Penman - AI Note Taker

Name: Penman - AI Note Taker
Rating: 4.1 (252 reviews)
Author: SER_INT

Voice Recorder & Transcriber

Free · In‑App Purchases

252 Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

SER_INT
Language

EN
English
Size

109.1
MB

Speak and Penman writes. Transcribe voice memos in 120+ languages and get AI summaries of every meeting. Penman turns your voice into notes — and your notes into knowledge. Record lectures, meetings, and ideas with real-time voice transcription in 120+ languages, chat with your notes through Spaces AI, and let built-in study tools create flashcards and quizzes for you. VOICE TO TEXT, LIVE - Real-time speech transcription in 120+ languages - Import audio files and transcribe them in minutes - Dictate hands-free, then refine with AI actions (summarize, reorder, rewrite) SPACES — AI CHAT WITH YOUR NOTES - Ask questions and get grounded answers with citations and source cards - Knowledge retrieval across your notes, documents, and recordings - On-device intelligence with Apple Foundation Models AI STUDY TOOLS - Generate flashcards from any note in one tap - Build quizzes automatically and test yourself - Summarize, reorder, and run custom AI prompts SCAN, LISTEN, CREATE - OCR: turn photos and scans into editable text - Text-to-speech playback with word highlighting - Create images with Apple Image Playground EVERYWHERE YOU WORK - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Export to PDF, TXT, JPG, and HTML - App Intents and Shortcuts for automation - Rich text editor with fonts and bidirectional writing support PREMIUM Unlock unlimited transcription, all AI features, and every export format with Penman Premium. Download Penman today and turn every conversation, lecture, and meeting into notes that work for you. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account, and will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage your subscriptions in the App Store Account Settings. Terms of Use: https://penmanai.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://penmanai.app/privacy

Ratings & Reviews

4.1

out of 5

252 Ratings

Very good, but it’s best feature disappears
10/30/2021
pookerella
The app is very nice, good text to speech, but the best part, the pencil that actually acts like a pencil, disappears when you write and turns it into typed text which is also nice, but there should be options here. I’d love to have the ability to have nice written notes, something one certainly cannot achieve with Apple’s pencil, but that is the only thing you offer in that mode. So if you allow your pencil to have the option of NOT converting into text (i.e., just be a pencil), then I will subscribe. Otherwise, I don’t have a need for it. Been looking forever for an actual note taking app with a pencil that acts like an actual pencil without being an art app. Sure, many of them have writing to text, this one seems better than most but I’d love to just leave it as text.

Developer Response
Hi there,Thanks for using Penman and your suggestion we will definitely look more into your request if you have other ideas too feel free to contact us.
Very good, but it’s best feature disappears
10/30/2021
pookerella

The app is very nice, good text to speech, but the best part, the pencil that actually acts like a pencil, disappears when you write and turns it into typed text which is also nice, but there should be options here. I’d love to have the ability to have nice written notes, something one certainly cannot achieve with Apple’s pencil, but that is the only thing you offer in that mode. So if you allow your pencil to have the option of NOT converting into text (i.e., just be a pencil), then I will subscribe. Otherwise, I don’t have a need for it. Been looking forever for an actual note taking app with a pencil that acts like an actual pencil without being an art app. Sure, many of them have writing to text, this one seems better than most but I’d love to just leave it as text.
Developer Response 11/16/2021
Hi there,Thanks for using Penman and your suggestion we will definitely look more into your request if you have other ideas too feel free to contact us.
Doesn’t Save Reliably !!! (!!!)
04/29/2020
standard_deviant
Just used my free trial speech-to-text and it came out beautifully. The ability to go straight to editing the text in the same screen is also great. However, as I was painstakingly and productively adding onto the transcript of the speech I had just freestyled, the app suddenly switched to the “Browse” sidebar and a blank page. My document was nowhere to be found, and I searched everywhere twice. I don’t know if this was a glitch, or if I accidentally triggered some nuclear touch screen gesture (if so, an “Are you sure?” dialog before deleting and a “Recently Deleted” folder are CRUCIAL adds).I understand that iCloud sync is a Premium feature, but all notes should be saved locally in the app. Even if it crashed and lost the last few lines of work, an earlier version of the document should have been saved, or at least the voice memo itself. This wasn’t a crash, though. The app never closed; it simply wiped clean some stupid wasted productivity time, blanked some stupid wasted work; ashes to ashes, dust to dust.Again, the speech-to-text transcription itself is really good. Like 99% accuracy. But I was using the free trial to see if the money was worth the risks and rewards of the software, and what it told me is that all my work might be lost in a second. It doesn’t really matter how good the transcription was if it’s just going to be deleted forever on a whim after you’ve been working on it for like a good twenty-five minutes. Ok I’m upset. I’m pretty upset about this.

Developer Response
Hi there,I am very sorry because of the bug and bad experience, we are aware of this issue and other issues that’s why we are re implementing Penman from ground up. We have put many tests and considerations in sync and saving in new version trying to minimize issues as much as possible. The new version will be released in a month please be sure to check it out or simply download the app and wait for the notification.Thanks for your input.Regards Sobhan
Doesn’t Save Reliably !!! (!!!)
04/29/2020
standard_deviant

Just used my free trial speech-to-text and it came out beautifully. The ability to go straight to editing the text in the same screen is also great. However, as I was painstakingly and productively adding onto the transcript of the speech I had just freestyled, the app suddenly switched to the “Browse” sidebar and a blank page. My document was nowhere to be found, and I searched everywhere twice. I don’t know if this was a glitch, or if I accidentally triggered some nuclear touch screen gesture (if so, an “Are you sure?” dialog before deleting and a “Recently Deleted” folder are CRUCIAL adds).I understand that iCloud sync is a Premium feature, but all notes should be saved locally in the app. Even if it crashed and lost the last few lines of work, an earlier version of the document should have been saved, or at least the voice memo itself. This wasn’t a crash, though. The app never closed; it simply wiped clean some stupid wasted productivity time, blanked some stupid wasted work; ashes to ashes, dust to dust.Again, the speech-to-text transcription itself is really good. Like 99% accuracy. But I was using the free trial to see if the money was worth the risks and rewards of the software, and what it told me is that all my work might be lost in a second. It doesn’t really matter how good the transcription was if it’s just going to be deleted forever on a whim after you’ve been working on it for like a good twenty-five minutes. Ok I’m upset. I’m pretty upset about this.
Developer Response 04/29/2020
Hi there,I am very sorry because of the bug and bad experience, we are aware of this issue and other issues that’s why we are re implementing Penman from ground up. We have put many tests and considerations in sync and saving in new version trying to minimize issues as much as possible. The new version will be released in a month please be sure to check it out or simply download the app and wait for the notification.Thanks for your input.Regards Sobhan
I really like this app!
10/10/2020
Stacey_S1975
I wrote a review a while back about this app & just completely erased it! I am now so pleased with this app I don’t want the negativity of my previous review anywhere to be seen! Since smart came along & I got my first I have been on the look out for “The Best” app to make my notes & after downloading probably hundreds of apps I believe I have found my favorite. This app has almost everything! I love all the pretty colors of the books I love being able to put them in a book that helps me Organize everything and blv me I need all the help I can get!! I love that the background can be different colors! The only thing I wish we could do is use our photos as a book cover & I wish there was more Fonts! I’m sure in the upgrade there’s probably more. Maybe one day I’ll be able to get that but for now I am very happy with this app! I’ve told everyone in my writing class about this app! To the creator or creators thank you for making this app! Finally I can get some wk done!

Developer Response
Hi again Stacy,Thanks for the kind words, we are thrilled you enjoyed the app, We will try our best to add your wishes to next update and please don’t hesitate to contact us and tell us your favorite fonts we have been a bit careful with font selection since adding many fonts will drastically increase app size. Again thanks for the kind words and contact us if you came up with any ideas.Regards Penman Team
I really like this app!
10/10/2020
Stacey_S1975

I wrote a review a while back about this app & just completely erased it! I am now so pleased with this app I don’t want the negativity of my previous review anywhere to be seen! Since smart came along & I got my first I have been on the look out for “The Best” app to make my notes & after downloading probably hundreds of apps I believe I have found my favorite. This app has almost everything! I love all the pretty colors of the books I love being able to put them in a book that helps me Organize everything and blv me I need all the help I can get!! I love that the background can be different colors! The only thing I wish we could do is use our photos as a book cover & I wish there was more Fonts! I’m sure in the upgrade there’s probably more. Maybe one day I’ll be able to get that but for now I am very happy with this app! I’ve told everyone in my writing class about this app! To the creator or creators thank you for making this app! Finally I can get some wk done!
Developer Response 10/12/2020
Hi again Stacy,Thanks for the kind words, we are thrilled you enjoyed the app, We will try our best to add your wishes to next update and please don’t hesitate to contact us and tell us your favorite fonts we have been a bit careful with font selection since adding many fonts will drastically increase app size. Again thanks for the kind words and contact us if you came up with any ideas.Regards Penman Team
My favorite and most helpful app 🙂💖
06/04/2024
Scarlett Universe
So, I love also doing physical writing in notebooks, have my own style of cursive writing etc.. I’ve very typically had a difficult time writing in front of a computer or laptop as opposed to writing in my notebook, the problem would then be I’d have to still type everything into digital laterAnd this app absolutely solved that problem for me 😊💖 In fact I’m definitely like 20-30x more productive with my writing and sorta life in general because I always have this accessible to take down notes, work on a story idea, or create a checklist of things I need to do / want to do type thing. They just had the deal of the premium for like 8.98$ , and I just bought it because I like the app so much & wanted to support it. Plus the Face ID lock support is kinda cool, Would I ever need it? Maybe? I don’t have my screen on an autolock time, so it definitely is an extra level of privacy. Idk if you wanted to have a writing place to vent without someone you live with snooping I think the Face ID feature is really good for that maybe, but the other person snooping would probably be the primary problem 😅. Anyway, 💖 this app and highly recommend it.

Developer Response
Hi Scarlett,Thank you for your kind words it really made our day :) we are thrilled you liked Penman also keep watching the updates new cool a.i features coming up as free update.
My favorite and most helpful app 🙂💖
06/04/2024
Scarlett Universe

So, I love also doing physical writing in notebooks, have my own style of cursive writing etc.. I’ve very typically had a difficult time writing in front of a computer or laptop as opposed to writing in my notebook, the problem would then be I’d have to still type everything into digital laterAnd this app absolutely solved that problem for me 😊💖 In fact I’m definitely like 20-30x more productive with my writing and sorta life in general because I always have this accessible to take down notes, work on a story idea, or create a checklist of things I need to do / want to do type thing. They just had the deal of the premium for like 8.98$ , and I just bought it because I like the app so much & wanted to support it. Plus the Face ID lock support is kinda cool, Would I ever need it? Maybe? I don’t have my screen on an autolock time, so it definitely is an extra level of privacy. Idk if you wanted to have a writing place to vent without someone you live with snooping I think the Face ID feature is really good for that maybe, but the other person snooping would probably be the primary problem 😅. Anyway, 💖 this app and highly recommend it.
Developer Response 06/05/2024
Hi Scarlett,Thank you for your kind words it really made our day :) we are thrilled you liked Penman also keep watching the updates new cool a.i features coming up as free update.

Fixed issues in the onboarding of the application.

Version 7.2.4 Oct 15

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Seller: sobhan eskandari
Size: 109.1 MB
Category: Productivity
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.6 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 17.6 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 13.5 or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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