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.

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Handwritten notes & PDF annotation with AI. Digital planner & notebook for pen
Updated on
Oct 28, 2026
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  • No data shared with third parties
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  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.79K reviews
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.
Paul Oldham
July 5, 2026
I'm a long term & very active Noteshelf user. Migrating to Noteshelf 3 seemed like a good idea however the process to transfer your notes across doesn't work reliably - it transfers a few, then gives up - I ended up having to move over 200 across one at a time. I discovered while doing this that Noteshelf hasn't backing up all my notes and ... neither does Noteshelf 3. It's currently failing to back up six despite multiple attempts. So good software but don't rely on its backup to cloud.
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Fluid Touch
July 13, 2026
Hi! Thank you for being a long-time Noteshelf user and for sharing your experience. We're sorry to hear about the issues you faced while migrating your notebooks and with cloud backups. Please reach out to us via in-app support with more details about the notebooks that aren't backing up. We'll investigate the issue and work with you to resolve it.
Holly
January 10, 2025
So far, I'm really impressed!! This is exactly what I was looking for. I already had a load of ADHD and health / wellness planners downloaded onto my phone, but I couldn't edit the PDFs, and even when I downloaded trials of apps, it was too small on my phone. I got a tablet for Xmas, and it's been fab! I love how it's possible to "make" your own notebook, I've been combining my most used / favourite pages to create custom notebooks. 1 off payment for pro, too - fab!
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What’s new

- Restore deleted pages and notebooks from Trash to their original locations.
- Enjoy a new Halloween story and sticker pack.
- Bug fixes and performance improvements.