About this app
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/
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What’s New
Handwriting has its own tools now, and the app gets out of the way while you write. • Pen, pencil, highlighter, eraser, and lasso, in a strip beside the page • Four ink colours, highlighter shades that stay readable over your writing, and a custom picker • Four widths for every tool — the eraser too • Drag the strip to whichever side suits your hand; it stays there • Squeeze an Apple Pencil Pro to bring the tools up under the nib, and again to put them away • Double-tap swaps the eraser in and out, or returns to your last tool • The + button gathers photo library, camera, placeholder, and writing prompt • Begin a stroke and the toolbar fades out, leaving the page. It's back when you pause, tap, or squeeze — and undo stays put throughout • Prefer everything on screen? Turn off Distraction-free writing in Settings • The system picker's other inks — monoline, fountain pen, watercolour, crayon — aren't in the new palette. Anything you've drawn with them is unchanged; you just can't pick them for new writing
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- First observed Aug 21, 2026 · 8:17 AM Free
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