Contact Pencil Notes Support

by Ihatemylifesooooooooomuch

I love the concept and all of the tools are lovely not to mention the beautiful cute little stickers. 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑰𝑪𝑲𝑬𝑹𝑺 𝑳𝑶𝑶𝑲 𝑨𝑴𝑨𝒁𝑰𝑵𝑮. But an issue I encountered is that it is way too glitchy. For example I am using the ruler and I click on one of the various writing utensils to change the one I am currently using 𝗕𝗔𝗠 my ruler location gets changed after five years of trying to place it in the perfect spot. Additionally maybe I am using a sticker and I click undo because I made a mistake or something
else 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐈 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐛𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫. Also using the ruler is just a hassle and you could say “ᒍᑌᔕT ᗪOᑎT ᑌᔕᗴ Tᕼᗴ ᖇᑌᒪᗴᖇ Yᗩ ᗪᑌᑎᑕᗴ” I could but straight lines are hard and literally every art app has a ruler. Also I know that it isn’t my device causing this. In all it is too glitchy to handle and I would rather us Zinnia. Although I would love to use it if it was less glitchy and simpler. In conclusion great tools & stickers but horrible quality and execution. Thank you if the developer actually read this because a lot of them never reply to the lower reviews. But it’s an amazing app it just needs a few fixes. Thank you!

by BigOldeDoinks69

Hello penbook team and and others reading this review.

I really enjoy this app in many regards, and prefer it to the native iPadOS Notes app. However, there are a few quality of life features that I earnestly desire, and feel that lack of said features distracts from my overall usage and enjoyment of this app.

Here they are:

1) I use an iPad ninth generation. The performance of Penbook, relative to the iPadOS notes app, is noticeably more laggy. Scrolling through pages, and writing, does not feel as though it runs at the refresh rates my device is capable of (the notes app is “smoother”).
2) I wish this app responded to light and dark mode on my iPad. When I open up journals with a white background at night, I don’t want to look at them after a few minutes. The native notes app will toggle this for me automatically, and I wish there was a way for me to do the same in Penbook.
3) When you are on the last page of your journal, it would make sense for the forward arrow to just create a new page, rather than a different button for that.
3a) I feel like the date at the top should not appear until you write something down on the page. That way, with the create new Page mechanic currently, you could spam a bunch of new pages without feeling like they’re all dated on the day you made them.

Thanks for reading, and keep up the good work!

by StayFrostE

The app has several sparks of brilliance and the vast array of notebook types far outstrip what I’ve seen in other notebook apps. Unfortunately, the app has several issues that make me switch to other apps to get actually work done. Issues: First, using the Apple Pencil to navigate the UI is frustrating. Several touch/tap zones(like when switching tools) are too tight are require multiple taps to activate. Second, I have to use my finger to activate UI elements because of the poor touch zones when using an Apple Pencil , but even some buttons are still are very hard to use when using a finger. Like the edit button when trying to delete pages. Annoyances: First, The text based “stickers” don’t account for background color, so if you use black notebook “paper” the sticker labels still have black text. Second, I want to disable both the swipe down gesture and swipe up gesture, I keep activating them on accident. Third, When adding a sticker, you have to manually press the layer button to leave “edit?“ mode. Tapping outside the sticker should just do that. Outside of those things I’ve listed. Notebook management is nonexistent . You can’t group notebooks nor and you can only view your list of notebooks in a 50/50 view with an open notebook. I want a dedicated view that shows notebooks. And on the very low list of things is a fountain pen option as a tool.