• The tutor now reads every lecture in your module when you ask about the whole course. • Add PDFs to Notes straight from your modules. • Lasso something and every action answers your tap with its own animation: Copy stacks, Cut snips, Delete shakes. • In split view, the AI tutor has its own button and opens with a new look. • A new thank-you screen when you subscribe, and Restore now moves your plan to the account you're signed in with. • Plus fixes and refinements.

• Your app in your language: PolyNotes now speaks Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Italian, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese, as well as English. The AI tutor answers in your language too. • Handwritten math: write a sum and an equals sign, and the answer appears in your handwriting, with fractions, roots and powers. • Arrows snap into a clean, sharp arrow as you draw, in one stroke or two. • Lasso: Ask AI now sees your handwriting on iPad, and a sticker keeps exactly the part you circled, in Notes and in your modules. • Plus fixes and refinements.

PolyNotes 1.2 is our biggest update yet. • PowerPoints open as slides: write on them, and the tutor cites the exact slide. • Excel and CSV files open in an editable spreadsheet, with export back to .xlsx. • Calendar links: paste the iCal link from Blackboard, Brightspace, Canvas or Google Calendar and your due dates arrive by themselves. • Free textbooks: add an OpenStax book to a module and the tutor reads it and cites its sections. • Class reminders, and a wake-up alarm before your first class (a real alarm on iOS 26). • Handwriting to text now works on your iPad itself: free, offline and private. • Offline tutor on iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence, using Apple's on-device model. • Find sources: real scholarly papers, cited in APA, Harvard or IEEE in your documents. • Themes: Blossom, Halloween and Sunshine. • Announcements and calendar events from Moodle and Canvas, refreshed automatically. • Photos from your phone reach your iPad within seconds. • A redesigned Home with new deadline cards. • Security: your sign-in is now kept in the iOS Keychain. • Plus many fixes and refinements.

A new design across the app, Learn with summaries and flashcards, and your courses, timetable, deadlines and lecture notes in step with the new iPhone app. Pick your university to connect Moodle. Open and edit Word documents in your modules, with equations, and save them as Word or PDF, Diagrams added, Better shape recognition, Scribble to text, search across notes, Brush pen, Apple Pencil Pro squeeze, Yearly plans cost less.

• UI and design improvements • You can now sing in with your Microsoft account

• Ask AI about anything you circle: select part of a slide or your notes with the lasso and it goes straight into the chat as an image. • Send photos to the AI tutor and the Concierge — handwritten problems, diagrams, textbook pages. • The AI tutor now reads every question on your tutorial sheets, understands "the 3rd question from the first tutorial", and formats answers with headings, tables and properly rendered math. • New fountain pen: your line follows Apple Pencil pressure, with smooth tapers. The ball pen stays an even width. • Faster, more responsive drawing, with fixes for loops appearing in fast strokes. • Shape snapping works again — hold at the end of a stroke to snap to a line, rectangle, square, circle, triangle, polygon or arrow. • Adjustable pen and eraser sizes. • Redesigned "add deadline" card, and a deeper blue status bar in Notes. • Sign-in is now required to use PolyNotes.