Pen and Paper 4+

Notes, drawings, PDF markup

Vivid Apps

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Pen and Paper is perfect for drawing notes on your Mac, iPad or iPhone. You can even import and write on PDFs.

INK
Draw ink with your mouse or trackpad. Resize, recolor, and move your doodles.

TEXT
Add text and text boxes. Change alignment, fonts, color, and install additional fonts. Perfect for adding comments to PDF.

SHAPES
Add geometric primitives, arrows, curves, and polygons Use the built in diagram elements and arrows to create diagrams. Create clip art of portions that you wish to reuse. shapes can be colored using gradients and fill with patterns. Use "rough" outline to make it look more like a drawing.

ZOOM AND SPLIT VIEW
Zoom more than 10 times to edit and draw even tiny details. Use split view to see full page view or look at another page

PHOTOS
Include photos. You can crop and rotate photos and pictures (including PDFs).

BOOKMARKS
Add bookmarks to navigate in your documents

PDF SUPPORT AND SLIDE NOTES
Import and annotate PDFs. Use any of the built-in "Slide Note" templates to annotate presentations. When you are done export as PDF again. Use the "clone" tool to copy a portion a PDF, and marker to mark text in the PDF for easy search.

SHARING
To share your notes, email or export them as PDF. You can also extract individual pages as JPEG images.

LAYERS
Use the layer list to organize order of shapes and ink on the page

PAGE STYLES
Pen and paper comes with a variety of page styles, but you can also create your own. Import a PDF of your favourite page style and store it as a "page style" in the app.

ICLOUD SUPPORT
Documents, clipart and page styles, can be stored in iCloud.

Features:
• Layers
• Pen tool with color and thickness
• Marker tool for marking text in PDFs
• Smooth pan and zoom
• Split-view to see two parts of your documents at the same time
• Bookmarks and search
• Insert text, arrows, photos, rectangles, circles and polygons easily
• Fill shapes with gradients and patterns
• Area selection, for moving and resizing large areas of your note
• Built-in icon library
• PDF import and export (email or other accounts)
• Install additional fonts (Truetype)
• Various page styles and add your own.
• Fullscreen mode
• iCloud support

SUBSCRIPTION
Subscription removes watermark (on export) and enables lasso tool. All other features are part of free version.

What’s New

Version 2.0.8

• Shows eraser outline when using eraser tool
• Additional subscription option

Ratings and Reviews

paulfiling ,

Basic and functional notes app!

Pen and Paper is not the best handwriting note app. However, it has some very useful features and does exactly what it says.

For example, as you write and draw on multiple pages in a notebook, by touching one finger on the right hand side of the writing area and holding it to the screen you get a quick view of all the used pages in the book. This allows you to quickly delete individual pages you do not need to keep as you are working on the book.

The handwriting input is not as elegant as in Notes+ or similar apps with a magnified area in which to write. You use the two finger pinch and stretch gesture to magnify where you want to write and then use two fingers' swipes to move the page from side to side and up and down.

DropBox access is very welcome as is the ability to rapidly change the color and thickness of hand entered drawings and jottings. I also liked the selection facility that allows you to select, move magnify or decrease the size of the area selected.

I think the previous review was very unfair as my copy worked well except if I looked at the Help section. After closing The Help screen the app closes without warning. The developers need to attend to this ASAP.

Given the other high quality apps created by Vivid Apps I believe this app will become a leading handwriting and note taking app as feedback is received from users. You are not wasting your money and this style of app may be exactly what suits your particular needs!

AR09861 ,

Must have app for lectures

Pen and Paper is the best app for PDF note-taking due to the slide notes feature. This adds extra lines to the side of the pdf pages for easier notes which can then be exported easily to other apps. The new import screen added in the latest update is great as well. Definitely worth the money spent and thanks to the developer for creating such a great feature which I could not find anywhere else on the App Store :)

KoloKafu11 ,

Pen and Paper

Pen and Paper is a terrible app because its options are difficult to understand. When you start writing in a text box the writing starts in a place that you can't see and it takes forever to get the right size because it takes you out of the page to change it.
Do not buy this app unless you like wasting your money!

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Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

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