
- Select a format (PDF or image) for better manageability
- Email, print, save to Photos or iTunes
- Export to Evernote or Dropbox
- Use the Quick Search to find important notes in an instance

zoNote

zoNote

NagisaWorks, K.K.

zoNote is a free-handwriting note application for iPad.
zoNote will sync your every notebook with Evernote.
You can use Evernote's OCR technology in zoNote to find your handwritten notes.

Preset 16 colors and 4 point types, and you can customize colors and types freely.

Available in grid-snap pen for drawing some straight lines.

Three type of paper for the background - graph paper, ruled paper and plain paper.

List preview displays single page's thumbnail.
When you select the notepad, all the pages are shown with animation of flicking the page over.

Send a E-mail as image file and open in another application as PDF file.

It is possible to use this application without Evernote account.

DukePen - Noting or Sketching!

DukePen - Noting or Sketching!

HalfPen LLC.

DukePen is a professional hand writing notes app that brings back the charm and benefits of using stationery pens and paper to working with notes on your iPad.

Touch feeling, fluent writing and the satisfaction, that you never had the handwriting feeling on iPad.

What's a really notes book, that it is easy to use, and the on-screen displays are uncomplicated and not at all cluttered.

Email/Print a page, or a whole notes in PDF format to anyone. Whether you're in a conference room or classroom, you can use the iPad VGA Adapter to share your notes on a screen or projector.


Some of the included features:
1. A complete multi-level books listed system that gives you full control
2. User interface is very simple and intuitive, no any complicated or cluttered settings.
3. Multi-color marker pens to hand-write/scribble on your note page.
4. Quickly print the note page out or save the note page to album.
5. Conveniently export your handwritten notes and email them as a PDF
6. Quickly export or email PDF based the notes
7. Easily manage and re-order all of your lists using the Apple standard sliding preview or the custom tile (thumbnail) view.
8. Dynamic fluid list that are neatly displayed to the side of your notes
9. Intuitive easy to understand controls, such as:
a. Drag and drop notes in Tile View to re-arrange them
b. Change notes name.
c. Password Protection.
d. Create a new notes.
e. 18 style paper for selection.
f. Power eraser to conrrect.
g. Undo/Redo to let your work very easy.
h. Save the page to Album very happy.
More ... waiting for you trying.


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