jottre

The simplest note-taking app you'll ever see. Optimized for the use with iPad and Apple Pencil.

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Swift

Available on the App Store

Jottre

Simple and minimalistic handwriting app for iPadOS (and iOS, macOS).

At the moment the full version of Jottre only supports iPadOS. This means that ‘Jottre for iPhone’ and ‘Jottre for Mac’ are intended as read-only applications.

Features

  • Builds on the powerful PencilKit framework (iPadOS only)
  • iCloud documents synchronization
  • Support for dark and light mode
  • Minimalistic design

Update 1.5

  • Added support for multi-window

Preview

Known issues

  • [x] Drawings are not rendered in the correct userInterfaceStyle (when starting the app)
  • [x] iCloud synchronization is not fast enough (documents are not uploaded directly)
  • [x] Animation of CollectionViewCells (Deleting, Inserting…) not implemented
  • [x] Deleting items takes too much time
  • [x] If removing items from collectionview, certain thumbnails were not shown correctly
  • [x] Changing the userInterface style will not affect upcoming application-scenes
  • [x] As the ViewControllers widths shrunk the PencilKit Toolbar removes the forward/backwards button

Up next

  • Support for Widgets

How to render the thumbnails, so that most of the content is visible inside the viewable Widget area

  • PDF Viewer
  • PDF AnkAnnotations (Drawing on PDF via PDFKit)

© Anton Lorani, 2021