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About Noteshelf
Noteshelf is a digital notebook built around handwriting with a stylus. It offers realistic pens, shape drawing and hundreds of paper templates for notes, diaries and journals, and notebooks can be given their own covers and titles.
You can also annotate PDFs with highlights, underlines and sticky notes, write on images, and record audio of lectures or meetings to play back later. It can be downloaded for free, and enterprise options are available.
Strengths
- Realistic pens and many paper templates for handwriting
- PDF annotation with highlights and sticky notes
- Audio recording alongside notes
Limitations
- Limited to Apple devices according to the homepage
- Best used with a stylus
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree to download, with paid options and enterprise plans.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Noteshelf
- Platforms
- macOS, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Students and iPad users who take handwritten notes
- Categories
- PDF tools, Note-taking
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Compare allSoftware that can replace Noteshelf for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
GoodNotes
Handwriting-first notes app for iPad with Apple Pencil support and OCR search.
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Notability
A note app combining handwriting, audio recording and transcription with AI summaries, quizzes and flashcards.
Notability combines handwriting with audio recording, transcription and AI summaries, quizzes and flashcards, and adds Android and web versions, with many AI features paid.
Flexcil
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Flexcil pairs PDF reading and handwritten notes with gesture annotation on iPad and Android tablets, plus a web version for continuing work on a PC.
MyScript Notes
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MyScript Notes converts pen input into editable typed text and runs on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, with some features on paid plans.
Saber
An open-source, cross-platform note-taking app built for handwriting with a stylus.
Saber is free and open source for stylus handwriting on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux, with encrypted sync between devices.
Stylus Labs Write
A word processor for handwriting that treats pen-written lines as editable, reflowing text.
Stylus Labs Write is free and treats handwriting as reflowing, editable text on desktop and mobile platforms, without the paper templates or audio recording.
Rnote
An open-source vector drawing app for handwritten notes, sketches and annotating PDFs and pictures.
Rnote is a free, open-source vector drawing app for handwritten notes and PDF annotation on Linux, with macOS builds coming from a separate project.
Noteshelf as an alternative
Listings that name Noteshelf as an alternative.
Drawboard PDF
A pen-friendly PDF markup app with live-synced annotations across desktop, mobile and web.
Noteshelf is a handwriting notebook for iPad, iPhone and Mac with PDF highlights, sticky notes and audio recording, limited to Apple devices.
LiquidText
An active-reading app for annotating PDFs and pulling excerpts into a flexible workspace.
Noteshelf is a handwriting notebook for Apple devices with PDF highlights, sticky notes and audio recording, rather than an excerpt workspace.
Xournal++
Handwritten notes and PDF annotation with a stylus, including on top of lecture slides and scanned papers.
Noteshelf moves handwriting and PDF annotation to iPad, iPhone and Mac, adding audio recording, but it is proprietary and limited to Apple devices.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
MarginNote
A study app for Mac and iPad that links PDF highlights, mind maps and flashcards.
Highlights
A PDF reader for Mac, iPad and iPhone that turns annotations into exportable notes.
Apple Notes
Apple's built-in notes app with sync, sketches, and text recognition.
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft's freeform digital notebook with sections, pages, web clipping and cloud sync.
