StarNote: Handwriting & PDF

StarNote

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About this app

StarNote is a handwriting first note taking app for Android tablets. Enjoy smooth low latency writing with stylus and S Pen. Annotate PDFs and organize study notes with ease.

• Smooth handwriting with low latency and one stroke rendering for clean lines and shapes
• PDF tools for highlight, comment, draw, and extract text. Adjust margins to add writing space
• Split view to read a PDF and take notes side by side for a faster workflow
• Infinite note for brainstorming, mind maps, and whiteboard style thinking
• Templates for Cornell, grid, dotted, planners, and journals
• Stickers for labels, arrows, icons, and shapes to call out key points
• Folders and tags to keep notebooks organized and easy to find
• Google Drive sync for backup and access across devices
• Encryption lock to protect private notebooks
• Free core features. Upgrade to Pro with a one time purchase. No subscription

Optimized for Galaxy Tab and other popular Android tablets. Many users choose StarNote as a GoodNotes alternative on Android.

GoodNotes and Notability are trademarks of their respective owners. StarNote is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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Ratings and reviews

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!

Wow, its fast and I love that the UI is nice and small on mobile, so it doesn't take away from the canvas. It looks like basically everything is free altho does have notebook limit tho. Thank u so much for this tool, absolutely amazing. 🥹❤️ Feature request that would make it even better: backlinking between notes even on the infinite canvas, would be very nice. An SVG export for the canvas. Low add-on purchases like adding a couple notebooks to limit, at a lower price for who cant afford full.

What’s new

Fixed layout issues and app crashes caused by adjusting the system font size.