StarNote: Handwritten Notes

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About this app

StarNote is a handwritten note taking app for students who want to take class notes, annotate PDFs, review lecture notes, and study with AI on Android tablets. Write naturally with a stylus or S Pen, organize every subject in a digital notebook, and unlock Pro with a one-time purchase—no subscription.

✍️ Handwritten Notes for Class


Take clear handwritten notes with smooth, low-latency ink.
• Create class notes, lecture notes, study notes, and meeting notes
• Write with a stylus or S Pen on your Android tablet
• Use pens, highlighters, erasers, shapes, text, layers, and the lasso tool
• Organize notes by course, subject, project, or topic
• Build a paperless notebook for school, college, work, and everyday ideas

📄 PDF Annotation & PDF Markup


Import study materials and write directly on PDFs.
• Annotate PDF textbooks, lecture slides, worksheets, and documents
• Highlight, underline, draw, and add handwritten PDF notes
• Mark up PDFs while reading, studying, or reviewing assignments
• Keep PDF annotation and handwritten notes in one workspace
• Export notes as PDF for sharing, printing, or backup

🤖 AI Audio Summaries


Use AI-powered audio summaries to review lectures, classes, and meetings more efficiently.
• Turn long audio into concise AI summaries
• Review important ideas without replaying an entire recording
• Keep audio summaries together with your study notes and notebooks
• Use AI assistance for lecture review, meeting review, and daily learning

📚 Digital Notebook for Students


Keep every class and study resource organized in one place.
• Create separate notebooks for each subject or course
• Use templates for study notes, student planners, and daily organization
• Import documents, images, and PDFs into your notebooks
• Organize study materials with hyperlinks, tags, folders, and page tools
• Use the tape tool to hide key information and test yourself
• Take notes while watching lessons with picture-in-picture support

🖊 Tablet Note Taking with a Stylus


StarNote is designed for handwriting-first note taking on Android tablets.
• Enjoy natural writing with smooth pen strokes and low latency
• Take tablet notes with a stylus or S Pen
• Work with notes and reference materials side by side
• Use handwriting tools for study, planning, drawing, and PDF annotation
• Designed for note taking on supported Android tablets and phones

💡 One-Time Purchase, No Subscription


Use the core note taking tools for free, then unlock Pro with a one-time purchase.
• No monthly subscription for Pro
• Handwritten notes, PDF markup, and digital notebook tools in one app
• Useful for students, teachers, professionals, and tablet users
• A flexible digital notebook for the new semester and beyond

Start the school year with organized class notes, annotated PDFs, and smarter AI-powered review. Download StarNote and build a better study workflow on your Android tablet.
Study notes, PDF annotation and AI study tools. Pay once, no subscription.
Updated on
Sep 21, 2026
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  • 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

2.09K reviews
Gogs Davies
December 17, 2025
Seems pretty intuitive. I like the fact I can do notes side by side, and the layers feature is a great touch. Downsides: (1) I hate having to handwrite in the text box. You the up writing over the top over the text as it appears. This isn't a problem unique to this app. Penly have it nailed. Create a text box and I can pretty much write anywhere on the note. As long as the text box is active my handwriting will appear (2) can bind to Google on my tablet, but not on my phone.
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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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Randy G Wheeler
September 18, 2026
reason for the 4 and not the 5. this app is perfect for everything that I use, But there's only one thing missing. the way to take notes with the keyboard and the type maybe like a recipe. or copy and paste something like a prayer. other than that everything is a 5
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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.