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

I loved this app until right now. After using it for a year and upgrading several features, I installed it on a new tablet. After backing up on the old one with the feature built in to the app, It deleted all my notes! A year's worth of notes are now gone! Not cool! This is a great note taking experience (although it could benefit from goodnote's feature where you write in a box at the bottom and it puts it into the body of the note, even Samsung notes does that now.) but if you lose all your data WHEN TRYING TO BACK IT UP, it is useless!

I thought this was a good program with smooth writing, so I bought it to be able to import pdf's and write on them. I paid the $10 for a yearly subscription. Yes, it allows you to write on the pdf's, but the refresh is horrible, I imported a 10 page pdf, and the tablet slowly redraws each page when I move between them. Should not have half the screen disappear. No, it's not the tablet. I use One Note by Microsoft, and I have none of these issues. Honestly not worth it. I would recommend One Note, which is free and writes smoothly (plus you have access to all your notes on the web for free), or Xodo, which lets you highlight pdf's (I imported a 2000 page document, no issues scrolling entire document), also can add text, draw, and more. Going back to that, should have never left. Figured a paid app would be better than a free one, I was wrong. Really would like a refund.

Best notes app I have ever used. Best with a Note phone, or stylus that is good and accurate though, but using the S-pen to write and finger to erase, Shapes, color, it really can't get much better, amazing controls, user friendly, wonderful interface. A must have app. I cannot think of many things I would change other than the premium available on Play Store, maybe a few more shapes, plus the ability to select/modify a shape, still wonderful, if you have a Note, get this app!

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 15+
• Improved local backup process
• Fixed several PDF rendering issues and crashes
• Updated translations
• Misc bug fixes and improvements

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