The digital notebook for students and teachers
Free · Privacy-friendly · Developed with teachers
Handwritten notes with Apple Pencil®, PDF and Office import, real rulers and set square, shared notebooks and direct integration with school cloud providers like BayernCloud Schule, Nextcloud and NetMan for Schools — all in one app, without subscription, without ads.
Coming soon to the App Store®
NiblyNotes is developed in Germany — together with teachers. We took care to include every function needed without overloading the app. Privacy-friendly school cloud providers are integrated directly. The app is completely free, with optional support for the developers.
Developed in Germany. No dependency on third-party servers for your notebook content.
Every function was tested in real classroom use — enough features for school needs, without unnecessary bloat.
BayernCloud Schule, Nextcloud and NetMan for Schools are available directly in the app — no detours.
No ads, no subscription, no tracking. Those who wish to support development can do so directly in the app — never required.
All notebook content is stored locally on the device. Cloud connections are optional and only use the accounts you set up yourself.
The entire interface is available in both German and English, and follows the system language automatically.
The start screen of NiblyNotes is a bookshelf: every notebook gets its own cover colour and is clearly displayed. Create folders for subjects, classes or courses and sort the notebooks into them.
Four different pen variants, each available in many colours and thicknesses:
The lasso selects an area, which you can then move, scale, rotate, delete — or paste somewhere else. Perfect for adjusting drawings later.
Draw a shape freehand — NiblyNotes detects and corrects it automatically:
Lines and arrows are not just drawn — they can also be edited: endpoints are draggable, and multiple lines can be joined into polylines.
The line and grid patterns in NiblyNotes aren't arbitrary designs — they follow the standardised spacing for school notebooks. Measure on the Apple® iPad® with a real ruler and you'll see: the distances are 100 % accurate.
Ruler, set square and compass in NiblyNotes work just like the real tools from your pencil case. Draw along the edge, rotate with two fingers, and combine the tools for more complex constructions.
When you draw with the pen along the ruler or set square, your stroke snaps to the edge — just like in real life. Perfectly straight lines and precise angles.
With two fingers you can move and rotate the ruler or set square at the same time — just like you would with a physical tool. No need to switch modes.
The ruler can be attached to the set square. This enables the classic parallel shift: the set square slides along the ruler, and every drawn line is exactly parallel — just like in geometry class.
In addition to the ruler and set square, a compass is available. Set the radius, place the centre point, draw a circle or arc — like a real compass from the maths toolbox.
In addition to handwriting, you can add text boxes anywhere on the page. Ideal for headings, task descriptions or table labels. Formatting can even be applied per word.
Photos from your library or taken straight from the camera — every image runs through the built-in photo editor where you can crop, rotate and adjust before it lands on your page.
Worksheets, task sheets or presentations can be added directly as a page background. Multi-page documents are automatically spread across multiple notebook pages.
Microsoft Word and PowerPoint are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. NiblyNotes is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft. Conversion uses the document handling capabilities available on your device.
Smart page management: new pages appear where you want them, and nothing gets lost by accident.
NiblyNotes saves you the detour through "Share". Print, send, save and upload directly to your school cloud — all from one app.
Print or send entire notebooks, or selected pages, with a preview that lets you decide what really gets shared.
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When sending or saving, you can choose to export the page unedited. Perfect for teachers: the master solution you wrote on the worksheet doesn't need to be shared with students — they get the clean, empty template.
The highlight: upload notebooks or individual pages directly from NiblyNotes to a school cloud and, if wanted, share them with a person in one go. The detour "save file → open cloud app → upload → share" is gone.
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The built-in cloud browser shows the files in BayernCloud Schule, Nextcloud or NetMan for Schools. A worksheet can be opened directly, with the choice to create a new notebook from it or append it to an existing one.
Share a notebook and collaborate — for group work, class projects or teacher collaboration. Synchronisation runs through your personal iCloud® — no third-party servers.
There are two ways to invite participants:
The shared notebook function exclusively uses Apple®'s iCloud® as infrastructure. There is no publisher server in between that could see the content.
iCloud and Apple are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. NiblyNotes uses the iCloud infrastructure through the developer interfaces provided by Apple (CloudKit).
All participants work in their notebook as usual. There's just one difference:
When a sharing session ends — whether the owner stops it or a participant leaves the session — everyone keeps their current state. The notebook moves back into the participant's own notebooks and can be used as normal.
NiblyNotes can back up your notebooks automatically to your school cloud. Set it up once in the settings — the backup then runs daily in the background.
Three privacy-friendly cloud providers for educational use are integrated directly in NiblyNotes.
The school cloud offering of the Free State of Bavaria — specifically for Bavarian schools. Login is handled via your school's official ByCS sign-in procedure.
The free, open-source cloud solution many schools self-host. NiblyNotes uses the official Nextcloud login with app password — secure and standards-based.
The school network solution by H+H Software. User and teacher drives as well as exchange shares are supported directly. (Supported from NetMan for Schools version 6 onwards.)
Trademark notice: The integration with BayernCloud Schule, Nextcloud and NetMan for Schools is provided without support or official partnership from the respective providers. NiblyNotes uses only the publicly available interfaces of the cloud providers.
"BayernCloud Schule" is an offering of the Free State of Bavaria. "Nextcloud" is a registered trademark of Nextcloud GmbH. "NetMan for Schools" is a trademark of H+H Software GmbH. All product names, logos and trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. They are named here solely for the purpose of describing compatibility.
NiblyNotes is coming soon for Apple® iPad® on the App Store®. Free, no subscription, no ads.
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