# PaperThoughts - Journal

> Handwritten, private journal

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6789969540](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6789969540)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6789969540`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Cody Nicoll
- **Category:** Lifestyle
- **Version:** 1.5
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-17
- **First published:** 2026-07-28
- **Size:** 4.21 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-19
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/paperthoughts-journal/id6789969540)
- **Website:** [https://paperthoughts.app](https://paperthoughts.app/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://paperthoughts.app/privacy](https://paperthoughts.app/privacy)

## Description

A quiet place to think.

PaperThoughts is a private, handwriting-first journal for iPad. Write by hand
with your Apple Pencil, sketch in the margins, and keep every entry to
yourself.

WRITE BY HAND
• Natural Apple Pencil handwriting and drawing
• Blank, lined, grid, or dotted paper in multiple sizes and colours
• Journaling prompts when you don't know where to start drop a question
  onto the page and answer it in ink
• Prefer to type? Typed entries are always a long-press away

REMEMBER THE MOMENT
• Tag entries, set a mood, and pin the place they happened drop the pin
  on a map yourself, wherever the entry belongs
• Add photos alongside your handwriting or leave a placeholder slot on
  the page and fill it with the photo later
• Find things again with filters by journal, place, tag, or date

WORKS WHEREVER YOU DO
• No connection needed write, sketch, and read your journals fully
  offline
• At the cabin, on the trail, in the air: your journal lives on your
  device, and syncs through your own iCloud when you're back online
• Day or night — a dark mode that keeps the page calm

WATCH YOUR PRACTICE GROW
• Streaks and gentle insights: how often you write, and the places your
  entries have taken you
• Bookmark the pages you return to
• Export entries or whole journals to PDF anytime your words are never
  locked in

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• Your entries live on your device and in your own iCloud — nowhere else
• No account, no sign-up, and nothing to log in to
• No analytics, no tracking, no servers of ours: we have no way to read
  what you write
• Moods are saved to Apple Health on your device; App Lock uses Face ID or
  Touch ID without biometric data ever leaving it

ON IPHONE
• A companion for reading your journals and capturing quick typed notes the Pencil stays the star on iPad

PAPERTHOUGHTS PREMIUM
The free app includes 3 journals with 5 entries each — enough to make it
yours. Premium removes every limit, with a monthly or yearly subscription
or a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account;
subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before
the end of the period, and can be managed in your Apple Account settings.

Privacy policy: https://paperthoughts.app/privacy
Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Rankings

- #1,257,197 — Overall

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