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title: "Note Taker HD - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "Zoomed ink, PDF markup, photos, shapes, typed text, folders and tagging, extensive AirPlay control, and much more.  The latest upgrade of one of the first note taking apps designed specifically for th"
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# Note Taker HD — United States
> Versatile writing & PDF markup

![Note Taker HD App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/78/a7/fc/78a7fcdd-f70f-ec16-70dd-9131a209fa15/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-5-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Software Garden](https://apptail.io/developer/software-garden-gBve) (United States)
**Category:** Productivity
**Rating:** 4.1/5 (140 ratings)
**Price:** $4.99
**Bundle ID:** com.softwaregarden.NoteTakerHD
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 7.3.0 (released 2026-10-21)
**Original Release:** 2010-05-08
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id366572045)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/united-states)

## Note Taker HD Description
Zoomed ink, PDF markup, photos, shapes, typed text, folders and tagging, extensive AirPlay control, and much more.

The latest upgrade of one of the first note taking apps designed specifically for the Apple iPad and now also available for the Apple iPhone, Note Taker HD has long been known as a powerful and stable application for writing and organizing handwritten notes and diagrams.

Note Taker HD can also be used to annotate PDF files. It can shrink your writing so you can easily fit a lot of text on a page. You can read the reduced-size "ink" as if you had written those letters with a very fine pen. It gives you solid functionality and control to produce the pages you need.

Documents are flexibly organized by tags, date/time last modified, favorites, and more, with a scrolling list of thumbnail images of part of each page to help you find them later. You can email one or more pages as a single PDF file, "Open In" other apps, or, if your device supports it, print.

Note Taker HD lets you create pages by writing on the screen with your finger or an iPad/iPhone-compatible stylus. You can either write directly on the page for large drawings, or have the "ink" you write shrunk down. You can write in large letters on the screen rather than trying to make tiny motions like a pencil. You just keep writing and Note Taker HD automatically adds new writing next to the old. To quickly correct mistakes, it has multi-level undo and redo buttons as well as an eraser -- just drag your finger over the page to erase the "ink" under it.

You can zoom in and out on a page using the pinch gesture while viewing or editing. The Zoomed Editing window lets you see both a zoomed-out overview and a zoomed-in close-up writing area at the same time.

You can use "Open In" in other apps send PDF files to Note Taker HD for annotation.

Other features include:

- Pages organized into documents and folders
- Typed blocks of text with optional borders
- 60+ highly customizable shapes
- Insert and crop images from Photo Albums, Pasteboard, or the iPad/iPhone camera
- Custom backgrounds from images or PDF pages
- Free templates and clip art on the support web site
- VGA/HDMI/AirPlay support with zoom, pan, and a moveable pointer
- Wrist guard to avoid inadvertent touches
- Layout variations better suited to some left-handed users
- Optional fields in output footers like in a word processor
- Extensive built-in help
- Smooth and crisp ink on screen and in PDF output
- Share editable copies of your documents with others
- Backup to a single file for off-iPad/iPhone storage
- Password protected folders
- Support for the iOS Data Protection API
- Support for languages written right-to-left
- Full-screen preview mode
- Automatic advance and auto-return in zoomed editing
- Copy/Cut/Paste between pages, rotate/resize ink

Note Taker HD was designed and programmed by Dan Bricklin, the same person who over 40 years ago came up with VisiCalc, the pioneering electronic spreadsheet that made working with numbers on a personal computer so easy.

To see it in action, click on the Support link here or go directly to www.notetakerhd.com.

## Note Taker HD Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/a9/9a/d5/a99ad546-4a9a-521c-87d3-887ab6c6a459/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/82/a2/ff/82a2ff22-0a3c-f10c-8cbd-30c79497f381/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/6e/e3/f4/6ee3f457-6f37-43ea-b1c5-6ba5ddff41e8/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/f5/14/d9/f514d91d-b6b2-0d38-0d4c-927068081608/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/8e/97/87/8e9787bb-9085-7f57-4cdc-8ba2d3c37c75/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 6](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/92/a5/d8/92a5d8fe-c92d-c4db-564c-00d065032b61/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)

## Note Taker HD Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 88 (63%)
- 4 stars: 15 (11%)
- 3 stars: 10 (7%)
- 2 stars: 10 (7%)
- 1 stars: 17 (12%)

## Note Taker HD Reviews in United States

### ***** "Great app"
Fantastic app, saved me tons of time…great app for engineering and sending exact information to customers. Superb
-- Roaddog024, 2025-06-05

### ***** "Text and sketching on the same page!"
I have been using Note Taker HD for many years.  It was the first note taking app I found where free-hand drawing and typed text can co-exist in same page.  This is hands-down my favorite aspect of this app.  Typed notes are so much more legible than hand-written.  My handwriting is just so-so on regular paper and atrocious in sketch apps.  As a bonus, the typed text remains as a text object rather than being incorporated into the page graphics, meaning the text can be edited at will.

My second favorite feature is the zoom window that opens at the bottom of the page.  This provide much more precision when drawing and prevents errant marks from wrist-detection, which I find rarely works in sketch/note apps.

As mentioned above, every element on the page, including the page background, remains as a separate object.  You may ask, “so what?”  Well with each element remaining a distinct objet, that object can be moved, modified and even deleted without affecting other elements.  For example, if you select a grid background because you are drawing mechanical-type illustrations, but don’t want the grid visible on printed output, simply change to a blank background and output.

My only negative is that there is no direct way to export to Evernote, which is my document filing system.  However, I use the “output” button and simply mail it to my Evernote email address which places it in my Inbox.  Not really any different than capturing a drawing on paper using Scannable; I still have to type in a title and file it.  With the Evernote email, I can get fancy with keywords in email subject to direct Evernote to place the note in desired notebook and assign desired tags to it.

Lastly, I had been using Penultimate, but became extremely annoyed with the constant pop up of “Camera/Photo” whenever touching stylus to iPad writing area, and it’s inability to type in text directly.  It appears Penultimate is now deprecated.  So now I’m back to Note Taker HD, this time to stay.
-- EspeeModeller, 2025-04-29

### ***** "Easy to use, powerful, awesome!"
Rich features and easy to use, very friendly design and excellent to write, draw, paste image and so son. Absolutely useful.
-- nbonadeu, 2024-12-28

### ***** "Does everything I need and never fails"
i’ve been using this app for probably 10 years not really sure, but I work as a professional interpreter, and I do all my notetaking on this app. That’s a lot of trust in an iPad app, because if we get stuck, having to read back our notes and we lose the notes or can’t read them for some reason we are toast. I have even been able to import a PDF background of the kind of notebooks. I typically use to take interpreting notes in, so it’s completely comfortable seeing the same lined page in the same separation on the page. Being able to switch colors is great. I use it primarily for handwritten notes, because interpreting notes are not really taken in complete sentences or words, words, but I’ve tried the other features, and they all work perfectly.
-- Mapuser, 2024-12-22

### ***** "It will become priority software"
I don’t remember exactly when I started using NoteTaker HD, but it was long enough ago that it has been one of my first installs on several iPads by now. It is a favorite because of the many things it can do, and therefore because of all the solutions it provides me, as I process through all the dang information that moves across my consciousness every day. And, because Dan Bricklin is so engaged with the product (in the videos, responses to questions, etc.),I feel a personal connection to NoteTaker HD, unlike other soulless apps from God knows who. NoteTaker HD does so many things that, if you are new, you should allow yourself time to just play and wade into it. Before long, you’ll start to realize the power you can have to organize and manage all that information, and you, too, will have lots of wow moments and priority downloads onto new generations of iPads.
-- Thisnicknameisnottaken3, 2024-09-28

### ***** "Best pdf annotation app  and note taker"
This is a must if you do any annotation or signing PDF’s.  Note taking is easy, clean and functional.  One of the few apps that works like it is supposed to.
-- Way to busy, 2024-09-08

### ***** "Solid as a rock, year after year"
I started using NoteTakerHD in 2010 on my iPad 2, entering data into my homegrown social work encounter form, imported as a .pdf and saved as a template. I chose NoteTakerHD because it was the only note taking app password protected and encrypted to HIPAA standard. 

I have used this app every working day since, now installed on an iPad Pro 11 inch. Never a glitch. Stone cold reliable.

 Other apps for taking notes may have more features, but I trust this only this one for my psychotherapy notes, all sensitive, health-protected documents.
-- Bashointhenorth, 2022-10-06

### ***** "Makes the iPad Great for Work"
I turn to this app on a daily basis for my job.  Whether for annotating my reviews on a PDF report, creating a flow diagram to help a group with developing a process, filling out a form for HR, or just using one of the many useful templates that come with the app, this helps me focus on getting my work done effectively.  I have enjoyed using this for at least 10 years.  I have tried a lot of other note-taking apps, but this one alone stands the test of time.  The developers have my deepest gratitude; my iPad would not be useful to me without this app.
-- Bridgeda, 2022-05-31

### ***** "A great note taking app and easy to use"
I take a lot of notes for work and used to fill different note books which I then would have to comb through to find what I needed. NoteTakerHD has allowed me to have all my notes in one place. It is easy or organize and find what I am looking for. It has lots of flexibility and the developer is quick to reply to questions.
-- h mj dytrr6 u5 &*6, 2021-09-26

### ***** "Dependable, great app"
I have been using this app for 8+ years now and I still love it so much. So easy to take neat, readable notes which I am personally incapable of doing on a physical paper. Every feature I have used has been very reliable and never buggy, which is truly amazing after so many years.
-- sps123412, 2020-12-04

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## Note Taker HD Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Paid | China | Productivity | #155 |

## Note Taker HD Discovered Keywords
- notetaker
- note taker hd

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## Note Taker HD Available In
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/united-states)
- [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/canada)
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/united-kingdom)
- [Germany](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/germany)
- [Australia](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/australia)
- [France](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/france)
- [Belgium](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/belgium)
- [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/japan)
- [Mexico](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/mexico)
- [Czechia](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/czechia)
- [New Zealand](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/new-zealand)
- [Taiwan](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/taiwan)
- [Norway](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/norway)
- [Chile](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/chile)
- [Spain](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/spain)
- [China](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/china)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/saudi-arabia)
- [Malaysia](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/malaysia)
- [Austria](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/austria)
- [Vietnam](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/vietnam)
- [Colombia](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/colombia)
- [Singapore](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/singapore)
- [Brazil](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/brazil)
- [Romania](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/romania)
- [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/israel)
- [India](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/india)
- [Italy](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/italy)
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- [Ukraine](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/ukraine)
- [Belarus](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/belarus)
- [Bahrain](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/bahrain)
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- [Jamaica](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/jamaica)
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- [Venezuela](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/venezuela)
- [Cayman Islands](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/cayman-islands)
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- [Ghana](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/ghana)
- [Grenada](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/grenada)
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- [Uruguay](https://apptail.io/app/note-taker-hd-jgib/uruguay)
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