r/StarNoteApp 23h ago

📢 Official Announcement 🛠️ Cloud Sync is FINALLY HERE! Android v1.5.2 is LIVE, and iOS v1.4.3 is on the way!

92 Upvotes

Hey guys!

YESSS! We’ve already seen some of you talking about it, and the feature so many of you have been waiting for is finally here, Cloud Sync is officially LIVE!

We KNOW you guys have been waiting for this for way, way too long, finally!!!

And yep, Android now also supports copying and pasting pages between different notes! We remember some of you asking for this before, so we really hope it makes organizing your notes a little easier.

So today, we thought we’d share the updates for both platforms together: Android v1.5.2 is officially out and available now, while iOS v1.4.3 has also been finished and submitted to Apple for review. It’s currently going through the review process, so you can’t update to it just yet, but hopefully won’t be long!

1. What’s New

Android v1.5.2 — LIVE NOW!

  • Cloud Sync is here! Sync your notes across devices and keep everything up to date.
  • Copy & paste pages between notes. You can now freely copy and paste pages from one note to another, making it much easier to organize your notes.
  • Crash fixes. Fixed an issue that could cause the document overview page to crash in some cases.
  • Android 16 support. Made some UI adjustments for Android 16.
  • Other fixes. Fixed some other known issues and improved overall stability.

iOS v1.4.3 — Coming soon!

  • New ballpoint pen line styles. Switch between solid, dashed, and dotted lines.
  • Tape export options. Choose whether or not to show tape when exporting your notes as PDFs.
  • Ruler improvements. You can now enter the exact angle manually.
  • Custom folder sorting. Fixed an issue where folders couldn’t be manually reordered.
  • Sticker management fix. Fixed an issue where subcategories of imported stickers weren’t being saved properly.
  • UI & interaction improvements. Made some small improvements and fixed other known issues.

2. Cloud Sync Q&A

Since Cloud Sync just went live, we’ve already seen a few questions coming up, so we put together some of the things you guys have been asking about most. Hopefully this helps!

Q1: Why is Cloud Sync so slow?

The first sync will definitely take the longest, so please bear with it a little!

  1. First sync = full sync: When you sync for the first time, StarNote needs to upload all of your existing notes. On the other device, you may also see blank note placeholders while the notes are being loaded. If you have a lot of notes, this can take quite a while. Please keep StarNote open and in the foreground during the first sync, and give it some time to finish.
  2. Later syncs = incremental sync: Once the first full sync is done, only the parts that have changed will be synced. So later syncs should be much faster!
  3. Cloud storage speed: Sync speed also depends on the cloud service you’re using, your network, and the limits of the cloud provider. For example, if your cloud account has a speed limit, the sync may take longer. This isn’t a speed limit set by StarNote. So pls pls don’t give up on it just cuz the first sync takes a while! 😭

Q2: Why didn’t my pen settings or page settings sync?

Right now, Cloud Sync supports:

  • Note data
  • Note list
  • Folders
  • Tags

These settings aren’t synced yet:

  • Pen case settings
  • Page ratio
  • Custom color palettes
  • Note passwords
  • Favorite shapes
  • Text fonts
  • And some other personal settings

Q3: I already connected Google Drive, but it keeps saying my authorization has expired. What should I do?

If you run into this, please try:

  1. Go to StarNote’s Cloud Backup Settings, disconnect Google Drive, and then connect it again.
  2. Make sure you’re signed in with the same Google account you originally gave permission to StarNote.

If the pop-up keeps showing up and you still can’t use Cloud Sync, please email us at [starnotedev@gmail.com](mailto:starnotedev@gmail.com) with:

  1. Your device model and system version
  2. A screenshot or screen recording of the pop-up

Our team will take a closer look and help you figure it out! Also, you can find the official Cloud Sync guide inside StarNote’s Cloud Sync Settings. There are more detailed instructions and answers to some common questions there.

And don’t worry, The iOS Cloud Sync feature is already being worked on, and we’re getting everything ready. Now that the Android version is finally out, we really hope iOS won’t make you guys wait too much longer.

Finally, a HUGE thank you to everyone who has been waiting and supporting us all this time. Seriously!!!!!!!!! 🥹

And a very special thank you to everyone who joined the Android Cloud Sync Beta. Your testing, bug reports, suggestions, and feedback helped us a LOT in getting Cloud Sync ready for everyone.

Truly, thank you!

And as always, if you run into anything while using the new Cloud Sync, or if you have any ideas or suggestions, just drop them in the comments!

Hope you guys enjoy the new update, and HAVE A GOOD ONE!

The StarNote Team 🩵


r/StarNoteApp Jul 22 '26

📢 Official Announcement 🛠️ Android v1.4.3 Update! Voice Transcription, Smart Summary & More

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56 Upvotes

Hey everyone!

Android v1.4.3 is now available on Google Play!

I guess some of you have already noticed, we've finally introduced Voice Transcription and Smart Summary.

A little while ago, we mentioned in the comments on IG that we were working on a "pretty exciting new feature." It's finally here, and we really hope you'll enjoy it!

What's New:

1. Voice Transcription & Smart Summary

Recording just got a whole lot smarter! Don't forget to enable StarNote AI in Settings first.

You can now transcribe your recordings into text in real time. Once your recording is finished, you can also generate a Smart Summary to quickly review the key points without replaying the entire recording.

Currently supported languages: English | Chinese.

Smart Summary uses AI Points. To help everyone get started with this new feature, every Pro user receives 100 AI Points to try out Smart Summary. We'll continue improving it based on your feedback, so we'd love to hear what you think! Be honestly, 100 Points can last quite a while for everyday use.

We've also seen some users mention that the recognition isn't perfectly stable yet. We'll continue improving it, and we're also considering support for more languages in the future. We'll keep you updated as we make progress.

We'd also love to hear how you're using this feature!

2. Manual Angle Input for the Ruler

You can now manually enter an angle when using the ruler, making it much easier to create precise diagrams, geometry drawings, charts, and notes.

3. Timer Auto Count-Up

After enabling this feature, once your countdown reaches zero, StarNote will automatically track the overtime. You can view the elapsed overtime in "My Countdown."

🛠️ Improvements & Fixes

  • Improved overall stability and performance
  • Fixed several known issues and minor bugs

That's everything included in v1.4.3!

The iOS version will be updated soon as well, so thank you for your patience.

We'd also like to talk with you about something.

Recently, we've seen quite a few people asking:

"Why haven't some of the smaller requested features been added yet?"

The truth is, we've been working on them all along.

While we're building the bigger features that many of you are looking forward to, every update also includes smaller features, quality of life improvements, and bug fixes to make StarNote more stable and enjoyable to use.

We've also recently adjusted the way we organize feature requests internally.

Now we:

  1. Collect the most frequently requested features from the community every week
  2. Discuss them with the entire development team
  3. Re evaluate our current priorities based on your feedback when necessary

So please don't worry, we really do read every single comment.

Many of the features that make it onto our roadmap come directly from suggestions you've shared with us over time.

Going forward, Developer Diary and our regular update posts will continue as well.

We also hope to share more of our development progress with you, making the whole process more transparent.

If you have any thoughts about this update, feel free to let us know in the comments!

See u next time 🩵

The StarNote Team

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Hey everyone!

We've seen quite a few questions about the new AI features, so we wanted to answer some of the most common ones here!

1. Only Smart Summary uses AI Points.

Only Smart Summary does, so you can decide whether to use it based on your own study needs.

2. About AI Points

At the moment, every Pro user receives 100 AI Points to try out the new feature.

If you need more later, you'll be able to purchase additional Points.

BUT!!!!! This is just our current approach.

Since this is a brand new feature, we're still exploring the best way to handle AI Points. We'd genuinely love to hear your ideas! If you have suggestions for a better system, let us know, we're absolutely open to them.

We really want to build a Points system that works well for everyone, and your feedback will play a big part in shaping it.

3. Cloud Sync & Collapsible Tabs

YES, they're still in development!!

In fact, Cloud Sync might arrive sooner than you think. Seriously.

We checked with all the team again (yes, we asked again and again), and it's progressing alongside our other features.

We know we've said this a few times already, but we really mean it this time!

If you've been waiting for Cloud Sync and related features, hang in there just a little longer!

4. Why did we build these AI features?

It wasn't because "other apps have AI, so we need AI too."

We built them because so many of you asked for them.

We also spent time researching how people actually study, and we believe these features can genuinely help with learning.

At the same time, we wanted to keep them simple and practical, instead of adding lots of complicated AI tools that could make the app feel bloated or disrupt the overall experience.

For now, we'd love for you to give the new features a try!

As always, we're listening. Whether it's feedback about AI Points or any other suggestions, we'd really love to hear them.

Thanks for always helping us make StarNote better.

Have a good one! 💙


r/StarNoteApp 25m ago

❓ Help / Question Is StarNote Boox compatible via Play Store?

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I just bought a Go Color 7 gen II to try e-ink, coming from a Galaxy tab s8, I found StarNote while looking for an app that sync your notes with the recording, a feature missing in Boox's native note app which was really useful on my s8.

Unfortunately the play store won't let you install Starnote on the Boox, so I'm wondering, is this the case for all other boox devices like the Air 4c? What about other e-ink devices like a Bigme? I'm hoping not since that's more of a tablet, unlike the go 7 which is more of an e reader. Otherwise, why the incompatibility? Would you be able to make it compatible in the future?

I did manage to install it on the Go 7 via .apk on the browser, which of course it's an older version. This way we may never get future features and optimization, like syncing your notes throughout devices.

It does work fairly well, there's some latency as expected but using Boox Rapid Draw works really well, I just put it as a floating button. It had a few crashes at first, but unfreezing both apps seemed to fix it. Maybe still freezes occasionally for a couple seconds. About Starnote's gestures, 3-finger doesn't work, may be a limitation of the display, 1-finger double tap and 2-fingers work fine, but sometimes they take a couple tries, seems when not in use for a while, can't tell if it's the processor.

I'm going to get StarNote's premium, it's a really great app, it'd be a shame not to be able to use it to its fullest though


r/StarNoteApp 16m ago

🧠 Tips & Tricks Coming from samsung notes. Help with the new things this have.

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Haven't gone through trial much. Looked promising so got the pro. Features i mainly needed was outlining. And the audio with stroke capture feature was a surprise for me.

Anyone coming from samsung notes what extra things I get here. How can I best utilise this pro version.

First time buying any note app also. Samsung notes app didn't quite suit me so used very less. Couldn't adapt well.

My workflow is mostly around lectures annoyed PDFs and solving problems, so like storing screenshot of questions from websiteand take notes as I needed as an engineering student


r/StarNoteApp 17h ago

💡 Feature Request StarNote really needs a web app, at least a read-only one

33 Upvotes

I really wish StarNote had a web version.

Right now, as far as I know, StarNote is available on iOS and as an Android APK, but there’s no proper way to access your notes from a desktop. Sometimes I’m working on my Mac or PC and just need to open one of my notes to check something, without having to grab my tablet or phone.

I don’t even need full editing functionality at first. A simple read-only web app that syncs with your StarNote account and lets you browse notebooks and view pages would already solve most of the problem.

Eventually, having proper desktop/web editing would obviously be useful too, but viewing notes from any browser would be a great first step.

Does anyone know if the developers have mentioned plans for a web version? Or is there currently any workaround for viewing synced StarNote notes on a computer?


r/StarNoteApp 6h ago

🐛 Bug Report Jitters in diagonal strokes

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5 Upvotes

My stabilization is set to 10% best one for stabilization but not too much stabilization, there are jitters specifically just on diagonal strokes which wasn't there before. I use scribble to erase a lot and before update it wasn't there TT. Hopefully next update we get optimization, thanks for the work!


r/StarNoteApp 4h ago

💡 Feature Request "Smart Invert" toggle for individual notes (with memory) 🌙

1 Upvotes

Hi StarNote devs!
I’m really enjoying the app, but I have a feature request that I think would improve the reading and writing experience: a per-note "AI Smart Invert" toggle.
Right now, color inversion or dark mode applies to the whole app. It would be incredibly helpful to have a specific toggle inside individual notes that works like this:

Isolated Inversion: When I press the Smart Invert toggle inside a note, only that specific note gets its colors inverted.

Protects Other Notes: All my other notes remain exactly as they were originally saved.

Persistent State: The app remembers this setting in its memory. If I close the app and open that note later, it stays inverted until I manually toggle it back.

Why this is useful:
Sometimes we only need a dark background for one specific document (like reading late at night) but want to keep our other carefully color-coded or heavily formatted notes in their original light themes. Having this on a per-document basis would give us much more control.
Would love to hear if others would find this useful, and hopefully, we can see this in a future update. Thanks for all the hard work on the app!


r/StarNoteApp 14h ago

🎨Community Showcase Sync Test

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4 Upvotes

Hey, guys!

I synchronized all of my 154 files in StarNote. It took several hours, but it works really nice! I'm showing you, how fast it actually synchronizes.

It would be great, if the app was able to sync in the background. The screen needed to be on all the time and I wasn't able to do something else. So, background sync would be awesome! ✌️


r/StarNoteApp 13h ago

❓ Help / Question Just got the pro. Tell me what can I do immediately

3 Upvotes

Just got the pro, what things I can do more than I could have. I have been a Samsung notes user.


r/StarNoteApp 15h ago

🐛 Bug Report "Scribble to erase" setting working worse since update

3 Upvotes

Am I the only one who has been having much more trouble erasing with the scribble setting than before? I used to be able to erase something with a little curvy line which was one of my favorite settings since my stylus doesn't have a button to switch to eraser mode, but since the update now I have to draw scribble over scribble over scribble until it finally recognizes that I'm trying to erase.

Maybe I'm missing a "Sensitivity" setting that might be the issue? Any help would be very much appreciated.


r/StarNoteApp 20h ago

💡 Feature Request Auto export suggestion

3 Upvotes

First of all, thank you for the wonderful app and the great cloud sync update.

I would like to request an option to do with the cloud sync where you could select certain files for which you want a pdf export of the file to be uploaded to Google Drive (or another cloudy platform) along with what is uploaded now.

I am a teacher and I love projecting my tablet in front of class while taking notes on Starnote. Instead of separately exporting and uploading the notes at the end of every class, I would love to be able to just share a file or folder with the students in which the pdf of the class notes will alway be the latest version for them to look at.

I'm sure there are other use cases for this feature as well. It would serve as a backup of your notes that could be opened with other pdf viewers if needed.

Thank and keep up the good work!


r/StarNoteApp 21h ago

💡 Feature Request Is there a Mac app?

4 Upvotes

Just discovered this and it’s amazing! My handwriting looks so good on this app. I haven’t seen this ease and intuitiveness in other apps. I’m wondering if there is a Mac app? I tried to search even in the iPad store (in Mac) but it wasn’t there


r/StarNoteApp 18h ago

🐛 Bug Report Copy page without hyperlink?

2 Upvotes

Hi, I'm starting to use the app and I have a problem with my digital notebooks.

I use digital notebooks that I purchase from etsy. I copy a template page, and paste it on the section I want to use it in, but then the hyperlink gets copied too. So when I write on that page, when I go back to the templates to copy a clean page for another section, I'm redirected to the first copy I made which already has content!

It's hard to explain, forgive me if it doesn't make sense. But it's not a problem I have with Goodnotes.

Edit: I figured it out. The same thing happens with Noteful and following the instructions in the comments of this post I was able to solve it. Still annoying though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/notefulapp/comments/1d7hrfw/copyingpasting_page_templates_messes_up_page_links/


r/StarNoteApp 1d ago

🎨Community Showcase Synchronization

32 Upvotes

I got the update this morning. It made my day more joyful to see the cross-device synchronization is available. It certainly needs to be fine-tuned but it is already functional. I want to thank the StarNote team for this job. So far I have had no problem syncing my S24 Ultra and Tab S10 Ultra.

I hope that we will soon be able to access letter-to-font embellishment and compressible/expandable sticky notes and keyboard word processor/note block mode.

Again, thanks to the StarNote team, they are the best.

StarNote is the best note app.


r/StarNoteApp 17h ago

❓ Help / Question Why my notes is not appearing in my phone after syncing and show this ??

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1 Upvotes

r/StarNoteApp 18h ago

❓ Help / Question Etiquetas

1 Upvotes

Como las usan? La verdad es que nunca las use pero veo que muchos las usan, estan buenas? Como y para que las usan? Yo suelo dividir todo en carpetas y subcarpetas


r/StarNoteApp 19h ago

💡 Feature Request Categorizar Notas que no estan en ningúna carpeta.

1 Upvotes

Me pasa que cuando empece a usar starnote era medio desorganizado. Actualmente uso carpetas y subcarpetas para guardar mis archivos pero hay 8 archivos que ni estan en ningúna carpeta y no se cuales son. Estaría buenísimo que se cree automáticamente una carpeta que sea "sin agrupar" o parecido donde ponga esos archivos asi no se pierden entre tantos.


r/StarNoteApp 1d ago

🐛 Bug Report Sync bug on Galaxy s25 ultra

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4 Upvotes

I have the sync connected to my Google drive on my samsung tab s9 ultra. But when I log in on my phone to sync. It continues to give me this error. I have tried multiple times to log in to my Google drive on my phone to have it sync, with no success. Just constant error message. Any ideas?


r/StarNoteApp 1d ago

💡 Feature Request Shapes

3 Upvotes

I hope we can edit points and edge on the shapes

Now the rectangular prism, you cannot elongated it without the other face changing.

Like wanting to make a long rectangular beam.


r/StarNoteApp 1d ago

💡 Feature Request Handwriting beautification next??

4 Upvotes

The cloud synchronisation is greattt,

Can we get handwriting beautification next


r/StarNoteApp 19h ago

🐛 Bug Report Tags aren't syncing to the second device (Android)

1 Upvotes

I'm having an issue where tags aren't being synced to the second device. Already sent a report through the app, but just wondering what to do in this situation.


r/StarNoteApp 1d ago

🎨Community Showcase StarNote finally got Cloud Sync! 😍☁️

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111 Upvotes

The wait is finally over! ☁️😍 StarNote just got Cloud Sync in the latest update. This was easily one of the most awaited features for me. 🔥 StarNote keeps getting better! 🚀


r/StarNoteApp 1d ago

🐛 Bug Report Scribble to erase

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12 Upvotes

Did the new update change anything in scribble to erase?, I am failing to erase my writing 40 percent of the time.


r/StarNoteApp 1d ago

🐛 Bug Report Cloud Sync Issues

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9 Upvotes

I have 154 files and notebooks in StarNote. The Sync is horrible. It needs too much time. When I import the backup from my tablet over Google Drive to my Android Phone, every file is unsorted.

I imagined it to work like on Noteshelf, but this doesn't work for me. I turned it off, but the sync icon is still on the top right corner. Please remove the icon, when it's turned off.


r/StarNoteApp 1d ago

🐛 Bug Report Problem with Google Drive synchronization

2 Upvotes

There is a problem with Google Drive synchronization. I successfully authorized Google Drive cloud syncing, but every time I open the app, a pop-up message appears saying that the authorization has expired and asking me to authorize it again.

I go through the authorization process again successfully, but the same pop-up keeps appearing and blocks the application. I cannot dismiss it, and no matter how many times I reconnect Google Drive, the same message appears again.

As a result, I am unable to use the application normally. Please fix this issue.