iPad Pro Pencil input - what note taking app to use

[sjleworthy]

Anyone know any notes apps that allows a custom background, with a pencil like nib and ruler support.

I'm currently using notability on my IPP and Apple Pencil; I love the way IOS Notes works, but I am an engineer looking to produce hand drawn details on a calculation pad,

Any advice?

thats the trouble. tons of apps do exactly what you're after, only not all in one package. yet.

this is an interesting app too - https://concepts.tophatch.com/ as a designer it might be worth a punt.

 

[mcgrimes]

I've tried plenty and I agree, each has something I need,

I've just tried that concepts and am actually quite impressed! I think I will actually buy the full version, but keep notability for general notes!

Thanks for the help; I do hope notability adds ruler support in the future, however.

UPDATE

I can now bring transparent PNG images into notability which is excellent

 

[iregret]

I don't know of any others with a ruler like the Apple Notes app. I would love to see more. Goodnotes allows custom templates and has automatic shape detection, but no pencil, and not really the tools to do precision drawing. I think you need to look at drawing apps rather than notes apps. Let us know what you find!

The notability devs told me a ruler is coming in future builds.

 

[CD3660]

In addition to the various notes apps, I'm also looking at an app called MyScript Stylus.

http://www.myscript.com/stylus/

It's not a note-taking app per se, but rather a handwriting recognition keyboard that works in basically any app where you can type. It recognizes your handwriting and converts it to text as you write. It's very similar to the old PalmPilot stylus input system, only 1000x better, faster, and more accurate.

I've used it with Apple Notes, OneNote, and MS Word so far, and it works very well with the Apple Pencil. For those of you who would like to convert their handwriting to text, this might be a good option, and it's FREE! Since it is basically a keyboard addition, in order to use it you will have to enable it by going to Settings, General, Keyboards, Add Keyboard and selecting it. Once installed, you can choose it from the Globe menu on the keyboard.

NB: The developer MyScript has other apps in the app store that might also be useful for people who need to insert drawings or other objects, math formulas, musical notes, etc. Worth a look.

http://www.myscript.com/

Thanks from me too for this recommendation. It's a brilliant app for which I'd happily pay good money.