Competition

Visual Notes

This app allows the user to take notes with pictures from the camera or with images existing in the user's library. Additionally, users can caption pictures with text or create pure-text notes. It's a to-do list app that students can easily convert into a lecture notebook app because of the camera-to-note plus captioning feature.

Strengths

• Easy-to-use interface
• Small set of very useful features
• Location-tagging

Weaknesses

• No collaboration support - facilitates note-sharing only through email
• No categorisation support (not built for it since it is supposed to be a to-do list app)

Verdict

Visual Notes is a tolerable solution to the lazy note-taking problem but our app is better suited to assist the student with a set of features tailored to the job of managing notes collaboratively, rather than storing tasks locally.

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View on App Store here.

Evernote

It's a social-notetaking app with great features for note creation and organisation. Users can take notes with their camera, through recordings, old-fashioned stylus scribbling or a mash-up of all of the above.

Strengths

• Free
• Syncs between devices
• Can find text inside images
• Location-tagging
• PIN Protection (with paid account)

Weaknesses

• Interface isn't intuitive
• "Adware"

Verdict

Evernote is an all-purpose note-taking app with a large host of features. Our app will concentrate on lecture note taking so the features will be compressed to a small, useful minimum that will not overwhelm users.

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View on Google Play here.