Notewise - AI Notes, PDF, Docs

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About this app

🏆 Google Play’s Best App for Personal Growth

Notewise is the future of note-taking on Android. Whether you’re sketching diagrams, annotating PDFs, journaling ideas, or building a second brain—Notewise gives you a freeform canvas that feels like pen and paper—supercharged by AI.

With Notewise, you don’t just take notes. You create good notes —searchable, flexible, and future-proof.

✨ AI Superpowers for Your Notes
Notewise AI makes your notes smarter—without compromising your privacy.

• Chat with your notes: ask questions, summarize content, or review key ideas.
• AI Guided Podcast: turn dense handwritten notes or PDFs into audio notes.
• Magic Select: Circle anything on your canvas and let AI solve, explain it.
• OCR handwriting, scanned documents, and images in 20+ languages.
• Make messy scribbles searchable—instantly.
• Create AI quizzes from your notes to test your exam readiness
• AI background removal for clean, visual, professional notes

🚫 No data selling. 🚫 No creepy analytics.

🖊️ Handwriting That Feels Like Magic
Designed for stylus-first note-takers, Notewise offers:

• Ultra-low-latency writing
• Reliable palm rejection
• Pressure-sensitive pens and smooth highlighters
• Realistic stroke stabilization and smart shape assist

Whether you're taking class notes or sketching wireframes, it just works.

🛠️ Tools Built for Power Users
Use the full toolbox to create your own system of thinking and learning:

Pen, Highlighter, Eraser, Lasso, Tape, Shape, Textbox, Image, Audio Recorder, Table, Zoombox, Ruler, Laser Pointer, Sticky Notes, Creative Brushes, Stickers.

Create freely. Every tool is fast, fluid, and purpose-built.

🔍 AI OCR: Your Handwriting, Now Searchable
• Extract text from handwritten notes, scans, or imported PDFs
• Find formulas, quotes, or action items in seconds
• Multilingual support for global users
• Works across class notes, whiteboards, worksheets, and more

📂 Organize with Confidence
• Unlimited folders, tags, and sorting options
• Pin recent notes, merge content, reorder pages
• Bulk import/export with smart file handling
• Color-code and customize your library

🤝 Sync, Collaborate, Share
• Real-time collaboration in shared notebooks
• Seamless sync across Android, iOS, and Web
• Offline-first with automatic cloud sync
• Share via URL, QR code, or export to PDF/image formats

🔒 Privacy-First by Design
We’re a small, independent team. We don’t sell your data. We don’t show ads. Your notes are encrypted, secure, and under your control.

• Choose one-time purchase or subscription
• Notewise Cloud unlocks sync, AI, OCR, and collaboration
• Use core features for free—forever

No paywall for basics. No lock-in.

🚀 Always Getting Better
We ship fast: 20+ major updates in the last year. Recent additions include:

• Video on Canvas: Add lectures, tutorials and reference videos
• Creative Brush: draw, sketch and create beautiful artwork
• Stickers: Personalize your notes with context-specific stickers
• Horizontal Scroll and Two-Tab view to reference notes naturally
• Circle to Lasso: Circle anything with pen and tap to auto-enter lasso mode

And we're just getting started.

✍️ Take Good Notes Only
Notewise is built for thinkers, tinkerers, students, and builders of all kinds. Whether you’re diagramming an idea, revising a lecture, or designing your own productivity system—Notewise adapts to how you think.


Skip the bloat. Keep the power. Build your notes your way—with a tool that respects your privacy.

📥 Download Notewise for free today and experience note-taking that works like code: fast, indexable, and smart.
Updated on
Jun 18, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Personal info
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.1
8.14K reviews
Angel
April 28, 2026
A total rip-off. I was convinced to buy the Unlimited version, but then I realized I can't even search for words in my handwriting. They're forcing you to pay for cloud storage and justifying it by saying they're a small team. I only need the basic functions. There's no need to try to implement AI; any free AI will do the job 100 times better than Notewise. I'll stick with Samsung Notes. It's amazing how it's the only app on this model, but sooner or later they'll realize it's not profitable.
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Notewise
July 7, 2026
I’m sorry for the frustration. Handwriting search relies on Notewise AI, which is part of our Cloud subscription because it requires ongoing server resources to operate. That said, our team is continuously working to improve Notewise and bring more features and benefits to our Unlimited users as well. Please stay tuned for future updates. ❤️
Alan Vidali
May 6, 2026
The menu bar on the phone needs to be at the top of the screen. This is my only complaint but it's a major issue for ease of use. Why on earth is it at the bottom with NO OPTION TO CHANGE THE LOCATION? Seriously? 😒 If they added the setting to place the menu either at the top or the bottom of the screen, this would be, hands down the best note taking out. it can't be that difficult to be coded. Edit: no response for the team. No acknowledgement of the request.
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Notewise
May 6, 2026
I'm sorry we missed your message until now. We hear your frustration about the menu bar being at the bottom, and it's helpful to know how much an option to move it would improve things for you. I've shared this with our team, and you can also add your vote for this feature on our portal at https://feedback.notewise.dev/.
Zyad Al-Harbi
June 25, 2026
I'm sad to write this review.. I used to like Notewise, the app is buttery smooth. The team behind it are so friendly and listens. However, as a user of the unlimited subscription; I feel betrayed. Almost every new feature is ONLY for monthly subscribers. things like importing PPTX files, and OCR, etc. I switched to other apps, and most of them have the above mentioned features and more without monthly subscription! They aren't as smooth, but the lack of features in Notewise doesn't help it.
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Notewise
June 25, 2026
We really appreciate the kind words about our team. It’s tough to hear you feel let down lately. Features like OCR and PPTX imports rely on cloud servers and AI, which have ongoing costs to maintain. That's why they're tied to a subscription. We're a small team trying to stay sustainable while keeping the app smooth. We really value your feedback.

What’s new

No more ugly handwriting. Just beautiful notes, powerful AI, and a canvas that thinks with you.
• Meet Calligraphy Pen. The new upgrade to Notewise's pen collection. Write beautifully, think freely.
• Sticky Notes and Tables got smarter: Add text, drop in images, move everything as one.
• Page-Level Undo/Redo is here for every rotate, reorder, and "wait, no" moment.
• And a few quiet fixes. Even the best notepads have a scratch page.