# Fineliner — user reviews > 57 indexed App Store user reviews of Fineliner by Overcast Radio, LLC, rated 4.77/5 from 178 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fineliner/id6820516041/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/fineliner/id6820516041.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 159 · 4★ 4 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 6 ## Is Fineliner safe? Fineliner appears safe based on user ratings. The AppsHunter Safety Score for Fineliner is 93 out of 100. This assessment is based on 178 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8 out of 5. Of 175 App Store ratings, 93.1% point to a safe experience, 2.9% suggest some concerns, and 4.0% point to a risky experience. ## Is Fineliner legit? Fineliner appears to be a legitimate app. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Fineliner is 80 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Newest reviews (16 of 57) ### 5/5 — Thanks *2026-11-01* You’ve hit this one out of the park. It should move a lot of Apple Pencils… ### 5/5 — Great fun *2026-11-01* Can’t believe this hasn’t been done before. What a cool idea! Really good fun. Thanks Marco. ### 5/5 — Simple and fun in the best way possible! *2026-10-31* It’s a great app for the iPad, and since it lets me make a font in my handwriting I can easily type on my phone into notes I started on my iPad. ### 5/5 — Fun! *2026-10-31* This is the first time I actually enjoyed the onboarding process. I can’t draw but I have to say, I’m pretty happy with the UI I made. I have lots of note taking apps already and this is the first one I feel like showing to other people because it feels personal. Well done! I’m looking forward to see how it evolves. ### 5/5 — Nice *2026-10-31* The interface is a really great idea. Also: no subscription which is nice for a change. ### 5/5 — Great App, easy to use and FUN *2026-10-31* Endlich eine App, mit denen ich Notizen machen kann, die nicht anstrengend ist Spaß macht ein Lächeln aufs Gesicht bringt und auch nicht unnötige Abos hat sondern einmal Käufe und auch nur wenn man möchte. Der Entwickler hat tolle Arbeit geleistet. ### 5/5 — The missing pencil app *2026-10-31* I was struggling to find a use for my Apple Pencil. Notes was frustrating me trying to parse my handwriting horribly and putting up barriers to formatting notes. Fineliner solves all that. It lets me take notes, scribble poorly, and it’s just like a piece of paper. Except it’s paper that can OCR my writing and make it searchable. It’s paper I can share with others. It’s the best of paper notebooks and computers combined. If you have an Apple Pencil, try this app. Everyone loves the onboarding. I love the app. I ### 5/5 — No fuss and refreshing *2026-10-31* I love the simplicity of the app. No fuss no crazy payment model and it works really well! I am happy with it an hour or so in. I hope someday Apple exposes Smart Script APIs because that is the only thing I really wish this had but it is public to my knowledge. ### 5/5 — Fabulous work, Marco! *2026-10-31* We love Overcast, so starting to journal in Fineliner is a real treat! I love pasting quotes in as text and writing out feelings that I feel self conscious about putting on physical paper. May we please have two adjustments? - Can the select tool be made continuous along the edge when we go out of bounds? - May we please have the ability to delete individual pages?* *Ope, I found the press & delete option! Thank you so much for all that you do! ### 5/5 — Exactly the note-taking app I’ve wanted *2026-10-30* This is exactly the note-taking app I’ve been looking for. Here’s why: - great ink engine: I can’t say technically why it’s better, but I know I like it more than anything I’ve used before. - simplicity: I want to open an app and start taking notes - very powerful: great search, heading identification, ability to reorder pages, image <-> text search, linking - fixed “paper size”: this could have been my #1. Handwriting is a physical act and our brains expect paper to be a fixed size. I can’t pinch to zoom my paper notebooks. The decision to keep the “paper” size fixed — more than any other —brings handwriting, the size of the “paper”, and my mental expectations into alignment. - delightful: the app is delightfully thoughtful and thoroughly considered. Love this app! I think i remember someone saying: Good design isn’t just how well something looks, it’s also how well it works. Well Fineliner looks great and works incredibly well. Give this developer an Apple Design Award! ### 5/5 — Great and whimsical *2026-10-30* I can feel the love and joy Marco put into this ### 5/5 — Why we CAN have nice things! *2026-10-30* Omigod! This is brilliant—stunningly original, brilliantly whimsical—and surprisingly useful. Only geniuses can come up with stuff like this. Claude has its uses, but nobody's ever gonna replace Marco Arment! Oh, and for God's sake keep this icon. It's PERFECT! ### 5/5 — Cool and fun! *2026-10-30* Fun fun fun! ### 5/5 — Fabulous work, Marco! *2026-10-30* We love Overcast, so starting to journal in Fineliner is a real treat! I love pasting quotes in as text and writing out feelings that I feel self conscious about putting on physical paper. May we please have two adjustments? - Can the select tool be made continuous along the edge when we go out of bounds? - May we please have the ability to delete individual pages? Thank you so much for all that you do! ### 5/5 — I love the on-boarding! *2026-10-30* Just from the on-boarding experience I LOVE THIS APP!!!! I love the touch of drawing all the apps various icons yourself. BRILLIANT IDEA! ### 5/5 — Love it! *2026-10-29* Obit thing missing for me is a blank page option. Otherwise, this app is awesome! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — noting to see *2026-10-29* just an endless spinner… :( ### 3/5 — No adding pictures *2026-11-02* This is an amazing app, a bit pricy just to get more colors tho, it would be better if you added more color variations, the only really down side is not being able to insert pictures, otherwise I would give it 5 stars. ### 3/5 — It’s ok? *2026-10-29* I like the concept of a basic notes app. I hate the onboarding… I don’t want my own icons, and going into the menu to skip each section is a pain. Just have a big “skip” button. I don’t want to see my rubbish undo icon all the time. Also, I only want a single squared paper option. Paying for colours and bold weights etc is frustrating. Have just the “paper types” as a purchase option. Finally… the nav all being to the left, when I am right handed is inconvenient. ### 3/5 — You had me until you didn't. *2026-10-28* Disclaimer: I know this is a 1.0, so I will address the core of my love and sadness for this app, not the rough edges that will be sanded out shortly. my love: The onboarding is magical, whimsical, and downright helpful. Thank you for introducing a new paradigm that I'm sure will be copied and copied and copied. Well played. my sadness: In-app pricing. The cost for colors must be a deliberate choice, and I don't think it was a good one. I get this isn't a subscription. I get that family sharing is included. And I get that a developer needs to earn back against the time spent on development. But as of this writing, the price appears to be $10 for a selection of colors. When I saw that, my heart sank, and I had to ask myself: Would I have paid $10 up front for this? Absolutely not. I'll keep following the app, as I'm sure things will be refined both within the feature set and the business model. Until then, this was a great swing... and a miss. ### 4/5 — Dark mode *2026-11-01* Really love this app but wish dark mode did not make the pages black and text white. I’d rather decide in setting for each notebook the color of pages. I currently have to turn dark mode off my phone whenever I use the app to get white pages which is an odd design choice imo. I’ll update to 5 stars if this is changed. ### 4/5 — Fun App with some glitches *2026-11-01* The app is pretty fun, even after the onboarding. There are some glitches, like scribble text with Apple Pencil isn’t working. I hope the glitches are temporary but the fun will stick around longer ### 4/5 — Love the whimsy *2026-10-29* Only downside is I’ve only been able to get it to run on my phone, it crashes on my iPad Pro. ### 5/5 — My new daily driver *2026-11-04* I’ve tried templates in multiple PDF apps, ReMarkable tablet, a never ending .txt file… This app is exactly what I’ve wanted all along. An ingeniously elegant design with powerful features. ### 5/5 — Request for right-to-left notebooks *2026-11-03* I’m a long-time ATP listener from Iran. My only reason for buying new iPhones is Overcast, and now i think i found another great app that will make me buy my next iPads. My request is to add right-to-left notebooks. As you know Persians, Arabs and Japanese (and many others) use right-to-left notebooks. Thanks again for your great apps. ### 5/5 — Lovely and delightful *2026-11-02* Such a nice app. It’s simple, fast, no clutter. Has a great personal touch to the UI. Nice work! ## Most praised reviews (7 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very fun to use *2026-11-02* This app is very fun and simple to use. I love in fineliner the headers/page links, my own icons, my handwriting font and .. page curl. Love those features. Those features exist in other apps but here they don’t feel bloated or out of place. I was using my mini 5 with pencil 1 almost everyday with procreate. Then the usage dropped because of speed issues. Tried remarkable for handrwiting notes without success. They are still some features in Fineliner that I don’t get : the autowrap text. I wish I could turn it off. Unless of course I am doing something wrong, but then, show me the good way please. ### 5/5 — A delight! *2026-11-02* It’s a charming and effective design that’s a delight to use. Never have I had so much fine setting up an app! ### 5/5 — Instant classic. Alternate glyphs for the custom font please! *2026-11-01* …handwriting recognition would also be great! Also, let us custom draw the icon! Fast, smooth, responsive, simple, doesn’t do that uncanny thing the default apple writing engine does where it predicts the future then changes its mind. As good as or better than goodnotes, my former favorite. Bought the deluxe pack instantly. ### 5/5 — Marco *2026-11-01* I know you have a philosophical reason for the rule lines to stay put when you rotate the screen but I think you should have an option to have the rule lines follow orientation. Also I will pay big money for a pencil. Thank you, from a fellow Phish phan 😁 ### 5/5 — Love this app *2026-11-01* Such a neat idea. Seeing my own handwriting is so cool and the way the app is set up. Delightful! Love it. ### 5/5 — Crash Problem Edge Case *2026-11-01* Love the app. Let grandchild draw lots of scribbles per character. Eventually app crashed. Can’t recover. Can’t delete. Crashes on start. Looking for to a fix. ### 5/5 — What a delight! *2026-11-01* I’ve had an Apple Pencil since the first iPad Pro. I’ve used my Apple Pencil more in the last day than I have in the last seven years. Hands down the best Apple Pencil experience by far. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-06.*