Use stylus buttons as shortcuts

Customize Apple Pencil and supported Android stylus buttons in Notewise.

iOS

For Apple Pencil, both the double-tap gesture and the squeeze action (available on Apple Pencil Pro) are fully supported. You can customize these actions to suit your preferences, as demonstrated in the screenshot below.

Android

Notewise allows you to customize the primary action, secondary action, and long-hold action for specific Android styluses, enabling a personalized and efficient note-taking experience.

For EMR styluses, the eraser button located on the tail can be set to function as an eraser or reassigned to other actions of your choice, which can be configured in the app's settings.

Stylus & finger settings in Notewise

Below is the list of supported styluses:

Samsung S-Pen

  • Primary action: single press the stylus button.

  • Secondary action: double press the stylus button.

  • Long hold action: long hold the stylus button.

Xiaomi Pen

Xiaomi Stylus Pen 1 & 2

  • Primary action: press the primary button.

  • Secondary action: press the secondary button.

Xiaomi Focus Pen Pro

  • Primary action: Double press.

  • Long hold action: Pinch then hold.

OnePlus/Oppo Pen

  • Primary action: double tap the stylus.

Vivo Pen

Note: Only works on Vivo pens later than Vivo Pencil 2 / iQOO Pencil.

  • Primary action: double tap the stylus.

Lenovo Pen

Note: Only works on certain Lenovo pens, e.g., Lenovo Precision Pen 3, Lenovo Tab Pen Plus

  • Primary action: single press the stylus button.

  • Secondary action: double press the stylus button.

Honor Magic Pen

Note: Only works on certain Honor pens, e.g., Honor Magic Pencil 3, Honor Magic Pen

  • Primary action: double tap the stylus.

Huawei M-Pencil

Note: For this to work, please disable stylus shortcut in Settings > Accessibility features > Stylus > Double-tap, make sure that "Open shortcut menu" is de-selected.

  • Primary action: double tap the stylus.