# Bookhand — Notes that feel like paper

> Notes that feel like paper (iPhone/iPad app by Bruno Takahashi Carvalhas de Oliveira.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bookhand/id6802374272 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Bruno Takahashi Carvalhas de Oliveira](https://appshunter.io/developer/1860732734)
- Category: Productivity, Books
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.5 · 17 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-02
- Data updated: 2026-09-03
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bookhand/id6802374272/reviews.md

## What is Bookhand?

Bookhand is a free app for writing little books: journals, notes, ideas, short stories, poetry, philosophical treatises or anything else you feel like writing.

The idea is that your words live on something like actual paper. Your text is typeset onto real pages with proper margins and page numbers, the pages curl as you turn them, and every notebook gets its own paper size, typefaces, colors and a cover you design yourself.

READING
A notebook opens in Page Mode, laid out the way it would be set on printed paper, from pocket A6 up to A4. There's also a full-screen e-reader mode with the same page-turning, an outline for jumping to a chapter or section, in-book search, and a page grid for finding your place visually.

WRITING
Edit Mode is a full-screen, distraction-free editor for your award-winning novel, thrilling memoir or truly revolutionary shopping list, whichever the case may be. Paragraphs can be headings, body text or block quotes; add images and control how they sit on the page. A rearrange mode lets you move, copy and cut whole paragraphs at once.

MAKE IT YOURS
Choose from seventeen carefully picked typefaces, set your paper size and margins, pick paper and ink colors, style the page numbers, then design the cover: board color, patterns, foil stamping, frames, flourishes and your own lettering.

YOUR WORDS ARE YOURS
Notebooks are stored on your device. There are no accounts, no servers and no database, and your text goes nowhere unless you want it to. Export to PDF, EPUB, Markdown or plain text, or as a .bookhand file for handing a notebook to someone else (or storing a backup for yourself). Import works too: bring in Markdown, plain text or EPUB. Notebooks can also be locked or hidden behind a PIN.

FREE, REALLY
Bookhand is made by one person as a personal project, so it's free, with no ads, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions and no upsell pop-ups. I just wanted an app where it's fun to sit down and write little books. I imagine you do too, so here we are.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-09-02

No release notes.

## More apps by Bruno Takahashi Carvalhas de Oliveira

- [Latinicola](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/latinicola/id6756457481)
- [Simple Soroban (Abacus)](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simple-soroban-abacus/id6787463185)

All apps by Bruno Takahashi Carvalhas de Oliveira: https://appshunter.io/developer/1860732734

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