StarNote: Handwritten notes

StarNote

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About this app

StarNote is a powerful digital note-taking app for Android tablets, built for handwritten notes, PDF annotation, and organized work. Tired of monthly fees? Enjoy premium features with a one-time purchase—no subscription required! As a top handwritten notes app, StarNote helps you write naturally with a stylus or S Pen, annotate PDFs, and keep all your ideas in one workspace.
Whether you are a student looking for a reliable college note taking app or a professional managing work documents, StarNote provides a seamless, paperless workflow. Take notes on your tablet with a stylus, and review your ideas anywhere on your phone.

✨ Handwritten Notes with Stylus

• Take handwritten notes with smooth, low-latency ink
• Use pen, highlighter, eraser, lasso, shapes and text tools
• Create class notes, lecture notes, meeting notes and daily notebooks
• Write naturally on Android tablets with a stylus or S Pen
• Build a clean digital notebook for school, work and ideas

📄 PDF Markup & PDF Annotation

StarNote also works as a PDF reader and PDF annotation app.
• Import PDF documents and write on PDF pages
• Highlight, underline and mark up PDF files
• Annotate PDF textbooks, slides, reports and meeting documents
• Keep PDF notes and handwritten notes in one workspace
• Export notes as PDF for sharing, printing or backup

📚 Digital Notebook & Study Notes

• Create notebooks for study, work, planning and projects
• Organize notes by class, subject, meeting or topic
• Use page templates for planners, study notes and everyday writing
• Turn scattered ideas into a structured digital notebook
• Great for students, teachers, professionals and tablet users

🖊 Built for Tablet Note Taking

StarNote is designed for handwriting-first note taking on tablets.

• A note taking app with stylus support for smooth writing
• Flexible tools for writing, highlighting, drawing and organizing
• A comfortable note taking app for students, classes, lectures and meetings
• A no-subscription alternative for handwritten notes and PDF markup

🚀 Coming Soon: AI Note Taking Assistant

(We are constantly evolving! Our upcoming update will introduce next-gen AI tools).
• Summarize notes with AI: Instantly generate an AI note summary for long documents.
• Audio transcription notes: Record audio during lectures and meetings to generate accurate text.
• AI study assistant: Chat with notes and generate an AI quiz from notes for active recall.

💡 Why StarNote?

• Handwritten notes, PDF markup and digital notebook in one app
• Designed for Android tablets and stylus writing
• Useful for study notes, work notes, lecture notes and meeting notes
• No subscription — unlock Pro with a one-time purchase
• Clean workspace for notes, PDFs, documents and ideas

Download StarNote to take handwritten notes, annotate PDFs, and build your digital notebook for study and work.
Stop paying monthly fees for digital note taking. Download StarNote today and get lifetime access to your premium notes app for work and study!

Ratings and reviews

I found this while looking for a cheaper alternative to Concepts. This is exactly what I was looking for, and the notebook structuring is so intuitive on a tablet that I'm honestly barely using the infinite note feature even though that's what originally drew me to the app. This app has boosted my creativity by a landslide and I'm enjoying discovering all the features. I've gotten my mom hooked as well, she's loving the music notation papers. The modest price was a nobrainer for both of us.

Don't want a note app that can't hold a note. Purchased Starnote app on August 31, 2025. POOF! Starnote made me sign in again on September 3 with the SAME email address. My account and all of my work of the previous 2 days was gone. It was supposed to be saved on my phone's memory. Then, they wanted me to pay again. If it worked, it was a good app. But, if you're going to wipe out my account, particularly after I paid, then I need to go elsewhere for my notetaking.

this is a wonderful app, especially for medical/healthcare note taking, with using their stickers and infinite canvas. Please please please add a way to export lecture recordings out of the app or to transcribe the recordings. With that, this would be a perfect app!! i would love to have the ability for the recording to be transcribed and for the transcription to remember what slide and what notes were being written when scrubbing through the transcription. thank you for adding this!

What’s new

Added data backup reminder feature
Added independent layer control when opening the same notebook in dual-window mode
Added video upload feature in Help & Feedback
Added horizontal or vertical drawing feature for highlighter/tape
Optimized system performance and fixed some issues