Loose Leaf 4+

I’ve been looking for a scratch paper-type app for a while, to jot down math problems, story ideas, computer modification designs, etc. The other note taking apps I’ve tried were rather limited in functionality - for example, I couldn’t change the page type to be a grid, or lined. Another was that the other apps didn’t have pressure sensitivity for Apple Pencil. Both taken care of in this app!

The biggest gripe I have with it is that it seems like the eraser is too sensitive, and there’s no manual size adjustment for it. I would like to be able to decide the size of the eraser or limit the size difference based on pressure in order to avoid accidentally erasing lines I don’t mean to, due to the eraser jumping in size so dramatically.

I was happy to see an open source note taking app, as that’s one of the largest use cases for my iPad, and didn’t want to use something closed source for a bulk of work or jotting down thoughts. I’m only giving it four stars as I see two features that could really help this app: have a RGB color selector for the pencil, similar to iOS markup on PDFs and images; and utilize a PDF as a paper template. To expand on the second feature: I imported an inverted college-ruled paper (with a black background) for night time writing. I saved it as a notebook but to have it as a template would be easier to duplicate. Also, that’s where the custom pen color option came from, as white isn’t available as a preset (for understandable reasons).

This is great app for doing math homework without wasting a bunch of paper. My only suggestion is to allow setting the size of the eraser so it is more precise. I often need to erase one number and end up erasing more. Thankful for the undo feature.