MathWrite Notes vs Beamer Notes

MathWrite Notes turns your handwritten maths into LaTeX. Write on the page as you always do, with Apple Pencil on iPad or on iPhone, and MathWrite converts each page into clean, structured LaTeX and compiles it into a typeset PDF. HOW IT WORKS • Write a page by hand. • At the end of the page, pull down and hold to add a new one. The page you leave behind turns into LaTeX on its own. • Open the LaTeX tab to see the source, or the PDF to see it typeset. On iPad in landscape, the source and the PDF sit side by side, and you can put your handwriting next to the PDF to compare them. A NOTEBOOK BUILT FOR MATHS • Blank, ruled, grid or dotted pages, in portrait or landscape. • Draw and hold: a stroke held still at its end becomes a perfect line, circle, rectangle, triangle or arrow. • The shapes tool places lines, arrows, axes and polygons with a single drag. • The graph pencil: write a function such as y = sin x and get its graph, drawn in ink you can move, resize and adjust. • Insert photos on the page. • Apple Pencil only mode, so your hand can rest on the screen, and a read-only mode for reviewing. • Folders, favourites, search and dark mode. LATEX THE WAY YOU WANT IT • Three styles: Classic, Tagged and Boxed. • Conversion settings: page layout, font size, margins, title and table of contents, equation numbering, what to do with diagrams, crossed-out work and margin notes, and whether photos are converted or inserted as images. • Your notes keep their own language, and theorem and proof headings follow it. • Every page is checked before it reaches you, and if a page would break your document, MathWrite repairs it so the PDF keeps compiling. YOUR PAPERS AND PDFS TOO • Scan pages with the camera, choose photos or import a PDF, and convert them to LaTeX. • Import a PDF from another notes app as a notebook and keep writing on top of it. SHARE AND EXPORT • Copy the LaTeX, share the .tex file, or open it in Overleaf in one tap. • Export the typeset PDF, or your handwriting as a PDF. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your notebooks are stored on your device. Pages leave it only to be converted, and our server does not keep them. MATHWRITE PRO MathWrite Notes is free to download. Using it in full requires MathWrite Pro, an auto-renewable monthly or yearly subscription. Prices and terms are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://math-write-notes-backend.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://math-write-notes-backend.vercel.app/privacy

Beamer Notes is a two-screen presenter for slide decks made with LaTeX Beamer and “show notes on second screen”. Your iPad shows the current slide, your private speaker notes, and a preview of what’s next — while the projector shows only the slide, cleanly letterboxed on black. Draw with Apple Pencil and every stroke appears on the projector in real time, in exactly the right place. Fingers are free to turn pages, so your palm never leaves a mark. YOUR IPHONE AS A REMOTE Step away from the lectern. Your iPhone shows your speaker notes, the next slide and the timer, turns pages, and aims the laser pointer on the projector. It pairs straight to your iPad — no shared Wi-Fi, no account, nothing to set up. AND A MAC FOR THE TIDYING UP Beamer Notes on the Mac keeps your library in order between talks — folders, colours, renaming, sorting, on a big screen with a keyboard. Everything stays in step with your iPad over iCloud. Presenting remains the iPad’s job. It is free on the Mac App Store, and a Full Version bought on iPad carries over with Restore Purchases. FEATURES • Dual screen over HDMI or AirPlay — the audience sees only the slide, never your notes or controls. • Apple Pencil ink with live mirroring, through the system drawing palette: pen, monoline, fountain pen, pencil and marker; a pixel eraser and an object eraser; lasso to move what you have already drawn; a ruler for straight lines; any colour, any width. Plus a laser pointer with an optional comet trail. • Tabs — keep several decks open at once, drag to reorder, and they reopen where you left off. • Speaker notes shown full-width with pinch-to-zoom, plus a next-slide preview. • Automatic layout detection for notes on the right, left, top, or bottom — 16:9 and 4:3 — with a manual override when you need it. • Count-up timer and an adjustable countdown with an on-screen “time’s up” alert only you can see. • Navigate by tap, swipe, on-screen arrows, hardware keyboard, USB or Bluetooth presenter clickers, or your iPhone. • Tappable table-of-contents and \hyperlink jumps inside the PDF. • Thumbnail overview that marks the pages you’ve annotated. • An in-app library with coloured folders, synced through iCloud and organisable on your Mac; import via Files, AirDrop, or the share sheet, and a revised PDF with the same name can replace the old one. Plain PDFs work too. • Decks are fetched to the device in the background, so they open with no network at all — and anything not yet downloaded is marked in the library. • Your ink is saved automatically and survives quitting the app. Built for lecture-hall reliability. No account, no tracking, no data collection. Free to try with three of your own PDFs. The built-in tutorials are always free, and reopening a deck you have already used never counts again. Need more? Add ten or thirty decks whenever you like, or unlock unlimited decks forever with a single purchase. TIP FOR PROJECTORS Connect the display before you begin and stay in Beamer Notes for the talk. On iPadOS 26 and 27 the system sometimes does not hand the external screen back to an app that has been in the background; if the projector starts mirroring your iPad, quit Beamer Notes and open it again with the display connected.