StarNote: Note Taking & PDF

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About this app

StarNote is a digital note-taking app for Android tablets, built for handwritten notes, PDF annotation, study notes, meeting notes, and organized work. As a handwritten notes app, StarNote helps you write naturally with a stylus or S Pen, create your own digital notebook, annotate PDFs, and keep notes, documents, and ideas in one workspace.

✨ Handwritten Notes That Feel Natural
• Take handwritten notes with smooth pen writing
• Use pens, highlighters, shapes, eraser, lasso, and text tools
• Write class notes, lecture notes, work notes, and daily ideas
• Enjoy a paper-like writing experience for tablet note taking

📄 PDF Reader & PDF Annotation
StarNote is more than a notes app. It also works as a PDF reader and PDF annotation app for study and work.

• Import PDF documents and write on PDF pages
• Annotate PDFs, markup PDF files, and highlight key points
• Take notes on PDF textbooks, slides, reports, and documents
• Organize PDFs, PDF notes, and study materials by class, project, or meeting
• Export notes as PDF for sharing, printing, or backup

📚 Digital Notebook for Students
Turn your tablet into a flexible digital notebook for paperless note taking.

• Create study notes, class notes, and lecture notes
• Use digital planners for school, exams, and daily planning
• Build mind maps, outlines, formulas, and revision notes
• Keep textbook PDF annotation and handwritten notes together

💼 Notes for Work & Meetings
StarNote also helps professionals capture ideas and manage documents.

• Write meeting notes, work notes, and project notes
• Review reports, slides, contracts, and PDF documents
• Organize meeting notes with folders and notebooks
• Mark up documents during discussions or document review

🧠 Organize Notes Without the Mess
A good note taking app should help you find things later, not just write them down.

• Organize notes, notebooks, PDFs, and documents by topic
• Manage PDFs and study files in a clear digital notebook library
• Keep study materials, work files, and personal notes together
• Make your notes easier to browse, review, and reuse

🖊️ Made for Tablet, Stylus & S Pen
StarNote is designed for handwriting on Android tablets.

• Take notes on tablet with smooth stylus writing
• Use S Pen notes for study, planning, and PDF markup
• Create neat handwritten notes with flexible writing tools
• Use an infinite canvas for brainstorming and freeform thinking

🚫 No Subscription Required
Many note-taking apps lock key features behind monthly subscriptions. StarNote gives you a simpler, high-value way to write, annotate, and organize.

• No monthly subscription required
• Unlock premium features with a one-time purchase
• Pay once and keep using StarNote for long-term study and work
• Built for users who want a powerful notebook app without ongoing fees

🤖 Coming Soon: AI Notes & Audio Transcription
AI features are coming soon to make note taking, studying, and meeting review even easier.

• AI note summary for long handwritten notes and documents
• Record audio from lectures and meetings, then turn it into clear notes
• Audio transcription notes for class, lectures, and work
• Lecture transcription to turn spoken content into organized notes
• Meeting summary notes for faster work review
• AI handwriting recognition to make handwritten notes easier to search

🌟 Why Choose StarNote?
StarNote brings together handwritten notes, PDF annotation, digital notebook organization, study planning, and work notes in one place. Whether you need a note taking app for Android, a handwritten notes app, a PDF notes app, or a digital notebook app, StarNote helps you write, annotate, organize, and review with less friction.

Download StarNote and start building a cleaner, smarter notebook for study, work, PDFs, and everyday ideas.
Handwritten notes & PDF annotation. Digital notebook with no subscription.
Updated on
15 Oct 2026

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.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.2K reviews
Tam Tran
7 September 2026
Absolutely love the app! I was looking for an app that is similar to Goodnotes and stumbled upon this one. I loved the fact that it is a one-time purchase, and a bonus is that the pen setting made my handwriting less ugly. The only downside is their backup; I mostly have to manually back up. Hoping the developer will fix this so it can automatically back up like Samsung Notes, where I can see all the updated notes from my tablet to my phone without manually backing up.
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Randy G Wheeler
18 September 2026
reason for the 4 and not the 5. this app is perfect for everything that I use, But there's only one thing missing. the way to take notes with the keyboard and the type maybe like a recipe. or copy and paste something like a prayer. other than that everything is a 5
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Ritik Sharma
16 September 2026
this is is my favourite now, purchased the premium as soon as i tried it, it has everything you'll need.. Just if can add a feature to publish notes on web so that they can be accessed through a link, STARNOTE would become the best note taking app.
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What's new

Enhanced Pro member benefits and added a new watermark removal benefit for notes.
Fixed the issue where exported PDFs had garbled text after increasing page margins.
Fixed the issue where cloud sync would fail when there were a large number of notes.