# YourNotes: Handwriting & Study — Pencil notes, math, PDF, audio

> Pencil notes, math, PDF, audio (iPhone/iPad app by Andrew Aponte.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/yournotes-handwriting-and-study/id6790019623 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Andrew Aponte](https://appshunter.io/developer/6790019625)
- Category: Productivity, Education
- Price: $9.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 46 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-09-22
- Data updated: 2026-11-13

## What is YourNotes?

YourNotes is a notebook for iPhone and iPad where you handwrite, type, solve math, record lectures, and ask questions across everything you've written. It runs on your device, needs no account, and tracks nothing.

Students use it for lecture notes and exam prep. It works the same way for meeting notes, research, and planning.

Handwriting and Apple Pencil
• Low-latency ink with solid, pressure-tapered, dotted, and dashed pens.
• Erase part of a stroke or the whole thing.
• Lasso anything to move, resize, restyle, convert handwriting to text, or save as a sticker.
• Blank, lined, grid, or dotted paper with adjustable spacing.

Math Solving
• A math specific keyboard for fractions, exponents, roots, π, and trig functions that typeset as you write.
• Type an equals sign and YourNotes computes the answer.
• Ask it to solve for x right on the page.

TABLES AND CHARTS
• Insert tables with spreadsheet formulas like =SUM(B2:B5).
• Turn any table into a bar, line, or scatter chart in one tap.
• Export charts to PDF or high-resolution images.

ASK YOUR NOTES
• Ask a question across one note or a whole set of folders.
• Every answer cites the exact sentences it used. Tap a citation to jump to that note.
• Generate summaries, study guides, flashcards, and quizzes from your own notes.
• Build mind maps you can expand and drop back into a page.
• Research Mode writes structured, multi-pass reports.
• Bring your own key for OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Ollama Cloud, Self Host, or run a local model offline.

RECORD AND REPLAY
• Record a lecture while you write.
• Play it back and watch your ink redraw itself in sync with the audio.
• Tap any word to hear what was said the moment you wrote it.

IMPORT AND EXPORT
• Mark up PDFs.
• Open Word, Markdown, RTF, HTML, and plain text as editable notes.
• Import notes from other apps.
• Export as PDF, image, Markdown, or text.

SYNC WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT
• Sync notes, folders, and favorites across your iPhone and iPad over local Wi-Fi.
• Pair by scanning a QR code. No account, no cloud subscription, no tracking.
• Edit the same note on both devices and keep both copies if they ever conflict.
• Search your handwriting and typed text offline.

Everything stays on your device unless you choose to send it somewhere. Download YourNotes and start with the built-in sample note.

## Is YourNotes safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess YourNotes.

## Is YourNotes legit?

YourNotes: Handwriting & Study has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for YourNotes is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.1.1 — 2026-11-11

Hotfix

### 1.1.0 — 2026-11-05

Typing that keeps going
- Type past the bottom of a page and your text continues on the next one.
- Superscript and subscript in the text bar.
- Study guides added to a note come in formatted: headings, tables, exponents and symbols.

Tables and graphs, rebuilt
- Drag between columns or rows to resize them. Double-tap to fit the contents.
- Rows grow to fit what you type.
- Insert or delete columns and rows anywhere. Formulas follow along.
- Header rows, banded rows, adjustable text size, and new area and pie charts.
- Change a number in a table and its graph updates with it.

Precise shapes
- Hold a shape's handle still for a magnifier and finer control.
- Lines snap to angles more precisely, and shapes snap to each other.

Smart Search
- Search finds notes by what they mean, not just the exact words.
- Ask reads the parts of your notes that answer your question and tells you the page.
- Related notes, folder suggestions when you move a note, and a heads-up about duplicate notes.
- Runs on your iPad. The search model downloads once over Wi-Fi.

Better quizzes
- Math answers are worked out exactly, so the answer key is right.
- Review in Notes takes you from a missed question to where it came from.
- A new quiz on the same notes gives you new questions.

Also
- AI answers appear as they're written, with a Stop button.
- Draw, erase and lasso with a mouse or trackpad in the Mac app.
- Notes written on the Mac now look the same on iPad.
- Adding a second PDF to a note keeps the first one.
- On-device AI now works on older iPad Pro models.
- Fixes for search, quizzes and the iPhone mic button.

### 1.0.2 — 2026-10-10

In this update:
- Apple Pencil inking responsiveness and palm rejection improvements
- Faster PDF page rendering and navigation for large textbook files
- Audio recording synchronization fixes during live lecture note-taking
- UI polish and stability fixes

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-28

Bug fixes and performance improvements

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-22

No release notes.

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