Pad Notes AI vs PaperFlow

Take notes the way you think — write by hand, record your voice, or type. Pad Notes AI brings together handwriting, audio, and artificial intelligence in one seamless notebook experience built for iPad and Apple Pencil. ——— HANDWRITING & DRAWING ——— Write naturally with Apple Pencil on a variety of paper styles. Pad Notes AI recognizes your handwriting automatically, making every note fully searchable without any extra effort. ——— VOICE RECORDING & TRANSCRIPTION ——— Record lectures, meetings, or ideas on the go. Your recordings are transcribed in real time, and you can tap any word in the transcript to jump straight to that moment in the audio. ——— AI ASSISTANT ——— Ask the built-in AI to summarize your notes, explain a concept, or answer questions about what you've written — all without leaving the page. ——— ORGANIZED YOUR WAY ——— Keep multiple notebooks open in tabs, browse pages as thumbnails, and find anything instantly with full-text search across handwriting, typed notes, and transcriptions. ——— EXPORT EVERYTHING ——— Share your work as a polished PDF, export audio recordings as M4A files, or save all transcriptions as a formatted text document — ready to share in seconds. ——— iCLOUD SYNC ——— Your notes stay up to date across all your devices automatically.

Write by hand and link like you type. A word you wrote becomes a link, your handwritten pages sit in the same graph as the notes you type, and one search reads both. CIRCLE A WORD. IT BECOMES A LINK. Lasso a word on the page, tap "Link to a note" and pick the note. That note lists the page under "Mentioned in". A link like [[Calculus II - notebook#page=12]] opens your handwriting on page 12. HANDWRITTEN AND TYPED, ONE GRAPH Every notebook you write is a node beside the notes you type, with links and backlinks both ways. Tap a node to see what it connects to. TYPE A WORD. FIND THE PAGE YOU WROTE. One search covers your handwriting, the notes you type and the text inside your PDFs. Your handwriting is read on your device, and it stays handwriting: it turns into text only when you ask. THE SYNTAX YOU ALREADY TYPE Wikilinks with autocomplete, note embeds, callouts, YAML properties, a templates folder, a daily note, LaTeX, Mermaid flowcharts and code blocks. Tabs, split panes, floating windows, a command palette and a quick switcher. PLAIN FILES, ON YOUR DEVICE Your notes are files: .md for what you type, .ink for what you write. The vault shows up in the Files app, every notebook exports to PDF or PNG, and the whole vault exports as a zip. Everything works offline, and two devices writing on the same page don't erase each other. A PEN WORTH WRITING WITH Press and the line thickens; tilt the pencil and it shades. Squeeze or double-tap Apple Pencil to switch tools, hover shows where the tip will land, and Pencil Pro's barrel roll turns the nib. Your palm leaves no mark. A different paper on every page. PDFS AND GOODNOTES NOTEBOOKS COME IN Import a PDF and write on top of it. Goodnotes notebooks open as PaperFlow notebooks. WHAT'S FREE, WHAT'S PLUS The notebook is free forever, with no page limit: writing, linking, search, the graph, import and export. That list doesn't shrink. PaperFlow Plus adds sync across your devices with a copy in the cloud, AI that suggests links up to a monthly allowance, and MCP access so your own AI assistant can read and write the vault once you allow it. 7 days free for new subscribers. PAPERFLOW PLUS Monthly or annual subscription with a free trial, renewed automatically until you cancel in your device Settings. The price is shown in the app before you confirm. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://paperflow.dev/privacy/en Support: https://paperflow.dev/support