Pad Notes AI: Smart Notebooks
Hung Tien Pham Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
Pad Notes AI: Smart Notebooks is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Hung Tien Pham. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 12, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 685 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 12
- 2026 · v1.2.1
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About Pad Notes AI: Smart Notebooks
Pad Notes AI brings handwriting, typed notes, PDF annotation and a note-focused AI assistant into one workspace on iPhone, iPad and Mac. WRITE AND CREATE Write with Apple Pencil on compatible iPads or draw with touch. Adjust ink and stroke size, highlight, add text and images, and hold a stroke to turn it into an editable shape. Erase whole strokes or just part of them. MAKE EACH NOTEBOOK YOURS Choose from 15 cover styles, 19 page templates and 12 paper colors. Use ruled, dotted, grid, Cornell, planner, music and reading journal pages. Organize notebooks in folders, pin favorites, search your notes, and import or export PDFs. WORK WITH YOUR NOTES Record audio, use transcription and translation, and ask the assistant to summarize, explain or create study questions from selected pages. Apple on-device AI requires a supported device with Apple Intelligence available. Online AI requires your own provider API key and an internet connection. The basic offline mode extracts text and keywords using rules. Start with up to 20 notebooks for free. A one-time lifetime purchase unlocks unlimited notebooks. iCloud sync uses your device's Apple Account and requires iCloud to be available.
What’s new
Version 1.2.1 · Updated October 12, 2026
• Imported PDFs now use their original page dimensions instead of a default paper size. • Improved rendering of rotated PDF pages and pages with crop bounds. • Page previews, zoomed pages and PDF exports now use consistent page framing.
App privacy
The developer, Hung Tien Pham, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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