Sketch and take handwritten notes.

Rnote is an open-source vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes and to annotate documents and pictures. It is targeted at students, teachers and those who own a drawing tablet and provides features like Pdf and picture import and export, an infinite canvas and an adaptive UI for big and small screens.

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Overview

Features

Disclaimer

The file format is still unstable. It might change and break compatibility between versions.

Installation

Linux

Download the official flatpak on Flathub here.

Download on Flathub

MacOS

Thanks to @dehesselle the app is available on MacOS as an app bundle.
Check out the repository, the latest release can be downloaded here.

Download MacOS app bundle

Windows

Download the Windows installer from the latest release which can be found here.

Download Windows installer

Downgrading

Because the file format still is unstable, downgrading to a specific version might be necessary.

List all available past versions on flathub:

flatpak remote-info --log flathub com.github.flxzt.rnote

Pick the commit from the desired version and downgrade with:

sudo flatpak update --commit=<commit-hash> com.github.flxzt.rnote 

After downgrading, the flatpak version can be pinned or unpinned with:

$ flatpak mask com.github.flxzt.rnote
$ flatpak mask --remove com.github.flxzt.rnote

To update to the lastest version again, unpin and run flatpak update.

Screenshots

overview
selection
typewriter
focus-mode
workspaces
document-settings
action-shortcuts

Fonts

The following fonts are bundled with the application:

License

Rnote is available under the GPL-3.0-or-later. See the LICENSE file for more info.

Copyright (C) 2023  The Rnote Authors

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

More Information

More detailed information regarding contributions, building, etc. is available at the Github Repository