Vive Notes

A handwritten note-taking app built for students, combining the natural feel of pen and paper with the power of digital documents.

All features are completely free, including cross-device sync. Your notes stay private: no data leaves your device, and all AI features run entirely on-device.

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Features

• Local storage and AI processing on device.
• Fuzzy notebook search across text, tables, handwriting, and text found inside images.
• On-device handwriting and formula recognition, including math solving, evaluation, and graphing tools docs.
• Highly performant Ink rendering (7ms on over 10k strokes).
• Free-form page infinite canvas.
• Rich-text editing.
• Inline and free-form LaTeX equations with native rendering.
• Handwriting with configurable pens, pressure, smoothing.
• On-device image OCR.
• Custom paper: ruled, multiple grid sizes, dotted, hexagonal.
• Automatic database snapshots, and revision restoration.
• Open source export file format .vive , docs.
• Hardware keyboard shortcuts and configurable stylus buttons mappings.

Gallery

Self Host server

Sync Server

Road Map

• Fdroid release
• Play Store
• Linux & windows port
• Apple
• Web Client

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Dev

Run all tests on Release ( arm and R8)

./gradlew connectedAndroidTest -PtestRelease

Run all tests on Debug

report: app/build/reports/androidTests/connected/

  ./gradlew connectedDebugAndroidTest
  ./gradlew connectedDebugAndroidTest \
    -Pandroid.testInstrumentationRunnerArguments.class=com.vivenotes.ui.editor.PageViewTest

Acknowledgments

• SymPy , powers the math engine
• Chaquopy, also the math engine
• PaddlePaddle , using their local models
• Claude & Codex