Linwood Butterfly
Productivity
Powerful, minimalistic, cross-platform, opensource note-taking app
- Rating
- 4.2
- 77 ratings
- Downloads
- 10.3K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- No in-app purchases
- Updated
- Aug 10
- 2026 · v2.5.5
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About Linwood Butterfly
Butterfly is a note-taking app where your ideas come first. You can paint, add texts, and export them easily on every device. This app works on android, windows, linux, and in the web.
* Simple and intuitive Every tool is in the right place. Open the app and start drawing. Change your tools by clicking on it.
* Customizable: Change everything to your needs. Choose your custom color, create a palette, and add your pages to the paper. The paper has an infinite size, perfect for your ideas and notes.
* Support your favorite formats: Import and export are supported for images, pdf and svg. Register the app to open these files to edit them.
* Works on every device: The app is available for android, windows, linux, and in the web. You can use it on your phone, tablet, or computer.
* Choose where your data is stored: You can choose to store your data locally or in your favorite cloud (webdav). You can also export your data to a file and import it again.
* Available in many languages: The app is available in many languages. Help us to translate this app to your language.
* FOSS: The app is open source and free. You can contribute to the project and help to make it better.
* Use it offline: You can use the app offline. You can draw, paint, and export your notes without an internet connection.
* Use your favorite stylus: The app supports stylus and touch devices. You can draw and paint with your favorite stylus.
* Write text: You can write text on your notes. You can change the font, size, and color.
* Take photos: You can take photos and add them to your notes. You can also import photos from your gallery.
* Editable: You can change the size, color, and position of every element after you added it to your note.
* Add shapes: You can add shapes to your notes. You can choose between a rectangle, circle and line.
* Structure your notes: Add areas and waypoints to your notes to keep them organized.
* Simple and intuitive Every tool is in the right place. Open the app and start drawing. Change your tools by clicking on it.
* Customizable: Change everything to your needs. Choose your custom color, create a palette, and add your pages to the paper. The paper has an infinite size, perfect for your ideas and notes.
* Support your favorite formats: Import and export are supported for images, pdf and svg. Register the app to open these files to edit them.
* Works on every device: The app is available for android, windows, linux, and in the web. You can use it on your phone, tablet, or computer.
* Choose where your data is stored: You can choose to store your data locally or in your favorite cloud (webdav). You can also export your data to a file and import it again.
* Available in many languages: The app is available in many languages. Help us to translate this app to your language.
* FOSS: The app is open source and free. You can contribute to the project and help to make it better.
* Use it offline: You can use the app offline. You can draw, paint, and export your notes without an internet connection.
* Use your favorite stylus: The app supports stylus and touch devices. You can draw and paint with your favorite stylus.
* Write text: You can write text on your notes. You can change the font, size, and color.
* Take photos: You can take photos and add them to your notes. You can also import photos from your gallery.
* Editable: You can change the size, color, and position of every element after you added it to your note.
* Add shapes: You can add shapes to your notes. You can choose between a rectangle, circle and line.
* Structure your notes: Add areas and waypoints to your notes to keep them organized.
What’s new
Version 2.5.5 · Updated August 10, 2026
Read more here: https://butterfly.linwood.dev/changelog
User reviews
So awesome I might contribute Thank you so much for working on this. Awesome potential
Thank you
Thank you for this app. I hope to contribute in translating it in the future. I've been using it for my college notes with only the core package and the features it provides me out of the box are sufficient. However, for now, even the stable version is quite unstable, so I've been keeping backups of all my notes (th...
I can't import pdf file. "FormatException: Unexpected extension byte (at offset 11)" . But no problem in latest nightly version
This app has nice UI and I really liked it and its features. However the app started to lag after some while. It likely happened because of the relatively low-end SoC of my Pixel 4a.
Good app. Hope I can install this app via debian stable repo soon.
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