# Libreto — Notes, Planner, Sketch & PDF > Notes, Planner, Sketch & PDF (iPhone/iPad app by JC Mobile App Studio LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/libreto/id6769897837 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [JC Mobile App Studio LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/1895553190) - Category: Productivity - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 11 MB - Languages: American English, European Spanish - Released: 2026-06-07 - Data updated: 2026-08-28 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/libreto/id6769897837/reviews.md ## What is Libreto? Libreto is a full drawing studio, digital notebook, planner, and PDF editor for iPad, and a streamlined PDF editor and notes app for iPhone. Private by design, with on-device AI included, and one fair price. LIBRETO INTELLIGENCE, ON YOUR DEVICE Ask questions about any PDF or notebook and get answers with tappable page citations. Summarize a document, a page range, or a selection. Get plain-language explanations of anything you highlight. Turn any document into flashcards and quizzes with spaced-repetition review. Record a lecture, then transcribe and summarize it on-device, tap any line to jump the audio and your handwriting to that moment. Search inside every PDF, note, and transcript in your library, even when you don't remember the exact words. All of it runs with Apple Intelligence, right on your device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is metered, no AI credits to buy. DRAW & SKETCH (iPad) A full drawing canvas with pressure brushes, layers, blend modes, and a saved color palette. Real symmetry: vertical, horizontal, both axes, or radial. Smudge actual pixels at full resolution. Pro adjustments and filters: hue, curves, gradient map, blurs, halftone, chromatic aberration, and more. Selection and lasso, cut/copy/paste, text, import photos, flip the canvas, export as PNG or PDF. Apple Pencil Pro: squeeze to open your brushes, double-tap to swap brush and eraser. NOTEBOOKS FOR APPLE PENCIL (iPad) Paper styles: lined, dot grid, grid, graph, Cornell, and to-do, or import any photo as your own paper. Choose your page size and orientation. Search your handwriting and convert it to text on-device, in English and Spanish. Write large in the Zoom Writing window and let the ink land small and neat on the page. Add stickers, washi tape, photos, and AI art with Image Playground. On iPhone, take plain handwritten or finger-written notes; iPhone does not support Apple Pencil. TEXT DOCUMENTS Prefer to type? Start a Text Document with markdown, headings, and checklists you can tick right in the preview, alongside your PDFs and notebooks. STUDY SPLIT (iPad) Read a PDF on one side, take notes on the other. Send selected text or a clipped page into your notes, with a link back to the source page. PLANNERS, YOUR WAY (iPad) Six planners, each with its own clean, roomy layout: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Scheduling, Personal, and Pro. Real calendar dates with tappable months. Every planner opens with a tappable table of contents. Grow any planner with extra pages: habits, goals, schedules, dashboards, and journals. Portrait or landscape, Warm or Dark theme, charcoal and gold, or cream and espresso. DESIGN YOUR COVER (iPad) Elegant cover designs, Leather, Minimal, Botanical, Midnight, Floral, Marble, Geometric, and a live animated Aurora. Recolor any cover, import your own photo, or generate cover art with Image Playground. PDF TOOLS (iPad and iPhone) Read and mark up PDFs with highlights and ink, right alongside your notes. Make scans searchable with on-device OCR. Clean up a photographed page with Scan Enhance. Redact sensitive content for real: the hidden text is destroyed, not just covered, with find-and-redact across a whole document at once. Export as PDF, image, plain text, Word (RTF), or Markdown. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No tracking. No third-party AI. Your work, and everything Libreto Intelligence reads, stays on your devices, with optional private iCloud sync. MEMBERSHIP Unlock every premium feature, drawing tools, planners, designs, and Libreto Intelligence, for $19.99/year with a 3-day free trial, or $2.99/month. Prefer not to subscribe? Buy Libreto once for $59.99 and keep every feature, including future updates, forever. Terms of Use (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Libreto Premium (Annual) | $7.99 | per year | | Libreto Premium (Monthly) | $0.99 | per month | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 2.4.0 — 2026-08-27 Libreto 2.4 adds on-device intelligence, and it's included. No credits, no AI add-on, no upgrade tier. LIBRETO INTELLIGENCE Ask questions about any PDF or notebook and get answers with page citations you can tap. Summarize a document, a page range, or a selection. Explain any passage in plain language, or "like I'm new to this." Name and tag scans automatically instead of ending up with Scan 4.pdf. All of it runs on your device with Apple Intelligence: nothing is uploaded, nothing is metered. STUDY KIT Turn any notebook or PDF into flashcards and multiple-choice quizzes, review them on a spaced-repetition schedule, and export the deck as CSV for Anki or Quizlet. LECTURE MODE Record while you write, then transcribe and summarize on device. Tap any line of the transcript to jump the audio, and your handwriting, to that exact moment. Action items are pulled out for you. SMART SEARCH Search inside everything: PDF text, your handwriting, transcripts, and notes. It understands what you meant, so "the lecture about cell division" finds the page that says mitosis. STUDY SPLIT Read a document on one side and take notes on the other. Send selected text or a clipped page straight into your notes, with a link back to the source page. TEXT DOCUMENTS A new document type for typed notes: markdown, headings, checklists you can tick right in the preview. SERIOUS PDF WORK Real redaction that destroys the hidden content instead of covering it, with find-and-redact across a whole contract at once. Scan Enhance to kill shadows and lift the paper to white. Export as Text, Word (RTF), or Markdown. ZOOM WRITING Write large in a magnified band and let the ink land small and neat on the page. ALSO NEW Spanish throughout. A lifetime purchase for anyone who'd rather not subscribe. Liquid Glass chrome on iOS 26. Four-finger tap to hide everything but the page. Questions or bugs? contact@jcmobileappstudio.com ### 2.3.1 — 2026-08-17 Libreto's subscription price has changed. If you're already subscribed, you keep your current price for as long as your subscription stays active. This update is about being straight with you at the paywall: • Accurate free trial terms. Libreto now checks whether your Apple ID is actually eligible for the introductory free trial, and says so upfront. If you've subscribed before, you'll no longer be shown a "free trial" you can't receive. • Trial length comes straight from the App Store, so what you read is always what you'll be charged. • Fixed subscription status showing "Free" while Premium was unlocked. • Clearer plan and billing details across the paywall, onboarding, and Settings. ### 2.3.0 — 2026-08-11 New: Daily Classic Planner An elegant serif planner with 90 hourly schedule pages (5:00–22:00), top priorities, to-do lists, and notes — plus weekly spreads and matching note pages, all linked from a tappable contents page. New: Cute Stationery Decorative writing paper with hearts, dashed lines, and ribbon bookmarks, in four pastel themes — Lavender, Blush, Mint, and Sky. Find them in the Library or the New Notebook paper picker. Faster and smoother • Compress, password-protect, and search PDFs without the screen freezing • Photos insert into notebooks up to 2× faster • Smoother drawing — finishing a stroke no longer causes a brief hitch • The app opens faster, and daily iCloud backup no longer slows launch • Files view animates changes and always shows the latest edit dates More reliable • Your last strokes are now always saved when you switch apps quickly • Backups now include sketches and whiteboards • Fixed a crash that could occur on first launch • Sketch thumbnails and library scrolling are faster with large planners ### 2.2.1 — 2026-08-01 Libreto 2.2.1 is a stability release. Everything below came out of a full pass over the app, top to bottom. NEW • More from the studio. A new section in Settings with the other apps I build. Nothing is downloaded, and tapping a row just opens the App Store. FASTER • PDFs open without the app freezing, especially long documents and scans. • Handwriting search no longer locks up the screen while it reads your pages. • Exporting a long notebook to PDF uses far less memory, so big planners finish reliably. • Sketch layers and page thumbnails use less memory while you work. FIXED • Pages and sketch layers could quietly reorder themselves after syncing across devices. Order is now stable everywhere. • Move Up and Move Down in the page browser sometimes did nothing, or moved the wrong page. • Inserting a page could drop it in the wrong place, or on top of another page. • Page thumbnails showed as solid black for light notebooks. • PDF page thumbnails could show a page from a document you had already closed. • Year at a Glance now lines its mini calendars up to real weekdays and handles leap years. • The iCloud Sync switch in Settings had no effect. It now genuinely turns syncing on and off, taking effect the next time you open Libreto. • Compressing a PDF could silently drop a page it could not process. • Importing a file that is not a readable PDF now tells you, instead of adding a document that never opens. • Sample content cleanup no longer removes a notebook you created or renamed yourself. • Signatures, stickers, and image stamps no longer risk a crash while a PDF is drawn or saved. • Scanning could fail if a page image did not convert. • Backups and exports handle unusual document names instead of skipping the file. • Photos added to a whiteboard are resized before saving, so boards sync faster and take up far less space. • Restored purchases are checked more carefully, so an expired or refunded subscription no longer unlocks Premium. Thanks for using Libreto. If you hit anything odd, Settings has a Contact Support link and I read every message. ### 2.2 — 2026-07-21 Libreto 2.2 is a big one for planners and drawing. PLANNERS, REBUILT - Six new planners: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Scheduling, Personal, and Pro - Clean, roomy layouts with real calendar dates and space to actually write - Tap any day on a monthly calendar to jump straight to that day's page - Every planner opens with a tappable table of contents - Grow any planner with extra pages: habits, goals, schedules, journals, and more NOTEBOOKS - A simpler paper picker, organized by category - Use any photo as your own paper, now available wherever you pick paper DRAWING - Symmetry now paints for real: vertical, horizontal, both axes, and radial 4 or 8 - New smudge tool that drags actual pixels at full resolution - Apple Pencil Pro: squeeze to open your brushes, double-tap to swap brush and eraser - Leaner memory use during long drawing sessions, so big canvases stay smooth - Small haptic touches across undo, tools, and shape snapping ## More apps by JC Mobile App Studio LLC - [DayCast: Plan + Reflect](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/daycast-plan-plus-reflect/id6763911335) - [VeraCast: Weather & Alerts](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/veracast-weather-and-alerts/id6764209739) - [WavCast](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wavcast/id6764442745) - [VitalLedger](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/vitalledger/id6767905078) - [Steady: Shift Sleep](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/steady-shift-sleep/id6768091450) - [Holdwise](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/holdwise/id6768121880) All apps by JC Mobile App Studio LLC: https://appshunter.io/developer/1895553190 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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