Best apps for taking notes and notes on Android and iPhone

With a new generation smartphone you can take notes quickly, by writing, using your voice, using a touch pen or even taking a photo.

Every phone already has a built-in note-taking tool, but if you’re using an iPhone, iPad, or Android device, there are some must-have apps that let you jot down notes or things to remember and keep every note automatically synced to your phone, tablet, or tablet. on the computer.

In this article we will look at the best ones app to take notes on your phone, to organize things to remember, to have reminders of appointments or eventsgiving top priority to those who support it multi-device sync.

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1) Google Keep

Google Keep is among the best note-taking apps and is available for free for Android and for iPhone.

With Google Keep we can keep our notes in order and synchronize them with a Google account, so we can access them from any other device. This notes service is accessible from website or how extension for Google Chromewithout forgetting that the notes are also visible from Google Drive and Gmail.

In addition to written notes, voice notes and to-do lists (including photo lists), we can use Google Keep to save photos as well, with the possibility of converting them to PDF and Automatically transcribe text in photos.

To learn more we can read ours complete guide to google keep.

2) Apple Note

If we only use Apple products (iPhone, iPad and Mac) it is better to write the notes on the app Note integrated into the operating system and automatically synchronized with the Apple account.

By opening the Notes app and pressing on the bottom right we will be able to start writing any note, take notes, create a grid, create a bulleted list of things to do, draw (and much more) without having to download anything to our device.

The Notes app is also available on Mac (just sign in with the same Apple ID) and is automatically synchronized with the mobile app; to check these notes also on Windows PC we will have to access the sito iCloud Note and sign in with the same account you use on your Apple devices.

3) Microsoft OneNote

If we use PCs a lot to work or study, we strongly recommend that you synchronize your notes using Microsoft OneNoteavailable as a free app (no need to have Office installed) for Androidper iPhoneper Windows and for Mac.

OneNote is a really full-featured app, including many of the tools of Word, plus those of a note-taking application. Notes saved in OneNote can contain text notes, photos, scanned paper documents (with OCR function to convert them into PDF files) and web pages (to be read later), as well as the ever-present to-do lists and shopping lists .

To learn more, we can read our guide on how to use free Microsoft OneNote on Windows, Mac and phone.

4) Evernote

Evernote is among the historical apps for taking notes and notes, free, for Android and for iPhone.

Evernote is one of the most popular apps in all stores, having been around for several years now. Evernote allows you to add notes and organize using tags or categories. Notes can be text, images, voice, handwritten, screenshots or simple scans of sheets of paper.

All notes are synchronized to the free Evernote account (which we can also create on the spot using a Google or Apple account) and are available via websitethrough extension for Google Chrome or via app for Windows or for Mac.

The notes can also be shared with anyone via email or via Facebook, so you can manage expense reports, to-do lists with other people we work with or live with.

5) Any.do

In business and professional environments, the best app we can use to work with notes is definitely Any.dogreat for taking notes and synced notes on Android come on iPhone.

Any.do is one of the best reminder apps, which can also be used to take notes and mark things to remember. You can then set an alarm in the form of a notification or sound so you never forget an appointment or event.

Any.do can also be accessed from a computer by downloading the dedicated app for Windows and for Macin addition to being usable as web app on any browser or operating system.

6) More apps to use for notes and memos

In addition to the apps seen so far (in our opinion the best for every scenario where we need notes) we can also find other note apps and synced notesto try for free on all the devices in our possession:

• Notion is not only a note-writing app, but also allows you to create to-do lists for collaborative projects, very powerful, to which I have dedicated an article to itself.
• TickTick for PC, Android and iPhone has become the best app for organizing notes and to-dos in a synchronized way in 2021. Free, it can be used to create lists, share tasks with other people, organize tasks in various ways, get reminders, set up recurring tasks and more. It also offers widgets and includes features for recording voice notes and transcribing them into auto-written text.
• BlackNoteper Android is a note taking app with a completely black background, which is very convenient for not straining your eyes.
• Fine noteper Android is a fun note-taking application with a grid background along with drawing support.
• Colornotesper Android is one of the most downloaded apps in play store, which is for creating text notes, lists and taking notes. Its feature is the possibility to change the background color of the notes to organize them better. Other features are calendar support and cloud backup support.
• Otter Voice Notes per Android e iPhone is the best app to record voice notes and transcribe them into auto-written text.
• Microsoft To-Doevolution of Wunderlist is an excellent application for iPhone and Android that allows you to write to-do lists, reminders with notifications, alarms, the possibility of sharing appointments and many other functions perfect for turning your smartphone into an intelligent work agenda.
• Zoho Notebookper Android e iPhoneis perhaps the best application for taking notes on the phone and organizing notes, both in terms of graphical interface and completeness of information.
• SimpleNote is the app for those who want a simple, basic and distraction-free writing sheet. Notes are synced across smartphones ( Android or iOS ), PCs ( Windows 10 , Windows 7/8, macOS and Linux ) and can also be read from the SimpleNote web page. You can organize your notes with tags, you can collaborate with other SimpleNote users by sharing a note link. As for the notes themselves, they can be text-only, with no images or voice memos.
• ColorNote (Android only) is a great way to organize your notes on your phone with colors and create to-do lists sorted by name, date created or modified. Notes can be archived, but there is no option to create folders or tags.
• swimming it’s only for Android and works well for writing quick notes that appear on the notification bar.
• Som Noteper Android e iPhone, an easy note-taking web app where you can create multiple notes, attach media files or documents, and sort them into multicolored folders. If you store a lot of notes, SomNote offers 100MB of free cloud storage for each account.
• Samsung Notes is the default app on Samsung phones, great for taking notes and organizing them in collections or on a single page. You can set to flag important notes or sort notes by title, date created or date modified. On the Galaxy Note, the app supports S-Pen for handwriting on the phone screen. Voice recordings and photos can also be attached.
• Post-Itper Android e iPhone, is an official app from 3M for taking notes to stick on your screen (virtually). The app uses graphics that look like real post-it notes to be instantly visible.
• Remember the Milk is a very convenient and simple web service for managing to-do lists and taking notes and notes. In addition to the webapp, it also offers dedicated apps for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS/iPadOS, so you can manage note lists even on the go.

From now on we start taking notes digitally, without ever losing any important information for work or study.

Conclusions

On our phones let’s avoid using clipboard apps without sync: we risk losing them forever if we break our phone or suffer a theft.

Using the apps mentioned in the article we will be sure to have the most used and always active (as well as synchronized) apps in our hands, so as to never lose our notes and maintain synchronization between the various devices in our possession.

To learn more we can also read our guides on how to save text, files, images and videos online temporarily come on how to take notes and stick post-its on PC.