Penultimate

Take handwritten notes on your iPad

Penultimate is an app that’s designed to help you jot down notes, sketches and ideas and store them on your iPad.

Using Penultimate is simple enough, as you’ll see from the straightforward handwritten interactive tutorial that opens when you launch the app. Drawing is done by holding and dragging your finger around the screen. You can change the color and density of the pen, erase and undo writing, and choose from three different kinds of paper.

Penultimate automatically saves everything you enter, and you can have an unlimited amount of notebooks to store all your thoughts, ideas and musings. Penultimate gives you the option to share notebooks or individual pages by email, making it ideal for business use.

Although very simple to use, it’s difficult to write with much precision using Penultimate due to the fact your finger always obstructs the line. Using large strokes or writing in block capitals can help to make things more clear, however.

Although it’s a bit simplistic, Penultimate is a cool way to quickly make notes and sketches without having to reach for a notebook all the time.

This is a special update to Penultimate, optimized for the new iPad and its beautiful high-resolution display