For iPad and Apple Pencil
The notebook that understands what you wrote.
You write with Apple Pencil on a dot-grid page, just like paper. Jotwise reads your handwriting on your iPad and sends your tasks, events, and ideas where you’ll look for them.
Requires iPadOS 27. Free 7-day trial with everything, then an annual subscription.
A symbol at the start of the line
Every page has a one-square-wide strip on the left. What you write there says what each line is, in the style of the BuJo method. You can also create your own symbols.
Outside the strip, everything is text: a dot in the middle of a sentence doesn’t become a task.
- TaskGoes to Pending
- EventAn appointment or a meeting
- IdeaSomething you don’t want to lose
- NoteA fact, no action
- QuestionSomething to resolve
- ContextA detail for the line above
Your ink stays as you wrote it
Next to each symbol you wrote, the same symbol appears in clean form. If the app read it wrong, tap it and change it; your correction stays even when the page is read again. What you wrote by hand is never changed.
Reveal text (⌘⇧R) shows what was read on top of your ink so you can check it.
Pending: your open tasks in one list
Every line that starts with • goes to the notebook’s Pending list. Check it off or migrate it: to today, to next month, to a date, or mark it irrelevant.
An index that builds itself
The Dynamic Index groups your pages by line type, by month, and by notebook, without writing an index by hand.
Search what you wrote by hand
Search covers all your notebooks and runs on your iPad. With Apple Intelligence you can also search with a phrase, like “last week’s tasks about the budget.”
Built for everyday work
- Writing toolsThree pens, a highlighter, an eraser with three modes, the lasso, and undo always in view.
- LibraryFolders and covers for your notebooks.
- Keyboard tooWhat you type is drawn on the page as ink.
- Reminders and CalendarSend a task to Reminders or an event to Calendar.
- Widget, Siri, and ShortcutsA Pending widget, plus Siri, Shortcuts, and Spotlight.
- ExportAs PDF, Markdown, or a .bujo file, to back up a notebook or move it to another iPad.
Your notes are yours
- Your handwriting is read on your iPadRecognition runs on the device. No strokes or images are sent to any service.
- Your notebooks stay on your iPadIf you turn on sync, they also go to your private iCloud, which we can’t access.
- No accounts, no analyticsThere’s no account to create, and the app has no analytics, no ads, and no third-party code that sends data.
- You decide when to deleteSettings › Privacy › Delete all my data, right from the app.
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Apple Intelligence, if you have it
On iPads with Apple Intelligence, Jotwise can suggest things: search with a phrase, summarize a notebook, or suggest a reminder. It all runs on your iPad, you confirm every suggestion, and nothing is applied on its own. Without Apple Intelligence, the rest of the app works the same.
Annual subscription, with a 7-day free trial
You start with a free 7-day trial with everything. When it ends, you’re charged the annual price the App Store shows in your country, and the subscription renews automatically every year unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period. You cancel in iPadOS Settings › your name › Subscriptions. If you don’t subscribe or you cancel, your notes are still yours: you can open, read, search, export, and delete them.
Try it on your iPad
Requires an iPad with iPadOS 27. Apple Pencil recommended; it also works with your finger or the keyboard.