Linwood Butterfly
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Butterfly is a note-taking app where your ideas come first. You can paint, add texts, and export them easily on every device. This app works on android, windows, linux, and in the web.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- Self-Hosted
- Snapcraft
- AltStore
- Flathub
- F-Droid
Features
Properties
- Support for Themes
- Lightweight
- Distraction-free
- Privacy focused
- Customizable
Features
- Dark Mode
- Handwritten Notes
- No registration required
- No Tracking
- Ad-free
- Real time collaboration
- Cloud Sync
- Decentralized
- End-to-End Encryption
- Portable
- Works Offline
- Support for Layers
- Custom Brushes
- Support for MarkDown
- PDF annotation
- Handwriting
- Built-in Note Taker
Linwood Butterfly News & Activities
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Recent News
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Linwood Butterfly's latest update adds note passwords, better navigation and barcode toolsLinwood has introduced the Butterfly Adonis Blue update, a major release that brings an array of ne...
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What is Linwood Butterfly?
Butterfly is a note-taking app where your ideas come first. You can paint, add texts, and export them easily on every device. This app works on android, windows, linux, and in the web.
- Simple and intuitive: Every tool is in the right place. Open the app and start drawing. Change your tools by clicking on it.
- Customizable: Change everything to your needs. Choose your custom color, create a palette, and add your pages to the paper. The paper has an infinite size, perfect for your ideas and notes.
- Support your favorite formats: Import and export are supported for images, pdf and svg. Register the app to open these files to edit them.
- Works on every device: The app is available for android, windows, linux, and in the web. You can use it on your phone, tablet, or computer.
- Choose where your data is stored: You can choose to store your data locally or in your favorite cloud (webdav). You can also export your data to a file and import it again.
- Available in many languages: The app is available in many languages. Help us to translate this app to your language.
- FOSS: The app is open source and free. You can contribute to the project and help to make it better.
- Use it offline: You can use the app offline. You can draw, paint, and export your notes without an internet connection.
- Use your favorite stylus: The app supports stylus and touch devices. You can draw and paint with your favorite stylus.
- Write text: You can write text on your notes. You can change the font, size, and color.
- Take photos: You can take photos and add them to your notes. You can also import photos from your gallery.
- Editable: You can change the size, color, and position of every element after you added it to your note.
- Add shapes: You can add shapes to your notes. You can choose between a rectangle, triangle, circle and line.
- Structure your notes: Add areas and waypoints to your notes to keep them organized.






Comments and Reviews
Like The Idea And the Fact That it's FLOSS and Cross Platform.
It still has a lot of shortcomings. The most important thing is that it does not place the PDF documents I import on the page properly. Synchronization should be improved. For example, connections to Google Drive etc. can be made. Features such as page resizing and file importing are insufficient.
Hello, I'm the developer. Feel free to create an issue on GitHub/write me on mastodon/write an email/come to the discord/matrix server with your improvements, and we can see how I can improve the app. Google Drive is a bit tricky since it isn't an open protocol. Page resizing works by using the area feature (see documentation) and butterfly supports images, SVGs and PDF, what do you mean? I will look forward to improving the app :)
I like the idea and simplicity of the app. It is free as Libre and opensource. Fast and full functioning. All of my check list is marked.