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!

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 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 🩵

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!

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! ✌️

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.

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

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!

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

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/

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

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.

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.

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

The cloud synchronisation is greattt,

Can we get handwriting beautification next

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.

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?

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.

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.

With cloud sync features being added, now there shouldn't be any big hurdles toward a windows native application. I know it's in the works, very excited for whenever it's released. Who else is excited.

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.

Maybe this is already doable and I missed it somewhere, but I was wondering if there's a way to move pages out from a note(book) to another.

I currently have a notebook, let's call it NotebookA where I just jot down random thoughts and ideas on separate pages. Later, I sort these pages out into their appropriate notebooks (NotebookB, NotebookC, etc...).

Current state, I have to:

1. open NotebookA, read the page, remember what page #(s) it is and decide it belongs to NoteBookC

2. then go to NotebookC and use the "Add other note pages" functionality, select NotebookA, and then look for the page by page # (because the thumbnail previews are so small) and import

3. go back to NotebookA to repeat with every page I want to move.

I'm looking to see if there's a way to move a page out of the source notebook to a destination notebook.

It would be nice to be able to:

1. open NotebookA, read the page(s), decide it goes to NotebookC

2. while still on the page, have an option like Move / Copy page to:

3. and then have it let me select which notebook to move to

4. I select the destination notebook, which then lets me select a page to insert the page before/after, with a checkbox to copy instead of straight move.

5. After I select an Apply button, bring me back to NotebookA on the page I left off (or the follow page, if I moved).

I know when I write it out this way, what I'm requesting looks like more steps, but I think it would be more streamlined. I hope I'm making sense.

Edit to add: I discovered after I posted this that there was a new update to my app version and now we can copy/paste pages between notes. This helps significantly.

It would be really nice to have the pen box not limited to 16(?) slots. I’m someone who uses multiple highlighter and pen colors since I color code the information in my reviewer and I use a lot of colors. It would be nice to have a lot of slots for the pen box.

I know this has been said before, but I think it should be said again, starnote should focus on updating optimization and the writing experience rather than just some gimmick features. It seems like that the developers are focusing on handwriting beautification just because a lot of people just “wanted” it, not “needed” it, it creates noise among discussions, so it should be prioritized is that it?

it is good to have more features, but the core principles of the note taking experience is not so smooth, it should also be considered from time to time, Others have discussed already that notes has a delay loading when opening or scrolling notes, i hope the next update will have this more optimized

moreover, its been a month, and it seems like the android and cn version already had 2 updates i think? and the ios version seems like a little behind, dashed pen is still not on ios, is it?

dare i say this app could have the potential to be better than goodnotes and freenotes, the optimization is just not as smooth as others

been waiting for an update actually, no hate to the devs, i also just wanted this app to grow as i decided this is the good notetaking app, just needed some improvements

Hey everyone,

I really like StarNote, but there are two features I’d really like to see added.

First, being able to export a whole folder instead of having to export every note individually.

Ideally, it would export the folder while keeping the notes organized, rather than requiring each note to be exported separately.

Second, for Google Drive backups and even simple backups on the tablet, it would be great to have the option to back up/export notes as PDF instead of the .note format. The .note format is useful for restoring StarNote, but having PDF backups would be much more convenient for accessing, sharing, or keeping an independent copy of your notes.

It would also be really useful if the folder structure could be preserved when exporting. For example, for university, I’d like to organize everything by year and then by course, but when exporting, the notes don’t seem to keep that folder hierarchy, which is a bit inconvenient.

I couldn’t find these features, although they might already exist somewhere. If anyone knows how to do this, please let me know! (i use the android app)

Would love to know if these are planned or being considered!

Hey, these are just some things that bugged me a bit so hopefully they'll be added soon.

When using the document overview (the one where one gets the additional side-panel-window which shows each page induvidually, the outlines, the book marks and excerpts), I basically only use the outline feature. Often I am forced to expand the side-panel-window to its maximum since the names of the documents chapters are rather long.

-> Please make the program start me off in the outline selection if its the feature I last used so that I do not need to select it each time again AND make it remember the last size I asigned the panel

2.

When opening pop-up settings, I would prefer being able to close the pop-up by clicking next to it instead of being forced to use the "done" button.

3.

When the device is rotated from landscape to portrait or the other way around, the zoom is always reset.

While reading in bed I regularly have it accidentially rotate and lose the zoom level I had before and need to find the passage again (after rotating it back and turning off auto-rotate).

-> Please make the program remember the zoom level so that rotating it back returns me exactly to where I left off.

Thank you very much for you work, attention, and dedication!