iPhone & iPad
Draw with Apple Pencil
PencilKit gives you pressure, tilt, and palm rejection natively. Double-tap the
Pencil to flip to the eraser and back, swipe two fingers to scroll while drawing,
and choose blank, ruled, or grid pages. Outside drawing the Pencil works like a
finger — it taps, selects, moves, and resizes everything on the page. On iPad the
Pencil draws while fingers scroll, and one tap on the draw bar’s first icon
switches between Pencil and finger drawing — switch it and the two simply trade
places: your finger inks, and the Pencil goes on scrolling, tapping, and picking
things out. On iPhone your finger is the pen. The
Pencil never types: handwriting stays handwriting, never turned into typed words.
Pick the lasso and circle any ink with the pen to move it, resize it, copy it,
duplicate it, or take it away — the loop takes everything it reaches, not only what
sits squarely inside it. Copied ink pastes onto any page of any note, and
lands on the system clipboard as a picture for everywhere else. Every ink lives
behind one tile on the draw bar: tap it for the whole set, pick one, and it folds
away again. On the Aa bar sits the write-to-text pencil: switch it on, write by hand, rest the
pen for three seconds, and the handwriting is read and set as typed words right where it was —
tidied up with capitals, apostrophes, corrected spelling, and a full stop where
one belongs, at a type size that matches your hand. Pick up a box of words first and
whatever you write next, anywhere on the page, is read and added to its end. The
same pencil sits on the Aa bar too, so while typing you can switch to the pen and
write the next words by hand straight into the box you are in; Done on that bar puts
the box down again. At the end of the bar a zoom
tile puts a small box on the page and opens a writing pad along the bottom of the
screen that magnifies it: write large on the pad and the ink lands inside the box at
true size. The box stays put until you move it: drag it anywhere on the sheet, or pull it to
size by its corner. It remembers where it was, and hangs across a page line so a sentence can
run from one sheet onto the next.
Every stroke is tidied as it lands — the wobble smoothed out, the pressure
evened, a stem that was meant straight drawn straight — so handwriting comes
out neater than the hand put it down while staying your own. One undo steps back through the whole note, whatever page is open —
including a page you deleted, which comes back whole, in its place, with its ink and
everything on it. Pages run edge to edge like one long
sheet: a stroke, a picture, or a sticker that crosses a page line is drawn whole
across the break as you make it, never cut in half at the seam. The paper is the
base — nothing on a page is ever hidden behind the sheet next to it.
All devices
Write like a word processor
Pages open ready to type, with a formatting bar for size, bold, italic, underline,
color, and alignment. Set the size and typeface with nothing picked up and every new
box of words follows; set them with a box in hand and that box alone changes. Write in
Markdown and tap the eye to see it rendered, drag a box
of words from anywhere on the words themselves to move it — over the page line and
onto the next sheet, if that is where it belongs — pull its corner to resize
the words, and search the whole shelf —
file names, note titles, and the words on the pages — from one box on the home
screen.
Anything on the page
Move it, copy it, take it anywhere
Shapes, stickers, pictures, and boxes of words all behave the same way: tap to
pick one up, then drag, resize, turn, duplicate, or remove it. Copy puts it on a
shelf that outlives the note, so the same sticker or shape can be pasted into any
other note, as many times as you like. On iPad the two hands split the work while
you draw — the Apple Pencil inks and your finger moves things about, or the
other way round when the Pencil is switched off.
First launch
Opens on a page, not a tour
Notelit starts you on a welcome note written and drawn on real ruled paper: the
words are real boxes of words, the marks beside them are real shapes, the underline
is real ink. Retype it, drag it, rub it out — that is the page making its own point.
Quick notes from the widget and the watch land in one fixed bar above your files, so
they always have exactly one home and never turn into a file of their own.
Account
Sync across your devices
Flip one switch and your notebooks and history follow you — no account or email
needed — or, with Notelit Pro, turn on Save to iCloud to keep every note and
file in your own iCloud Drive — copied up after every change, and caught up
the moment you are back online if you were writing without a connection — with
Back up and Restore buttons for a copy on demand. Sync Now works any time, from the
phone or from the watch.
Stickers & fonts
Stickers and every typeface
Twelve sticker packs — 242 die-cut stickers, every one drawn in code and
in colors its subject would really wear — live right in the note editor,
beside every typeface iOS ships. Stickers and the full typeface catalogue come
with Notelit Pro.
Personalize
Icons and widgets
Choose from twenty app icons, add two Home Screen widgets — your files one
tap away, and a quick note on today’s page — and pin your most-used files
and notes to the front. The classic icon, three pins, and both Home Screen widgets
are free; the rest comes with Notelit Pro.
Appearance
Light, dark, or follow the device
Choose your appearance in Settings. The whole palette adapts — paper, ink, rules,
and cards all have hand-tuned dark equivalents, so dark mode is designed, not inverted.
Notelit Pro
One price, everything unlocked
Notelit Pro is 12.99 AED a month or
129.99 AED a year — the year works out cheaper than paying
by the month. Prices are set per country by the App Store, so yours are
shown in the app before you subscribe. Pro unlocks Save to iCloud, all twelve
sticker packs, the full typeface catalogue, every app icon, and unlimited pins.
Everything else in Notelit is free.
