Android

Flexcil Notes & PDF Reader

Topics PDF Note-taking

Flexcil Notes & PDF Reader has 3,270,444 installs (+2.3% in 30 days), rated 3.7 from 12,164 ratings, #937 of 178,689 in Productivity.

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Installs
3,270,444
+13,522 (+0.4%) a week, measured over 15 days
Rating
3.7
12,164 ratings
+44 ratings (+0.4%) a week, measured over 15 days
Rank on Android
#27,743
of 2,832,023
down 302 since 2026-10-24
Version
1.5.0.20
Last updated 2026-10-26

Also in the last two weeksv1.5.0.20 on 26 Oct

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The world’s ultimate note-taking & PDF reader for Android

Experience the best note-taking app loved by 9.2 million users!
Whether you’re taking notes, reading PDF documents, editing notebooks, managing memo or creating your own digital planner - use Flexcil!

Unhappy with your PDF app, or looking for a Goodnotes or Notability alternative? Try Flexcil!
Import your PDFs and keep writing with your pen. A one-time purchase option is also available.
Boost your document productivity and take good notes with Flexcil!

Highlight easily and capture images or text in the documents or scribble notes with pen gestures.
With gestures, summarizing documents into a notebook becomes more efficient.

☆ Selected by Apple and Samsung
● Flexcil is on the iPad displayed in Apple’s offline store as a demo app
● Featured more than 20 times as a ‘Featured App’ by Apple Appstore in 156 countries!
● Selected to join Samsung Electronics' startup acceleration program ‘C-Lab Outside’
● Google Play Top Revenue app in South Korea

NOTE-TAKING & PDF READER IN ONE
● Edit, annotate and organize PDF documents & Notebook
● Beautiful handwriting with vector-based pen engine
● Organize and manage your documents AND notes
● Summarize your ideas on notebook
● Endless pen colors, sizes, and fonts that can help you take good notes
● Instantly open any PDF documents for reading and studying

ORGANIZE EVERYTHING SEAMLESSLY WITH HYPERLINKS
● Capture everything on the documents to your notes
● Save your time - Link between the original source and captured text or image is automatically created
● Pinpoint every data on the documents from your study notes

EASY AND INTUITIVE NOTE-TAKING WITH GESTURE FUNCTIONS
● Provide pleasant experience when reading PDF or taking notes with Pen Gesture mode - FLEXCIL EXCLUSIVE
● Easily highlight and underline text on the documents with GESTURES - You ONLY need 2 STEPS!
● Drag and paste text to the PDF documents or notebook flawlessly.
● Add text and annotate with ease
● Capture images and documents to the notes smoothly

MULTITASK
● View PDF and take notes at the same time during class!
● Simply drag & drop text or image from other apps to PDF or notes
● Reorder pages or merge PDFs into one
● Advanced view options that boost your productivity when reading documents or taking notes : full screen view, vertical scroll, view 4 pages, and so much more

DIGITAL PLANNER & TAKE GOOD NOTES
● Hundreds of colors and pen stroke sizes that enrich your note-taking process
● Aesthetic note covers & templates
● Endless creativity ー perfect for artist, writer, student, teacher, researcher, or anyone that wants to make note-taking more fun

RECORD & PLAYBACK AUDIO
● Record everything you hear whenever you take class notes or writing meeting notes
● Replay audio recording and review what you wrote during the class or in the meeting
● Tap on your note and hear what was said at the moment

COMPATIBLE WITH:
● Zoom
● Notion
● Google Classroom
● Google Drive
● Dropbox
● Box
● NAS
● Digital Textbook
● ebooks
● PDF
● and more!

SAMSUNG S Pen
● Simulate real-life note-taking by using S Pen - easy to use for all ages
● Support S Pen button & Air Actions - Enhance convenience of PDF reading and note-taking experience even further

Plus, enjoy these NEW FEATURES!
● Cloud sync: Access your notes from anywhere, and seamlessly sync across devices.
● Masking pen: Enhance your annotations with precision using the masking pen.

Take your note-taking to the next level with Flexcil.
Download the most comprehensive, easy-to-use, and innovative study tool on the Google Play Store today!

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Growth change in installs

Per Growth Growth % Actual change Measured over
day Not enough history yet
week +13,522 +0.4% +29,617 15.3 days
month +73,901 +2.3% +117,267 47.6 days
year Not enough history yet
How these figures are measured

Change in installs, scaled to each window from the real gap between crawls. A window needs a full period of history before it reports anything.

Installs3,270,444
2026-09-14 · 3,153,177 2026-11-01
Ratings12,164
2026-09-14 · 11,889 2026-11-01
New ratings per month+97 so far
Sep 2026 from 2026-09-14: +178 Oct 2026: +0 Nov 2026 so far: +97
Sep 14 Nov so far
Average rating3.7
2026-09-14 · 3.7 2026-11-01

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