Papering brings the feel of a ring binder to your iPad. Make it a planner, a journal, a sketchbook, or a place for whatever you want to put on paper.
Paper you can move
Open the rings with the lever. Take out a sheet, change its place, or move it to another binder. Your handwriting and decorations move with it. Turn pages with your fingers and choose a one-page view or a two-page spread.
Choose your inserts
Pick yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, journal, and to-do inserts, or start with lined, grid, dot, or blank paper. Import a PDF as a binder or individual sheets. Use your own PDF or image as an insert design.
Write, decorate, and find
Write and draw with your finger or Apple Pencil. Add stickers, memo notes, photos, washi tape, and index tabs. Search your handwriting; recognition happens on your iPad.
Your writing stays yours
Papering does not collect the contents of your pages. Handwriting recognition runs on your iPad, and sync uses your iCloud account. Your page contents are not sent to a Papering server. No Papering account or separate sign-in is needed.
Free and Pro
The free Free lets you create one binder, with no limit on its sheet count. A binder in the trash still counts toward this limit. iCloud sync and PDF export are free.
Pro is a one-time purchase for unlimited binders, with Family Sharing. There is no recurring subscription. Binders you have already made remain available to open and write in.
Requires an iPad with iPadOS 18 or later. Apple Pencil is optional. Available for iPad only.
The best notes and journaling app on iPad with Apple Pencil support!!
pawanpillai
I have been using various notes apps on iPad for the last 2 years and none of them have been designed with this much attention. Papering is the only app where design meets functionality. It’s full of real-life paper and binder animations, makes you feel like you are using a real page and binder and makes you write on the iPad. Calendar connections is another big thing - it automatically and beautifully syncs with the calendar and displays the day’s plan in a nice and clean way without intruding on the writing section. Tons of features on landscape and portrait mode. Full-screen focus mode is also very good with page flip animation making it an ideal real notebook replacement. There is some initial learning curve but the learning guidebook does a good job explaining it. Once you understand the design and how to use the binders, it’s a magical app to use. 100% recommended as the primary daily driver for all notes and journaling needs for iPad with Apple Pencil.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for such a thoughtful review.As the solo developer behind Papering, it honestly means a lot to hear that the little details — the binder, page turning, calendar, and focus mode — are making the experience feel the way I hoped it would.I’m still at the very beginning, and I’ll keep carefully improving Papering while staying true to that real binder experience. Thank you for being here from the start!
- Pick a photo tool from the display, then tap the paper to put it down.
- Added sounds for scissors and photo tools.
- Fixed tools being put down unexpectedly while a photo was being processed. Improved putting tools down with large photos and VoiceOver.
Version 1.6.1
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Information
Seller
Kihoon Lee
Size
81.9 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Languages
English and 10 more
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