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Though it has some nice elements and its simple, streamlined interface is low on distractions, Whink is missing some features that other note-taking apps offer for free. The reading mode is especially minimalist, which will help kids stay focused. It's also excellent that you can toggle the writing tools for right-handed or left-handed writers and drag a palm rest on-screen. Though it isn't always intuitive to figure out how things work, shorts taps and long presses unlock more tools for grouping your notes and adding tags and notes. Some features are absent, though. For example, you can't import PDF documents from within the app: Instead, you'll have to use the "Open in" pop-up menu in another app to select Whink, which isn't hard, but it's another step. Two features -- adding audio and drawing shapes -- are only available after an additional $2.99 in-app purchase, but comparable tools such as Notability and Evernote include that feature in the basic download. It's also not entirely clear how to search for tagged documents. Though it's attractive and effective, more features for collaboration, importing, and sharing would make it even better.
Patricia Monticello Kievlan
About Whink
Welcome to Whink, a robust yet amazingly user-friendly program for taking notes and annotating PDFs. To deliver the best note-taking experience at work, at home, and in the classroom, Whink is specially created for the iPad and iPhone. Your notes are also constantly current across all of your devices thanks to iCloud. Writing Naturally • Use a real pen and paper to handwrite and doodle on Whink. • Use our gorgeous gel ink pen with an infinite color selection to write easily. • Enlarge your notes to view even the smallest details and write in them. Please type quickly. • To begin writing notes, tap anywhere on the page. • Add some humor to your notes with a variety of well-chosen typefaces. • Quickly create headers, subheadings, and other formatting for typewritten notes. • Make lists, outlines, checklists, and other types of organization. • To further organize your notes, create sections within your documents. Annotate PDF files and images • Use Open-In to import PDF files from other programs like Dropbox, Google Drive, and email. • Make notes on meeting agendas, lecture presentations, and memos without accidently marking the page. • Use your iPad to directly fill out forms, sign them, send them, and print contracts. • Sort and browse your documents with ease. • You may also add, reorganize, and attach photographs to your notes. Audio recordings can be added. • While taking notes, record meetings and lectures so you can listen to them afterwards. • Organize, sort, and keep your voice memos next to your notes. • Include voiceovers in your PDF documents. Add Post-its and shapes. • Create sketches and edit or add auto-shapes to your notes. excellent for creating charts or geometric shapes. • Place post-its in different locations on your documents and notes to help you remember key details. • Add tags and label notes to enable quick searches for pertinent information. Create, Share, and Backup Your Notes • Arrange notes and documents quickly by adding sections and pages. • You can always insert PDF files inside a notebook. Utilize the Open-In feature to open your notes in other applications. • Exchange notes with friends, classmates, or coworkers via Dropbox and other services. • With automated sync and backup via iCloud, you'll never lose your notes. • Directly access notebooks from iOS spotlight search to locate them quickly.
Most popular feedback for Noteswriter
I’m so very impressed! I suffer from insomnia so at 5:00am Arizona time I downloaded the new update. I was actually excited because I see great things in the horizon from this team. Well, I was sorta hit in the gut when I fired up the application and it immediately shut down. I took action and sent a text to Zendesk, not because of my disappointment but because I could tell by their program description they were very excited also about the release. To my surprise dialogue started immediately ( don’t know where they’re located but maybe they’re early birds) I sent a description of the problem and photos. I sent them so much I thought they would block me, lol. Well this went on for most of the early morning and by now I figured they had to be on break, sleep or eating but was I surprise when I found the new update proudly sitting in the Apple Store this afternoon. NO! I don’t normally write reviews or anything else this long but they truly deserve all the credit I can bolster, I’m sticking with this team! Thank you so much for standing behind your words!
Iskarat
About Noteswriter
Updated! Live Text, Stage Manager, Customizable toolbars, PDF forms, new papers, and templates! Pencil, touch, mouse, and keyboard-friendly! Type, handwrite, annotate, draw, highlight, scan, and record notes. Sign and annotate PDFs. Make notebooks and tree-like creations. Nevertheless. Business workers, students, instructors, writers, doctors, journalists, and academics use Notes Writer to save and produce notes, comments, memos, signed PDFs, papers, highlighted PDF text-books, and more. You can: ANNOTATE PDFs. Sign forms. Write using Apple Pencil (or other styluses) or keyboard Web-clips, graphics, figures, and math calculations in handwritten notes Highlight, strikeout, underline, remarks, voice notes, pencil, ball-pen, stamp, sign... Form-fill. AcroForms PDF support Sign paperwork, contracts, forms Open two PDFs or handwritten notes in split view. Book and paper + PDF/DOC PAGE EDITOR Easily add pages, copy&paste from other documents, rearrange, rotate, or delete them Add new pages from 100s of pre-defined paper styles and sizes. Drag-and-drop app pages Write. Format. Write Everywhere: Use Notes Writer as a stand-alone writing program even if you're offline. Now supports Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard for iPad Create RTF, PDF, LaTeX, and MD documents Highlight, strikethrough, subscript/superscript, alignment, line spacing, first-line indent, page breaks, footnotes, comments, text & paper color Define margins, headers/footers, paper sizes, MLA and APA format Markdown supports tables, footnotes, lists, pictures, links, highlight, strikethrough, superscript and MathML. Characters, words, phrases, lines, Avg. Length, Sentence, and Reading Time Text-to-speech proofreading Dictation lets you talk instead of type Typewriter: Distraction-free writing mode Night mode for nighttime writing Replace Insert arrows, math, bullets/stars, GPS, etc. Supports 30 languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, and Hebrew Tab, delete forward, cursor up/down/left/right, etc. Organize. Find. Unlimited notebooks, folders, and subfolders Organize notebooks and projects into sections, classes, lectures, grades, drafts, folders, chapters, research, etc. Sync notebooks and projects with Scrivener for Mac and Windows. Notebook covers + Scan, research, PDF library PDF reader and manager for reference files, textbooks, ebooks, articles, resources, papers, etc. Scan papers, notes, recipes, tickets, etc. with your iPad/iPhone camera into PDFs. Open PowerPoint, Word, and Excel + EXPORT PDF, HTML, SHARE NOTES Open mail app attachments iCloud, Dropbox, Box, WebDAV, and Google Drive RTF, Markdown, LaTeX,PDF, ePub, HTML, RTFD, TXT, etc. iPad/iPhone to computer Wi-Fi file transfer Zip/email folders/notebooks + Mini-apps Full calendar with writer appointments, reminders, deadlines, etc. Font Book: View and install typefaces (TrueType). Over 120 fonts included! Sketcher: Draw simple graphics by hand Dictionary BE SAFE. PROTECT YOUR WORK WITH AUTOMATIC BACKUPS Passcode-protect your app Password-protect folders and projects Notes and notebooks backed up automatically
Whink reviews
I LIVE THROUGH THIS APP! I use it for my bullet journal, my packing list, our budget, and so much more! I love the app so much! My ONLY complaint is one that has developed over time and it is the lack of color choice. There are like 5 shades of black, 3/4 of the same ish shade of blue, and like 4 cream ish colors. There is no yellow or purple and just overall the colors are all drab and the same. It does not seem too hard to have an update that improves the color options for the user!
- ACMinton
Whink is the most refreshing download in the recent times for me! I have literally scratched the surface of all the note-taking apps available for the iPad and came to the conclusion that this is the coolest new-age note taking app that also has a very easy and intuitive user interface. This is the single most important tool i carry to my school. To put it simply, it excels at all the necessary tasks that are expected from a note taking app and best of all is that at the end of the day, i can be rest assured that all my notes are safely backed up to the iCloud !!! What more could i ask for?! I highly recommend it. Go for it! Update 11/10 : The issue with the app freezing is completely fixed now! Thanks for your immediate attention!
- Skinny.Me
First off, I love the sleek design of this app and the icon itself is gorgeous. I also LOVE that you can make all the menus basically invisible. This is sooo very nice. Also the “ink” is awesome in this app. Those features make it really hard to say no to, but it’s missing some crucial things for me. First of all, the organization/file tree needs some work. I don’t like that I can’t have a cover for my group. I don’t like that there is not list view. The covers themselves are a little lack luster with no way to add a personalized one. Also, the fact that you can’t edit a cover once you create a note is a travesty. The lines are too big as I prefer smaller writing. I have the same problem with the microscope It also annoys me that whenever I enter a document it defaults to pen so I inevitably mark something on accident. It should default to view only as this is usually the first thing you do upon opening a note. I feel like the design lent itself more to a page-turn design to I was a little disappointed by the infinite scroll. That’s just nit picky though. I hope that these things are fixed in the future as I’d love to be using this app.
- Abbz42
Noteswriter reviews
I have been trying to find an App that worked better with PDF annotation (in addition to being good at note taking), but one HUGE drawback of other note taking Apps (i.e. Goodnotes, Flexcil, Nebo, Notability) is that every file has to be imported to be used, and therefore becomes a duplicate, non-sycronized file (not a big deal if you just use it for notes only). Well, NotesWriter fixes that! All files can be saved natively in the iPad Files folder and useable by any PDF program, not just Noteswriter. To me that makes NotesWriter a perfect combination of Goodnotes and PDF Viewer. Considering other PDF Apps charge a subscription, this feels like a steal. You even get a lasso/clipping tool, the ability to scan pages in, and a ton of page templates (all of which most free PDF Apps don’t have). PDF Expert and PDF viewer are the most similar, and but this is slightly better than those if you want note taking abilities. Note to Developers: The layout/user interface could still be improved: if the toolbar was customizable (like PDF Expert), if the view layout was more full screen (neither Reader or Presentation mode are as good as PDF Viewer’s layout), and if the handwriting had a simple zoom feature and was recognizable (like Goodnotes). Great job!
- jaggner
Wow! Where should I begin? This is the best note taking app ive ever had! You can do everything on it! It’s works with the Apple Pencil perfectly. It’s the most best ever! For anyone that is reading this and have not downloaded it yet, well you really need to get it. I went to school and wrote down my notes (also yes we are allowed to take our iPads with Apple Pencil to school and write down notes instead of using a note book) on my iPad and my teacher goes “oh what app is that I’ve been looking at your iPad all day and wondering what app the is cause I really need it!” And told her and she went to her desk got her iPad and downloaded it! (Everyone in my class has this app on there iPad to use it and take down notes) this is just the best app ever! I love it
- New York Girl!
I really like this app and how easy it is to use. I often take notes in class and my hands get tired pretty fast so I tried finding solutions by using this app. I am a really fast typer on my iPad so I would take notes here during zoom.(temporary thing since eventually we will all return to school in person) I am planning to use this during class and I have only tried doing some samples to make sure this works and it does! I am happy it’s free unlike some apps, and I really recommend this. The only con would be that I wish there were more fonts. Other than that it’s really great.
- jsidoiidid
Pros & cons
Whink
| Pros |
|---|
| Cheap |
| Minimalist |
| Simple to use |
| Cons |
|---|
| Can’t search your PDFs |
| Limited page customisation |
| No universal search |
Noteswriter
| Pros |
|---|
| Share & Sync feature |
| Automatic Backups |
| Merge documents |
| Cons |
|---|
| Cutting function ineffecient |
| Adding pages takes up a bit of time |
| Free version very limited |
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