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Write and format notes with headings, lists, and a clean editing experience.
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The book notes app that helps you remember what you read
Capture thoughts, organize ideas, scan documents, transcribe voice, and use AI to summarize, expand, and transform your notes.
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Take Notes, Quotes, and Recall
Notaria is a book notes app for iPhone. Save quotes, scan pages with OCR, transcribe voice notes, and remember what you read with quiz-based recall. Free.
- Category
- Books
- Price
- Free
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How it works
How Notaria works
Notaria follows the way you actually read: build a bookshelf, capture while you read, and review until it sticks.
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Add books to your bookshelf
Search by title or scan the ISBN to add any book in seconds — cover, author, and page count included. Your bookshelf becomes the home for everything you capture.
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Capture notes and quotes as you read
Type a quick note, mark it as a quote with author and page number, scan a printed page with OCR, or record a voice note and transcribe it — whatever keeps you in the flow.
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Everything stays organized per book
Notes, quotes, scans, and transcripts are filed under the book they came from, with tags and page references, so nothing ends up in a junk drawer.
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Review with quizzes and smart search
Notaria quizzes you on what you saved, schedules spaced reviews in the memory feed, and lets you search across every note and quote — so you actually remember what you read.
What it helps with
Everything you need to make the routine easier to repeat
Notaria is a book notes app for iPhone. Save quotes, scan pages with OCR, transcribe voice notes, and remember what you read with quiz-based recall. Free.
AI-powered writing
Summarize, expand, and transform note content into clearer thinking.
OCR and scan
Scan documents and extract text so images become usable notes.
Voice transcription
Speak and turn your voice into notes without losing a thought.
Tags and organization
Use tags, folders, and search to find what matters quickly.
Private and secure
Local-first storage with optional secure sync keeps note data under control.
Guides
Learn with Notaria
Answers to the questions people search, with step-by-step walkthroughs.
How to Save Quotes from Physical Books (5 Easy Methods)
Five practical ways to save quotes from physical books — from notebooks to camera OCR — plus how to keep every quote searchable and organized.
Read guideHow to Remember What You Read: Science-Backed Techniques
Forget 90% of a book within a week? Learn how active recall, spaced review, and better notes help you remember what you read — and how to automate it.
Read guideHow to Scan Book Pages to Text on iPhone (Free OCR Guide)
Turn printed book pages into searchable text on your iPhone. Compare Live Text and dedicated OCR apps, plus tips for cleaner, more accurate scans.
Read guideHow to Take Notes While Reading a Book (Without Ruining It)
Proven ways to take notes while reading — marginalia, notebooks, and digital capture — including methods for library books you can't write in.
Read guideHow to Keep a Digital Commonplace Book in 2026
Build a digital commonplace book: what to collect, how to organize quotes and ideas, and which apps make your collection searchable and worth revisiting.
Read guideHow to Organize Book Notes and Quotes: A Simple System
Stop losing book notes across apps and notebooks. A simple system for organizing notes and quotes by book and theme — so you can find any idea again.
Read guideWhy it matters
Notaria in practice
For everyday capture
Notaria is made for people who want notes to become a thinking system, not just a pile of text.
AI as an assistant
The AI features are designed to help reshape your own notes while keeping the original capture flow fast.
Take Notes, Quotes, and Recall
Bookshelf - Notaria is your personal reading space for notes, quotes, and recall.
Capture what matters while you read, keep everything organized in one bookshelf, and come back to it when you want to remember more. Save notes, collect quotes, scan pages, transcribe audio, review with quizzes, and explore your saved reading with smarter search and deeper result analysis.
Quick capture
Save notes, quotes, and ideas in seconds while reading.
Bookshelf organization
Keep your books, notes, and quotes together in one clean reading space.
Recall and review
Return to what you saved with memory review, quiz flows, quote cards, and reading stats.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is Notaria free to use?
Yes. The core app is free: your bookshelf, notes, quotes, reading sessions, quizzes, on-device OCR scanning, and on-device speech-to-text (where your device supports it). AI-powered features use credits, available through a Premium subscription or one-time credit packs.
What are the 50 welcome credits for?
New users start with 50 free credits to try the AI-powered features: cloud OCR costs 2 credits per scan, cloud speech-to-text costs 5 credits per minute, and AI actions like summarizing or exploring your notes also use credits. The standard on-device flows never need credits.
Does the OCR page scanning work on any book?
Standard OCR runs on-device and works on most clearly printed pages — no internet needed. For hard cases like small print, curved pages, or low light, AI-powered cloud OCR (2 credits per scan) gives stronger extraction and cleaner results.
Can Notaria transcribe voice notes about my reading?
Yes. You can record a thought while reading and transcribe it with on-device speech recognition for free on supported devices, or use AI-powered cloud transcription (5 credits per minute) for higher accuracy. Transcripts are saved to the book and become searchable.
Does Notaria work offline?
The core experience is offline-friendly. Your notes, quotes, and books live on your device, and standard OCR and speech-to-text run locally. You only need a connection for cloud AI features and for looking up new books by ISBN.
Is my reading data private?
Your source data stays on your device. When you choose a cloud or AI-powered feature, only the selected content needed for that request is sent for processing — and you can stick to local-only capture whenever you prefer.
Can I share or export my notes and quotes?
You can turn any saved quote into a quote card and share it as an image (portrait, square, or story format) or as plain text. Notes and transcripts can be copied out of the app whenever you need them elsewhere.
What happens to my credits if I switch phones?
Purchased credits can be protected and restored through Apple or Google after a reinstall or device change. Premium subscription credits renew with each billing cycle and do not roll over between cycles.
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Notaria is a book notes app for iPhone. Save quotes, scan pages with OCR, transcribe voice notes, and remember what you read with quiz-based recall. Free.