Vellum Ink

Vellum Ink is a quiet iPad app for writing by hand. Put your Apple Pencil down and the interface steps back — no crowded toolbars, no feature maze. It's built to feel like paper and do the things paper can't: read your handwriting, keep a backup, and never run out of pages.

A CANVAS, NOT A CONTROL PANEL • Low-latency ink that keeps up with your hand • Paper templates for the way you write: lined, grid, dotted, graph, Cornell, handwriting guides, and checklists • Paper tones from warm cream to slate and black, with an optional fine grain • Two appearances — Daylight and Candlelight — and the page keeps its own color in both • Portrait or landscape per note; scroll through pages or turn them; draw a single stroke across two pages when you need the room • Focus mode: the moment your pencil touches down, the chrome fades away

TOOLS THAT REMEMBER • Pen, pencil, highlighter, watercolor, and two erasers — each keeps its own color and size • Squeeze your Apple Pencil Pro and a tool arc fans out at the tip, tuned for your writing hand • Rough shapes snap to clean lines, rectangles, ovals, and arrows

EVERY PAGE HAS A BACK Flip a page over and Vellum shows its text twin: your handwriting read into editable words, on your device. Polish then tidies the prose and lifts out the tasks you scribbled in the margins.

YOUR WRITING STAYS YOURS • Notes live on your iPad and sync through your own iCloud — no account to create, no server of ours in between • Nothing is posted anywhere until you tap Post and see a preview of exactly what will leave • Post sends a page to connectors you set up yourself: your own worker, your journal, a webhook, or an AI agent you choose • Export any note as PDF, PNG, or Markdown, or save straight to Files

A LIBRARY, NOT A JUNK DRAWER Folders and subfolders, favorites, tags, and drag-and-drop filing. Deleted notes wait 30 days before they're gone for good.

FREE, WITH ONE OPTIONAL UPGRADE Writing, every paper, converting handwriting to text, iCloud sync, and all exports are free. Vellum Pro — one purchase, no subscription, ever — adds Polish and posting to your connectors.

Made for people who think with a pen.