Features & Capabilities

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 Apple's standard terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

User Growth & Download Statistics

App
By:
Vivid Apps
Rating:
4.30
(39)
Version:
2.13 Last updated: 2026-02-24
Version code:
882678833
Creation date:
2011-05-09
Compatible devices:
Size:
49.89MB
URLs:
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Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-06-04
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Developed by:
Vivid Apps
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pen-and-paper/id425893570
Website:
http://www.vividapps.com/PenAndPaper/index.html

User Reviews

I’ve been using this app for years now and still love the functionalities offered!
by Bo*****, 2025-05-08

Nothing remarkable or different, no special features or anything unique that makes it stand out or shine amongst the dozen of other similar apps. I did find this a little complicated and confusing on how to navigate and figure out what was what, so it wouldn't be ideal for someone who isn't tech savvy.
by Du*****, 2024-11-08

pen thinkness 2.0 would be good. not so smooth with pen, but okay. dark background for pdf? there is a lot to go here. Waiting for the updates.
by ma*****, 2023-09-19
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