Find tools more easily and adjust ink color and thickness in a compact panel. Added a small banner at the bottom of My Shelf, with no ads on writing screens. Improved writing stability and automatic backup responsiveness. Existing notes and handwriting are preserved.

Updated support resources and privacy information.

Added Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Spanish support. • App screens, settings, guidance, and accessibility labels are available in the new languages. • Added Chinese and Spanish audio transcription, with Spanish options for Spain and Mexico. • Default transcription and handwriting search recognition languages now follow the app language.

Improved writing responsiveness and data reliability. • Fixed a potential input delay caused by automatic backup and restore during note editing. • Improved library search and preview handling for large documents. • Made transcription and handwriting recognition cancellation more reliable. • Improved recovery when saving page changes or transcription results fails.

Refined library cards and filters to make note titles easier to find. Writing tools now leave more room on smaller iPad screens. On iPhone, recent notes and resume controls are now near the top, and page information is separate from writing and delete buttons. Improved note backup reliability and handwriting recognition processing for large notes. Refined note and recording lists in small iPad windows, made recording playback and seek controls easier to tap, and improved VoiceOver labels.

This update improves responsiveness and reliability, especially for large notes. - Faster, more stable Undo and Redo in long writing sessions. - Optimized note and page thumbnail loading to reduce temporary pauses while scrolling. - Handwriting search indexing and automatic backups now run in smaller, interruptible batches to keep writing responsive. - Improved backup recovery after interruptions and foreground transitions.

This update improves writing stability and the iPad writing-tool experience. - Fixed strokes briefly reappearing or fading during repeated Undo and Redo. - Improved visual stability so other ink no longer dims while erasing a whole stroke. - Redesigned the writing toolbar so common actions and tools are easier to find and select directly. - Refined tool icons and selection states for clearer, more consistent recognition.

This update improves eraser, Undo, and Redo reliability and responsiveness. - Continuous eraser changes are now kept in one accurate history action. - Fixed delayed or flickering presentation when using Undo or Redo immediately after erasing a whole stroke. - Improved restoration consistency across blank notes, PDF notes, and the iPhone writing view. - Strengthened persistence so saved ink matches the final drawing shown on screen.

Nib 1.3.19 improves stability for large PDFs, backups, and reminders. • Improved responsiveness when browsing PDF notes with thousands of pages on iPhone, with page-range navigation and Resume from the last viewed page. • PDF import now shows preparation and page-saving progress, with cancellation where it is safe to stop. • Automatic Backup more clearly shows whether a backup is stored on this device or saved to or restored from Nib’s iCloud Drive app folder. • Improved handling of Daily Reminder permissions and schedule changes.

This update improves layout, readability, and accessibility across key iPad and iPhone screens. - Calendar, Memo, Settings, and writing controls now adapt more reliably to larger Dynamic Type sizes, reducing clipped or crowded content. - Navigation, buttons, and writing tools have been refined for clearer layouts and more comfortable touch targets on iPad and iPhone. - Contrast has been improved in Dark Mode across menus, writing tools, Calendar, and Library. Editor motion is also reduced when Reduce Motion is enabled.

This update makes date-based planning and handwriting on iPhone faster. - Calendar now brings a selected date's memo, notes created that day, and important-date notes into one hub, with an option to create a new note immediately. On wider iPads, Calendar and the date hub appear side by side. - Memo now includes recent entries and search. On iPad, a split workspace places the memo list beside the selected date editor. - The iPhone writing screen now has a compact bottom dock, a full ink-color palette, and a dedicated highlighter palette.

This update makes notes easier to browse on iPhone and refreshes Nib's design, privacy, and usability across iPhone and iPad. - View pages full screen on iPhone, swipe between pages, zoom in or out, or switch to continuous view. - Improved handwriting and highlighter fidelity in iPhone previews, along with library and page-navigation responsiveness. - Added an iPad Live Shelf for featured and recent notes, with customizable cover colors and symbols. - Expanded Calendar and added date memos on both iPhone and iPad. - App Lock now authenticates note opening and setting changes, and hides content while the app is inactive. - Improved dark-mode readability, touch targets, writing tools, Settings, and onboarding.

Added a document outline for faster navigation through long notes and improved the visual stability of automatic shape completion. - Add a heading to individual pages to build a document outline. - Select a heading in the outline to jump directly to its page. - Rename or delete headings, or enter a page number to navigate directly. - Document outlines and page headings persist across app relaunches and Nib backup restores. - Improved an issue where existing or nearby ink could flicker when an automatically completed line, circle, or rectangle overlapped it. - Reopening the guide from iPhone Settings now shows the iPhone-specific guide and recommends iPad for a roomier handwriting experience.

Added new ways to organize and review notes, along with improved handwriting and large-PDF stability. • Add Feeling, Learning, and Next action markers to each note and see them in the note list. • Set deadlines, goals, review dates, and memorable dates with relative-date indicators. • Draw a line, circle, or rectangle in one stroke and pause briefly for automatic shape completion. • Temporarily hide the source PDF to focus on your annotation layer. • Fixed rough strokes reappearing after shape completion. • Fixed whole-page ink flicker during automatic shape completion, Undo, and repeated Redo. • Improved lined-paper zoom/scroll alignment and stability for very large PDFs on older iPads.

Improved stability when opening and annotating PDFs with thousands of pages on iPad. - Fixed an issue that could cause the app to quit when opening a large PDF on some older iPads. - Loads only the PDF pages needed on screen for a more reliable launch and page navigation experience. - Improved backup restore reliability for notes and their pages. - Improved preservation of the recent page position and ink in large documents.

This update improves scrolling in regular notes and transitions to Settings. - Reduced repeated page-order calculations and current-page saves while scrolling through multi-page regular notes. - Lowered the memory and rendering cost of off-screen page previews for more responsive fast scrolling. - Settings now appears promptly while the latest ink is safely persisted and the heavy writing surface is retired asynchronously. - Improved preservation of the latest ink and page position during rapid note changes or quick transitions between writing and Settings. - Serialized preview rendering and cancels stale work to reduce unnecessary CPU and memory use during longer sessions.

This update improves screen-lock and background-work safety. - Even when “Keep Screen Awake While Writing” is enabled, Nib now releases its keep-awake request 10 minutes after the last actual stroke, after which the iPad follows its system Auto-Lock setting. - Continued writing renews the 10-minute timer, while locking or backgrounding the app releases the keep-awake request immediately. - Full-library backups no longer run during the background transition and instead resume at a safe foreground opportunity, reducing battery use and unexpected termination risk. - Unnecessary writing-surface processing, playback, and display-update work now stop when the screen is off. - A lecture recording explicitly started by the user continues after Auto-Lock. - Backup and restore are safer when new writing or Settings changes occur during an in-progress operation.

This update improves writing continuity and Settings responsiveness. - Improved Apple Pencil input so a new stroke is not lost when it begins during the brief transition after straight-line or shape completion. - Improved transitions to Settings by suspending heavy editor rendering work while the writing surface is not visible. - Improved responsiveness for large note libraries by loading cloud diagnostics and backup information only when requested. - The restart notice shown after changing the app language now appears in the newly selected language. - Reduced unnecessary repeated work when checking app-lock availability and preparing Settings data.

This update improves PDF writing reliability and reduces device heat, while making the writing-tool panel easier to use. - Fixed an issue where Apple Pencil strokes could intermittently fail to start after scrolling down a PDF or returning to an earlier page. - Improved page input routing so writing remains reliable while moving continuously between PDF pages. - Fixed unnecessary background work that could continue after opening or navigating a PDF, increasing device heat and battery usage. - Improved scrolling and page navigation in long PDFs by focusing work on the pages currently needed on screen. - Improved tool-panel auto-close so it closes when Apple Pencil writing begins, rather than after the first stroke ends. - Restored a longer thickness slider in the compact tool panel for finer pen-width adjustment. - Improved the reliability of erasing, last-page restoration, page previews, and editing state.

This update improves writing responsiveness during longer sessions and makes note editing more reliable. - Reduced the slowdown that could develop as more handwriting accumulated. - Reduced full-page flashing during Undo and automatic shape completion. - Tuned highlighter colors over images and improved whole-stroke erasing across pens, pencils, highlighters, and other ink tools. - Added typed and pasted text that can be moved and resized, with locking for both text and images. - Added adjustable line spacing, a slimmer writing-tool panel, and more color choices. - On iPhone, quick writing remains available for ordinary blank notes, while PDF and image pages are view-only with guidance to edit on iPad.

This update makes writing tools faster and more convenient to use. - Fixed rectangle shape completion appearing like a teardrop. - Recent tools now correctly include highlighters and tools for each recently used color. - Improved handwriting responsiveness and stroke-processing performance. - Reopening the app now returns to the last page you were writing on. - Moved the add and delete page controls to the upper right with matching compact sizes. - The expanded tool list now shows every writing tool at once without unrelated controls.

Nib 1.3.4 refines the writing and page-management workflow while improving launch stability. - The tool panel now stays open while comparing presets, colors, and thicknesses when Auto Close is enabled. - The panel closes automatically when handwriting actually begins. - Auto Close now behaves consistently in blank and PDF notes. - Repositioned the page add and delete controls for easier page management. - Fixed an issue that could cause the app to close immediately after launch on some iPads.

Nib 1.3.3 improves shape correction and undo reliability. - Fixed an issue where rectangles could be converted into circles. - Improved recognition of rotated and slightly uneven rectangles. - Reduced intermittent ink flicker during automatic line and shape correction. - Fixed undo and redo selecting the wrong step after automatic correction. - Improved handwriting stability across blank notes, PDF notes, and the iPhone editor.

Nib 1.3.2 fixes a critical issue on iPad where Apple Pencil input could scroll the page instead of writing. - Restored reliable Apple Pencil input from the first touch. - Fixed Apple Pencil writing in both blank notes and PDF notes. - Preserved existing finger scrolling and pinch-to-zoom behavior. - Improved input routing so overlays and masking tape no longer intercept writing.

Nib 1.3.1 refines writing and backup reliability after the 1.3.0 update. - Improved how the last stroke is saved when switching pages or notes in PDF notes. - Fixed cases where PDF ink state could become inconsistent after undo or redo. - Improved iCloud backup and restore behavior so newer local writing and note details are preserved more safely. - Reduced unnecessary saves on the iPhone writing screen when no real change was made. - Improved overall reliability for backup, restore, thumbnails, and PDF writing.