Rnate is an open-source vector-based drawing app for sketching, handwritten notes, and annotating documents and pictures. It offers PDF and picture import/export, an infinite canvas, and an adaptive UI for both large and small screens. It is aimed at students, teachers, and users of drawing tablets or styluses.
What it's for
sketchingtaking handwritten notesannotating documents and picturesimporting and exporting PDFs and imagesworking with an infinite canvasusing different document expansion layouts
Features 17
- Adaptive UI focused on stylus input
- Autosave
- Customizable background colors, patterns, and sizes
- Customizable page format
- Different document expansion layouts (fixed pages, continuous vertical, infinite in every direction)
- Document, page, and selection export to formats including SVG, PDF, and Xopp
- Drag & Drop and clipboard support
- Integrated workspace browser for quick access to related files
- Native .rnote file format for saving/loading
- Optional pen sounds
- PDF, Bitmap, and SVG image import
- Pressure-sensitive stylus input with configurable stroke styles
- Printing
- Reconfigurable stylus button shortcuts
- Selection tool to move, rotate, resize, and modify content
- Shape tool for creating different shapes
- Tabs to work on multiple documents simultaneously
At a glance
free tieropen source
TypeDesktop app
DeploymentInstalled (local)
PlatformsLinux, macOS, Windows
Forstudents, teachers, those who own a drawing tablet
No company, integrations, or compliance data published yet.
Pricing
No paid plans; app is free and open-source. Donations accepted via GitHub Sponsors or Liberapay.
FreeFree
Rnote is free, open-source software; donations accepted via GitHub Sponsors or Liberapay.
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