Noteshelf 3: AI Notes & PDF

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About this app

Noteshelf 3 is a note taking app and digital notebook for handwritten notes on Android tablets and phones. Write naturally with a stylus or your finger, annotate PDFs, plan your week in a digital planner, and let AI summarize, explain or translate your notes.

HANDWRITTEN NOTES THAT FEEL LIKE PAPER
• Take handwritten notes with pens, pencils and highlighters in any color and thickness
• Smooth, low-latency writing built for stylus and pen tablets
• Mix handwriting, typed text, shapes, images and stickers on one page
• Lasso to move, resize or recolor any part of your notes

ANNOTATE PDFS AND TEXTBOOKS
• Import PDFs, lecture slides and textbooks and write directly on them
• Highlight, underline and add handwritten notes to any PDF page
• Add blank pages between PDF pages for extra notes
• Export your annotated PDF to share with classmates or colleagues

AI NOTES
• Summarize long notes and PDFs in seconds
• Ask AI to explain a topic in simpler words
• Translate your notes into another language
• Turn rough ideas into clear, structured notes

HANDWRITING TO TEXT AND SEARCH
• Convert handwriting to text you can copy, edit and share
• Search across handwritten notes, typed text and PDFs to find anything fast

DIGITAL PLANNER AND JOURNAL
• Hundreds of templates: lined, grid, dotted, Cornell notes, planners, journals and diaries
• Daily, weekly and monthly digital planner layouts
• Personalize every digital notebook with covers and stickers

STUDY NOTES FOR SCHOOL AND WORK
• Take lecture notes and study notes for every class
• Record audio while you write and play it back with your notes
• Create a digital notebook for every subject, project or journal
• Organize notebooks into groups and find them quickly
• One note taking app for students, teachers, professionals and planners

YOUR NOTES, SAFE AND IN SYNC
• Back up your notes and keep them in sync across your devices
• Keep everything organized in one note taking app

FREE TO START
Take handwritten notes for free, with no time limit. When you need more, unlock Noteshelf Premium with a one-time purchase for unlimited notebooks, all templates and AI features. Pay once and keep it for life, with no subscription.

Questions or feedback? Contact our support team from Settings in the app. We read every message.
Handwritten notes & PDF annotation with AI. Digital planner & notebook for pen
Updated on
Oct 7, 2026
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  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.7K reviews
Ellie Again
February 8, 2025
This app is a god-send! I've loved every second of using it. The number of templates, the range of stickers and it's adaptability make it the perfect app for planning and organising. Plus it has the added benefit of a choice of cute aesthetics! Definitely recommend downloading this app.
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Felix Gena
September 17, 2026
Excellent note taking app. I've used it during my undergrad and it has been a life saver thanks to the painless syncing to my Google drive. It has great variety of drawing tools, perfect to draw stuff for my engineering classes. A lot of nice templates, which I used for my day planer and note taking. Notebooks load quickly despite having dozens of pictures and scribbles per page. They finally added "scribble to erase", that was the only thing that I felt was missing, and now it's perfect!
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Llywelyn Owen
September 11, 2026
Mid/long term user. Dropping a star from my rating because if I use the app as my default pdf viewer it adds repeated instances of the file to the 'shelf' and wastfully they get synced across all devices. There's no way to stop adding an opened file, and no way to batch delete files. Add the fact that backups are in proprietary format (soooo yesteryear) and you cannot use your own storage server to sync to means it now loses 2 stars.
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Fluid Touch
September 16, 2026
Hi! Thank you for sharing your detailed feedback as a long-term user. We understand your concerns regarding duplicate PDFs, batch deletion, backup formats, and storage server options. We've considered your suggestions and shared them with our product team for consideration in future updates. We appreciate your valuable input.

What’s new

Minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

~ Noteshelf—Take beautiful notes, effortlessly ~