Pencil Notes vs Teika

# Pencil Notes — Your Simple Apple Pencil Notebook Turn your iPad into a simple, distraction-free notebook designed for Apple Pencil. Write naturally, organize your ideas, annotate documents, and export your work — all without subscriptions or complicated setup. ## WRITE NATURALLY Pencil Notes is built around the feeling of writing on real paper. • Write with Apple Pencil • Create unlimited notebooks and pages • Choose blank, lined, dotted, or grid paper • Use a pressure-sensitive pen • Highlight important ideas • Undo and redo with ease • Zoom and pan while writing Whether you're taking notes, planning your day, journaling, brainstorming, or simply sketching, Pencil Notes keeps things simple. ## WRITE ON PDFs Import a PDF and write directly on it with Apple Pencil. Highlight text, add handwritten notes, draw, underline, circle important information, and mark up documents naturally. Perfect for: • Study materials • Lecture notes • Work documents • Forms and worksheets • Research papers • Presentations • Personal documents ## ANNOTATE IMAGES Import an image and use your Apple Pencil to write, draw, mark up, or add notes directly on it. ## EXPORT YOUR WORK When you're finished, export your handwritten pages, PDF annotations, or marked-up images and share them wherever you need. ## PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notes stay on your iPad. No account required. Your notes stay on your iPad. No cloud storage. No ads. Just open the app and start writing. ## MADE FOR EVERYDAY USE Use Pencil Notes for: • Class and lecture notes • Meetings • To-do lists • Journaling • Planning • Brainstorming • Sketching • PDF annotation • Document markup • Personal notes ## SIMPLE BY CHOICE Pencil Notes isn't trying to replace every app on your iPad. It's a simple place to write. Open it. Pick a page. Grab your Apple Pencil. Start writing.

CATCH THE THOUGHT BEFORE IT’S GONE. Record on iPhone or Apple Watch and turn your voice into private, editable notes. Copy a thought straight into your next message, find it later in your notes, or automatically add new notes to Apple Reminders or Things. HOW IT WORKS • Start from what is closest. Use the app, Apple Watch, a widget, Control Center, or Shortcuts. On iPhone, you can also say “Siri, start recording with Teika.” • Talk until you are done. Teika keeps listening when you pause to think and stops when you tap again. • Keep the words. Every transcription is copied to your clipboard and saved in your notes library. Open a saved note to edit its text or copy it again. • Turn thoughts into tasks. Enable Apple Reminders or Things in Notes Settings to automatically add each new voice note to your task list. YOUR NOTES, YOUR TASK LIST Choose a list in Apple Reminders and add notes with no date or schedule them for today, without leaving Teika. Prefer Things? Send new notes to its Inbox or Today; Things must be installed and opens briefly to add the task. Task integrations are off until you enable them. Only new notes are exported; existing notes and later edits stay in Teika. Notes recorded on Apple Watch are transcribed on your iPhone, with task delivery continuing when Teika is open and idle. If a task needs attention, retry or skip it in Notes Settings. Check your task app before retrying an unconfirmed delivery to avoid duplicates. PRIVATE, ON-DEVICE TRANSCRIPTION Teika runs its speech recognition model on your iPhone. Your recordings are not uploaded to a Teika server, and your speech is not sent to an AI service. After setup, transcription works in Airplane Mode. Record on your paired Apple Watch and the clip is transferred to your iPhone for local transcription. The Watch can queue recordings while disconnected. If you enable task integrations, exported note text may sync through your Reminders account or Things Cloud. ONE-TIME SETUP Teika needs a one-time speech-model download of about 0.5 GB. Before it starts, Teika shows the size and provider and asks for your permission. Free. No account, ads, subscription, or tracking.