Better Notes / PDF notebooks

Room for your ideas.

Write, sketch, and annotate PDFs. Keep your notebooks together on iPhone and iPad.

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iPhone & iPad · Free · No in-app purchases

Better Notes

Make it your notebook

Choose a cover and blank, ruled, grid, or dotted paper.

Pencil to paper

Write and draw with Apple Pencil on a compatible iPad.

Keep it together

Organize folders, store documents in iCloud Drive, and share PDFs.

About Better Notes

Apple Pencil handwriting requires compatible iPad hardware. iCloud synchronization requires an Apple Account and available iCloud storage; upload and download timing is controlled by iOS. Password-protected PDFs and encrypted, multipart, or ZIP64 archives are not supported. Free to use. No subscriptions or in-app purchases.

Requires iOS or iPadOS 27 or later.

Here to help

Support

For help, email alberto.gragera@gmail.com. Include the app name, app version, iPhone or iPad model, iOS version, and the steps that reproduce the problem. Do not send passwords, API keys, private server addresses, personal documents, or camera recordings.