Jotting down quick thoughts as they occur is helpful, and the Notes app on your phone is the perfect place to jot them down. Whether you’re looking for a simple note-taking app to replace sticky notes or an advanced solution to better organize meeting details, audio recordings, and interesting articles from the web, we’ve got eight of the best note-taking apps for your Phone.
1. A note:
OneNote is Microsoft’s powerful multi-purpose solution for taking notes. The app includes Windows Sticky Notes integration and mimics a traditional notebook with sections and pages to organize your notes. You can add text, attach media files, make audio recordings and complete formatting with the rich text editor. OneNote for Android also offers the ability to enable a badge that displays a link to the app on the screen. Tap the OneNote icon and take notes quickly without opening the app.
You can password protect a section of the notebook, invite others to a notebook for real-time collaboration, and export a page as a PDF file to share with others. OneNote uses Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage to store and sync data.
2. Notes:
If UI design comes first, look no further than Notes. It is one of the few apps that implements the Material You theme and the implementation is flawless. In addition to notes and tasks, Bundle Notes offers a versatile Kanban-style note and card editor for managing small personal projects. The app uses tags to organize notes, tasks and projects. We have a detailed overview of the package notes. Take a look for more details.
You can unlock 15GB of account storage, a 400MB limit for file uploads, and use the web app by paying for the pro package.
3. Evernote:
Evernote has been around for a long time, but the mobile and desktop apps have recently received a major overhaul. The popular note-taking app offers a new customizable home dashboard to manage your latest notes, web clips, photos, documents, frequently used notebooks, and a notepad for quick note-taking. You can customize the dashboard widgets and wear a gorgeous wallpaper to start the day. Common goodies of Evernote include a robust tagging system for organizing notes, a search function to find text in PDF files, a browser extension to save snippets or web pages, and a rich text editor.
Evernote also introduced a native task manager that allows you to keep track of all your activities in one place. The software is available for iOS, Android, Windows, Mac and web operating systems.
4. Google Keep:
Google Keep – The default note-taking app on Android and gets the job done with basic note-taking options. You can create a new note with different theme options, set a beautiful background and add activities, media files, drawings and audio recordings. Like Gmail, Google Keep organizes your notes into different folders using tags. You can pin notes and set reminders, but your sensitive notes cannot be password protected. When it comes to collaboration, you can invite others and collaborate as a group to plan your next trip to Google Keep.
Aside from the recent revamp of Material You, Google Keep has basically remained the same over the years. It’s time for Google to bring rich text formatting and new features to Keep. The app is free and available for iOS, Android and the web.
5. Predefined Notes:
The Free Standard Notes plan includes cross-platform sync, offline function, passcode function to lock notes, organized tags, and unlimited device support. You need to upgrade to the Productivity or Professional plan for rich text formatting, task management, up to one year of note review history, and better organization with nested folders. The latter is worth considering if you store a lot of photos and videos in Notes, as the plan comes with 100GB of encrypted cloud storage.
