Penbook: Pencil Notebook 4+

Planner, Journal, Diary & PDF

Pencil Research

Designed for iPad

    • 4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Write naturally with your Apple Pencil on Live Paper with Penbook.

Build your perfect notebook from more than four hundred types of stationery. Then, use the best digital inking technology to pour your ideas, notes, plans, and dreams into it.

Penbook's Live Paper is way smarter than ordinary stationery. Schedule your life on a monthly planner that shows a real calendar, organize your day with a day planner that shows you what time it is, and record your nutrition on a food diary that knows what day it is.

Or, bring your own stationery! Import your PDFs into Penbook for quick annotation and editing.

Give your notebooks colorful covers with fun art, and share them so your notes are always where you need them.

FEATURES

• Live Paper, the dynamic stationery that uses the smarts of your iPad and iPhone
• Over 400 of academic, scientific, and planning stationeries
• Import PDFs and use them as notebooks
• Write naturally with your Apple Pencil, stylus, or finger
• Unlimited unique cover combinations for your notes
• Search your handwritten notes for words or phrases
• Snap your strokes to perfect shapes with shape recognition

INCLUDED STATIONERIES

Penbook has a huge selection of customizable stationery. Each page of your notebook can be different, turning your iPad or iPhone into a magic notebook:

• Blank stationery, with an optional date and configurable margin
• Ruled paper with variable density
• Graph paper with four options for square sizes
• Dot stationery, either squared or isometric (offset)
• Cross stationery with configurable margins and density
• To Do pages with four layout options
• Monthly habit paper for tracking streaks, habits, and goals
• Day planner paper with a live updating timeline and calendar, and three layouts
• Weekly planner paper that highlights the current time and date
• Monthly planner paper that keeps track of the current day and shows you what's coming next
• Yearly stationery for getting a complete overview of your next 365 days
• Cornell paper for taking perfect study notes
• French ruled (Séyès) paper
• Penmanship practice paper
• Table stationery for hand-written spreadsheets
• Polar graph paper for plotting radial data
• Semi-log and loglog paper for data with exponential growth or decay
• Isometric stationery with equilateral (60-60-60) or isosceles (75-75-30) triangles
• Perspective paper, configurable with one, two, or three vanishing points
• Developer stationery with device stencils and configurable note-taking areas
• Storyboard paper with 3 frame aspect ratios
• Engineering paper with variable density
• Chemistry paper for easily sketching molecules
• Staff and tablature (music) paper with optional linked staves

GET THE MOST OUT OF PENBOOK

Use all of Penbook's stationery and writing features in a single notebook for free for as long as you like.

Upgrade to Penbook Premium to create and export unlimited notebooks, receive access to new stationery and covers as they're designed, and get regular app updates.

Penbook Premium is available by purchasing a yearly subscription or a one-time (lifetime) in-app purchase.

When you choose to upgrade with the yearly subscription, you can start using Penbook Premium for free with a 7-day free trial. During the trial, cancel any time until 24 hours before the trial expires, and you will not be charged. If you do not cancel, you will be automatically billed for the yearly subscription when your free trial ends.

Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase.

Our customer-first privacy policy: https://penbook.app/privacy-policy
Penbook's terms of use: https://penbook.app/terms-of-use

What’s New

Version 6.7

Apple Pencil users can now take notes with Penbook in Slide Over and Split View, and switch between more ink thicknesses.

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
2.8K Ratings

2.8K Ratings

Editors' Notes

A best-in-class handwriting experience. Extensive customization, from paper and pen types to templates completely change the way we take notes.

F_iza ,

Import PDF

I wish there have an option to import and edit pdf.

Developer Response ,

There is now :) hope you like the latest version!

briansalo ,

Penbook has made everything else irrelevant

With the addition of OCR text support, Penbook is stepping into the top tier of iPad note taking apps to use with a Pencil -after- adding a huge library of ready to go templates for organization styles you didn’t think you needed. The templating system is one of the most forward thinking out there. Many different types, with many customization options. Even if they didn’t add any more to the app, I would be able to functionally use all of these for years to come, but I would love to see more of what the art department has for ideas. The emulation of a pen/pencil/highlighter is one of the driving factors behind this app for me, but the way it is implemented is just as much, if not more important. Changing opacity at the same time as the tip size is a nice combination of things to have. Colour swatches, pen type and size are an Apple Pencil double tap away, and a menu option will have it smartly disappear to leave you with a document that is fitted to your iPad to function as a piece of paper. It’s great for meetings, homework, bullet journaling. I use Penbook for everything Pencil related now. It’s therapy, it’s university study and it’s planning a brighter week. Thank you to User Camp for making this. If I had to request features, I’d say making the typed note text align with whatever dot, grid or line layout in the template I choose would bring me so much zen. Also a few more tip size variations being a toggle in settings would add a lot more control. Oh, and a layer system like in Procreate. More variations of the ‘Gerrymander’ and ‘Please fold along this line’ templates would just melt my butter.

App Privacy

The developer, Pencil Research, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Purchases
  • Identifiers
  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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