Turn your iPad into a notebook

PaperDesk Lite allows you to take notes and draw directly onto your iPad. It’s designed to simulate a real notebook as realistically as possible.

With PaperDesk Lite you can create multiple notebooks with multiple pages. All your notebooks are stored on a cool home screen, designed like a real desk. You can customize the color and style of your notebooks. This Lite version allows you a maximum of three notebooks, each with just three pages. However, the full version of PaperDesk gives you unlimited notebooks and unlimited pages.

When you open a notebook in PaperDesk Lite, you’re presented with a blank page. You can choose between four different page designs from the Edit menu, including lined or blank ‘paper’. Click on the page and you can type onto using the touch keyboard or draw and sketch by selecting the pen tool from the toolbar at the top. It’s possible to change the properties of the pen in PaperDesk Lite, adjusting the color, size, brightness and opacity. There’s also an eraser for scrubbing out mistakes.

Features of PaperDesk Lite

PaperDesk Lite is comfortable to write on, and the drawing feature is pretty accurate. You can work with notebooks in portrait or landscape mode. The latter gives you a zoomed-in view of the page, but strips the interface down to just three options (text, pen and eraser).

There are some other useful features of PaperDesk Lite, including a spell check, page bookmarking and the fact that it auto-saves your work when you exit. However, it is lacking quite a few tools, such as an Undo option, line tools and a zoom. It would also be nice if you could flick between pages by swiping, rather than having to use the arrow button.

Overall though, PaperDesk Lite makes for a handy way to take notes and draw sketches on your iPad.