StarNote: Handwriting & PDF
Handwriting notes and PDF tools for Android tablets. One time purchase.
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App Info
Rating
Everyone
Release
May 9, 2025
Last Update
Fixed layout issues and app crashes caused by adjusting the system font size.
Genre
Productivity
About
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. Contact us: [email protected]
Reviews
Prim Rose Nicole Elviña
This is my first time using a digital note-taking app, and I’m really happy I upgraded to premium because it gives me unlimited notebooks! As someone who loves calligraphy, I enjoy the beautiful pens that make practice more fun. I hope future updates add audio-to-text, and more stickers🥺. Overall, it’s a 10/10 for me—super easy to use and highly recommended for students like me 🫶🏻💗 Thank you for creating the Starnote app!😩🩷
Celine
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.
Frank Sturgell (CO Corruption Control)
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.
Nicola W
Download it on my phone and paid for pro version after reading all the good reviews. I decided it was easier to use on my tablet so I downloaded it there, and deleted it off my phone. However on the tablet it keeps telling me that I have not purchased the pro version, despite me using the same email address/same google account. Have emailed devs to see if it sorts out, but there seems to be an account sync issue.. Edit: I emailed you previously before this, and have sent the receipt already
Shahjad Husain
I would say that this app includes various features of different apps in one, I love it and thinking to buy its premium to enjoy it fully. I want to recommend some twick here and there . 1. include blue colour in the app icon it will resemble with the study and note taking. 2. Should have the option to change the background (pdf page colour) to custom theme like in the Moon+ reader. 3. Also include scrabble to erase. 4. include written or writting to text in real-time and/or After .
Philip
absolutely the best notetaking app for android i have used. extremely rich feature set, so far no bugs. seems a little clunky at the start but I got in to it after a couple of days of usage. very robust backup options as well as all the editing features I use. and a very fair price for the pro version. highly recommended! only thing I missed is support to import notes from noteshelf to make transition easier (had to export everything as PDF and lost editing)
JESUS is The Truth
Love! Love! Love StarNote! Thanks, dev! Well, thought out platform easy to navigate.However, it's 4 stars for me for a few reasons. One of which is the hyperlinking feature it needs adjusting. When adding links to images or text, there needs to be an option to choose to either create internal or external links and when in reader mode, you are not able to just tap internal links and jump to linked page. Secondly, In app web search is a must. picture in picture mode for web videos.
sidniy sack
omg ! this is the best note taking app I've found. finally something that is good. I've been using ipad for note taking. but I tried this app on my phone. s24u. and it was amazing! now I'm wishing this on ipad with with sync capabilities. if not at least make the interface same on both platform and same user experience. this is so good!
asternii
Syncing between devices without relying on Google Drive would be helpful . . I want to be able to open the same notes on my tablet , on my phone . And also to rotate the pages . And also , I hope you're working on an AI . . It would be really nice to be able to summarise my notes and generate flashcards / practice questions since I already have Pro . Thankyou
Shebbey B. Carreon
I love this app, though I do have some minor issues. They’re not a big deal, but I hope you’ll consider addressing them: • Allow more letters for the Outline • Improve folder designs • Add a dark mode (e.g., converting the file into dark mode for more comfortable viewing at night) • Improve mouse scrolling when accessing documents (Currently, I cannot scroll with the mouse while a file is open, but I can scroll when I am not accessing the file) PS: I am using Xiaomi pad 6
Maulida Juwita Iskarina
It's a really great note taking app! I've been using it for 2 months. This app has a lot of good features, I love the stroke stabilization, it's really smooth. But I have one thing that bother me. When I use a base template and try to zoom it out, the template's look is kinda bothering me (it's like the lines disappeared when I zoom out) and my note become so messy.... But overall it's really good!!