send link to app

Pen and Paper app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 3056 ratings )
Utilities Productivity
Developer: Vivid Apps
Free
Current version: 2.0.8, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 09 May 2011
App size: 37.4 Mb

Pen and Paper is perfect for hand-written notes on your iPad or iPhone. You can even import and write on PDFs.

INK
Draw ink with your finger. 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 (iPad only) to see full page view or look at another page

PHOTOS
Include photos. You can crop and rotate photos.

BOOKMARKS
Add bookmarks to navigate in your documents

PDF SUPPORT AND SLIDE NOTES
Import and annotate PDFs from other apps or Files. 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 with the world, simply email 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.

FONTS
Are the built-in fonts not interesting enough? Install extra Truetype fonts from sites like FontSquirrel and Blambot within the app.

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.

TERMS OF USE (EULA)
Uses Apples standard terms of use:
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Pros and cons of Pen and Paper app for iPhone and iPad

Pen and Paper app good for

Buy this :) I use this literally every day for various actions and do recommend it very much for keeping sketches and text, shapes together in one single app. It is easy to operate and has lots of nice options. The only thing that could be better implemented is : icloud icon tap area is a bit small to tap,you often open by mistake the file instead of moving to icloud; maybe this could be realised as a menu / option below the file or as a toolbar item instead .. I like this much and I keep important infos in my files, so much do I trust it. ---------- Kaufempfehlung für alle die Notizen und Kritzeleien zusammen in einem "Notizbuch" brauchen ! Export als Bild,Mail,Pdf etc rundet das halt super ab. Lediglich das icloud-symbol ist etwas schwer tipptechnisch zu erreichen -- man tippt leicht daneben und öffnet dann halt nur die Datei. ( auf ipod/phone ) , das sollte evtl. anders implementiert werden, aber das ist kein wirklicher Makel nur etwas komisch gelöst halt.
I have tried many programs but in the end I found this software that meets my needs to write notes, plans, and many other things, Thank you to the author of the design.
This, really is a well put together app. Must agree strongly with the other comments. I have only been playing with this for a short time but really impressed. Nice work!!
This app is incredibly simple to use, and I LOVE that I can zoom. There are so many other notebook type apps out there that have complex zoom areas or simply do not allow zooming at all, and this has it implemented as simply as the other pinch to zoom you are used to in other apps...a huge plus for me. I use this for drawing as well as notes, and have been able to use the export/import from Dropbox to work across my iPad and iPod in the apps native format which is hugely helpful. It also exports PDFs which is very helpful, and has a number of tools for adding text, leaders and annotations. A really great app, I highly recommend it.
Really like this app. Easy to work and tie in to Dropbox is handy. When you lock a page , how come you can still write on it,? I would think it would not be accessible ?? Otherwise great ,
Hallo, I purchased your Pen and Paper app. Your app is very good compare with other pen app. But it can not sync between iPad and iPhone, so it made a lot of trouble when users edit notes both in iPad and iPhone. I hope you may add this new feature soon. Good work.

Some bad moments

So... Rather than jumping in and creating content... Im managing tons of little objects that are all tripping over each other and hard to select. If this app was one simple text layer, one drawing layer, one background / layout layer, it would be a game changer.
(based on November 2011 version) This app started very promising, but the developers removed the support for iOS 4.x, leaving the users (who dont want to upgrade to iOS 5 yet) no choice but to delete the app.
I just happened upon this while browsing through todays new apps, which I almost never do! What a pleasant surprise! This is probably the most-featured, yet easy-to-use notebook, notebook app yet! Congratulations on a great app.
Surprisingly, Im impressed. I never thought Id find another great pen notebook aside from Penultimate (all the others are so laggy). I decided to give this one a try anyway. The smoothness in writing just blew me away. Using a stylus feels accurate and really smooth with this app, also. The zoom feature was what I missed with other like apps. The paper size options here is brilliant, add text... Pen and Paper just works, you wont be sorry. The only thing Id like to see is the option to export individual pages or the entire notebook, right now it seems to be the whole notebook. Excellent work to the developer(s). I hope this app stays light weight and smooth. Its the best and deserved a review.
App is easy to use. Pen strokes are responsive. It says it is integrated with dropbox, but only the PDF upload works. As of today I tried uploading a native file from the app, which it did, but dropbox will not open the file. To use the file you need to reels load it to the app. The zoom feature is nice. One thing it is lacking is to organize files. This could be done using dropbox, but as explained it is not fully integrated. Hopefully they will fix this soon.
I have most of the apps that lend themselves to use with a stylus. I like taking meeting notes "by hand". Yes, Penultimate has always had the nicest ink but no zooming and no landscape make it annoying to me. This app is incredibly simple to use, the writing is very nice. Two finger panning works well while zoomed in enough to write "small". That makes an equally acceptable alternative to an auto-scroll window used as a magnified text input area (Notes Plus, Note Taker, et al). Good for DropBox integration, good that is will email notes.

Usually Pen and Paper iOS app used & searched for

vector draw, vivid apps, pdf pen, and other. So, download free Pen and Paper .ipa to run this nice iOS application on iPhone and iPad.