NiblyNotes vs FlexiNotes

NiblyNotes is the digital exercise book for everyday school life — made in Germany with teachers. Every tool a lesson needs in one app: no subscription, no ads, no tracking. English and German. FREE AND AD-FREE NiblyNotes stays free for at least 5 years. In the supporter area you can buy us a coffee if you like — it unlocks nothing. WRITING AND DRAWING - Pen, fountain pen, pencil, highlighter and laser pointer, many colours and widths, plus two of your own - Lasso to move, scale, rotate and copy, even from book to book - Object eraser for whole strokes, Apple Pencil double-tap switches to it - Shape recognition for line, circle, rectangle, triangle and rhombus; rest the pen briefly and it straightens at once - Lines and arrows whose endpoints stay movable PAPER RULINGS Blank, ruled, 5 mm squares, dot grid, music staves with lyric lines, French Séyès ruling, isometric and dimetric paper to ISO 5456-3 — per page, with a margin left or right. RULER, SET SQUARE AND COMPASS Strokes snap to the edge, tools move and rotate with two fingers, the ruler attaches to the set square. The zoom adjusts so that 5 mm squares and 9 mm lines are exactly that size — check it with a real ruler. TEXT, TABLES AND STICKERS Text boxes with font, size, colour, word-by-word formatting, Scribble, web addresses recognised. Tables to write into with the pen. Stickers cover up answers and reveal them with a tap; next time you open the book they cover again. IMAGES, AUDIO AND VIDEO Photos from library or camera with a photo editor, audio files right on the page, videos embedded cookie-free. SPLIT PAGE A reading pane on the left with a PDF or a second book, the writable page on the right, the divider moves freely. SCANNER AND IMPORT Scan worksheets and blackboards with the iPad camera — multiple pages, black/white or colour, croppable. PDF, Word and PowerPoint become book pages. BOOKS AND PAGES Folders, duplicate books, take pages from other books. Insert, delete or clear pages — all recoverable. Page overview as a sidebar, outline that jumps to a topic. ZOOM WRITING An enlarged writing strip at the bottom — write big, it lands small in the book. CURTAIN, PRESENTATION, FULL SCREEN The curtain reveals a page step by step, on the external display too. When mirroring, presentation mode shows only the page, full screen leaves just a mini toolbar. PRINT, AIRDROP, SAVE AirPrint, AirDrop, save locally as PDF or NiblyNotes file. Teachers can hide the handwritten answer key on export. SCHOOL CLOUDS AND BACKUP BayernCloud Schule, Nextcloud and NetMan for Schools are built in: upload and share, open files straight into a book, daily backup. Local backups password-protected on request. CLASSROOM MODE Put worksheets, single objects or images into the class inbox by QR code and collect submissions — locally over the school Wi-Fi. For devices without NiblyNotes there is a compatibility mode you can switch on: files in the browser. If the Wi-Fi blocks the connection, the inbox runs encrypted via a web server. Can also be linked to BayernCloud Schule. VIEW STUDENTS' WORK Students release pages, the teacher writes notes into them, the class sees the corrections. Encrypted, own school server possible. SHARED BOOKS Work on one book together via iCloud — directly between Apple Accounts, no third-party server. FOR SCHOOL IT Configurable by MDM: preset cloud addresses, fix the language, hide the supporter area. PRIVACY Book contents are stored locally. Cloud connections are optional. Trademarks: Apple, Apple Pencil, iPad, iCloud, AirDrop, AirPrint (Apple Inc.), Word, PowerPoint (Microsoft), Nextcloud (Nextcloud GmbH), NetMan for Schools (H+H Software GmbH). BayernCloud Schule: Free State of Bavaria.

FlexiNotes is a notebook for iPad and iPhone that feels like paper: write with Apple Pencil on iPad or with your finger on iPhone – and find everything again with search that reads your handwriting. WRITING THAT FEELS RIGHT • Ballpoint, fineliner, fountain pen, pencil, felt-tip, watercolour, highlighter and more, all pressure-sensitive • Ruler, colour picker and custom colours on all your devices • Hand-drawn shapes become clean circles, rectangles, lines and arrows • Convert handwriting to typed text – on the device • Cross out typed words to delete them • Lasso: select, colour, move, duplicate ORGANISATION THAT GROWS WITH YOU • Folders and subfolders, tags, favourites and bookmarks • Folders as stacks, grouped by folder or all individually – your choice • Headings automatically build an outline; links connect pages and notebooks • Search handwriting, typed text and text in photos and scans • Lock notebooks with Face ID or a passcode THE PAPER YOU WANT • Lined, squared, dotted, planners, sheet music and more • Save your own pages as templates, or import a PDF: every page becomes a template • Several PDFs in one notebook – for example all the forms for one case • Photos, document scans, GIFs and reusable building blocks STUDY • Flashcards with spaced repetition: your rating decides when a card comes back • With Apple Intelligence: flashcard suggestions from your notes • Cloze exercises for language learners, from A1 to C2 – from a page or on a topic of your own, as a worksheet with answers or to practise on screen • The AI runs on the device only – no internet, no third-party AI service RECORD AND COLLABORATE • Record sound while you write; on playback, your note reappears stroke by stroke • Share notebooks via iCloud – to read or to write along – with comments • Automatic sync between your devices through your own iCloud • Automatic backups to iCloud Drive; export as PDF or FlexiNote package HANDY • On iPad, any notebook can open in a window of its own • Quick Note from the app icon, with Siri or Shortcuts • Built-in help mode: tapping a button explains what it does Section STUDY, add: • A study plan across all notebooks: what is due today, your history, a daily reminder if you like • An exam date per deck: new cards are spread over the days until the exam • Import decks from Anki or a text file, and export them again Section ORGANISATION THAT GROWS WITH YOU, add: • Collect the highlights of a PDF into an excerpt, with links back to the passage • Select text in a PDF and translate it Section HANDY, in place of the Quick Note line: • Quick Note from the app icon, as a widget, in Control Centre, with Siri or Shortcuts • Widgets for recently opened notebooks and cards due • Spotlight finds your notebooks and your handwriting • Handoff between iPhone, iPad and Mac YOUR NOTES BELONG TO YOU FlexiNotes has no server of its own and no account. No ads, no tracking, no analytics, no in-app purchases. Your notebooks live on your device and, if you like, in your own iCloud. FlexiNotes is a personal project, built with care. Questions and ideas: j.gomez@web.de