NoteLedge review
A visual notebook that combines stylus notes, PDF markup, audio and mood boards.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Nov 2026
NoteLedge is a digital notebook for people who want written notes to sit alongside visual and multimedia material. Designers, content creators, students and teachers can write or draw with a stylus, add photos, video, audio and web clippings, and organize work into notebooks or mood boards. It also supports PDF annotation and presenting notes as slideshows, making it more oriented toward collecting and communicating ideas than plain text capture.
Its strongest distinction is the mix of handwriting and media. A handwriting tool can insert handwriting as editable text, while PDF highlighting and markup keep annotations connected to notebooks. Users can record multiple audio clips while taking notes or changing pages, and exports can preserve audio and video in PDFs. Layered collages and web clipping extend the notebook into visual research and planning. That breadth suits projects where sketches, references and spoken notes need to stay together; people seeking a focused text notebook may find the extra creative tools unnecessary.
The free iOS Basic Plan includes basic multimedia note-taking and an iPad PDF viewer. NoteLedge Pro iOS adds unlimited notebooks, PDF export with audio and video, iPad PDF highlighting and markup, and 500GB of KDAN Cloud storage. Creativity 365 for Individuals includes Pro features, advanced features in Animation Desk, Write-on Video and Markup, plus 1TB of KDAN Cloud storage. The product spans iOS, Android, macOS and Windows, and lists KDAN Cloud, iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive integrations. Email and documentation are support channels. Choose NoteLedge for stylus-led visual projects and annotated media; choose a simpler notes app if those workflows are not useful.
Questions about NoteLedge
What does NoteLedge run on? iOS, Android, macOS and Windows. It runs in the cloud, as a desktop app and as a mobile app.
What does NoteLedge integrate with? 5 integrations: KDAN Cloud, iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive.
Who is NoteLedge built for? Solo users and small businesses (our editorial estimate).
NoteLedge pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Combines handwriting, freehand drawing and editable handwriting text
- Links PDF annotations to notebooks and records audio clips with notes
- Builds mood boards and exports notes as PDFs with embedded media
- Where it doesn't
- Unlimited notebooks and PDF markup are reserved for paid plans
- Plan differences are clearest on iOS; other platform pricing may differ
- Its mood boards and media tools may be more than text-first note takers need
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