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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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Notepad - simple notes
A simple small notepad app for making notes, memos, short or long text files4.6 Ratings 49K+ Reviews 10M+ DownloadsFree FreshFree![Google Play]()
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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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Google Keep - Notes and Lists
Google Keep4.2 Ratings 1M+ Reviews 1B+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh 1M+ ReviewsFree![Google Play]()
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Easy Notes - Notebook Note pad
Good Notes Writer, Notebook, Notepad, Memo,Sticky Notes Widget, Noteit,GoodNotes4.6 Ratings 192K+ Reviews 10M+ DownloadsFree Fresh In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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WeNote: Notes Notebook Notepad
Easy to use notebook for notes, to do list, shopping list, reminders, calendar4.8 Ratings 73K+ Reviews 1M+ DownloadsFree Fresh In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Microsoft OneNote: Save 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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Notebook - Notes,To-do,Journal
Note-taking app to organize, take notes, list, voice memo, sticky notes, post it4.5 Ratings 66K+ Reviews 1M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich FreshFree![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 85K+ Reviews 1M+ DownloadsFree In App PurchasesFree In-App Purchases![Google Play]()
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Evernote - Note Organizer
Notepad & Planner: Take notes, create daily tasks and organize to-do lists.4.1 Ratings 2M+ Reviews 100M+ DownloadsFree Feature Rich Fresh In App Purchases 1M+ ReviewsCoupons for this app
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Simplenote
Simplenote is an easy way to keep notes, lists, ideas and more4.1 Ratings 28K+ Reviews 1M+ DownloadsFree Feature RichFree![Google Play]()
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How We Choose The Best Apps
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Broad Search
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 1,152 unique apps (120 Android apps and 1032 iOS apps) as potential candidates. -
Additional Review by Editorial Team
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. -
Filter only high-quality apps
We then selected the highest quality apps from the 1,152 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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