Chalkwork

Chalkwork is a chalkboard that behaves like one. Draw with your finger or Apple Pencil and the chalk goes on dry and grainy, builds up where you go over it, and smears when you rub it out. Wipe the board and a faint ghost of what was there stays behind until you clean it. Dust drifts to the ledge. Press hard, press lightly, let a stick wear down: it all shows.

Use it for lessons, menus, chore charts, a kitchen wall, a sign at the door, game night, or just to draw.

FREE One board that stays between launches, as big as you like (pan and zoom with two fingers), five chalks, three widths, the eraser, undo, and sharing a picture of your board.

CHALKWORK PRO ($7.99, once, no subscription)

• As many boards as you like, and step from one to the next like slides
• 24 chalk colors, wet chalk, marker, pastel, conté, crayon and pencil, each with its own feel
• Blenders, a kneaded eraser, fixative and a felt rubber to smudge, lift and set your chalk
• Shapes, a compass, ruler, protractor and T-square, with snapping to squares and exact sizes
• Words in lettering styles from plain to banner, and notes and photos pinned up
• Over a hundred templates and pieces: calendars, menus, charts, graphs, music staves, maps, early-learning boards, work and planning boards, and game boards with pieces to place
• Lined, graph and music rulings
• Trace a photo or a PDF page and chalk over it, or photograph a real chalkboard and bring it onto the screen
• Replay a board being drawn and save it as a video
• iCloud sync and shared boards you draw on together
• A Fridge Note widget for the board you want to see at a glance, and a shortcut that opens your slate for a quick note

Pro includes Classroom.

CHALKWORK CLASSROOM ($4.99, once) For teachers who only want the teaching tools: ready-made starter lessons, Present and Reveal in Steps (with the projector and a laser pointer), PDF worksheets to chalk on, and narrated replays.

WORKS WITH GOOGLE CLASSROOM Share a board as a picture, a PDF page or a replay video and attach it wherever you hand out work, including Google Classroom and Google Drive. Bring in a PDF worksheet from Files, Drive included, and chalk over it. Chalkwork never signs in to Google and never sees your students' names.

NO ACCOUNTS, NO ADS, NO TRACKING Nothing leaves your device except to your own iCloud.

Google Classroom and Google Drive are trademarks of Google LLC.