LivePen vs Tradeshow Scouter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LivePen
Instantly digitize your handwritten notes and drawings from paper to your smartphone. Capture ideas, sketches, and important information in ink and bring them into your digital world for easy access and sharing.
- Instant digital capture of handwritten content
- Syncs ink from paper to smartphone
- Converts handwritten notes to text
- Share digital notes and sketches
- Organize captured ideas and sketches
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The companion app for LivePen from Livescribe. When used together, whatever you write and draw in ink on paper in the real world is instantly captured on your smartphone to use in your digital world. It’s kind of like magic! For millennia, we have written on paper to capture our ideas, sketches and notes. But all of that content, all of those imaginative thoughts have been trapped in ink on paper in the real world to probably be misplaced, lost or forgotten. Not anymore. With the LivePen app paired with LivePen, we’ve unlocked the ability to instantly bring your handwritten world, captured in ink on paper, to digital life. So, a scribbled down shopping list? Immediately on your phone. Handwritten notes from the classroom? Immediately available on your phone. Important notes from a business meeting? Already converted to text on your phone. Inspired sketched idea? Ready to share, instantly on your phone.
Tradeshow Scouter
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Organize notes and photographs collected at industry Tradeshows. Generate PDF reports or export all your data for use in proprietary report formats (PowerPoint, Word, etc.). Create "Prompts" to customize your reports and answer the questions that matter to your company.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: LivePen at every 11 days against Tradeshow Scouter's every 5 months. LivePen also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.5). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LivePen ships an update every 11 days, Tradeshow Scouter every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LivePen | Tradeshow Scouter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (34 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 34.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Livescribe Inc. | Christian Stevenson |
In-app purchases
LivePen
No in-app purchases
Tradeshow Scouter
No in-app purchases
