Free
Try it on one course, with nothing to commit to.
- Every writing tool, unmetered
- One course
- A taste of the tutor
- Two devices
iPad · iPhone · Mac
Import your course material, organise it into notebooks, write naturally, and study with AI that understands your work.
No credit card required.

A PDF reader, a writing app, Drive, a chatbot you paste fragments into — none of them knows your course.
A chat window has no idea what was in lecture 7. Notero does.
Import
Import any PDF — a lecture, a worksheet, a past exam — and it opens as a notebook you can actually work on.

The structure
Every course gets a notebook. Every topic gets a page. Lectures, homework, summaries and practice sit next to each other instead of scattering across eight apps.
Calculus II, Linear Algebra, Data Structures — each its own world.
Everything for that course in one place, not a pile of files.
A page per topic, problem or summary. Add, duplicate, reorder.
Ink
Pen, highlighter, eraser, lasso, text and images — on your own pages, and exactly the same on top of an imported PDF.

AI Tutor
Ask about what is on the page in front of you. Notero answers from your own material — a hint, the formula you need, and the next step.

Flashcards
Notero reads what you wrote, pulls the concepts out of it, and turns them into cards for active recall.

Practice
Questions built from your own course material, with the explanation right after — and a running picture of what still needs work.

Organisation
Every course carries its own notebook, documents, flashcards, practice and progress.

Document library
Lectures, homework, summaries and exam prep — filed by course, searchable, and flagged when something still needs review.

Progress
Notero does not only hold the work. It shows where you are weak, what is coming, and what deserves the next two hours.

Focus mode
One topic, one timer, a short list of what to do. And what comes next.

How it connects
No configuration, no manual tagging, no copy-pasting into a chat window.
A PDF, a lecture or a problem set — it comes in as it is.
Course → notebook → pages, without filing anything by hand.
Annotate, solve and write naturally with Apple Pencil.
Ask the AI and get hints and explanations from your material.
Flashcards and quizzes built out of your own pages.
Progress and weak topics that show you what comes next.
What’s inside
The product is six layers. Anything marked “soon” is in development and not in this release — flagged so nothing surprises you.
The base layer — and it’s free, with no quota.
Pressure-sensitive strokes, palm rejection, immediate response. Built on Skia, not a WebView.
The same tools on every kind of page — imported PDF pages included.
Add, duplicate, reorder and drag in the thumbnail rail. Grid, ruled or blank.
Every action is written to a local operation log. Importing a 90-page PDF undoes in one press.
Type next to your handwriting when typing is faster.
Your lecturer’s slides become pages in your notebook.
Every page comes in at its real dimensions. A 300-page document opens instantly — pages rasterise only when you reach them.
Your annotations are stored separately from the source file, so erasing them never damages it.
Take the notebook back out as a single file with your markup baked in.
What turns a pile of files into a course.
Lecture, problem set, summary, practice, past exam, lab, project or note — with no tagging from you.
A readable summary of the lecture, the list of definitions and theorems, and a topic breakdown.
Extraction is built so expressions and brackets don’t get chopped in half — a failure mode earlier versions had.
Each document is chunked. Retrieval is running on keywords right now — vector search is not currently active.
Not a general chatbot — a tutor that read your material.
Every answer rests on passages from your own documents. With nothing relevant to draw on, Notero says so rather than inventing.
Each answer carries the document and the section it came from, so you can check it. Page-level references are on the way.
When a document is detected as homework or an exam, the tutor switches to hints and guidance and withholds the answer.
Ask across the whole course, one folder, or a single document.
Return to an earlier thread and pick it up.
From passive material to active study.
Questions built from your lectures, not from a generic bank.
A prioritised task list derived from the material, your exam date, and the mastery you reported.
Topics spread across the days you have left before the exam.
Mastery tracked per topic, plus “study this first”.
The things that simply have to work.
Deleting a folder never deletes material — documents fall back to the course root.
Every stroke is written to disk before it is acknowledged on screen. Worst case you lose the stroke under the pen, not the session.
Start on iPad, carry on at the desk.
A genuine RTL interface, not a mirrored translation.
Pricing
Try it on one course, with nothing to commit to.
A full semester. Enough for five or six courses at once.
billed yearly · Save 32%
Without counting. For exam season and heavy loads.
billed yearly · Save 31%
| What you get | Free | Basic | Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Courses | 1 | 6 | Unlimited |
| AI summaries per month | 3 | 40 | Unlimited |
| Tutor questions per month | 20 | 300 | Unlimited |
| Guided problem sets per month | 2 | 25 | Unlimited |
| Practice sets per month | 1 | 20 | Unlimited |
| PDF pages imported per month | 30 | 500 | Unlimited |
| Study plan and checklist | Not included | Included | Included |
| Annotated PDF export | Not included | Included | Included |
| Storage | 1 GB | 10 GB | 50 GB |
| Devices | 2 | 3 | Unlimited |
Prices in USD. Billing goes through the App Store or Google Play and is shown in your local currency. Cancel any time from your device settings.
No. Your material is used only to answer you. It does not go into model training and is not exposed to other users.
No, and that is deliberate. When a document is detected as homework or an exam, the tutor switches to guidance: it explains the method, points at the relevant definition and asks leading questions — but withholds the final answer.
The notebook carries on as normal — your writing, your PDFs and all your files stay available at all times. Only new AI actions wait for next month or an upgrade.
Writing does, fully — including PDF import and every page already on the device. AI actions need a connection, in the nature of things.
Because a student cannot rely on an answer they are unable to verify. The citation is not decoration — it is how you check the system did not invent anything.
Yes, at any moment, straight from the subscription settings on your device. Access runs to the end of the period you paid for, and your files stay yours.
Upload a single lecture and ask it a question. That is all it takes to know whether this is for you.
No credit card required.