Squid: Take Notes, Markup PDFs

Steadfast Innovation, LLC

In-app purchases

About this app

Take handwritten notes naturally on your Android tablet, phone, or Chromebook supporting Android apps! With Squid you can write just like you would on paper using an active pen, passive stylus, or your finger.

Easily markup PDFs to fill out forms, edit/grade papers, or sign documents. Import images, draw shapes, and add typed text to your notes. Quickly select, copy/paste, and move content between pages and notes. Organize your notes within notebooks and increase your productivity!

Turn your device into a virtual whiteboard or give presentations in a class, meeting, or conference by wirelessly casting to a TV/projector (e.g. using Miracast, Chromecast). Export notes as PDFs or images, then share them with others or store them in the cloud!

Squid is vector based - keeping your notes beautiful at any zoom level and on any device. You can erase entire letters and words quickly with the stroke eraser tool, or just parts of words with the true eraser tool. The selection tool allows you to change the color and thickness of your handwriting and even resize a drawing whenever you want without any loss in quality.

Squid takes special advantage of active pens on capable devices to provide natural, pressure-sensitive handwriting. Just write with the pen and erase with your finger!

Squid is designed to be both powerful and simple to use, allowing you to take notes quickly and efficiently.

Awards/Recognition
• Featured App in Google Play
• Category Honorable Mention for Productivity in the Samsung Galaxy Note S Pen App Challenge: https://goo.gl/Ji9dCS
• Popular Choice Award in the Dual Screen App Challenge: https://goo.gl/J7uT0B

Key Features
• Take notes naturally with a pen and erase with your finger on active pen enabled devices (e.g. Galaxy Note devices with S Pen)
• Take notes with your finger or passive stylus on non-active pen devices (e.g. Nexus 7)
• Vector graphics engine
• Multiple paper types (e.g. blank, ruled, graph) and sizes (e.g. infinite, letter, A4)
• Undo/redo, select, move, and resize
• Change the color and weight of selected items
• Cut, copy, and paste items between notes
• Two-finger scroll and pinch-to-zoom
• Two-finger double tap to quickly jump to a specific zoom level
• Organize notes within notebooks
• Sort notes and notebooks
• Import, crop, and resize images
• Export notes to PDF, PNG, or JPEG for printing, archiving, or sharing
• Share notes with friends and colleagues via email, Evernote, etc.
• Multi-Window support
• Shortcuts to create a new note or open a notebook
• Present notes on a secondary display via HDMI, Chromecast, etc. (Android 4.2+)

Squid Premium
• Create notes and pages with premium backgrounds (math, engineering, music, sports, etc.)
• Import PDFs and mark them up like any other note
• Express yourself with additional tools (highlighter, “true” eraser, shapes, text)
• Backup/restore and bulk export notes as PDFs to cloud storage providers Dropbox and Box

Learn more about Squid Premium: https://goo.gl/mJFjeO

Google Workspace for Education customers can purchase Squid Premium in bulk using the Squid EDU Bulk License app (https://goo.gl/Kkxjtk)

Information about active pen devices: https://goo.gl/6BRJy

Explanation of required permissions: https://goo.gl/q5f8Y

If you encounter any bugs, please email us at [e-mail] with a description of the bug!

We would love to hear any feedback or feature requests you have at https://idea.squidnotes.com

Ratings and reviews

This is generally a very good app. I mostly use it for marking up PDFs, which it is quick at and saves them within the app as a separate file, rather than overwriting the original PDF. You can later export the marked up PDF which is great. The two most annoying things I find is, firstly, there is no option to swipe to the next page. Most of the time I don't need to do it, but it would be a nice option that is available in other apps. The more annoying thing, that I haven't found in another app and so would really make this app stand out is the ability to navigate a PDF using the built in bookmarks. I am often trying to navigate a multi-thousand page PDF and find myself lost only having the option to look at all the pages in a thumbnail view or to scroll the page number (not even type one in). If a bookmark navigation feature was added I really think that would transform my usage of this app.

hands on this app for about a month but decide to not go for it. Overall, the excellence is noticable in its interface and low lag performance that you can use instantly without much learning curve. However, the major issues that discouraged me are "no option to hide navigation bar" and "poor PDF rendering in page flipping". I thought about sumitting or upvoting on their site, but on that site, I saw many features that should be done being left there for months and even more than a year.

I got the app because I needed an easy way to take notes - but after downloading quickly realised how impractical it was. Unless you're willing to go for the paid version, you don't have the option to highlight, erase small parts of, or TYPE text. It's impossible to write neatly enough to be legible, even using a stylus. All in all, really disappointed.

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!

Squid10 includes:
• An all-new design inspired by Material 3
• Improved note organization with nested folders (notebooks are now folders)
• Dark theme
• List view
• Support for 31 languages

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