![]() As soon as you have a stylus, you’re dead. At least that’s how Steve Jobs told it from 2002.īut he was doing the device all wrong. The quality of the tool may not mean much for the quality of the end result but it sure does make the journey more fun.Reading Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, it can be argued the creative catalyst for the iPad was not Jobs himself, nor Apple design wizard Jony Ive, but instead some Microsoft engineer who talked too much at parties. I love the feel of a good pen on top-shelf paper. There’s a special kind of joy that comes with using good tools. It should make me forget that it’s a piece of plastic on glass. It should follow the tip of the Apple Pencil as if it was flowing directly from it. Sure, it’s just a line of pixels, but the ink in a sketch app matters to me. #GOODNOTES HANDWRITING SMOOTHING PLUS#I like everything else about Notes Plus but I just can’t get used to the ink.Ĭhanging the “viscosity” does make the ink feel thicker and stickier but it never feels right. I notice the lag and the aggressive line smoothing means I don’t even recognize my own handwriting. The ink in Notes Plus is just too slow to feel natural. ![]() I like Concepts for other things, but it’s just not a good writing and doodling app for me. There’s a lot of control in Concepts for tweaking the line style but there’s just too much smoothing even at the lowest setting. Ink in Concepts doesn’t really feel natural, but to be fair, it’s a vector drawing app. It’s a fun doodling app that has lots of potential. ![]() The ink is incredibly fast and drawing feels smooth. The ink can’t keep up with fast hand movements while doing rough sketches. #GOODNOTES HANDWRITING SMOOTHING PRO#Sketches Pro is a nice general drawing app but it can be slow when drawing fast. The app itself is a bit of a UI mess but I give it high marks in the ink category. There are a lot of convenient options for tuning the ink settings and saving them as preferences. ZoomNotes has really nice inking speed that keeps up with the Apple Pencil. Sometimes I just sit and doodle in Procreate because it feels good. Even the pencil lead, with it’s rough texture and pressure sensitivity feels perfect. It’s the most natural and “real” ink I’ve used on the iPad. Nothing beats Procreate for customizability and performance. It’s one of the best inking apps for handwriting. The fast ink performance of Nebo keeps up with the Apple Pencil and makes it feel very natural. Nebo has really excellent handwriting ink. The middle line thickness almost always looks good. There’s no pressure responsiveness in GoodNotes but it doesn’t feel like it needs it. The line keeps up with the tip of the pencil regardless of how fast I move it. The ink in GoodNotes feels the closest to actual pen on paper. Here are my very strong opinions on the ink from some of the best free-writing note apps. Like any pen collector, I’ve become very picky about the performance of the ink in most iPad apps. Very few nail the actual feel of pen on paper though. Many iPad note apps support the Apple Pencil and implement some sort of inking system with line coloring and thickness adjustments. But, unlike plain text, this is one area where the app makes all the difference. ![]() This allows me to capture ideas and questions in the margins as well as detailed drawings and diagrams in the main body. I greatly prefer to hand-write my notes using the Apple Pencil. I use my 10.5" iPad Pro every day for taking notes. ![]()
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