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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.
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## Features
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***⚡ Simple and intuitive:** Every tool is in the right place. Open the app and start drawing. Change your tools by clicking on them.
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***🎨 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.
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***📝 Supports your favorite formats:** Import and export are supported for images, PDF and SVG. Open these files directly to edit them.
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***📱 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.
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***💻 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.
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***🌐 Available in many languages:** The app is available in many languages. Help us to translate this app to your language.
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***📚 FOSS:** The app is open source and free. You can contribute to the project and help to make it better.
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***🔋 Use it offline:** You can use the app offline. You can draw, paint, and export your notes without an internet connection.
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***🖊️ Use your favorite stylus:** The app supports stylus and touch devices. You can draw and paint with your favorite stylus.
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***📜 Write text:** You can write text on your notes. You can change the font, size, and color.
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***📸 Take photos:** You can take photos and add them to your notes. You can also import photos from your gallery.
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***⚙️ Editable:** You can change the size, color, and position of every element after you added it to your note.
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***🟦 Add shapes:** You can add shapes to your notes. You can choose between a rectangle, triangle, circle and line.
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***🔳 Structure your notes:** Add areas and waypoints to your notes to keep them organized.
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Try it [now](http://butterfly.linwood.dev/downloads)!
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<img
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src="docs/src/assets/img/showcase-canvas.png"
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alt="Butterfly canvas showing notes, drawings, pages, and editing tools"
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width="100%"
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## Think visually. Keep your canvas yours.
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Butterfly is an open-source workspace for thinking visually. It gives you a calm infinite canvas, a warm and focused interface, and tools that stay close without getting in the way. Instead of starting from a fixed page, you can zoom out, add another idea beside the first, split work into pages, and keep building until notes, diagrams, sketches, and imported documents belong together.
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Use Butterfly for class notes, meeting notes, research, math, worksheets, whiteboards, storyboards, product sketches, lesson planning, project maps, and the messy middle of creative work. Handwrite with a stylus, touch, or mouse, type rich text and Markdown, add shapes, lines, images, and photos, import PDFs, SVGs, and image files, then export your work as PDF, SVG, images, or portable Butterfly files.
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When you open Butterfly, the canvas is the center. Recent files, quick-start templates, search, folders, page navigation, and import options stay nearby, but the interface keeps the paper-like space clear for your work. The warm accent color, soft panels, and floating tool controls are meant to feel approachable whether you are making a quick note on a phone or arranging a larger study document on a desktop.
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The app is designed around the way visual work actually grows. Start from a plain, ruled, grid, dotted, music, or custom template. Tune pens, smoothing, pressure behavior, and shape detection. Use layers, areas, waypoints, page folders, reusable packs, palettes, and text styles when a quick sketch becomes a larger project. Every element remains editable, so you can move, resize, recolor, reorder, and refine your work instead of starting over.
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Butterfly also respects how you want to store your ideas. Work offline, keep documents on your device, choose your own data directory, or connect WebDAV and Nextcloud when you want your own sync setup. There is no required account, no required subscription, and no proprietary cloud standing between you and your notes.
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Butterfly is free, community translated, available on phones, tablets, desktops, and the web, and developed in public under the AGPL-3.0 license.
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<palign="center">
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<img
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src="docs/src/assets/img/showcase-tools.png"
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alt="Butterfly tool settings"
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width="49%"
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src="docs/src/assets/img/showcase-templates.png"
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alt="Butterfly template browser"
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width="49%"
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## Get Butterfly
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Try Butterfly in your browser, install it on your devices, or explore the documentation:
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Homepage: https://github.com/LinwoodDev/butterfly
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Architecture: amd64
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Maintainer: Linwood <contact@linwood.dev>
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Description: Linwood Butterfly
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Butterfly is a note 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.
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Description: Take notes, draw freely, and organize ideas across an endless workspace
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Butterfly is an open-source workspace for thinking visually. It gives you a calm infinite canvas, a warm and focused interface, and tools that stay close without getting in the way. Instead of starting from a fixed page, you can zoom out, add another idea beside the first, split work into pages, and keep building until notes, diagrams, sketches, and imported documents belong together.
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Use Butterfly for class notes, meeting notes, research, math, worksheets, whiteboards, storyboards, product sketches, lesson planning, project maps, and the messy middle of creative work. Handwrite with a stylus, touch, or mouse, type rich text and Markdown, add shapes, lines, images, and photos, import PDFs, SVGs, and image files, then export your work as PDF, SVG, images, or portable Butterfly files.
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When you open Butterfly, the canvas is the center. Recent files, quick-start templates, search, folders, page navigation, and import options stay nearby, but the interface keeps the paper-like space clear for your work. The warm accent color, soft panels, and floating tool controls are meant to feel approachable whether you are making a quick note on a phone or arranging a larger study document on a desktop.
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The app is designed around the way visual work actually grows. Start from a plain, ruled, grid, dotted, music, or custom template. Tune pens, smoothing, pressure behavior, and shape detection. Use layers, areas, waypoints, page folders, reusable packs, palettes, and text styles when a quick sketch becomes a larger project. Every element remains editable, so you can move, resize, recolor, reorder, and refine your work instead of starting over.
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Butterfly also respects how you want to store your ideas. Work offline, keep documents on your device, choose your own data directory, or connect WebDAV and Nextcloud when you want your own sync setup. There is no required account, no required subscription, and no proprietary cloud standing between you and your notes.
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Butterfly is free, community translated, available on phones, tablets, desktops, and the web, and developed in public under the AGPL-3.0 license.
Butterfly is a note 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.
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Butterfly is an open-source workspace for thinking visually. It gives you a calm infinite canvas, a warm and focused interface, and tools that stay close without getting in the way. Instead of starting from a fixed page, you can zoom out, add another idea beside the first, split work into pages, and keep building until notes, diagrams, sketches, and imported documents belong together.
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Use Butterfly for class notes, meeting notes, research, math, worksheets, whiteboards, storyboards, product sketches, lesson planning, project maps, and the messy middle of creative work. Handwrite with a stylus, touch, or mouse, type rich text and Markdown, add shapes, lines, images, and photos, import PDFs, SVGs, and image files, then export your work as PDF, SVG, images, or portable Butterfly files.
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When you open Butterfly, the canvas is the center. Recent files, quick-start templates, search, folders, page navigation, and import options stay nearby, but the interface keeps the paper-like space clear for your work. The warm accent color, soft panels, and floating tool controls are meant to feel approachable whether you are making a quick note on a phone or arranging a larger study document on a desktop.
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The app is designed around the way visual work actually grows. Start from a plain, ruled, grid, dotted, music, or custom template. Tune pens, smoothing, pressure behavior, and shape detection. Use layers, areas, waypoints, page folders, reusable packs, palettes, and text styles when a quick sketch becomes a larger project. Every element remains editable, so you can move, resize, recolor, reorder, and refine your work instead of starting over.
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Butterfly also respects how you want to store your ideas. Work offline, keep documents on your device, choose your own data directory, or connect WebDAV and Nextcloud when you want your own sync setup. There is no required account, no required subscription, and no proprietary cloud standing between you and your notes.
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Butterfly is free, community translated, available on phones, tablets, desktops, and the web, and developed in public under the AGPL-3.0 license.
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