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Xournal++ (/ˌzɚnl̟ˌplʌsˈplʌs/) is a hand note-taking software written in C++ with the target of flexibility, functionality and speed. Stroke recognizer and other parts are based on Xournal Code, which you can find at SourceForge.

Xournal++ features:

Since mid 2020, there is a Flutter-written mobile app for Android, Chrome OS and iOS (coming soon) as well as a web app available. Even though it is not perfectly stable nor are all of Xournal++'s features fully supported yet, you may check it out and open your Xournal++ notebooks on your mobile devices. You can get in touch in its separate repository on GitLab.

Get it on Google Play

The web app is available at xournal.online.

Why is the iOS app not published yet?

According to the Apple App Store guidelines, it is prohibited to publish unstable or beta apps. Hence we wait until Xournal++ Mobile works more stable and offers more complete feature compatibility to Xournal++.

Multiple page background, easy selectable on the toolbar

For general usage, consult the User Manual. Answers to some common questions can be found in the FAQ.

Sometimes a feature is added that might not be rock solid, or the developers aren't sure if it is useful. Try these out and give us some feedback.

Here are a few under development that you can play with now:

Assign a mouse button or stylus button to bring up a toolbox of toolbars right under the cursor. You can also modify what is in the toolbox through the usual View → Toolbars → Customize although it won't appear unless you've assigned a button in preferences: mouse or stylus (or selected a toolbar configuration that uses it).

This is an experimental feature because not everything you can put in the toolbox behaves. So be aware.

Keep your eyes out for other experimental features in preferences as seen here:

DrawingTools: When drawing a box, circle etc, simulate ctrl or shift modifiers by the initial direction you move the mouse.

Action on Tool Tap: Allow a brief tap on the screen to bring up the floating toolbox and/or select an object. May work with pen and highlighter only.

The official releases of Xournal++ can be found on the Releases page. We provide binaries for Debian (Buster), Ubuntu (16.04), MacOS (10.15 and newer), and Windows. For other GNU/Linux distributions (or older/newer ones), we also provide an AppImage that is binary compatible with any distribution released around or after Ubuntu 16.04. For installing Xournal++ Mobile on handheld devices, please check out Xournal++ Mobile's instructions

A note for Ubuntu/Debian users: The official binaries that we provide are only compatible with the specific version of Debian or Ubuntu indicated by the file name. For example, if you are on Ubuntu 20.04, the binary whose name contains Ubuntu-bionic is only compatible with Ubuntu 18.04. If your system is not one of the specific Debian or Ubuntu versions that are supported by the official binaries, we recommend you use either the PPA (Ubuntu only), the Flatpak, or the AppImage.

There is also an unstable, automated nightly release that includes the very latest features and bug fixes.

With the help of the community, Xournal++ is also available on official repositories of some popular GNU/Linux distros and platforms.

On Debian bookworm and Debian sid the xournalpp package (stable version) is contained in the official repositories. Simply install via

There are also the official Stable releases and unstable automated nightly releases.

On distros based on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish (and later) the xournalpp package (stable version) is contained in the official repositories. Simply install via

The latest stable version is available via the following unofficial PPA:

An unstable, nightly release is available for Ubuntu-based distributions via the following PPA:

This PPA is provided by the Xournal++ team. While it has the latest features and bug fixes, it has also not been tested thoroughly and may break periodically (we try our best not to break things, though).

The released version of xournalpp is available in the main repository via Software application or the following command:

or

The bleeding edge packages synced to xournalpp git master on a daily basis are available from COPR luya/xournalpp.

On openSUSE Tumbleweed, the released version of Xournal++ is available from the main repository:

For openSUSE Leap 15.0 and earlier, use the install link from X11:Utilities.

For all versions of openSUSE, bleeding edge packages synced to xournalpp git master on a weekly basis are available from home:badshah400:Staging.

The latest stable release is available in the [community] repository.

To build the latest state of the master branch yourself, use this AUR package.

The latest stable release is available in the main repository:

The Xournal++ team officially supports a FlatHub release, which can be installed with

Note that for Xournal++ to work properly, you must have at least one GTK theme and one icon theme installed on Flatpak. To enable LaTeX support, you will also need to install the TeX Live extension:

The Flatpak manifest can be found at the Xournal++ Flatpak packaging repository, and all Flatpak-related packaging issues should be reported there.

Android is supported by Xournal++ Mobile. It can be downloaded either on the Tags page or from Google Play.

Unfortunately, the iOS app is not published yet in the Apple App Store. See here to learn, why. Anyway, in the Building section you can learn how to build an early preview.

Official Windows releases are provided on the Releases page.

Mac OS X releases are provided on the Releases page.

Notes:

GNU/Linux Build

Mac Build

Windows Build

Android Build

iOS Build

The file format _.xopp is an XML which is .gz compressed. PDFs are not embedded into the file, so if the PDF is deleted, the background is lost. _.xopp is basically the same file format as _.xoj, which is used by Xournal. Therefore Xournal++ is able to read _.xoj files, and can also export to _.xoj. As soon as notes are exported to a _.xoj-file, all Xournal++ specific extensions, like additional background types, are lost.

*.xopp can theoretically be read by Xournal, as long as you do not use any new feature. Xournal does not open files that contain new attributes or unknown values, so Xournal++ will add the extension .xopp to all saved files to indicate the potential presence of Xournal++-only features.

All new files will be saved as _.xopp. If an _.xoj file that was created by Xournal is opened, the Save-As dialog will be displayed on save. If the *.xoj file was created by Xournal++, the file will be overwritten on save and the file extension will not change.

We are currently introducing a new file format that can efficiently store attached PDF files and other attachments internally. We will still allow for attachments that are linked to external files. Please refer to #937 for further details.

For developing new features, create an issue or comment on an existing issue to let others know what you are doing. For development, create a fork and use the master as base. Create a pull request for each fix. Do not create big pull requests, as long as you don't break anything features also can be merged, even if they are not 100% finished.

See GitHub:xournalpp for current development. You can also join our Gitter channel via the badge on top.

Also take a look at our coding conventions

The code documentation is generated using Doxygen.

In order to generate the documentation yourself, first install Doxygen and graphviz, i.e.

on Debian or Ubuntu. Finally, execute doxygen in the root directory of the repository. The documentation can be found in doc/html and doc/latex. Conveniently display the documentation with python3 -m http.server 8000 and visit the shown URL to view the documentation.