I’ve own just about every pen LiveScribe has sold and most worked OK. With the Symphony, the form factor was finally slim enough to actually write well with, but unfortunately it died. Thought I’d try the much less expensive LivePen. Works ok but still clicks constantly (as they all have) as you write since the ink cartridge is slightly smaller a than the ‘tube’ it sits in - very distracting to me. Conversion to text is great. Very surprised it’s not compatible with the LiveScribe+ app. The LivePen app doesn’t do much. Apparently you can’t delete or edit any of your notes in the app, so don’t jot down anything that you don’t want there to be a permanent record of. This pen is a good value, but it’s not going to save LiveScribe. Dumbing-down a product that is too expensive to the point of being almost useless is not a good business strategy.

I’ve been in the Livescribe community since the beginning. This is the first pen/app combo that won’t record audio. This pen is much like the Aegir, but the Aegir will use the Livescribe+ app (which will record simultaneous audio), and the LivePen will not. This app will not record audio. Like the Livescribe+ app it will record and display instantly what you write, translate your writing into text, but that’s it. This app does about 20% what the other app does. Bummer. I was so confident in Livescribe that I assumed this pen would just talk to the better app by default.

I’m impressed by how quickly the notes sync to the app—it's in real-time! I received my LivePen today and have been using the app all day. I rated it 4 out of 5 stars because there’s always room for improvement. For instance, I would love for the developers to add a feature that allows for automatic syncing of transcripts to other apps, such as Apple Notes or Google Keep. This would make sharing my notes with others so much easier and convenient!

When signing up, the validation email has a bad link. It is not possible to actually set up these pens. As it is, they are useless. I had a previous bad experience with two very expensive, $300-plus, Livescribe pens, that both failed prematurely. (But not so prematurely that they were covered by a warranty.) I decided to give the company another try. Not impressed.