Squid: Take Notes, Markup PDFs

Steadfast Innovation, LLC

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About this app

Transform your note-taking experience with Squid! For over 12 years, Squid has been a trusted app with over 12 million installs, helping users replace paper, save money, and reduce waste. Write just like you would on paper on your Android tablet, phone, or Chromebook!

✨ Key Features:

• ✍️ Natural Writing: Seamlessly write with a pen and erase with your finger on active pen enabled devices like Samsung devices with S Pen. Use your finger or capacitive stylus on other devices.
• ⚡ Low Latency Ink: Enjoy a seamless and responsive writing experience with support for low latency ink¹.
• 🔒 Private: Notes are stored on your device and are completely private. No account or sign-in required. Backup your notes to your desired location.
• 📝 PDF Markup: Easily annotate PDFs, fill out forms, edit/grade papers, and sign documents.
• 🧰 Versatile Tools: Use any color pen or highlighter, import images, draw shapes, and add typed text.
• 📁 Organize: Select, copy/paste, and move content between pages and notes. Place notes in folders to stay organized.
• 📊 Presentations: Turn your device into a virtual whiteboard and cast your notes to a TV/projector.
• 📤 Export: Export notes as PDFs, images, or Squid Note format and share or store in the cloud.
• 💰 Save: Reduce stationery costs and replace paper notebooks with Squid for eco-friendly note-taking!

🏆 Awards/Recognition:

• 🌟 Featured App and Editors' Choice in Google Play
• 📈 Category Honorable Mention for Productivity in the Samsung Galaxy Note S Pen App Challenge
• 🎉 Popular Choice Award in the Dual Screen App Challenge

👑 Squid Premium:

• Premium paper backgrounds: math, engineering, music, sports, planning, & more
• Import and markup PDFs
• Additional tools: highlighter, true eraser, shapes, text
• Backup/restore and bulk export notes as PDFs to Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box

🛠️ Base Features:

• Vector graphics engine keeps your notes beautiful at any zoom level and on any device
• Various paper backgrounds (blank, ruled, graph) and sizes (infinite, letter, A4)
• Erase entire letters or words quickly with the stroke eraser
• Undo/redo, select, move, and resize
• Change color and weight of selected items
• Cut, copy, and paste items between notes
• Two-finger scroll, pinch-to-zoom, and double tap for quick zoom
• Sort and organize notes and folders
• Import, crop, and resize images
• Export notes to PDF, PNG, JPEG, or Squid Note format
• Share notes via email, Google Drive, Evernote, etc.
• Multi-Window support (take notes while watching a video)
• Shortcuts to create new notes or open folders
• Dark theme

🎓 Google Workspace for Education customers can purchase Squid Premium in bulk at https://squidnotes.com/edu

🐞 If you encounter any bugs, please email us at [e-mail] with a description.
💡 We would love to hear your feedback or feature requests at https://idea.squidnotes.com

¹Low latency ink is available now on Chromebooks and coming soon to Android devices.

🎯 Increase your productivity and unleash your creativity with digital handwritten notes. 👉 Try Squid for FREE today!

Ratings and reviews

Wanted this app to be great. I really did. I have the upgraded version. It's my main note app. And I'm consistently frustrated and confused by it. If you like dark modes, then good luck to you. And if you want to copy and paste some text sometimes... Hope and pray. This app isn't the worst It definitely gets worse. But it's still dismal and will leave you feeling uncertain if you have captured what you wanted and trying over and over again, hoping that maybe it will make sense.

Revised my review... It is a good application! Tested other note apps with my note 8 and I think this is the best. Although I like Inkredibles overall layout and options to change the background on the fly、 this app just writes better. It's very good. Even erasing is easier. Not a huge fan of subscriptions(for premium) but I will say it is reasonably priced.

A nearly-great app that I use daily for teaching. I hesitate to recommend it though, as the devs will not add common features one should expect in 2018, such as page rotation and sync. Consider getting Xodo for now (which has all those features) and check back here after a few more years. UPDATE: 2019 is winding down and no widely-requested updates have been implemented. I'm migrating to Good Notes on iOS.

What's new

Squid is over 10 years old! We’ve been working hard on some big updates, which we've coined "Squid10". Squid10 is not yet fully featured and is available via opt-in to get your feedback and make improvements. Just tap "Try Squid10" and be sure to send us your feedback!

Latest Highlights
• Improved support for Android 14+
• Export notes and folders to PDF or Squid Note formats in Squid10!
• Many miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Full changelog: http://goo.gl/EsAlNK