Notein:Handwriting Notes & PDF

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About this app

Handwriting notes, PDF annotation, and an AI study assistant — built for Android tablets and styluses. Highlighted at Google I/O 2025.

Notein is the note-taking app for students, teachers, and professionals who think with a pen: take handwritten notes, mark up lecture slides and textbooks, record the lecture, then let AI turn it all into summaries, quizzes, and graded practice.

🖊️ Handwriting That Feels Like Paper
Ultra-low latency ink with pressure sensitivity, tuned for S Pen and other active styluses. Fountain pen, ballpoint, pencil, highlighter, calligraphy pen, tape, laser, and 22 auto-recognized shapes. Ruler, layers, and 20 favorite pen presets.

🔍 Search Your Handwriting
Find any word in your handwritten notes, PDFs, text boxes, and tables. Recognition runs on your device — free, private, no upload.

📄 Import & Annotate PDFs, Word & PowerPoint
Import PDFs, Word, and PowerPoint files, images, or scan paper documents with your camera. Highlight, underline, strike through, add notes, and draw right on the page. Add pages from other PDFs, rotate, reorder, and split into new notebooks. Tap any word for an instant dictionary, or translate selected text in 30+ languages — on device.

🎙️ Record Lectures, Synced to Your Notes
Record while you write. Tap any handwriting to jump to that moment in the recording. Adjust playback speed, skip 15 seconds, or loop a segment for review.

🤖 AI Study Assistant (Notein Pro)
AI features are available in supported regions.
Summaries:
Key points, highlights, and terms — each linked to the page it came from.

Auto Outlines:
Turn any document into a structured, page-linked outline.

Circle to Ask:
Draw around anything on the page and ask AI to explain it, extract the text, or solve it.

Quizzes:
Generate multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and short-answer questions from any chapter. Answer by hand or keyboard and get instant checking with explanations.

Grading:
Have a completed exam graded question by question, with handwriting transcription and worked answers.

Mistake Book:
Wrong answers are collected automatically and cleared once you master them.

Handwriting to Text:
Lasso any handwriting and convert it to editable text. Answers in your language: choose from 16 output languages.

🧠 Organize Your Way
Notebooks, nested folders with color and photo covers, labels, favorites, and pinning. Link pages with hyperlinks, connect two notebooks with bidirectional links, and build study guides or a personal knowledge base. Add editable tables for comparing topics or collecting mistakes. Write on classic paper sizes or an infinite canvas.

📐 Templates & Paper
Cornell notes, vocabulary books, mistake collections, memory-curve review, daily/weekly/monthly planners, meeting notes, music sheets, and more. Save your own templates, import custom fonts, and choose from 50+ covers and sticker packs.

⏱️ Stay Focused
A built-in countdown, stopwatch, and Pomodoro timer on the editing page — for timed practice and revision sessions.

☁️ Sync, Back Up & Lock
Sync across devices with Google Drive or OneDrive, with automatic cloud backup and version restore. Keep a local backup anytime. Lock private notebooks with your fingerprint.

📱 Made for Android
Split-screen and multi-window, tabs for switching between notebooks, and a customizable toolbar. On Android 14+, set Notein as your default notes app and start a note straight from the lock screen or your stylus button. Export as PDF or JPEG, or share the native file to another device.

Free to start, with optional paid upgrades. See the app for current plans and included features.

Don't just take notes. Create, explore, and think freely with tools designed for your Android tablet and stylus. Download Notein today and bring your ideas to life.
Handwritten notes, PDF annotation & AI study tools for your Android tablet.
Updated on
Oct 13, 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
    Location, Personal info and 5 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

13.2K reviews
Luuk Stokhof
September 13, 2026
Very good note taking app for android. Your basic free trial is really limited tho, so you will have to buy it after having seen if its to your liking ofc. I only wished they allowed us to add more pens, that way I can keep different colors ready to use at any time. Now I first have to tap the pencil to then press the different color. It would be nicer if I could add my own extra pens and then I would only need to press the pen next to the one to instantly get a different color.
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ORION STUDIO PTE. LTD
September 14, 2026
So glad you're enjoying Notein! We hear you on wanting quicker access to different pen colors. You can actually save your most-used pen configurations (type, color, thickness) as "Pen Favorites" for one-tap access. Just set up a pen how you like, then tap the heart icon in the Pen Case to save it. Hope this helps!
청색편이
May 25, 2026
the best thing about this app is that it is cheap, but its services are as good as expensive ones. On the other hand, the size of the files expeted is a way too big. it is nearly impossible to open them with other tools like google drive. better flattening service should be updated. Also, the pensil doesn't really looks like the real pencil. the first version of it was better.
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harish tibrewal
September 7, 2026
I am experiencing persistent synchronization issues despite my premium subscription, which I initially purchased for the quality of the interface. I was unaware of this significant synchronization problem at the time of subscription, and despite repeated reminders to your team, it remains unresolved.
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ORION STUDIO PTE. LTD
September 9, 2026
Hello, please provide your sender email address. Our staff will contact you. You can also contact our customer service email again at support@notein.cn. We will help you resolve the issue you encountered as soon as possible and see where it got stuck.

What’s new

Notein 2.0, reimagined
• AI that reads your notes: summaries, outlines, quizzes, circle to ask, a Mistakes book and homework grading.
• A new design language, from icons to dark mode.
• A reimagined editor with a frosted top bar and smooth text editing.
• A new pen box, recording as you write, and live style changes.
• Folders with your content as the cover, and a clear template center.
• Faster, from opening a note to turning pages.
Plus hundreds of refinements.