100 Apps for Taking Notes on Your iPhone

Note-taking applications are some of the hottest items on the App Store. More and more these utilities make it easy to record data in a fast and convenient way and the fact that this information lives on our phones means that we can access it anytime we need it.

The 100 apps below will help you accomplish all your iPhone note-taking endeavors. Whether you want to collect random bits of information, remember something about a specific place or even record some thoughts about your favorite wine, we’ve got you covered. There’s even a section containing our favorite apps so you can get a good idea of where to start!

Our Favorites

Evernote – Free: Evernote turns the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad into an extension of your brain, helping you remember anything and everything that happens in your life. From notes to ideas to snapshots to recordings, put it all into Evernote and watch as it instantly synchronizes from your iPhone to your Mac or Windows desktop.

Simplenote – Free: People are using Simplenote to keep notes, lists, ideas and more. Your notes automatically synchronize with your computer and all your devices. It’s extremely easy to use. For those who want more power, you can also use tags, pins, versions, and sharing.

Awesome Note (+Todo) – $3.99 : Awesome Note is an innovative note taking application and to-do manager that allow you to combine notes with to-do flexibility. Awesome Note enables you to customize its look with themes the way you want it to be displayed with different folder icons, colors, fonts and paper backgrounds.

Nebulous Notes (for Dropbox) – $0.99: Nebulous Notes is a powerful, yet simple, text editor for note-takers, writers, and coders. (If you want to try-before-you-buy, check out “Nebulous Notes Lite.”) Your notes are backed up and available from Dropbox, the best back-up service in the world. Free accounts on Dropbox come with 2GB of space, enough to store 500 copies of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Nebulous Notes has been featured twice on Lifehacker.com as one of the best tools for getting things done.

Springpad – Free: Springpad is a free application that lets you quickly and easily save the ideas and information you want to remember – on the web, on your phone and on your iPad!

Handwriting

Handwriting – Free: From the makers of the bestselling iPad app “Penultimate”. Use our highly-acclaimed inking technology to hand-write quick thank you notes, doodles, or love letters. Then send them by email, post them to Facebook, or to Twitter! Simple and easy to use. Your writing looks like your handwriting in beautiful black gel ink.

Note It! – Free: Take handwritten notes on your iPhone or IPod Touch with Note It! Make note of important to do’s, grocery lists, phone numbers and more with this simple, easy-to use, notetaking application. Note It! enables you to bypass the keyboard and write directly on the display, save your notes, and order your saved notes.

BugMe! – Ink Notepad & Alarms – $1.99: Make quick handwritten ink “postit” notes and reminders on the fly. Set quick alarms, save notes to your Home Screen and share your “sticky” notes by email or Twitter.

iPenNote – Free: The innovative Mobile Digital Pen enables you to take handwritten notes while being in meetings, classrooms or in outdoor using ink pen and regular paper. Use your iPhone or iPad as a platform to save the handwritten data, keep it, edit it, send it and much more. This is supported by this unique iPenNote application.

PhatNotes – $4.99: PhatNotes for iPhone is the new generation of PhatWare’s award-winning notes organizer that allows to synchronize notes with desktop PC and use cursive and print handwriting recognition for text input.

neu.Notes for iPhone – Free: Take notes and draw on your iPhone with the best app in the store for handwritten notes, sketching, mind mapping, and more! Express yourself with multiple colors, line widths, varying transparency and images. Annotate photos and maps. Unlimited undo/redo. Pinch zoom in and out of details.

Use Your Handwriting – Free: Use Your Handwriting (UYH) is a powerful yet simple way to organize and express yourself. Instead of typing items in, Use Your Handwriting lets you write them by hand (well, by finger) – and with its unique graphic rendering engine, makes what you write look like your actual handwriting!

Note And Sketch – $1.99: Take note by typing input text and drawing using your fingers. Email text from your note. Export your notes to your photo album. From there, you can sync it with your desktop or laptop computer, or you can email it to any email address.

WritePad Notes – $3.99: WritePad Notes Edition is a simple notes organizer for iPhone and iPad Touch based on the WritePad text editor. You can view and edit your notes in landscape and portrait modes using either WritePad handwriting recognition or the standard iPhone keyboard. You can sort notes by creation date, modification date, or note title in an ascending or a descending order. You can also copy and paste text between notes, or filter notes by characters or words found in the note title.

Note Taker – $1.99: Note Taker makes it easy for you to quickly write down and organize names, phone numbers, addresses, shopping lists, notes, and more. You write directly on the screen with your finger. It’s like having a stack of note cards and a pencil always with you. Pages are flexibly organized by date/time last modified, tags, favorites, and more, with thumbnail images of part of each page to help you find them later.

Notes n More – $0.99: Create and Organize Tasks(todos), Notes, Voice Memos, Freehand Scribbles (draw with your finger on a blank slate or annotate over pictures), Internet (save files, convert web pages to PDF), Pictures and Videos all in one app.

Jungle Scribble – Notes & Draws – $2.99: Jungle Scribble – Notes & Draws is the best tool to make quick notes on the go. It can be used also to finger paint, make sketches or play with children. The program is clean, well done and surely belongs to the handful of must-have applications for the iPhone.

Jot! for iPhone – $2.99: Tired of complicated, unstable, or abandoned whiteboard apps that get in your way? Tap less. Jot more. Jot is a simple, fast whiteboard that lets you sketch out your ideas and share them. Draw, take notes, or wireframe on your iPhone quickly and easily as soon as ideas come to you. Then, share your ideas via email or save them as photos.

Private Notes

Safe Note – $1.99: Safe Note is the simple application that allows you to keep password protected notes on your iPhone and iPod Touch. With Safe Note you can create notes, to do lists, reminders and anything else on a ‘no fuss’ text editor and keep them safe with a password.

LockedNotes – Free: Using LockedNotes is simple, just create a username and password by touching the register button and than start entering your secrets. You can also categorize your information by creating different accounts. Until now you had to remember dozens of username and password pairs. With LockedNotes you need to remember just one account and you can forget all the others, LockedNotes will remember them for you!

Signature-Secret Notes & Photos – Free: The app solves the problem of keeping personal information private and safe innovatively by enabling the user to access the private information simply by drawing his/her signature on the screen.Forget trying to type a password on a tiny screen. This method is faster, more intuitive and fun!

Hidden – $1.99: Are you using Simplenote? If so, you can keep your private notes hidden with Hidden app. It is fast, clean, and simple note taking application that syncs with Simplenote cloud service and it hides all notes which start with underbar_. You don’t need to be embarrassed with private notes when you show your iPhone to friends or families

Sticky Notes

Sticky Notes Pro – with Alarms and Bump Sharing – $0.99: Create fun and creative reminders to place on your lockscreen so you’ll never forget a thing. How is this different from other apps? Putting notes on your lockscreen positions them up front so you don’t have to unlock your phone to view them. Now add alarms to your notes for the ultimate reminder app!

Fenix notes – $2.99: Fenix notes the most innovative and easy to use notes app available on the App Store, designed and inspired by the iPhone and iPod Touch. Move and rearrange your notes by pressing and holding just like on the iPhone or iPod Touch. Customize your notes by changing color names and adding additional contexts and criteria’s (Priority/Location/Task, your imagination is the limit). Customize your sort by changing color orders or by changing the sort order.

iMemoBoard – Sticky Notes – $1.99: iMemoBoard is useful sticky note App. Alarms, checkboxes, clickable links, email integration and more.

SmartNotes w/Stickies, ToDo, Photo, Voic – $9.99: SmartNotes is an intuitive way to organize your thoughts. It’s easy to group and combine notes, to-do’s, photos and voice recordings visually with the tip of your finger. SmartNotes uses innovative technology to allow you to group your notes into folders by dragging your notes on-top of each other. This helps you to very quickly organize your thoughts into common areas. In addition, SmartNotes helps you organize your notes by associating them with projects that you create.

abc Notes – $0.99: abcNotes was designed to become your stylish and highly customizable, functional and easy to use assistant in taking notes and managing To Do lists. It takes advantage of unique iOS devices touchscreen preserving realistic look & feel of paper sticky notes.

My Notes – $0.99: My Notes allows you to quickly and easily note your ideas, needs, lists and all you can think about. Then you can post your notes on your iPhone’s lockscreen to have them always in sight.

Note Board! – $0.99: Keep organized with Note Board! We don’t think in a straight line so why have your notes show up like it? With Note Board you have a virtual wall to place notes on. It expands indefinitely as you add new notes – there’s no limit. Resize them, move them or change their color and font – you are in control!

YediNotes – Free: YediNotes is a simple and user-friendly program for taking notes using stickers with different colors on your iphone. The user can also create screenshots of the board and include his/her own images as backgrounds. The stickers are created by pressing the green plus button and they are deleted by dragging
them into the bin on the bottom right.

Cloud and Synced

Catch Notes – Free: Catch Notes is a free feature-packed notepad app that allows you to capture text, images, and locations — with free sync and backups to Catch.com. Passcode protect your notes, share, and keep organized with easy #tags!

PlainText – Dropbox text editing – Free: For editing text on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. PlainText is a simple text editor with an uncomplicated, paper-like user interface. Unlike the default Notes app, PlainText allows you to create and organize your documents in folders and sync everything with Dropbox.com.

FastEver – $0.99: FastEver is quick and simple way to make a note in Evernote. You can start typing as soon as you tap FastEver icon.

MobileNoter – Free: MobileNoter is a powerful and multifunctional note taking application which is able to sync with Microsoft OneNote. Although you can use MobileNoter as a standalone application to take and store your notes, its real power comes into play when you start using it with Microsoft OneNote. Now all your Microsoft OneNote data is available on your iPhone.

CloudNote – $2.99: The new notes application for the iPhone and iPod touch that makes keeping your life in sync effortless. CloudNote features a dead-simple UI and free companion software on the web and on your Mac Dashboard. You’ll never open another notes application again after CloudNote.

Notespark – sync and share your notes – $4.99: Notespark is an iOS app and a web app that were built from the ground up to be the best way to sync and share notes on your iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. Notespark syncs with a web app, not a desktop app, so that you don’t need to remember to sync before leaving the house. Everything happens automatically. As you switch back and forth between the web and your device, the same notes will always be available no matter where you are.

RainbowNote – $3.99: RainbowNote is functional and easy to use notes application supporting true sync with Google Docs.

Notebook – $4.99: Notebook is a powerful tool which gives you access to your notes anywhere. Use Notebook by itself or synchronize your notes to the web using Toodledo.com, a free online service for notes and tasks. Capture your thoughts and ideas anywhere, categorize them, and synchronize them for safe keeping. Later on, you can browse by Notebook or search all notes by entering key words in the search field.

MomoNote – $4.99: MomoNote is a personal memo application for iPhone/iPad, which can also be managed using the sync with web (http://momonote.com). MomoNote is an ‘universal application’, which allows the access to both iPhone and iPad with a single purchase.

Trunk Notes – $3.99: Trunk Notes is a powerful note taking app and personal wiki. Create notes, format notes, and link notes together. Trunk Notes is the app for notes on the move. Buy Trunk Notes and install it on your iPhone and iPad – only 1 app required! Sync your notes with Dropbox and work with your information on all your iOS devices. Use Trunk Notes as a simple note taking app – or use it’s advanced features to create your own personal wiki with dynamic content, images, sound recordings and more.

Lumen Note – $1.99: Easy and Instant. Lumen Note is the fastest way to take notes and get them instantly transferred to your Desktop or Laptop, your iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

Notesy for Dropbox – $2.99: Notesy is not just a simple Dropbox file editor that only works when you’re online: it’s an over-the-air syncing note-taking app that you can keep on using even when you don’t have a signal.

Microsoft OneNote – Free: Microsoft OneNote Mobile is the easy-to-use, powerful note-taking application for all of your ideas, brought to you by Microsoft Office. OneNote Mobile lets you create and view notes and lists whenever you need them. Sync your notes with free Windows Live online storage and access them from virtually anywhere using your phone, PC, or almost any web browser.

SwiftNote Pocket Organizer – $0.99: SwiftNote is a powerful organization and task management tool designed to be quick and easy to use! Powerful, quick sync feature with your Google Calendar and notes on your device’s home screen, without unlocking the device.

Nocs – $1.99: Text editor with Dropbox & Markdown. Browse, edit, & organize your notes & docs.

MaxNote – $2.99: Max Note is a novel notes application , it is simple, practical and quickly to use. It helps you write down ideas, messages, or anything else. It is not complex, but is powerful. It integrates text words, pictures, sound recording into one memo note. In other words, at the same time you can be writing words, showing pictures, and recording voice. It also can sync notes with your Google Docs.

JotAgent ~ quick Dropbox notes – $0.99: A simple and efficient solution for today’s users who are always on the run with nothing but their handheld devices at hand — JotAgent is the quickest way to get your notes and ideas into your Dropbox account. Just write something, and with a single tap of a button it will be saved.

Underscore Notify – $1.99: Launch Notify and immediately start jotting down a reminder, write an essay, slice’n’dice a photo of a whiteboard, draw a diagram, type a bulleted list, build up a moodboard, scribble directions on a map, or read and annotate a lengthy document. Notify easily imports an extensive range of formats (including PDF, Word, Excel & Powerpoint and many more) either directly from an email or from files stored on cloud servers such as Dropbox, Box.net, Google Docs or Evernote (iDisk coming soon).

Niche

PhotoNote – $1.99: See something that sparks an idea, like something in a shop, find an article in a newspaper of magazine, or spot a new book or CD? Are you taking photos for your business and need to add context to them? Snap a quick photo and tag it with a note, so you’ll remember to action it later. Use it to take a picture memo or use it as a diary.

Tiki’Notes 6 keys friendly keyboard notepad – Free: TikiNotes is using our exclusive Tiki6Keys mobile keyboard technology which has been developped specially to provide the user with an efficient typing interface.

Wine Notes – Free: Wine Notes is the mobile application for any discerning wine drinker. Keep track of wines that you’ve loved, wines you’ve hated and wines that you’re still searching for.

Snap-it Notes – $0.99: Snap-it Notes is a versatile, reliable and simple to use photo note app in your pocket. With Snap-it Notes, creating notes is just a snap. See something important? “Snap it”, add description, select tags and save. In a hurry? Simply snap it and save. You can always add the description and tags at later time. Want to create a quick note without taking photo? Click “Write a note”, add description and save.

FlavorNotes – Free: The first app on the scene for the flavor industry, FlavorNotes is designed to help you build flavor profiles. It lets you record flavor descriptors when tasting samples or whenever flavor inspiration strikes. Use this business tool to easily select flavors and descriptors, refine levels, type comments, save profiles and email them to others. It will help the entire product development team share a common language of flavor descriptors — while working together in a new and exciting way!

DreamNotes – $1.99: DreamNotes is another thing you have to take with you for sleep. It intelligently distinguishes talking and snoring during your sleep. It memorizes your sleep period together with time counting for talk and snore. It saves your dream talk thus you can see how amazingly you perform on your dreamland.

Contact Notes – $0.99: Do you use your iPhone’s Contact’s notes field to jot down important notes about your contacts? Do you wish it was easier to go through all the notes you’ve taken over time, instead of going through your huge contacts list one-by-one? If so, then this app is for you!

inClass – Free: inClass, the amazing student organizer, is here to help you survive school. No matter how complex your school schedule is inClass will help you keep track of all your courses and even alert you before class so that you are never late again. Not only that, but it will help you keep track of your tasks by reminding you that one is due soon, so no more procrastination.

Notes & Tasks

DulyNoted – Free: DulyNoted is a simple task manager/todo list application. You can create and edit notes, add detailed information, and attach relevant images to your notes. Delete and reorder notes rapidly from the overview list, or drill down into specific notes for additional details.

Easy Note + To Do – Free: Easy Note + To Do is a simple yet effective notes and to-do app. It provides good basic functionality with an attractive and clutter-free design.

This Is Note – $2.99: This Is Note is different from other notes – it is a 4+1 types in one! You can select one among the four themes of Note, Album, Diary, To-do and Calendar. Then you can complete your style of note by choosing from various designs of note covers, fonts, and stickers.

MiniNote – Free: Mini-note was designed to write memos faster and easier. It has simple To-Do function and it can be used for various ways. For example shopping list and homework and works and so on. The bookmark function makes Type a note and read more quickly. We note a more useful features for managing the update is going to be.

NoteMaster – $3.99: Text, Images, Lists, Headers…you’ll never be limited to boring notes again! Images are inserted right into the note where they belong, without resorting to clumsy attachments. Add a variety of lists to any note easily. Bulleted lists, numbered lists, and checkbox lists are all supported.

Location

Visual Notes – $1.99: Visual Notes makes it easy to create location aware notes using the camera, photo library, or keyboard. Notes are geo-tagged using the iPhone’s built-in Location technology allowing you see when and where they were created. The intuitive and easy-to-use interface makes it easy to manage all of your photo and text notes in one place and remove the clutter from your photo library.

Location Notes (Drop & Drag) – Free: Location Notes makes your iPhone and iPod Touch to remember & share your memories by locations. This app allows you to make notes by GPS locations, taking pictures, images on photo library. You can also view list of notes by distance, dates and map points. Moreover, you can share your notes by email. Drop Pins & Move Around & Write Notes!

NoteWhere – $1.99: Organize your life geographically. NoteWhere is a location-aware notebook that records where you are when you make a note. Keep track of places you’ve been, things you’ve seen, and people you’ve met. A great app for house hunters, comparison shoppers, gift buyers, travelers, those who want to remember their favorite bars and restaurants, and others who simply need to know where they were when they took note of something.

MyMapNotes – Free: MyMapNotes is a Location-Based-Service that connects notes with specific GPS locations. The MapNote triggers a notification when the iPhone is approaching the geotagged coordinates – right-in-time.

GPSnote – Free: With GPSnote you can easily add, edit and delete notes on the map. You can create a note at the current location or by searching for a location by clicking the magnifier icon, a green pin will be shown that you can click revealing a plus icon that opens the keyboard for typing a note. You can also create a note at a arbitrary location by tapping and holding for 1 second with one finger.

Pin Drop – Free: Have you ever found somewhere cool and thought “I must come back here” and then forgotten where it was? Or wanted to tell a friend but couldn’t direct them on where to go? Pin Drop helps you to keep track of all those brilliant coffee shops, indie record stores, great restaurants, tiny boutiques, amazing beaches, free wifi locations.

GeoNoto – $0.99: Ever wanted to do something when you got home but once you got home you could not remember what you wanted to do? With GeoNoto you can create a custom location-aware note that alerts you when you get within 200m of that note! If just a simple note is not enough to remind you can also add a photo from your library or camera to the note! You can also add the note to your calendar which can let you be reminded on a certain date and time. In short this is a simple note taking app that can remind you based on location,
with an image, and on a certain date and time.

Crumbs App – Free: Crumbs helps people leave notes and photos anywhere in the world for their friends (or themselves) to find. Only when the recipients arrive at the selected location, they can “find” the note!.

Journal & Diary

Chronicle – $1.99: Chronicle is the perfect way to keep a journal or diary on the iPhone. Also great for writing and searching notes. Features: landscape editing, add pictures, change fonts, background colors, upload to Google Docs, privacy lock.

Day One (Journal) – $0.99: A journal / diary / text logging application that makes it easy to log your thoughts and memories. Day One is well designed and extremely focused to encourage you to write more. Featuring Dropbox sync with the beautiful Day One Mac desktop application.

Momento (Diary/Journal) – $2.99: Momento is a unique diary/journal writing application which provides a quick and easy way to privately record moments throughout your day. Connect with popular web services, such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, Foursquare, Gowalla, YouTube, Vimeo, Digg and Last.fm, to collect and display your online activity as part of your diary.

MacJournal for iPhone – $4.99: Organize, chronicle and edit all your important information fast and on the fly. Best of all, unlike other journaling apps out there, you can blog to any of the popular blog sites using MacJournal. Not a blogger? Use MacJournal on its own or sync it up to your desktop version of MacJournal when you get back to your Mac. Either way, MacJournal has you covered.

LiveJournal – Free: LiveJournal is a unique social network that allows users around the world to find each other through journaling and interest-based communities. LiveJournal App for the iPhone offers many of LiveJournal’s core features. You can read your friends page, manage your friends list, post entries to your journal and communities, upload photos, communicate with other LiveJournal users and more!

Raconteur — The Everyday Journal / Diary – $2.99: Do you keep a journal, but forget to write in it? How often do you take the time to reflect on what you’ve written? Raconteur solves both problems. Ever wish you could remember what you did on a certain day? Raconteur reminds you of entries you need to write to ensure that you’ll never miss a day. With a complete record of your life you’ll remember what you did, and you’ll never forget your favorite memories.

General Purpose

Mental Note – the digital notepad – $2.99: Mental Note allows you to capture ideas as they happen: use photographs, dictate, add text, sketch on anything. Ideas clarified. Creativity captured.

Meteor Notes – $2.99: Meteor is a revolutionary note-taking tool. It will completely change the way you take notes on your iPod/iPhone/iPad. Meteor is highly visual and instinctive! Efficiently classify your memos in a more familiar way. Divide them into folders instead of a plain list. You can create an unlimited number of folders and subfolders.

Notebooks – $5.99: Notebooks is the one and only notebook that you’ll ever need. It allows you to conveniently write, capture and organize your ideas, notes, reminders, journals, diaries or details of life that you want to keep close at hand. If you need to take an important note, or search for one, you’ll always have the ultimate notebook at your fingertips!

ThoughtPad – $1.99: ThoughtPad was designed for the person who needs to write things down. People who are emailing themselves long lists will also find this app useful. ThoughtPad is a notepad designed for organizing notes with a simple one level hierarchy. Organizing notes is as quick and easy as capturing.

Note To Self – $0.99: Capture that thought before you forget it! Note To Self is a tiny app to quickly send notes to yourself by email. It’s useful when you must remember something quickly and don’t want to fumble with your iPhone for too long. Far fewer taps compared to launching Notes, Calendar or Voice Memos, and you won’t forget something that is in your email.

Fliq Notes – Free: Fliq Notes is a full-featured note-taking app that lets you create and categorize notes and memos – large and small. Organize and find notes easily. And, send notes over Wi-Fi to other Fliq Notes users.

Scribe Notes – $0.99: Elegant multimedia notes for your iPhone Attach photos, videos, sketches, and maps to your notes! Scribe is an awesome new notes application that enables you to create notes with photos, videos, maps, and sketches. Each note is also geotagged so you know where you were when you composed it.

QuickNote – Free: QuickNote is the fastest way to take notes on your iPhone. Loads and ready for typing in about 1 second. Other note-taking apps can take 5-10 seconds to load. I got tired of waiting, so I made this app.

Note Me – Free: We developed Note Me not just to help you jot down ideas, meeting notes, personal memos etc., but also to be able to organize them in such a way that you can find the information you are looking for easily. Note Me uses a tagging system that allows you to assign multiple tags to a single note and then look up notes based on any combination of such tags.

AudioNote – $4.99: By synchronizing notes and audio, AudioNote automatically indexes your meetings, lectures, or study sessions. Need to review the discussion about deliverables on your next project? Trying to remember what the professor had to say about a key point? With AudioNote there is no need to waste time searching through the entire recording to find out. Each note acts as a link directly to the point at which it was recorded, taking you instantly to what you want to hear! Didn’t take any notes during the meeting? No problem, you can add them later!

SplashNotes Outliner – $2.99: Whether you are taking notes in class or a meeting, planning a project, keeping track of vehicles or health, or just outlining your ideas, SplashNotes is a very powerful assistant.

mAgiNotes – $0.99: mAgiNotes, in a nutshell, is the most suitable notepad to generate a list. mAgiNotes is designed to write down a short note quickly and to read it at any time. mAgiNotes can not input photos, sounds and handwriting images. In addition, mAgiNotes does not have a detail screen. It has only a list screen. Therefore mAgiNotes is not suitable for a use to record complicated information. But mAgiNotes is good to a use to write down the idea that you hit on suddenly in a short note, and a use to make a little checklist.

Meemo – Free: The Meemo – note and memo application – is equipped with core functions that are needed for you to write down and manage your todos/ideas efficiently. You can easily organize your notes by categories and manage urgent or important ideas separately. If you are a person who just want what you really need, then Meemo will fit to your needs.

Write 2 – $1.99: Write 2 is an ultimate note taking & text editing app. you can type in full screen with auto text, change themes & fonts, apply pin protection, share & sync & back up via Dropbox, organize your files in folders, and many more. It utilizes all of its great features to give you the best experience while typing on your iPhone & iPod Touch. Write 2 is simple but also very powerful at the same time.

ProfNotes – $4.99: ProfNotes is a professional note taking application and note manager that allow you to do all audio, text, photo and map in your notes.

NoteMinder – $2.99: The first touch free reminder app for the iPhone & iPad. In need to send Mom a card… you open NoteMinder you shake the app and it starts recording your reminder, you shake it again and your reminder appears in your inbox. We designed NoteMinder to do one thing and do it well – Remember for you, so you don’t have to.

MobisleNotes – $0.99: You love the simplicity of Apple’s note app but you feel it’s missing some crucial features? Then MobileNotes is for you. It’s a simple and straight-forward combined notes/to-do app for your iOS device. It is designed with productivity and ubiquity in mind for easy note-taking on the go, letting you write simple as-you-go notes or checklists seamlessly.

WhiteNote – $1.99: WhiteNote is an easy to use digital notebook application for the iPad that supports free-form text positioning and basic free-hand drawing as well as support for images and sound. It is designed to replace a physical notebook but applies technological advantages such as searching, real-time collaborative white boarding and content sharing. With WhiteNote, like a real notebook, you can create subjects to categorize your work. Then insert as many pages as you need using one of the many optional paper styles.

PrestoNotes – $3.99: PrestoNotes is a Note management tool which turns out to be also a practical task management tool. It aims to replace in the use Note app making one central Notes database in place of the actual dispersive four different locations (Contacts, Note, Mail and Calendar). Notes created in PrestoNotes maybe easily linked to Contacts and Calendar event.

TagNote – $0.99: Tagnote makes the management for a great deal of information very fast and easy by using a convenient and strong tag input control. Didn’t it take too long a time and processes to organize information only in terms of its categories? Use tags instead of the categories!

Sundry Notes – Free: Text, images, audio recording, tables, real-time WiFi collaboration, wireless sync with the cloud, and much more!

NoteLife – $4.99: NoteLife is a media-rich note manager for iPhone and iPod touch. With NoteLife, you can securely keep the details of your life with you wherever you go. It supports photos, movies, voice memos, note encryption, web bookmarks, and more.

notes + u – $0.99: notes + u is an easy to use app, that will allow you to record audio, notes and pictures at the same time. So whether you are in a lecture, meeting or out looking for your next dream home, you can use notes + u to record everything you need.

DEVONthink To Go – $14.99: DEVONthink on the Mac keeps your documents organized. But what about when you are away from your keyboard? Put your documents into your pocket with DEVONthink To Go, the DEVONthink and DEVONnote companion for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. DEVONthink is the #1 pro tool on the Mac for document and information management and is used by information workers in education, research, law, consulting, and governments to home, small, and medium offices.

Simple Notes – $0.99: Simple Notes allows you to group your notes into notebooks and add tags to your notes.

Notica – $1.99: With a highly intuitive interface designed specifically for photos and videos, Notica is your perfect visual memory companion. It stores text, location, time, date and your photos or videos on beautiful notecards, and allows you to organise them in stack-like groups, with the fastest and most efficient search that goes over all text in your notes in blazing speed and pops up just the right note at the right time.

Conclusion

The 100 note-taking apps above represent the best of what you’ll find on the App Store. Even with all of these though, it’s possible that we missed a few gems. Leave a comment below and let us know which note apps you use on a daily basis and which of those listed above you like best.