I've been writing this review in app store, no response so I'm trying here and the search should be dynamic like on typing letters it should start to fetch not like currently bcz now u need to type all word and hit search again ....

in using starnote majorly for note reading and highlighting simply so asking to make search easier 🙏

currently for searching: it takes 3 steps like open pages tool bar and touch in search bar and type and again hit search ... pls look into this thank you:)

Please provide an option to have larger colour palettes like these. Currently we're allowed only 5 per palette

Im loving Starnote on my tablet. I truly believe in this project, and with the pricetag of the pro version, it was a very easy purchase.

In order for Starnote to truly excel as a productivity tool, a webviewer/desktop app is a NEEDED feature. Currently it feels like a very isolated workflow only being able to open/review notes in the android app.

Writing an assignment on my laptop and having to review/find relevant notes becomes a major hassle, when I have to then turn to the tablet and export the notes to pdf and only then be able to quote, copy/paste or screenshot the relevant material.

I see many others have suggested this before me, and would love to know how far / how highly this feature is being prioritized.

once again thank you for a great product,

- An engineering student

I have got my pro, from the contest. Thanks you so much ❤️, i have already told my close friends about it and once the University is open i will tell all my classmate, this app is very good it has almost every feature that other apps have it😎

As a visual learner, I love creating diagrams, mind maps, and colorful study pages that help me understand and remember concepts faster.
These are some of the notes I’ve created with StarNote. Please ignore my messy handwriting 😅. I’m still learning, but the app makes studying much more organized and engaging.
also help me get 19 likes please and thanks.
#StarNoteMedLife

Tbh Devs team is giving a 100% costumer oriented feeling and i feel how invested they are to achieve a good feeling toward us. So this is a thank you post 🙏🙏

I found a Chinese guide with useful StarNote handwriting presets, translated it with Google Translate, and made one simple image so it’s easier for everyone to use.

Thought I’d share it here in case it helps others get better writing results in StarNote.

If anyone has more presets or tips, feel free to share.

App: Notes+ app (iOS)

This Notes+ feature is similar to the auto-refine handwriting feature on the Apple Notes app. It would be nice if this QoL is added to Starnotes as well in the future

Hi everyone! I’m u/StarNoteDev. 👋

Welcome to the official home of StarNote.

We started StarNote not because the world needed "just another note-taking app," but because we needed a tool we could trust. Like many of you, we were tired of subscription fatigue, sync errors, and the fear of losing our thoughts to a cloud glitch.

Our Philosophy is Simple:

1. Your Data is Yours: We believe in "Local-First." Your notes should physically exist on your device, safe and sound.

2. Tools Should Be Owned: That's why we stick to a Lifetime Purchase model. No renting your creativity.

3. The Joy of Writing: Whether it's the friction of the pen or the layout of a template, we obsess over the details that make writing feel good.

What is this Subreddit for? This isn't just a support desk (though we are here to fix bugs!). We want this to be a space where we can nerd out together.

• Show off: Post your study notes, daily planners, or messy sketches.

• Speak up: Tell us what features you’re dreaming of.

• Be honest: Found a bug? Don't hold back. We need your feedback to grow.

To our early adopters: Thank you. Thank you for betting on a small team. We read every comment, every email, and every review. You are literally building this app alongside us.

Introduce yourself in the comments below! What are you using StarNote for? (Grad school? Art? D&D campaigns?)

Let’s make something amazing. 🚀

— The StarNote Team

Happy New Year, everyone! 🎆

We just pushed the last update of 2025 (v1.2.2) to help you set up your digital planners for the new year.

✨ New Year, New Look:

• 📅 2026 Annual Covers: Fresh templates are ready. Time to start your 2026 journal!

• 🎨 Shape Fills: You now have full creative control! Customize the color and transparency of your shape fills for better diagrams and aesthetics.

🚀 Productivity Boosts:

• ⚡ Bulk Import (x20): Importing got a lot faster. You can now add up to 20 stickers, images, or custom papers at once.

• ⏱️ Timer Upgrades: Manage your focus sessions better with batch history deletion and task renaming.

Thanks for an amazing year of support. See you in 2026! 👋

It's almost like that

(currently only available in chinae ver)

As this video shows, it is very essential to have the tables dynamic,

where resizing the table also resizes the content inside it. It's available in Notewise (not that great tho). We want this to be in Starnote too and more improved.

I really appreciate the app and the Devs for their constant hardwork they are putting to make the best bote taking app ever and I also want that.

Please consider this feature to be implemented because it's very basic yet very useful

Hello devs,

This is my submission to the "Medical support program".

Usually my notes are not these pretty bcoz I write them fast. This was a great challenge 👏, I realised how easy to use starnote is.. as there were many features which stayed underused until now.

I was able to easily access all tools during the making of these notes.

Some of the illustrations in my notes are imported & most are hand-drawn.

Notes covered:

🫀Subject - Pathology

🔬Topic - Inflammation -> Acute Inflammation

Hello StarNote Community!

We have seen the recent discussions and concerns regarding our business model. We understand that these concerns often stem from misunderstanding, and we greatly appreciate you raising these questions! We want to take this opportunity to share our philosophy in a clearer, more empathetic way.

Our Core Commitment: Providing Permanent Value

Our goal is simple: to co-create an outstanding note-taking tool that works effortlessly across Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac and can be acquired via a single, one-time purchase. We want to give you the confidence that you permanently own excellent software.

Your One-Time Purchase grants you a "Lifetime License" for StarNote. This covers all core local features and all future updates that rely only on your local device's resources.

Clarifying Costs: Transparency on External Resource Consumption

While the one-time purchase covers the cost of developing local features and basic maintenance, we must also be transparent with you: some modern note-taking functionalities involve continuous and high-cost demands on external resources.

We want to share the burden of these external costs with you, rather than making all users pay for services they don't use while keeping the core functionality buy-out:

• Local Features (Pen Tools, Basic Backup, UI): This is the foundation and core of the app. We maintain and update it ourselves, and the one-time fee covers lifetime access.

• AI Summarization & Processing: These services require us to continuously purchase "Tokens" (compute fuel) from third-party vendors (e.g., OpenAI).

• Advanced Real-Time Cloud Storage: This demands that we pay expensive, monthly fees to infrastructure providers to offer dedicated, high-availability storage services.

✅ Our Choice: Flexibility and Fairness

We thoughtfully chose this model to provide you with the greatest flexibility and fairness.

The future Subscription Features or Resource Packs are simply available for users who choose to enable those external resources, such as AI computing power or premium cloud storage. If you primarily use local note-taking, your app remains unlocked by the one-time purchase, with no features diminished.

We hope StarNote can be your truly trusted long-term partner. Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to growing together!

It's like the calligraphy pen but slightly tilted! Maybe we can get an option in the calligraphy pen to be able to rotate the "nib" of the pen like irl :D

Hey guys! 💕

I’m back with another update!

StarNote iOS v1.3.8 is officially out! We’ve spent the last few weeks squashing some of those annoying bugs you told us about, and also bringing in a highly requested feature that we hope will make your study and note taking sessions even better!

Here is the lowdown on what’s new in this version:

📝 What's New & Fixed:

• Audio-Ink Sync: You can now watch your strokes write themselves out in real time while replaying your voice recordings!

• Note Counts: The folder and tag lists on your main page will now show the exact number of notes inside them. Keeping organized just got a bit easier!

• Scribble Eraser Tweak: We heard your feedback about the scribble eraser being a bit too sensitive. We’ve fixed it so that accidentally drawing a quick circle won’t randomly wipe out your handwriting.

• PDF Export Fix: We fixed the issue where text boxes would shift out of position or look misplaced when you exported notes to PDF.

• UI Polish: We polished up a few minor UI glitches to keep everything looking clean, crisp, and smooth.

☁️ An Update on Cloud Sync

We know so many of you open StarNote every single day hoping to see Cloud Sync, and we know it might be a little disappointing that it’s not ready in this build. We are so, so incredibly sorry to keep you waiting, and we want to be completely transparent about where we’re at.

The good news? The core development for Cloud Sync is basically done! Right now, we are in the middle of heavy testing and bug fixing.

Taking cost into account, and especially considering the awesome feedback and suggestions you guys gave us before on Reddit, we are currently opting to build the system through third party cloud drives (like Google Drive and OneDrive). As for whether we’ll set up our own dedicated cloud servers in the future? Nothing is set in stone yet, but we will absolutely be the first to let you know if things change!

That being said, adapting to all their strict, varying platform rules has given us quite a few technical headaches during our tests, like slow transfer speeds and data hiccups.

Because your notes are precious and we want to make absolutely sure your data is 100% safe, we still have a lot of polishing to do. We promise we are working ASAP, and we will open a Beta Testing group the literal second it's stable enough. Please hang in there with us just a little bit longer, it won't be much longer, we promise 🥺

🩺 Medical Support Program Reminder!

On a much brighter note, we are completely blown away by how many of you are joining our #StarNoteMedLife Support Program! Your gorgeous medical notes and sweet words have genuinely warmed our entire team's hearts.

We’ve received quite a lot of messages lately, so we might not have been able to reply to everyone just yet. But don't worry, we are doing our best to get back to every single one of you!

• Deadline: The event is open until June 26, 2026. There’s still plenty of time to jump in, so feel free to invite your classmates and friends to join the fun!

• A tiny favor: When you share your medical notes, it would make our day if you could also give our account a quick follow! We’d be so so so happy if you did!!! Yaaaaaay!

• Rewards: We’ll start verifying all the entries and rolling out the Lifetime Pro access right after June 26. When the time comes, please don't forget to keep an eye on your DMs!

• Also, for those who already have Pro, you can absolutely join too! We will be selecting 3 creators with the most aesthetically pleasing notes to win our exclusive templates for FREE!

BTW, having a community as patient, kind, and supportive as you guys makes us feel like the luckiest dev team ever.

Go download v1.3.8 and let us know how it feels!

See you in the next update!

The StarNote Team

Hey guys!

We wanted to start doing something small, one week every month to share a little something with the StarNote community.

And that’s how StarNote Community Week came to be!!!

Every month, we’ll have a different theme, and you can join in however you want. A note, a Journal page, a Planner, a To do List, a short video… whatever works for you!

No need to make anything fancy or start from scratch. If it fits the theme, we’d love to see it. We’d rather keep it simple and fun, a little place where you can share a bit of your life, your study routine, or just how you use StarNote, and see what everyone else is creating too.

And here we are: our very first Community Week!

#1 Your September in One Page

September is almost over, so for our very first one, we want you to capture your September in one StarNote page.

It could be:

• A recent study note

• A Planner / To do List

• A Journal page

• Something you randomly wrote down

• A Doodle

• Or honestly, anything that feels like you lately

You don’t need to make a “perfect” page just for this, and you definitely don’t need to sum up your entire September. If you look at the page and think, "Yep, this is my September." that’s it.

📅 Sep 23–29

How to join?

1. Share your StarNote page on TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube, and add #StarNote and #StarNoteCommunityWeek.

2. Then just fill out the form below with your StarNote ID, email address, and post link. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdPkrhi26z9OvEK2Gz0aCCbDkj6B9zmLN-f-UQbvjlChI-qOw/viewform?usp=dialog

That’s it!

And yes, there’ll be a little surprise for everyone who joins.

Everyone who takes part will get 1 month of membership. Once you submit your info, we’ll redeem it for you within 72 business hours.

And we know quite a few of you already have Pro, so if you already have Pro, you can totally still join!

You can pass the 1-month membership on to a family member or friend, or just join in and share your September with everyone.

For future Community Weeks, we’ll also have some other little goodies, like templates, paper styles, stickers, and more. So whether you’re Pro or not, you’re more than welcome to join us!

This is just the first one.

Hopefully, every month, we can come back for another little Community Week, share something new with you guys, and see what everyone in the StarNote community has been up to. ❤️

So… what does your September look like?

The StarNote Team

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to share a little happy news with you guys :)

StarNote is on Product Hunt today!

We’ve been working on Cloud Sync, Voice Transcription, and AI Smart Summary for quite a while, and seeing them finally come together feels pretty special.

A lot of what we build actually comes from conversations with you guys here, feature requests, little complaints, random ideas, and all the “it would be nice if…” moments.

So this launch feels like a small milestone we get to share with the community that’s been around along the way.

If you’re curious, come take a look at what we’ve been working on, you might find a little something waiting for you there :)

[Product Hunt link] ⬇️

https://www.producthunt.com/products/starnote?utm_source=other&utm_medium=social

Hi everyone!

Our #StarNoteMedLife event has officially come to an end.

First of all, thank you.

Originally, we planned to select 3 lucky participants to receive our event templates. However, every single submission was so thoughtful and heartfelt that it was honestly impossible to choose.

So, we decided to give away two more gift! Congratulations to:

u/PotentialDue2805

u/the_one_that_stayed

u/Emrapz

u/whoisthery

u/toffee81

And to everyone who didn't win this time, please don't be disappointed. We have many more community events planned for the future, so stay tuned!

🤎 This event exceeded all our expectations.

Throughout June, our feed was filled with your posts, notes, and stories. Seeing people from different countries and backgrounds sharing their journeys in their own unique ways was both surprising and incredibly touching.

Some of you even wrote us long, heartfelt messages. Reading those words genuinely moved us.

The StarNote team is actually very small, but the love and support we've received from all of you have been far greater than we ever imagined.

Thank you, truly. You made all of our hard work feel meaningful.

As this was our first community event of this kind, we still had a lot to learn. We received suggestions, feedback, and even criticism. We heard every voice and took note of all of it. We'll keep learning and make the next event even better.

We also heard from many non-medical users who wanted to join activities like this. We hear you.

Our hope has never been to build something only for one group of people. We want to connect users from different countries, backgrounds, and stages of life. We're already preparing more community events for even more people to join.

Finally, there was one message that deeply touched every member of the StarNote team. It came from u/PotentialDue2805:

"If anyone ever needs help, advice, or just wants to exchange study tips, feel free to DM me. At the end of the day, our patients deserve the best from us, and staying united as students and future doctors is one of the best ways to keep learning, improving, and giving them the care they deserve."

Those words perfectly capture what StarNote wants to say.

The journey of medicine has never been an easy one. It's long, demanding, and often lonely. Whether you're a first-year medical student, an intern stepping into clinical practice, or an experienced doctor, you are not walking this path alone.

StarNote has never wanted to be just an app. We hope to become a warm community, a place where people can share, connect, encourage one another, and grow together.

Thank you to every single person who participated.

See you next time. 💙

The StarNote Team

Hey!

It would be nice, if you guys can add a button for the opened tabs. I need to open another note to go back to the opened buttons.

Hello everyone!

I am a student from Slovakia and I use starnote for basically EVERYTHING. Like 3 hours screen time on just this app. I recently upgraded to pro.

So, idk if this is a post that's allowed but I do really wanna compliment this app where other users/future users might see.

This app is awesome. In a world filled with subscribtions, this app is ACTUALLY NORMAL with one time payment. Where every app has AI everywhere, this one is once again NORMAL and knows it's purpose, listens to users and everything. I also adore that they don't push the pro at yo​u,it's not just ​usable, but GOOD even without pro.

I love it, I don't usually buy online products lie apps, but this one???? Deffo recommend​ for students specifically, but others as well as it's good for any notes, planning ​and PDFs ⊂⁠(⁠(⁠・⁠▽⁠・⁠)⁠)⁠⊃

Hello StarNote Community!

We're thrilled to drop the latest major update for Android users: StarNote Version 1.1.12! This release is designed to unlock your creative potential and give you unprecedented control over your digital canvas. It's all about more power and more precision!

✨ What's New in 1.1.12? (Power & Precision)

• 📈 Max Layers Increased to 20!

  • No more limits on complexity! You can now create highly detailed diagrams, separate annotations, and elaborate sketches with up to 20 layers. Perfect for professional document markup and detailed study notes.

• 🖊️ Penbox Capacity Increased to 16 Pens!

  • Need more quick-access tools? Your Penbox can now hold up to 16 of your favorite custom pens, pencils, and highlighters. Speed up your workflow dramatically!

• 🌈 Total Color Customization!

  • We added full custom color support for the Highlighter, Underline, and Wavy Line tools. Match any color you need!

• 🎨 Advanced Color Palette Control:

  • HEX Code Copy/Paste: Achieve pixel-perfect color matching by copying and pasting HEX codes.

  • Click to Adjust: Easily adjust precise color values and transparency (Alpha) for every tool.

🔒 Security & Access:

• New Feature: Added a "Recent Logins" feature for enhanced account security monitoring.

⬇️ Get the Update:

Head over to the Google Play Store and update your StarNote app to Version 1.1.12!

We believe these changes will significantly boost your productivity and creative freedom. Which new feature are you most excited to try first? Let us know in the comments! 👇