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Handwritten notes online: write with your Apple Pencil, free

A digital notebook that works right here in the browser on iPad, Android tablets and computers. Write with Apple Pencil or any stylus, rest your hand on the screen, switch pens, highlight and erase, on lined, grid or dotted paper. Nothing to install, no account needed to try it.

Everything you type stays in your browser. Nothing is sent to our servers.

Write on the page below. Apple Pencil and other styluses work with palm rejection; on a computer, use the mouse or a graphics tablet.

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How to use it

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    Pick a pen

    Choose the pen, pencil or highlighter, a colour and a thickness in the toolbar. The straight-line pen turns a hand-drawn line into a clean one.

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    Write with your stylus

    Write with Apple Pencil or any active stylus. Your hand can rest on the screen: touches are ignored while you write, and pressure changes the line.

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    Erase, highlight, add pages

    Erase part of a stroke, select and move handwriting with the lasso, change the paper (lined, grid, dotted or blank) and add pages from templates.

A digital notebook that feels like paper

Handwriting helps you remember: writing a lesson in your own words forces you to process it, instead of copying it word for word. The trouble with paper notebooks is everything that comes after: they get lost, they can't be searched, and you can't bring them to every class.

This free online notebook keeps the feel of writing by hand and removes those problems. The ink follows your pen with very low latency, the line reacts to pressure, and you can rest your hand on the screen like on real paper.

Made for Apple Pencil and styluses

On iPad, open this page in Safari or Chrome and write with Apple Pencil: no app to download. Palm rejection keeps your hand from leaving marks. Active styluses on Android tablets and Windows touch screens work the same way, and on a computer you can use the mouse or a graphics tablet.

Lined, grid, dotted and blank pages are built in, plus templates such as Cornell notes, so the page fits what you are writing: lecture notes, maths, diagrams or a quick revision plan.

From handwritten notes to revision

The pages you write here stay in your browser. With a free Noto Studio account, the same paper editor saves your pages in notebooks and syncs them across your devices, next to your typed notes, flashcards and calendar. You can also ask Noto AI questions about any page, for example to explain a part of the lesson or check what you wrote.

Questions, answered

Is this handwriting notebook really free?

Yes. You can write as much as you want on this page without an account. A free Noto account lets you save your pages and organise them in notebooks.

Does it work with Apple Pencil?

Yes. Open the page in Safari or Chrome on iPad and write with Apple Pencil, with pressure and palm rejection. No app to install.

Can I write with my finger?

Yes, until you use a stylus: as soon as a pen touches the page, touches are treated as your palm and ignored, so only the pen writes.

Where are my notes saved?

On this page, they stay in your browser on this device. To keep them safely and find them on other devices, create a free Noto account and use the paper notes in the app.

Which paper styles are available?

Blank, lined, grid and dotted pages, plus page templates such as Cornell notes. You can change the paper of any page and add as many pages as you need.

Keep your handwritten notes, and revise from them

With a free Noto account, your handwritten pages are saved in notebooks and synced across your devices, and Noto AI can answer questions about them.

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