Squid: Take Notes, Markup PDFs

4.2
67.7K reviews
5M+
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Editors' Choice
Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

Take handwritten notes naturally on your Android tablet, phone, or Chromebook supporting Android apps! With Squid you can write just like you would on paper using an active pen, passive stylus, or your finger.

Easily markup PDFs to fill out forms, edit/grade papers, or sign documents. Import images, draw shapes, and add typed text to your notes. Quickly select, copy/paste, and move content between pages and notes. Organize your notes within notebooks and increase your productivity!

Turn your device into a virtual whiteboard or give presentations in a class, meeting, or conference by wirelessly casting to a TV/projector (e.g. using Miracast, Chromecast). Export notes as PDFs or images, then share them with others or store them in the cloud!

Squid is vector based - keeping your notes beautiful at any zoom level and on any device. You can erase entire letters and words quickly with the stroke eraser tool, or just parts of words with the true eraser tool. The selection tool allows you to change the color and thickness of your handwriting and even resize a drawing whenever you want without any loss in quality.

Squid takes special advantage of active pens on capable devices to provide natural, pressure-sensitive handwriting. Just write with the pen and erase with your finger!

Squid is designed to be both powerful and simple to use, allowing you to take notes quickly and efficiently.

Awards/Recognition
• Featured App in Google Play
• Category Honorable Mention for Productivity in the Samsung Galaxy Note S Pen App Challenge: https://goo.gl/Ji9dCS
• Popular Choice Award in the Dual Screen App Challenge: https://goo.gl/J7uT0B

Key Features
• Take notes naturally with a pen and erase with your finger on active pen enabled devices (e.g. Galaxy Note devices with S Pen)
• Take notes with your finger or passive stylus on non-active pen devices (e.g. Nexus 7)
• Vector graphics engine
• Multiple paper types (e.g. blank, ruled, graph) and sizes (e.g. infinite, letter, A4)
• Undo/redo, select, move, and resize
• Change the color and weight of selected items
• Cut, copy, and paste items between notes
• Two-finger scroll and pinch-to-zoom
• Two-finger double tap to quickly jump to a specific zoom level
• Organize notes within notebooks
• Sort notes and notebooks
• Import, crop, and resize images
• Export notes to PDF, PNG, or JPEG for printing, archiving, or sharing
• Share notes with friends and colleagues via email, Evernote, etc.
• Multi-Window support
• Shortcuts to create a new note or open a notebook
• Present notes on a secondary display via HDMI, Chromecast, etc. (Android 4.2+)

Squid Premium
• Create notes and pages with premium backgrounds (math, engineering, music, sports, etc.)
• Import PDFs and mark them up like any other note
• Express yourself with additional tools (highlighter, “true” eraser, shapes, text)
• Backup/restore and bulk export notes as PDFs to cloud storage providers Dropbox and Box

Learn more about Squid Premium: https://goo.gl/mJFjeO

Google Workspace for Education customers can purchase Squid Premium in bulk using the Squid EDU Bulk License app (https://goo.gl/Kkxjtk)

Information about active pen devices: https://goo.gl/6BRJy

Explanation of required permissions: https://goo.gl/q5f8Y

If you encounter any bugs, please email us at help@squid.app with a description of the bug!

We would love to hear any feedback or feature requests you have at https://idea.squidnotes.com
Updated on
Jan 5, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
App activity and App info and performance
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

4.1
32.9K reviews
Space Captain
October 20, 2023
It's mostly good. It can be difficult to use. For example, I don't know how to delete a note. Its also kind of clunky: for example to erase anything you have to open a pop up, switch to eraser, erase item, open another pop up, switch to pen, etc.. it's a lot of steps for something that should be quick and painless. Over all though it's def one of the better note takers/doodlers I've used.
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Steadfast Innovation, LLC
November 1, 2023
Hi there - Thanks for reaching out! We're so glad you're enjoying Squid. Here are some detailed instructions on how to delete a note: https://help.squidnotes.com/article/612-how-do-i-trash-delete-a-note. Be sure to visit our feedback site to share your ideas and vote for feature requests at idea.squidnotes.com. Reach out anytime at help@squid.app.
A Google user
January 9, 2019
This app does NEARLY everything I need. If I need to take handwritten ONLY notes it's amazing, but if I want to do a mix of handwritten and typed notes it's a mess and basically unusable. If I click with a touchpad I don't want to draw, I want to insert a text box. If this was an option this application would basically be perfect. Only thing after that is to support more formatting and keyboard shortcuts for said formatting.
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A Google user
January 28, 2019
Exvellent note taking experience. I use this on my Samsung chromebook with the S-pen, by far the best feeling notes app on android. I subscribed to the pro mode for over a year but unsubscribed because the PDF functionality is lacking. The fact that I couldn't highlight pdf text for copying made multitasking a pain. Also the way text insertion works uses too much wasted space on big screen tablet devices. If those two gripes were fixed I would happily support the developers by subscribing yearly.
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What's new

Squid is now 10 years old! We’ve been working hard on some big updates, which we've coined "Squid10". Squid10 is not yet fully featured and is available via opt-in to get your feedback and make improvements. Just tap "Try Squid10" and be sure to send us your feedback!

Latest Highlights
• Fixed issue with Google Drive authentication
• Fixed PDF export crash on Android 14
• Fixed repetitive crash at startup caused by Cloud Export

Full changelog: http://goo.gl/EsAlNK