CollaNote

Freenotes offers a digital note-taking experience that blends the feel of writing on paper with powerful AI enhancements. You get realistic pen strokes that mimic lifelike handwriting as you sketch or take notes, along with tools like handwriting-to-text conversion, stickers, and various brush styles. Your notes sync via iCloud and multi-cloud backups. Freenotes supports PDF annotation, letting you mark up, highlight, and translate text directly in your documents; you can also insert hyperlinks to other pages or external web content. It enables picture-in-picture video mode and split-screen support so you can take notes while watching course videos or lectures. With its built-in AI assistant, you can take a screenshot or upload a document and receive instant answers or content summaries. To stay organized, notes can be grouped into folders, and a quick search lets you locate what you need fast.

Noteful is a digital note-taking and annotation app optimized for handwriting on iOS devices that blends fluid pen input with powerful document tools. You can write naturally using Apple Pencil or touch input; its custom ink engine records strokes as scalable vector ink, and you can switch between three brushes (ballpoint, fountain, highlighter), sizes, and colors. Beyond handwriting, Noteful supports importing PDFs and Office documents, annotating with typed text, images, and shapes, and layering multiple paper templates within a single notebook. Notes can be organized flexibly via hashtag tagging (including nested tags), rather than rigid folder structures, and you can browse content by tags or pin important pages. It offers a layer system so you can annotate without altering base content, hiding or reordering layers as needed. Editing tools include a precise eraser, lasso selection for moving or resizing content, unlimited undo/redo, and split-view multitasking.