StarNote: Note Taking & PDF

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About this app

StarNote is a digital note-taking app for Android tablets, built for handwritten notes, PDF annotation, study notes, meeting notes, and organized work. As a handwritten notes app, StarNote helps you write naturally with a stylus or S Pen, create your own digital notebook, annotate PDFs, and keep notes, documents, and ideas in one workspace.

✨ Handwritten Notes That Feel Natural
• Take handwritten notes with smooth pen writing
• Use pens, highlighters, shapes, eraser, lasso, and text tools
• Write class notes, lecture notes, work notes, and daily ideas
• Enjoy a paper-like writing experience for tablet note taking

📄 PDF Reader & PDF Annotation
StarNote is more than a notes app. It also works as a PDF reader and PDF annotation app for study and work.

• Import PDF documents and write on PDF pages
• Annotate PDFs, markup PDF files, and highlight key points
• Take notes on PDF textbooks, slides, reports, and documents
• Organize PDFs, PDF notes, and study materials by class, project, or meeting
• Export notes as PDF for sharing, printing, or backup

📚 Digital Notebook for Students
Turn your tablet into a flexible digital notebook for paperless note taking.

• Create study notes, class notes, and lecture notes
• Use digital planners for school, exams, and daily planning
• Build mind maps, outlines, formulas, and revision notes
• Keep textbook PDF annotation and handwritten notes together

💼 Notes for Work & Meetings
StarNote also helps professionals capture ideas and manage documents.

• Write meeting notes, work notes, and project notes
• Review reports, slides, contracts, and PDF documents
• Organize meeting notes with folders and notebooks
• Mark up documents during discussions or document review

🧠 Organize Notes Without the Mess
A good note taking app should help you find things later, not just write them down.

• Organize notes, notebooks, PDFs, and documents by topic
• Manage PDFs and study files in a clear digital notebook library
• Keep study materials, work files, and personal notes together
• Make your notes easier to browse, review, and reuse

🖊️ Made for Tablet, Stylus & S Pen
StarNote is designed for handwriting on Android tablets.

• Take notes on tablet with smooth stylus writing
• Use S Pen notes for study, planning, and PDF markup
• Create neat handwritten notes with flexible writing tools
• Use an infinite canvas for brainstorming and freeform thinking

🚫 No Subscription Required
Many note-taking apps lock key features behind monthly subscriptions. StarNote gives you a simpler, high-value way to write, annotate, and organize.

• No monthly subscription required
• Unlock premium features with a one-time purchase
• Pay once and keep using StarNote for long-term study and work
• Built for users who want a powerful notebook app without ongoing fees

🤖 Coming Soon: AI Notes & Audio Transcription
AI features are coming soon to make note taking, studying, and meeting review even easier.

• AI note summary for long handwritten notes and documents
• Record audio from lectures and meetings, then turn it into clear notes
• Audio transcription notes for class, lectures, and work
• Lecture transcription to turn spoken content into organized notes
• Meeting summary notes for faster work review
• AI handwriting recognition to make handwritten notes easier to search

🌟 Why Choose StarNote?
StarNote brings together handwritten notes, PDF annotation, digital notebook organization, study planning, and work notes in one place. Whether you need a note taking app for Android, a handwritten notes app, a PDF notes app, or a digital notebook app, StarNote helps you write, annotate, organize, and review with less friction.

Download StarNote and start building a cleaner, smarter notebook for study, work, PDFs, and everyday ideas.
Handwritten notes & PDF annotation. Digital notebook with no subscription.
Updated on
Sep 21, 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.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.13K reviews
Tam Tran
September 7, 2026
Absolutely love the app! I was looking for an app that is similar to Goodnotes and stumbled upon this one. I loved the fact that it is a one-time purchase, and a bonus is that the pen setting made my handwriting less ugly. The only downside is their backup; I mostly have to manually back up. Hoping the developer will fix this so it can automatically back up like Samsung Notes, where I can see all the updated notes from my tablet to my phone without manually backing up.
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Frank Sturgell (CO Corruption Control)
September 4, 2025
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.
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StarNote
September 28, 2025
We sincerely apologize for this critical issue. This is unacceptable, and we want to help. Please contact us via Settings > Help & Feedback. To help us locate your original paid account, please attach a screenshot of your Google receipt showing the order number starting with 'GPA.'. We will make this our top priority to investigate.
Jess H.
November 2, 2025
I rarely feel compelled to leave a review - or buy the PRO version - the first day of using an app. I have been using Samsung Notes on my S6 Lite, but I want to try using hyperlinked digital notebooks, and while Samsung Notes can do that, it requires going into reading mode to navigate. StarNote does not do that. You can write with your stylus and navigate by finger without having to switch modes. Has zoom lock! Only ask I have is 2-finger scrolling. One-finger scrolling is awkward somehow.
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StarNote
November 3, 2025
We're truly honored to receive such detailed praise from you — especially on your very first day with StarNote! 🥳 Thank you for choosing PRO and for appreciating our seamless pen-input navigation and zoom-lock feature. Your suggestion about two-finger scrolling has been carefully noted and will be shared with our design team for evaluation.

What’s new

New: Added screen mirroring presentation mode toggle (switch mode on toolbar after casting);
Fixed: Issue where text boxes failed to auto-resize height when font size increased;
Fixed: Issue where bold fonts in some text boxes displayed abnormally when exported to PDF;
Fixed: Some known crash issues;
Optimized: Partial UI improvements.