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The best note-taking apps for iPad of 2025: Expert tested
We took copious notes while testing the best note-taking apps available on iPad--feel free to sneak a peek at our answer key.
Notability melds several different types of note-taking apps for iPad, offering the ability to take notes, create a journal, or utilize special tools like ink and highlighter. LiquidText offers a quick and easy way to review, gather, and organize information across tons of documents and web pages and then apply your findings to writing, studying, prepping, and more. This would have been the perfect tool to have on hand throughout my graduate studies because it makes it so easy to take and connect ideas through files like PDFs, which are notoriously pesky to work with, especially when dealing with scanned copies of class readings.
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