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Best 10 Note Taking Apps
Remember everything from thoughts to pictures with the best note taking apps. Relieve your memory bank with these note taking apps and focus on what matters.
About Note Taking
Note taking is the act of documenting information often by summarizing and writing down something that is either spoken aloud or read. This creates a record that can be revisited at a later time.
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ColorNote Notepad Notes
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Notepad - simple notes
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Easy Notes - Notepad, Notebook
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BlackNote Notepad Notes
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Google Keep - Notes and Lists
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Microsoft OneNote: Save Ideas and Organize Notes
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WeNote - Notes, Notepad, Notebook, Note taking app
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Smart Note - Notepad, Notes
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Notebook-Notes, To-do, Journal
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Notepad notes, memo, checklist
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ColorNote Notepad Notes
ColorNote® - Easy to use notepad for notes, shopping list, to-do list, calendar4.9 Ratings 3M+ Reviews 100M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich 1M+ ReviewsFree![Google Play]()
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Notepad - simple notes
A simple small notepad allowing creating and editing text notes4.5 Ratings 43K+ Reviews 10M+ DownloadsFreeFree![Google Play]()
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Easy Notes - Notepad, Notebook
Notepad, Color Notes, Notebook, Note taking apps, Memo, Good notes, Sticky notes4.5 Ratings 144K+ Reviews 5M+ DownloadsFree Fresh In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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BlackNote Notepad Notes
BlackNote is the black theme's notepad.
It's the simple notes app.4.8 Ratings 73K+ Reviews 1M+ DownloadsFree In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Google Keep - Notes and Lists
Google Keep4.2 Ratings 1M+ Reviews 1B+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh 1M+ ReviewsFree![Google Play]()
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Microsoft OneNote: Save Ideas and Organize Notes
Powerful notepad to capture ideas & save notes. Easily organize & share notes4.5 Ratings 2M+ Reviews 500M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh 1M+ ReviewsFree![Google Play]()
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WeNote - Notes, Notepad, Notebook, Note taking app
Notes notepad to create color notes, to-do list, reminders & calendar quickly.4.8 Ratings 62K+ Reviews 1M+ DownloadsFree In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Smart Note - Notepad, Notes
Smart Note is a simple notepad. This app is an easy and fast notes app.4.6 Ratings 19K+ Reviews 500K+ DownloadsFree Fresh In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Notebook-Notes, To-do, Journal
Organise your notes, lists, voice notes, files with this best note taking app4.5 Ratings 62K+ Reviews 1M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich FreshFree![Google Play]()
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Notepad notes, memo, checklist
Easy, efficient and very simple notepad.4.1 Ratings 409K+ Reviews 10M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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How We Choose The Best Apps
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Our unique algorithm scoured the App Store and Google Play Store by searching taking notes, memo app, note app and 16 other keywords. From there, we retrieved a total of 2,013 unique apps (895 Android apps and 1118 iOS apps) as potential candidates. -
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Finally, our editorial team checks all apps in our best 10 list one by one to make sure these apps are of the highest quality. -
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We then selected the highest quality apps from the 2,013 apps listed. We compared the number of stars, downloads, and reviews along with the velocity of these apps to create a list of the Best Note Taking Apps for both Android & iOS.
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