Android

Noteshelf 3: AI Notes & PDF

Topics PDF Note-taking

Noteshelf 3: AI Notes & PDF has 3,350,070 installs (+3.0% a month, measured over 38 days), rated 4.5 from 15,870 ratings, #928 of 178,955 in Productivity.

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Installs
3,350,070
+17,500 (+0.5%) this week
Rating
4.5
15,870 ratings
+121 ratings (+0.8%) this week
Rank on Android
#27,408
of 2,836,037
down 427 since 2026-10-24
Version
5.3.0
Last updated 2026-11-05

Also in the last two weeksv5.3.0 on 28 Oct

Description

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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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Growth change in installs

Per Growth Growth % Actual change Measured over
day Not enough history yet
week +17,500 +0.5% +19,747 7.9 days
month +96,947 +3.0% +123,223 38.1 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.

Installs3,350,070
2026-09-29 · 3,234,548 2026-11-07
Ratings15,870
2026-09-29 · 15,201 2026-11-07
New ratings per month+136 so far
Sep 2026 from 2026-09-29: +0 Oct 2026: +533 Nov 2026 so far: +136
Sep 29 Nov so far
Average rating4.5
2026-09-29 · 4.4 2026-11-07

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