xnotes
- Fix a crash on PDFs with broken or empty pages
- Fix a rare crash while writing on some devices
- Fix PDF pages rerendering while scrolling
Highlights:
* Paged notes and an infinite canvas: work in real pages when you want structure, or spread out on a canvas that never runs out of room.
* Pressure-sensitive ink: a custom stroke engine turns raw stylus samples into a smooth, variable-width ribbon that swells and tapers with pen pressure, so handwriting and sketches feel natural instead of like a flat marker.
* Vector PDF, in and out: drop in a PDF as a page background to annotate, then export your notes back to PDF as true vector — ink and text stay crisp at any zoom instead of being flattened to pixels.
* Razor-sharp deep zoom: a background renderer redraws a high-resolution viewport off the main thread, so you can zoom far in and the ink stays sharp rather than turning blocky.
* Real highlighter blending: highlighters are composited live every frame with a true multiply blend, so overlapping strokes deepen like real ink instead of painting over one another.
* Neon pen: a glowing pen with a bright white core and saturated, luminous edges for accents that pop off the page.
* Smart PDF dark mode: invert a PDF page for comfortable night reading while leaving embedded photos and images untouched.
* Nothing is ever flattened: every stroke is stored as editable vector data in the open .xnote format, so you can re-select, move, restyle or erase any mark at any time.
* Stylus-aware by design: pen and finger are handled separately, so you can pan with a finger while you draw with the pen; on devices without a stylus, finger drawing turns on automatically.
* Private and open: open source, no accounts, no telemetry, no network access at all. Files go through Android's Storage Access Framework, so the app needs no broad storage permission either.
Also includes:
* Shapes, text boxes and image insertion
* Stroke and object erasers, plus box and lasso selection with move and resize
* Multi-page documents with several page sizes
* A backstage file area: recent notes, a built-in folder explorer and quick sharing
* A side panel with page thumbnails, contents and bookmarks
* Undo and redo
* Pinch to zoom and a configurable pen side-button action
* Customisable theme, accent colour and page defaults
- Author: Shardul Vikram Singh
- License: MIT License
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- Put the toolbar on any edge, in Compact, Regular or Comfortable size
- Add a Corners setting: Sharp, Rounded or Soft
- Add a contrast slider for custom colour palettes
- Material is now the only colour palette
- Empty folders offer to create a note or canvas, or import a PDF
- Minor fixes and improvements
- Add page templates: Cornell, planners, staves, isometric, polar and more
- Fix typing jumping ahead after backspace on some keyboards
- Minor fixes and improvements