Freenotes: Freedom to write, organize, and shine
Transform your iPad into a powerful AI-driven digital notepad. Freenotes is an all-in-one workspace designed for students and professionals who want the natural feel of handwriting with the power of artificial intelligence. Whether you are annotating a complex PDF, planning your week, or recording a lecture, Freenotes helps you stay organized with seamless, free-form experience.
AI Summary
Quickly find key points and action items from long recordings or documents.
AI Chat with PDF
Ask questions directly to your imported files to get instant answers.
AI Homework Helper
Take a screenshot or upload a document (PDF or photo) to instantly get answers.
AI Study Companion
Clarify concepts, define terms, and check your handwritten notes for accuracy, turning passive review into active recall.
Organize Notes
Categorize and organize your notes by projects, courses, or topics, automating the organization of your note library.
Quick Search via OCR
Search through your handwritten scripts easily using accurate text recognition.
PDF Annotation
Highlight, underline, and add comments to documents with custom pen styles.
Infinite Canvas
Sketch ideas or mind map on a whiteboard that expands as you work.
Apple Pencil Pro Support
Experience low-latency writing that feels like real paper.
Shape Recognition
Turn rough drawings into clean, perfect geometric shapes for diagrams.
Hyperlink Support
Navigate through digital planners using clickable internal and external links.
Active Recall Tape
Hide specific parts of your notes to test your memory and study better.
Paper Templates
Access various backgrounds including grid, Cornell, and dotted paper.
Flashcards
Build study sets directly from your pages to help with exam prep.
Seamless Video Learning
Use Picture-in-Picture (PiP) to take notes while watching online videos (YouTube, lecture recordings), and instantly capture relevant screenshots directly into your notes.
iCloud & Google Drive Sync
Securely back up your digital notebook to access your data anywhere.
Who is Freenotes For?
Students: Create study guides, annotate lecture slides, and use the "Active Recall" tape tool for exam prep.
Professionals: Record meetings, organize projects into folders, and sign PDF documents on the go.
Creatives: Sketch ideas on an infinite whiteboard and export high-quality files to share with your team.
Join over 1 million happy users transitioning to a smarter, paperless future. Try Freenotes today and experience the next era of AI note-taking.
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I think Freenotes is an amazing note taking app! I have experimented with so many different ones, especially GoodNotes and so many others and by far FreeNotes is my favorite! The features offered are awesome and genuinely feels like I have control over the style and possibilities of editing with an iPad and Apple Pencil. Unlike other apps, you can customize FreeNotes a lot and when you write and highlight it feels very real. Another positive part of FreeNotes is that it seems like the developers actually listen and use the feedback they are given. They continuously update and edit the app to make sure their users are given the best product, and all for an app that doesnt cost anything, unless you choose to upgrade to the one time cost for premium. One reason I dont give 5 stars is because I feel that the Macbook app could definitely use some updates and special attention to make it much more fluid and seamless when transitioning from note taking on the iPad to reading and editing on the Macbook. I also would love to see text document option. Sometimes in class, I like to type up my notes in lectures, and then when studying I like to edit and highlight and annotate on my iPad. I think if FreeNotes could create a way to do simple text typing in a document without the need of worrying about placing and resizing text boxes on the MacBook it would be absolutely perfect! I am not saying we need a duplicate of Microsoft Word or Google Docs, but simple typing format with the classic tools would really step up the game and make it so that I am able to use FreeNotes for everything when it comes to notes and studying!Highly recommend giving it a shot if you use your iPad for studying or note taking! Hopefully they can spruce up the MacBook version and include more seamless and easy typing to make pdfs of typed notes that we can then annotate with the iPad!
Absolutely Disappointed
Marisea28
I have been using this app for four years and I absolutely loved it. In the time I have been using this app, I’ve been through its many updates and changes. At one point I even thought maybe I should try Goodnotes since it is so popular, but I did not particularly enjoy it and very much preferred “Freenotes”. That being said its title is very misleading. When they introduced ads I thought okay fine I understand it is hard to maintain a free app. Then they introduced AI and it was not my favorite; I am tired of everything including AI. But now I am opening this app and I can’t even create a new notebook without paying. Everything I have created is in this app and now I can’t even use it?? I don’t have anything else to say except I am extremely disappointed and you are better off finding a different note taking app. Now I have go through the process of finding a new app and a way to transfer everything! I never write reviews but this was the most frustrated I have ever been with an app. I understand it is hard for an app to stay free, but the beauty of “Freenotes” was that it was a simple app to just take notes. We did not need all this AI stuff or other clutter. Also after reading other reviews. I am even more disappointed. Saying that the free in “Freenotes” stands for freedom is such B.S. What a cop out statement! :(
Idea Suggestion/Improvement
acingjojo
I love this app as it function as good as my other note taking app, whose charging me fees to upgrade. The function are perfect BUT is there anyway for me to sync the notes on my ipad to other devices? Such as my macbook, other ipads, etc. I turned on the function for icloud sync but it doesnt really do anything. I would appreciate the help.
Applause of Continued Progression
Micha—El
I've been using freenote for going on a year now, and it'll quickly replace every other form of note-taking, pdf editor, drawing, etc that I previously used. Freenotes is such an amazing tool for students like myself and it's been an integral part of my college learning experience. All the features that've been added since I started using Freenote have simply transformed good to great. If I could suggest one more innovation, it would be to include the ability for screen orientation to shift from portrait to landscape on the iphone version. It's currently a feature on the ipad version, yet that same feature of the iphone as well would be quite useful. A big thanks to the developers of Freenotes, you'll are a God-sent!
New Features
- Added the ability to import multiple images into a note page and merge them into a single note, with improved image clarity during import.
- Handwriting beautification now supports Turkish recognition.
- Note outlines can now be preserved when exporting to PDF, allowing you to quickly jump to the corresponding pages from the outline.
Fixed Bugs
- Fixed some known issues and improved system stability.
Thanks for using Freenotes!
Version 3.44.0
The developer, Free Notes AI Note Taker LTD, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
Seller
FREENOTES AI PTE. LTD.
Size
669.7 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.5 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.5 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
