![]() ![]() Entire notebooks or individual pages can only be exported as PDF files or as native Penultimate files and only through e-mail. The main drawbacks to Penultimate are limited export opportunities. Paper is limited to 3 styles, although additional styles are available for both free and via in-app purchase. Photos can be imported from either the iPad’s photo album or directly from the camera. It incorporates very, very good palm protection. Penultimate has outstanding pen to paper feel, with the ink flowing smoothly across the page. It is brutal in its simplicity which, depending on your view, is either the highest selling point or the biggest drawback. Penultimate ($1.99) is perhaps the most iOS like of any of the applications. However, the ink contained within the zoom box is somewhat pixelated and difficult to read. This allows the user to write with much greater detail than would normally be possible using a stylus or finger on a blank page. ![]() GhostWriter employs a zoomed handwriting feature. Unlike PaperDesk, there is no audio recording with GhostWriter. There are, of course, a variety of pens, pencils and highlighters for use within the application. Each page is given the default description of the current date, but each page can also be renamed to a custom page name. GhostWriter allows the user to insert blank pages into a notebook, and reorder the pages as you see fit. Interface is relatively clean and straightforward, iOS like.Įxport options are plentiful, including the ability to export through e-mail, Dropbox, Evernote, directly to a PDF viewer, by printing wirelessly to printers capable of communicating with iOS, as well as sending the note page to the iPad photos album. PDFs can also be imported for annotation and markup, a great feature for filling out things such as standardized intake forms. There are a number of different papers which can be used and custom papers can be made from anything contained within the iPads photo album. The interface is much better than that of PaperDesk. Ghostwriter ($4.99) notes allows you to take notes either with pen or by typing on your iPad. Unfortunately, the recording does not track handwritten notes and tracks only typewritten notes. This is similar to the functionality contained in other programs such as Soundnote for the iPad, and also replicates, to some extent, the functionality of having a LiveScribe pen. For example if you typed out “four score and seven years ago” while recording, and then clicked on the word years, the audio would begin replaying whatever was spoken or recorded at that particular point when the word “years†was typed. Sounds are actually linked to the typewritten words making it quick to jump to any particular point of the recording. ![]() However, the keyboard obscures the record button, making it difficult to begin and end recording. PaperDesk also includes the ability to record voice notes. Photos can be imported either from the photo library or the camera. There are no discrete settings or preferences. The icons and general layout are somewhat goofy and not at all iOS like. Palm protection, the ability to keep your wrist or palm from creating extraneous and unwanted marks on the paper, is weak. The keyboard has a nice quick access toolbar for tabs, bullets and math symbols. Typewritten notes, unfortunately, do not wrap around hand written notes and ink almost seems to be a secondary input choice. It also includes the ability to use typewritten notes. Paperdesk does have the ability to export directly to Google docs. However, the to-do’s do not sync to a particular page in a notebook.Įxporting to PDF requires connecting to iTunes. There is a nice bookmarking feature, and a nice to-do feature including the ability to review all to-dos from multiple notebooks on the home screen. Unfortunately, inking is not very smooth. PaperDesk comes (unlike any of the other apps) in a free ‘lite’ version on the app store, so it may be worth a try to see if it fits your needs. But, which app to choose? Here’s a showdown of the five most frequently mentioned apps for handwritten notes on the iPad, from least liked to best bet. The ability to take handwritten notes on an iPad seems like a no-brainer. ![]()
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