# PencilDB — Pen database & market prices

> Pen database & market prices (iPhone/iPad app by ideo Entertainment Inc..)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pencildb/id6798742547 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [ideo Entertainment Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/730082924)
- Category: Lifestyle, Reference
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 1 MB
- Languages: British English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-08-18
- Data updated: 2026-08-25
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pencildb/id6798742547/reviews.md

## What is PencilDB?

PencilDB is a database of mechanical pencils, ballpoint pens, fountain pens and inks. We build it together, and we correct it together.

■ Point the camera, and the pen identifies itself

Move the camera slowly toward the part number printed on the barrel. PencilDB reads the marking and looks it up.
Recognition happens entirely on your device. The photo itself never leaves your iPhone.

■ Keep a record, one pen at a time

Sort pens into "Owned" and "Wanted". Add what you paid, when you bought it, where from, and what condition it is in — as much or as little as you feel like.
Every one of those fields can be left empty.

■ Used prices come into view

Once two or more people have reported what they paid for a part number, the price it actually changes hands for starts to appear.

While only one report exists, no figure is shown. Otherwise what you paid would become "the market price" all by itself.

■ Straight to a shop that sells it

For each part number, the shops selling it today are listed with their prices. Links that earn us a commission are marked as ads.

■ Know the company behind the brand

Company profiles for 47 brands, with every model they make. Founding year, country, and what they have built over the years.

■ Articles

Barrel materials, nib widths, the stories behind the brands — written for people who are serious about pens.

■ What is in it now

2,400 models, 11,297 part numbers, 47 brands.
Sailor / Montblanc / Pilot / Mitsubishi Pencil (uni) / Platinum / LAMY /
Zebra / Pentel / Faber-Castell / Caran d'Ache / Kuretake /
Kaweco / Visconti / Montegrappa / Eboya / WANCHER and more.

Everything comes from the manufacturers' own price revision documents and official sites. Each entry records where it came from.

■ A nickname, a password and an email address. Nothing else.

No real name, no street address. The only thing shown publicly is your nickname.
The email address exists so you can reset a forgotten password; it never appears on screen.

■ Corrected by everyone

Found a mistake? Anyone can submit a correction, photos included. A person reviews them before they go live.

Once two people are friends, they can message each other. Anyone you would rather not hear from can be blocked, and problems can be reported.

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Site https://www.pencildb.com
Terms https://www.pencildb.com/terms
Privacy https://www.pencildb.com/privacy


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1 — 2026-08-19

The app now carries everything the site www.pencildb.com has:

- Company profiles and full model lists for every brand
- Articles
- Shops that sell each part number, with photos
- Filtering and sorting by color and price
- A want list
- Messages between friends

Camera scanning works exactly as before.
From now on, improvements to the site reach the app the same day.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-17

No release notes.

## More apps by ideo Entertainment Inc.

- [Anime Live](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/anime-live/id730082921)
- [DiggerPocket: Vinyl Prices](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/diggerpocket-vinyl-prices/id6793334856)

All apps by ideo Entertainment Inc.: https://appshunter.io/developer/730082924

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*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 2026-08-25.*