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all right here we go let's see I'm rules pocket now okay plug it now and here are the top of Papa five most popular note-taking apps for Android all right ready to go three to the five apps we have on our hands here our Evernote Google keep OneNote ink pad and color note apparently these apps have at least 10 million downloads logged with Evernote marked at 110 up a notepad and type whatever you want all of them even do checklists of some sort but there are vast differences between all of them and we'll go through each of them one by one let's start with ink pad from developer work pale and it's basically the equivalent of store brand new pad you can type or dictate if you dare a note in some milquetoast typeface although you can change it in the settings you can also write up a checklist or a shopping list the shopping list part of it actually just tags an Amazon search button to your item if you plan on chopping out more for the grocery stores this feature won't do much for you each document you make cannot be attached to a notebook or a binder of any kind it's just notes notes notes notes ink pad is free but the add list version features unlimited syncing really historical tracking for up to ten revisions of a document offline notes access and increased storage for a couple bucks a month or twenty a year if you can't tell I'm kind of not impressed with this app and the website it's attached to I mean look at the lists there aren't even check marks color note is our next step up and it's also pretty Spartan notes and lists and still no notebooks for the hyper-organized but at least you can color-code your notes and nine ways and set a reminder an alarm or a passcode to them you can archive notes for later looking up to list entries are also web searchable and at least all of this is free no ads period coming up to one note this runner-up contender gets to the more comprehensive features of a note-taking client instead of color coding though we're talking about notebooks divided into sections divided into pages so that's how Microsoft's taking that road there are a couple more word processing features like type formatting different listing bullets and indentation change here you can add pictures and audio memos as well as some scrolling x' and highlights actually scrolling czar called inking x' and if I had a compatible stylus I could use it to make horrible landscapes or whatever I need to to remember things you also have the ability to link notes directly from the home screen what you do lose is being able to set reminders for your notes so there's the give-and-take OneNote is free you just have to have a Microsoft account which will remind you of that hotmail account you left a long time ago Evernote is our first-place winner as the most popular record-keeping app of record there's a bevy of functionality that puts it above one note yes it has almost all of the above except for color sorting but in place of that you have tags real word tags there's also a work chat function if you're collaborating on a report though it's pretty bare-bones as is and the camera has some beefed up modes to document scanning does a pretty good job doing what it's supposed to but it's not an OCR program also you'll have to grab the free sketch companion app to make any annotations to your doc picture there is integration to post-it brand sticky notes although you can use any sticky notes you want and business card reading the latter function requires a paid premium subscription though you can get one year's use for free by connecting your LinkedIn account the basic Edition is free to use but you're only allowed to upload up to 60 megabytes of stuff a month Evernote plus ups that amount to one gigabyte monthly and allows for offline access and note locks as well as email - no conversion that's just under three dollars a month or $25 a year and finally we have Google keep which is our wildcard for this game while the column interface doesn't exactly feel right in a note app or processing lacks formatting options and there's no passcode locking keep has a huge advantage there's color sorting labels and reminders and rather rudimentary but functional optical character recognition now this isn't our top choice but we put it here last because if a lot of your paperwork is actually paper and you want to work within the digital ether well he was the most viable option for you for now and it's free what about your notes what do you use tell us below on your way out make sure to click the thumbs up and subscribe buttons if you liked the content and visit pocket nouns main site for in-depth coverage my name is Jules Wong I'm on Twitter at green point 0 note to self don't put sensitive checklists on YouTube there we go thanks for watching