ScribblePad vs BLISS Note

The free, private note app for iPhone, iPad & Mac. No subscription, no account, no tracking — just fast handwriting, PDF markup, and backup to YOUR own cloud. Write naturally with Apple Pencil, organize notes into colorful subjects, and keep everything synced to your own Google Drive or iCloud. Nothing lives on our servers — your notes stay yours. WRITING & TOOLS • Smooth, low-latency ink (PencilKit) — pen, pencil, highlighter, eraser, lasso • Pinch to zoom, palm rejection, and ruler • Add text boxes, shapes, images, and stickers on top of your ink ORGANIZE • Subjects → notebooks → pages, drag to reorder • Templates: blank, ruled, grid, dotted + your own custom pages • Search your handwriting instantly with on-device OCR PDF & IMPORT/EXPORT • Import and annotate PDFs • Export as PDF, PNG, or the native .scribble format • Share notes with other ScribblePad users AUDIO • Record audio synced to your strokes — replay your notes in time PRIVATE BACKUP & SYNC (OPTIONAL) • Back up to your own Google Drive (the app only sees files it creates) or iCloud • Works fully offline — the cloud is yours, not ours No sign-up. No ads. No data collection. Just a beautiful place to think.

One pencil across every note. Ink on text notes, annotate PDFs, and keep notes inside notes — an all-in-one notebook for iPad, iPhone and Mac, built for Apple Pencil. ■ One pencil, every note • The same pen, highlighter and tools on text notes, PDFs and drawings — ballpoint, fountain pen and more • Handwriting and annotation right over your typed notes — page breaks keep ink on its page as you edit • Free-form canvas and A4 landscape, Letter, Square and B5 pages, lasso select & move, vector shapes • Convert handwriting to text, and write note titles in your own hand • Write small text comfortably in a magnified zoom-write strip ■ Planner & tasks • Task management — keep your to-dos in one place • Planner notes — add your schedule to a handwritten diary, sync with your iCloud calendar, and link a note to every event • Recurring events & lunar anniversaries — repeat daily to yearly or by the lunar calendar, and edit or delete this one, the following, or all ■ Exam prep & memorization • Question bank & wrong-answer notes — split an exam PDF into individual questions to drill; the ones you miss collect automatically and return on a 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30-day review schedule • Vocabulary flashcards and a memorization sheet (red sheet) — hide highlights and tap to reveal • D-day countdown — the days left until an exam or deadline, on the Home screen and inside notes ■ Record, transcribe & translate • Record meetings & lectures and turn them into text — organize & summarize with your AI • Live translation — transcripts and notes translated on-device, so it works offline (59 languages) • Play a recording from the note header, and save a transcript with its translation as a new note • Recording-handwriting sync — tap ink you wrote while recording to play from that moment, in a floating mini-player ■ Search anything • Full-text search across text and PDFs — plus your handwriting and recordings (transcripts) • In-note search — find text right inside the open note ■ Notes inside notes • Embed PDFs, drawings and other notes inside a text note • Organize a list of notes within one note using Shelves • List, Thumbnail, Bookshelf, Tabs, Tiles and Pinned view modes • Page grid view — all pages of PDF & drawing notes as thumbnails • YouTube playlist embed — play a playlist inside a note and track your watch progress • Split view — two notes side by side, to copy across and compare ■ Papers & documents in PDF • Import PDFs and mark up with pen, highlighter, underline • Reading mode — Sepia, Dim and Night soften the glare of white pages, while ink and annotations keep their colors • Automatic paper citations — title, authors, year & journal detected, with APA, MLA, IEEE & BibTeX ready to copy; use the detected title as the note title • Export original or with annotations (text stays selectable) ■ Annotate the web • Open a web page in the app, highlight it, add notes, and write on top with your pen • The original page is never stored — only your own annotations, kept on your device ■ Make it your own • Add a cover page to the front of a note and draw or write on it • Use your own images as note covers, or as the paper (background) for drawing notes • Turn any image into a sticker or washi tape to decorate your notes • Place your own drawing behind the Home screen — position, size and opacity ■ A powerful editor • Headings, lists, tables, checklists, code blocks • Clean paste from anywhere — AI answers and web pages keep their Markdown & HTML formatting ■ Privacy first • No sign-up to start — your notes live on your device • No note servers of ours — optional cloud sync goes only through your own iCloud or Google Drive • Available in 24 languages Study notes, research, lecture notes, planning, quick sketches — all in Bliss Note. Terms of Service: https://blissnote.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://blissnote.app/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/