What's New

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8.2.2 - iOS 10.x improved support. Fixed minor bugs and improved performance.

8.1.5 - Fixed a crash on iPad 2 and iPad Mini while creating a new Ink note
- Fixed a text formatting bug while using some font families, now the format is preserved (bold, italic, etc.) after saving the document
- Left to Right and Right to Left alignment bug fixed while selecting the entire document
- Fixed minor bugs
- Improved stability and performance

8.1.4 - Fixed minor bugs
8.1.3 - Word and character counter on RTF documents now counts selected words
- Long Tap anywhere on a Ink note to access annotation tools and insert items
- Improved performance and fixed minor bugs

8.1.2 - Improved drawing toolbar for handwritten Ink Notes
- Tap anywhere on a Ink note to access annotation tools and insert items
- Improved performance and fixed minor bugs
8.1.0 - New search feature allows you to search for a word or phrase in a PDF document
- New outline/bookmarks/annotations option to show the PDF outline, your bookmarks and annotations in a table
- Improved performance and fixed minor bugs

Great news! This v. 8.0 update is HUGE.

We have listened to your suggestions and requests: we have included PDF Annotation, PDF forms and PDF documents signatures, a new extended Markdown engine with tables, footnotes, etc. and tree-like structured projects! Practically this is a new app! So we have renamed it to "Notes Writer" to better reflect the new features.

What's New?
- New icon and app name!!! The old (and beloved!) Textilus app is "NOTES WRITER" now.
- It's a full Pro version, 100% Premium features unlocked.
- New PDF Annotations: highlight, line, arrow, rectangle, circle, strikeout, underline, notes, voice notes, typewriter, pencil, stamp, eraser and signature
- Fully text search within PDF content. Features a fast PDF outline view
- Fill out forms on the go. Supports PDF AcroForms standard
Sign with your own signature documents, contracts, forms
- Digital Signature Validation
- Share or print your documents with all annotations preserved
- Convert your text documents easily to PDF and use the PDF reader to annotate them

- Create notebooks and projects in a tree-like structure: Sections, Classes, Lectures, Grades, Drafts, Folders, Chapters, Research, etc.
- Automatic backups
- Advanced Markdown documents supported

A ton of new useful features and bug fixes!

App Description

Type, handwrite, annotate, draw, highlight, scan & record Notes. Annotate PDFs, fill forms and sign documents. Create your Notebooks (binders) & tree-like projects and sync across devices and computers. The way you like.

You have lecture notes to take, a story to tell, article to publish, whether it’s today’s journal entry, tomorrow’s thesis, highlight important things in books, fill out a PDF form or get the most from your business meetings. Notes Writer is an excellent assistant in study and business, also being effective for writing down your ideas and thoughts and sharing them!

Students, teachers, writers, doctors, journalists, scholars and business professionals use Notes Writer daily to store notes, annotations, memos, signed PDFs, papers, highlighted PDF text-books, lectures and more.

With Notes Writer you can:

+ WRITE. EDIT. FORMAT
· Write Everywhere: Use Notes Writer as an stand-alone writing app even if you don’t have a computer or you are offline in the wilds
· Create rich text format (RTF) and advanced Markdown (MD) documents
· Advanced RTF word-processor formatting: Highlight, strikethrough, subscript/superscript, alignment, line spacing, first-line indent, page breaks, footnotes, comments, text & paper color
· Define margins, headers/footers, paper sizes, MLA and APA style format
· Markdown engine supports the standard syntax but it has been extended to include very useful extra markups: tables, footnotes, lists, images, links, highlight, strikethrough, superscript and MathML
· Live counters: characters, words, sentences, lines, Avg. Word length, Words per sentence & reading time
· Text to Speech for proofreading
· Dictation lets you speak text instead of typing
· Typewriter: Distraction-Free mode, letting you focus on what you’re writing
· Night mode to help you writing at night
· Find and replace
· Pinch to zoom text
· Insert special symbols arrows, maths, bullets/stars, GPS location, etc.
· Over 30 languages typing support including Japanese, Chinese, Arabic & Hebrew
· Extra keys: tab, forward delete, cursor up/down/left/right, etc.

+ ANNOTATE PDFs. FILL FORMS. SIGN DOCUMENTS
· PDF Annotations: highlight, strikeout, underline, notes, voice notes, pencil, stamp, sign...
· Fill out forms. Supports PDF AcroForms standard
· Sign with your own signature documents, contracts, forms
· Digital Signature Validation

+ ORGANIZE. STRUCTURE. FIND.
· Organize your work in unlimited notebooks, folders and subfolders
· Create notebooks and projects in your own tree-like structure: Sections, Classes, Lectures, Grades, Drafts, Folders, Chapters, Research, etc.
· Design the cover of your notebooks
· Full-text search your library of documents and projects

+ SCAN NOTES. RESEARCH. PDF LIBRARY
· Full PDF reader and manager included for reference files, text books, ebooks, articles, resources, papers, etc.
· Use the camera of your iPad/iPhone to scan documents, notes, recipes, tickets, etc. as PDF
· In-app web browser to quickly access dictionaries, thesaurus, resources
· Open PowerPoint, Word and Excel files

+ SHARE NOTES. EXPORT PDF, HTML…
· Open attachments directly from the Mail app
· Sync via iCloud, Dropbox, Box, WebDAV and Google Drive
· Convert to multiple formats RTF, Markdown, PDF, ePub, HTML, RTFD, TXT, etc.
· Wi-Fi File Transfer between iPad/iPhone and your computer
· Zip folders/notebooks and email them

+ USEFUL MINI-APPS
· Calendar: Full calendar with events and alerts for your writer appointments, reminders, deadlines, etc
· Font Book: Preview all the fonts and install new ones (TrueType). Over 120 high quality fonts included!
· Sketcher: Hand draw, sign documents and make simple graphics
· Thesaurus

+ AUTOMATIC BACKUPS. BE SAFE. PROTECT YOUR WORK
· Protect your work with an app security passcode
· Protect any folder or project with a passcode
· Automatic Backups of your notes and notebooks

iPhone Screenshots

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iPad Screenshots

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App Changes

  • June 16, 2014 Initial release
  • July 25, 2014 New version 5.0.2
  • August 01, 2014 New version 5.0.3
  • August 28, 2014 New version 5.0.5
  • September 19, 2014 New version 5.0.7
  • October 04, 2014 New version 5.0.8
  • October 24, 2014 New version 5.1.1
  • November 03, 2014 New version 5.1.2
  • December 18, 2014 New version 5.1.3
  • January 06, 2015 New version 5.1.4
  • January 29, 2015 New version 5.1.5
  • April 26, 2015 New version 5.3.0
  • May 14, 2015 New version 5.3.1
  • July 11, 2015 New version 5.5.0
  • July 18, 2015 New version 5.5.1
  • September 03, 2015 New version 5.5.5
  • September 13, 2015 New version 5.5.7
  • September 25, 2015 New version 5.5.8
  • October 23, 2015 New version 5.5.9
  • March 17, 2016 New version 7.1.5
  • March 24, 2016 New version 7.2.1
  • July 11, 2016 New version 7.3.5
  • August 17, 2016 New version 8.0.0
  • August 19, 2016 New version 8.1.0
  • August 20, 2016 New version 8.1.2
  • August 21, 2016 Price increase: FREE! -> $5.99
  • November 09, 2016 New version 8.2.1
  • November 09, 2016 Price decrease: $5.99 -> FREE!
  • November 15, 2016 New version 8.2.2

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