I love it’s simplicity and reliability
I’ve been using Penultimate for over 6 years now - almost daily. I’m on iPad Pro with pencil and like this for basic note taking , morning pages, first drafts, etc. I’m an artist and use Procreate for digital art so I like the fact that Penultimate is not tool heavy- I don’t need a lot of choices to distract me when I just want to write. I sync all of my Penultimate notes/notebooks in Evernote which is really handy for organization.
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You’d be toast if it were not for Evernote
I only use Penultimate because it automatically imports into Evernote, which makes my terrible handwriting searchable. The Penultimate writing interface is a little unusual. The sliding advancing window works really well for me. It keeps my hand in one place.
On iPadOS, the central control at the top is too close to the split screen, for example when you want to change color, you wind up hitting the 3 dots.
I’ve seen on Good Notes a really cool thing that I now can’t live without, and Penultimate suffers because it doesn’t have it. When you select the eraser, after you erase and raise your pen, Penultimate should return the tool to the one it was before the erase tool was selected. This is so smooth on other apps, but clunky here, where you have to re-select the prior tool (pen/brush/…)
And whatever you do, don’t waste your time and $80 on an Adonit Jot. Complete horror show.
On iPadOS, the central control at the top is too close to the split screen, for example when you want to change color, you wind up hitting the 3 dots.
I’ve seen on Good Notes a really cool thing that I now can’t live without, and Penultimate suffers because it doesn’t have it. When you select the eraser, after you erase and raise your pen, Penultimate should return the tool to the one it was before the erase tool was selected. This is so smooth on other apps, but clunky here, where you have to re-select the prior tool (pen/brush/…)
And whatever you do, don’t waste your time and $80 on an Adonit Jot. Complete horror show.
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Small Fixes Required
Great app, love the overall aesthetic. There are a few changes that need to be made in order for it to be more user friendly. 1st. The feature to only use an apple pen doesn’t work. It will often pick up my hand resting on the page. I’ll even recollaborate it and it continues. It’s SO irritating. 2nd. The color changing tool is now underneath apples new split screen button on my iPad Pro. I cannot change the color with ease. I also wish there were more colors or a color when to pick from. I want pink 😍
3rd isn’t that important but I wish there were a todo list template with skinnier rule. There’s so much space in between lines.
3rd isn’t that important but I wish there were a todo list template with skinnier rule. There’s so much space in between lines.
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Works great with Evernote but could use some tweaks
Penultimate could be a great app with a little TLC from the developers. It’s integration with Evernote is seamless. The only othe app that comes close is Noteshelf, but it uses a different organization system, so it’s not as intuitive.
As a note taking app, Penultimate is pretty good. It’s simple enough to start using right away but still has a fair number of features. There are a few things I think the developer could fix pretty easily but they don’t appear to have done any work on the app for a number of years.
-palm rejection with the Apple Pencil doesn’t work well. It’s pretty good, but I still get marks on the bottom of my notes.
-when cutting part of a note and moving it, there are stray marks left behind.
-you can’t add a title to the note when first entering it. You have to exit the note first.
-image manipulation is problematic. One example is if you make notations on an image and then move the image, the notations get left behind.
I like Noteshelf better, but still use Penultimate the most because of it’s integration with Evernote.
As a note taking app, Penultimate is pretty good. It’s simple enough to start using right away but still has a fair number of features. There are a few things I think the developer could fix pretty easily but they don’t appear to have done any work on the app for a number of years.
-palm rejection with the Apple Pencil doesn’t work well. It’s pretty good, but I still get marks on the bottom of my notes.
-when cutting part of a note and moving it, there are stray marks left behind.
-you can’t add a title to the note when first entering it. You have to exit the note first.
-image manipulation is problematic. One example is if you make notations on an image and then move the image, the notations get left behind.
I like Noteshelf better, but still use Penultimate the most because of it’s integration with Evernote.
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Obsessed!
Love everything about this app! From the different features, ways to organize, and the fact that you can have multiple notebooks for free is great. The only thing that you have to do is create an Evernote account so that you can create multiple notebooks. Other than that I’ve had the app for a few months and haven’t ran into any problems or bugs if I do I’ll definitely come back and update this review but for right now it’s top tier 5 stars for me!
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