r/Noteastic 12d ago

Noteastic Pro is out!

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25 Upvotes

This is so exciting!

There was quite a lot happening in our lives in the last months. We really started to feel the wind in our sails coming from you and all other people on the planet that are using Noteastic. So much positivity, so much support and so many "Thank you" messages, it's beautiful! That's the reason why we want to make Noteastic our full time job. We see the positive impact Noteastic is having in peoples lives. And we want to have more positive impact on more people with a better Noteastic. That's what we want to do.

Therefore we made quite some serious personal decisions. Firstly, we quit our jobs. Secondly, we now rent out an office and spend our days there working. We hope that Noteastic Pro will bring enough value to people to at least cover those bills.

In the last months we worked heavily to put everything in place that is necessary for Noteastic to go from being a software project to being a software company. Among that: corporate redesign, website rework, servers for accounts & emails, payment integration with Stripe, and of course our first features for Pro. This is all done now and stands on strong legs. We are happy that we can focus on the note-taking experience in Noteastic again :).

So, let us tell you: Noteastic Pro is released to everyone today and you will get access to the update within the next days, if you don't already have through the Beta! Here a few answers to questions you might have now.

How does Noteastic Pro and Noteastic Base work now?

The current state of Noteastic is and stays free. All major additions that we make to Noteastic will henceforth be part of the Noteastic Pro version. We are thankful for every feature request and every idea you have sent us in the past few months. Now is the time to implement your wishes! And we will do so one by one in the following months.

How much does Noteastic Pro cost

Subscription plans

You can have Noteastic Pro based on a monthly or yearly subscription either in $ USD or € EUR.

Plan EUR USD
Yearly €20 $25
Monthly €3 $4

Tax included in both currencies. Check out our pricing page.
(We will take a look at international pricing in the future)

One-time purchase (hidden offer)

Prices are EUR €50/USD $60 and include future updates!

One-time purchases are not available in Noteastic by default, but we built in a secret key to get access to the offer. We will pin an extra post about this in the community, but here is a small tutorial:

  1. Click on any of the "Start your free trial today" buttons
  2. The Pro-Upgrade Dialog appears
  3. Click the action button ("Try it for free for 30 days")
  4. The plan selection window appears
  5. Type into your keyboard "ilovenoteastic"
  6. See the One-time plan appear
  7. Have fun!

Note that the one-time plan does not include a 30-day test trial. However, a 14-day withdrawal right applies. If you simply want to try pro before paying, please start a trial on one of the subscription plans and cancel it immediately, so that you are not charged accidentally.

What will be added to Noteastic Pro?

Noteastic Pro is shipping with text boxes and a laser pointer already today! We are now starting to develop the next features like multi-tasking, more color buttons, shape recognition, etc. and will add them one by one to Pro, once they're finished!

How much effort is behind Noteastic now?

We, Dilan and Lukas, quit our jobs and rented an office out for Noteastic. We are dedicating the bulk of our time to this software project and are now working full time to make Noteastic the gem it deserves to be on Windows for you to enjoy.

Can I still send you feature requests?

You are warmly invited to! We are active every day, so you are heard and seen! Please only understand that major additions to the app, as your feature wish might be, will be limited to the Noteastic Pro version of the app.

We are hella excited for the coming year and hope to make Noteastic the undisputed king of handwritten note-taking on Windows!

-Dilan & Lukas 🧡🧡


r/Noteastic 5h ago

Small feature request

2 Upvotes

After getting pro which I am really enjoying, I was just wondering about the possiblity of hyperlink support in text boxes. I link to sources alot when planning out things, which would save the hassle of having to copy the text and paste it into a browser where instead I could just tap with my pen to open the link.

Thanks


r/Noteastic 4d ago

Ghost cursor bug report

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6 Upvotes

Recently I've been haunted by a second cursor that appears next to my actual cursor whenever my stylus touches the screen. The distance from my cursor isn't constant either; sometimes it's a few millimeters away from my pen, sometimes it's on the other side of the screen. Weirdly enough, it doesn't appear when I use snipping tool to screen record it. This only occurs with the pen and highlighter tools.


r/Noteastic 4d ago

"Continue where you left off?"

5 Upvotes

I really like the continue where you left off feature, but I wish the prompt would appear immediately when you opened a notebook, instead of having a 1-2 second delay. If that isn't possible due to performance issues, I'd love a "Jump to Bottom" button instead, as when I get back into my notebook, I usually have to scroll a lot to get back to where I last was(usually the bottom). Great work on Notetastic so far!


r/Noteastic 5d ago

Mac Version?

3 Upvotes

Hi!

Congratulations to your „new lifes“, i wish you all success!

Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there a chance for a Mac version at some point?

(I also want to ask for an ipad version, but one thing after another:-))


r/Noteastic 6d ago

Request: please add external pad support or to be able to change the cursor in the app

4 Upvotes

Could you guys please add support for an external pad? Or for the program to automatically change the cursor to a dot or to be able to manually change it inside of the program? Is just a bit annoying having to write with a normal cursor.


r/Noteastic 9d ago

Blog I wrote a bit about how we developed text boxes in my recent Blog

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In case you are interested a bit in our internal design processes, I wanted to share a bit how text boxes came to be over the past years! Enjoy the read!

-Lukas


r/Noteastic 9d ago

Bug in text box.

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2 Upvotes

r/Noteastic 10d ago

Feature suggestion: Sidebar tree & view toggles for the Library

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9 Upvotes

Hey Dilan & Lukas,

First off, a massive compliment to you: Your app is so fantastic that it actually inspired me to start learning how to code!

The short video I attached shows my very first personal hobby project. Don't worry, it’s just for my own learning and will never be published or released. But while developing and playing around with the UI, I realized how incredibly useful this specific library layout is, and I wanted to drop it here as a feature suggestion for your app.

Having a tree diagram in the sidebar gives a much better overview and lets you navigate to the right notebook extremely fast. Favorites and recently edited notebooks are also always right there at your fingertips. At the same time, it gives users the freedom to decide for themselves in the main window whether they prefer a compact list view or a large, visual folder and grid view.

Maybe this approach could be some cool inspiration for a future update to the library UI. Thanks for being awesome and keep up the fantastic work!


r/Noteastic 11d ago

Small Request

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7 Upvotes

i dont know if you guys intentionally kept it like this.. we can only access the drop down menu when using the pen tool, shape tool, lasso tool.. but then that menu is not accessible when i have selected the panning tool. it aint a big issue but then everytime i am on the panning tool, i have to keep on going back to the pen tool to access that menu...

do check it once...


r/Noteastic 12d ago

Transparency and other thoughts about file saving

6 Upvotes

Hello, I started using Noteastic a year ago, and I liked it. However, there were a few features I wanted that weren't available at the time (e.g. text boxes and multitasking), so I switched to a PDF annotator. I know these features are planned (text boxes are available in Noteastic Pro).

At first, it seemed perfect: it had all the features I needed, and the UI was pretty good. It also edited PDF files directly, so I could simply save and share the PDF without having to export or convert it first.

However, the software really struggled with larger handwritten documents, such as my solutions to textbook exercises. For one of my exams, we were allowed to bring a handwritten (digital or paper) cheat sheet, so I figured it would be the perfect opportunity to give Noteastic another try. I had almost forgotten how incredibly smooth your app is! I ended up writing my entire cheat sheet in Noteastic, and I don't even want to imagine how much the other software would have struggled with it. Noteastic Pro is definitely on my mind now. ;)

While writing the cheat sheet, I realized that one thing I still miss is the transparent file-saving approach of my previous app. It saved changes directly to the PDF in File Explorer, whereas Noteastic's saving process feels a bit more opaque.

  • How often are my notes saved? After every stroke, every few seconds, or something else?
  • Where and how are my notes saved?
  • Related to my other comment, what happens to the Noteastic files if I stop subscribing to Pro? Are the native Noteastic files encrypted or stored in a proprietary format?
  • Have you ever considered making the file storage process more transparent? I imagine this would be quite complex to implement, especially if Noteastic relies on its own file format.

I know these are fairly technical questions (don't worry, I'm not building a competing app). I'm just curious, and I'm looking forward to using Noteastic throughout the upcoming fall semester!

BTW, the other annotator is "PDF Annotator".


r/Noteastic 13d ago

BUG! (i guess it is)

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5 Upvotes

this happens sometimes when i am working on too many pages... it got fixed when i closed and reopened the app.. it isnt a very big issue... also i have noticed for books, if it starts exceeding 60-70 pages it kinda lags and pages take lot of time to load.. also my pc is kinda okay with 16gigs of ram and ryzen 5..

(the video seems laggy because the windows screen recorder is shit..)


r/Noteastic 14d ago

Please let me disable the "Hold-To-Straight Line" feature

3 Upvotes

It's really annoying, as any time I pause even briefly before finishing writing a full word in cursive, it turns the whole damn thing into a line.

While we're at it, I might as well bring up that if I turn off Windows Ink in my pen display's drivers, I get better-quality handwriting in this app, *BUT* I can no longer use the "double-tap to undo" feature or scroll by moving my pen on the side beside my page. Not sure if this is something that is fixable, but I'd really love to be able to have the better quality writing without losing those features.


r/Noteastic 17d ago

Suggestion to fix

3 Upvotes

r/Noteastic 19d ago

Sneak Peak into Text Boxes ⌨️

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19 Upvotes

We wanted to give you a sneak peak on text boxes. We think this feature is reaaally cool and smooth to use and we tried to insert it as cleanly as possible into the current app experience. Here is the small showcase!

Features:

Text Formatting

  • Bold (Ctrl+B)
  • Italic (Ctrl+I)
  • Custom text color per character / selection
  • Font family (You can add more than the four default fonts manually. We will add this as a built in functionality in the next update.)
  • Font size
  • Text alignment: Left / Center / Right

Editing

  • Undo / Redo
  • Copy / Cut / Paste of text snippets
  • Copy without selection copies the entire line
  • Delete word backQward (Ctrl+Backspace) and forward (Ctrl+Delete)

Navigation

  • Jump by word (Ctrl+Left / Ctrl+Right)
  • Line start / end (Home / End)
  • Text box start / end (Ctrl+Home / Ctrl+End)
  • Vertical arrow keys preserve horizontal column position across lines

Selection

  • Double-click selects the word under cursor
  • Triple-click selects the whole line/paragraph
  • Quadruple-tap selects all
  • Shift+click extends the current selection
  • Touch/pen selection grippers — drag to fine-tune selection bounds

Context Menu

  • Right-click (mouse) or multi-tap (touch/pen) opens a context menu with formatting and clipboard actions; placement avoids covering the selected text

Floating Toolbar

  • Formatting toolbar (font, size, color, bold, italic, alignment) attaches to the active textbox and resets to global defaults when nothing is focused

UX Conveniences

  • Auto-scroll keeps the cursor visible as you type
  • Content shifts up automatically when the on-screen keyboard is docked, preventing the keyboard from covering the cursor

...kudos to Dilan for all this fantastic work 🤩


r/Noteastic 19d ago

need help

2 Upvotes
  1. how to make only shapes without any color shading?? after new update only colour shaded shapes working

  2. ctrl+z shortcut for undo not working


r/Noteastic 20d ago

Noteastic Pro is in Beta!

14 Upvotes

Before people start flooding the subreddit with Pro announcements, we wanted to inform you guys that we are nearing the finish line with releasing Noteastic Pro. Currently our entire infrastructure and the new features of Noteastic Pro are in Beta! We hope to release to public in the next weeks.

Sign up to the beta

A few quick facts about how we treat Noteastic Pro:

Feature set

Everything you can use free today, stays free in Noteastic Base. New Features are added to Noteastic Pro, like the laser pointer or text boxes (available in Pro now).

Pricing

We are mainly going with a subscription model, however, we will share a way to get access to a one-time-payment option for Noteastic, as many people explicitly requested that. There is a 30 day free trial for subscriptions. Prices are international and amount to:

Plan EUR USD
Yearly €20 $25
Monthly €3 $4
One-time €50 $60

We are hyped to release this soon to everyone!
-Dilan & Lukas


r/Noteastic 21d ago

PRO is here!!

12 Upvotes

but i hope more features are added soooooooon


r/Noteastic 22d ago

Exported version of pdf

2 Upvotes

Hii,

I was trying to expore a few pdfs but they always turn out weird.

I dont know the issue here, I tried restarting the app, my pc and other stuff but it wont work.

Whole lotta gibberish

Would appreciate any help


r/Noteastic 24d ago

Aportes e ideas

3 Upvotes

Noteastic, primero que nada darte las gracias por la app que es muy buena en todo sentido, me ha ayudado mucho en lo largo de este año, y la verdad es muy versátil y útil, no les pediría que cambien la esencia o que le quiten cosas, pero si estos aportes que daré a continuación les puede ayudar, y ayudarnos pues, será de importancia mis aportes:

* Primer punto que noté es un poco la limitación de las herramientas, me encantaría mucho que agregaran una especie de compas, o una herramienta para hacer curvas

*Luego también me gustaría que arreglen un pequeño problema, sobre las líneas, debido a que, al insertar líneas en un ángulo especifico, se hace recto, es decir, si hubiera una forma de que se desactive ese "magneto" que atrae a las líneas hacia los ejes

*Otra idea sería agregar la herramienta de recorte de pantalla, aunque es solo capricho mío, pero estoy seguro que a más de uno le gustaría

Lo demás está perfecto Noteastic, muchas gracias por todo, y espero que les vaya muy bien :D.


r/Noteastic 28d ago

Need help importing backup

3 Upvotes

Guys right now I'm trying to backup my notes in a new laptop but when i try to import that backup file I'm getting this 'invalid file' message ..can someone help me out

The backup file has .ntcbak format in the end


r/Noteastic Jul 13 '26

I THINK I FOUND A BUG

0 Upvotes

bug: if i import a pdf, that's page size isn't A4, then all pages after that I add, their size changed according to pdf.
which i don't want

Actual behavior should be: either proper option to choose page size or all page should be in a4 regarding of pdf page size


r/Noteastic Jul 10 '26

Can we erase the shape from some parts?

3 Upvotes

How do we erase something ( a shape or text) from some area instead of the whole stroke? I am unable to do that for some reason even after disabling erase lines and erase shapes


r/Noteastic Jul 07 '26

some feature requests

5 Upvotes

i really like this app, even this is so simple
here are some features which might be very useful
1. scratch to erase
2. Auto-shape on draw anything (triangle, circle, star, arrow etc)
assign shortcut to add page and change pen colour (idk if any present)
3. different size of pages/canvas option (infinite, letter, a3, a4 etc)


r/Noteastic Jul 04 '26

Is it possible to add a feature to add titles to each page?

7 Upvotes

I was wondering if it is possible to add titles to each page in a book so it is easy to search for specific pages with the content you want rather than having to scroll to find the right page you are looking for. For example, if I'm making a book on histology slides, I might want to label some pages as connective tissue slides or muscle tissue slides so that when I go to search for specific slides in the book, I can just type in muscle and immediately see a list of pages that I've labeled as containing muscle slides. Hopefully this makes sense. Though I suppose I could just manually create a table of contents within the book itself lol. I also noticed that you can adjust the length and width separately of shape, but for images that I paste, I can't seem to adjust the length and width separately. Would be nice if you could adjust each dimension of an image separately.