“Needs keyboard function — It’s a lovely app and it’s my favorite one but there’s also times where I need to use the keyboard and I have to use other note apps because this one doesn’t have keyboard functionality. I want to purchase the…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 505 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.6 ★45,409 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
143 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Write naturally with your Apple Pencil on Live Paper with Penbook.
Build your perfect notebook from more than four hundred types of stationery. Then, use the best digital inking technology to pour your ideas, notes, plans, and dreams into it.
Penbook's Live Paper is way smarter than ordinary stationery. Schedule your life on a monthly planner that shows a real calendar, organize your day with a day planner that shows you what time it is, and record your nutrition on a food diary that knows what day it is.
Or, bring your own stationery! Import your PDFs into Penbook for quick annotation and editing.
Give your notebooks colorful covers with fun art, and share them so your notes are always where you need them.
FEATURES…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 8.0.9 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 8.0.9, updated 2026-09-29.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
No theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: States a price, or offers a one-time purchase
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
What we saw: Reviewers report clear pricing: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 505 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (1 entry) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“The app is great — Ok the app is great and I love the option of a lifetime purchase, although there are some minor bugs in landscape mode but in general I love the writing experience, I have a suggestion for dear developers to include…”
“Writing made easy — Have been using this app for years and it just keeps getting better and better with new practical innovative ways that are fully functional whether you are a teacher or student or for personal use. Definitely have…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 8.0.9.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.