Comparison

iWritingPen Control Pointer vs Document Portability

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

iWritingPen Control Pointer

Control your PowerPoint presentations remotely with this app. Navigate slides, draw on screen, use a virtual keyboard and mouse, and even input text via handwriting or voice. Enhance your presentations with seamless remote control.

Highlights
  • Remote slide navigation
  • On-screen drawing board
  • Black screen function
  • Virtual keyboard and mouse
  • Handwriting and voice input
Features
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iWritingPen helps you manage Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. With iWritingPen, you are guaranteed a smooth and efficient presentation. Functions and features: - Full set of control buttons for progressing PointPoint slides. Just through a simple touch on the control buttons, you can advance or go backward of your slides. You would then rather focus on managing the audience attention instead of worrying how to advance the slides while presenting remotely. - Drawing board on top of PowerPoint slide. With ‘Pen’ function of iWritingPen, you can write anything on the screen on top of any PowerPoint slides to elaborate the points being discussed. You no longer need the other clumsy physical drawing board nearby for drawing something during presentation. Your audiences will stay on the same screen during the whole presentation and their attentions will not be diverted. - ‘Black Screen’ function. Whenever there is a need to have a longer period for discussion with audience in the middle of presentation, the “Black” screen function turns the screen off (black color) and let you control the audience focus of the subject matters. - Full functional Keyboard Mouse You no longer need to rush to come in front of desktop to control your moues and keyboard for typing. You will have full remote controls your desktops, while presenting, through the Keyboard Mouse of iWritingPen. - Handwriting input and Voice Spoken sentence input To empower you to have quick typing during presentation, iWritingPen supports the native handwriting input of all languages available in iPad / iPhone including voice sentence recognition input. iWritingPen (free version) comes with basic control buttons of PowerPoint and multi-touches gesture controlled mouse function. This is more than enough for a normal presentation controls. In-app purchase offer advance users with Drawing Board Pen and Black Screen buttons and remote Keyboard function. iWritingPen is WITHOUT advertisements. What are you waiting for? Download and install it now immediately. Please Write us a GOOD review in App Store for such HIGH Quality App as rewards to us. We need your support and appreciation! Prerequisites: iWritingPen Desktop client program - it requires to install iWritingPen client desktop program on your desktop. It could be downloaded from the link below. http://www.iwritingpen.com/index.php/download - Supported Desktop Operation System: Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 and Vista. Apple Mac OS X 10.6 or later. - Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 or later. - iPhone / iPad must be on the same network with windows desktop. The smooth data communication between desktops and iPhone /iPad is required for iWritingPen to work efficiently. For those users with desktop Mac OS X 10.6 or later, it is highly recommended to use the bluetooth to connect to iPhone/iPad. The data traffic congestion in the local router can be avoided under bluetooth connection. Please refer to the link below for setup and configuration: http://www.iwritingpen.com/index.php/download/ Detail product Information & support: For the future update on the iWritingPen, please register as a member through the link: http://www.iwritingpen.com/index.php/register or join us at Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Iwritingpen/652275478128116 For the detail iWritingPen information, please visit our website http://www.iwritingpen.com

About

Document Portability

Features
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Document Portability provides you a simplest way for scanning your documents like ID card, Pan card or any other documents . Using this app you can generate files with photos, you can create your signature files and resized images with custom sizes. You can place all your scanned documents in one folder, compress document folder easily and share anywhere. So let's start to scan, create and share documents....

Screenshots

iWritingPen Control Pointer4 screens
Document Portability4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Document Portability at none against iWritingPen Control Pointer's 2. Document Portability also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 22 months). iWritingPen Control Pointer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. iWritingPen Control Pointer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Document Portability asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iWritingPen Control Pointer ships an update every 22 months, Document Portability every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
iWritingPen Control Pointer versus Document Portability: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriWritingPen Control PointerDocument Portability
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 22 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB7 MB
Age rating4++4
Developer2ConnectMe LimitedPrimosoft Inc

In-app purchases

2 purchases

iWritingPen Control Pointer

One-time2
  • iWritingPen Pen & Black Screen$1.99
  • iWritingPen Keyboard Mouse$2.99
None

Document Portability

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iWritingPen Control Pointer free?
iWritingPen Control Pointer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Document Portability free?
Document Portability is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iWritingPen Control Pointer or Document Portability have ads?
Document Portability shows ads; iWritingPen Control Pointer does not.
Which is updated more often, iWritingPen Control Pointer or Document Portability?
iWritingPen Control Pointer ships an update every 22 months, and Document Portability every 4 months. Most recently, iWritingPen Control Pointer was updated on November 1, 2026 and Document Portability on November 7, 2026.

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