Penbook is the digital notebook your iPad needs for just about anything

What you need to know

Penbook is an app that allows people to take notes in all kinds of different ways.
Almost 1,000 different note stationery can be used depending on someone’s needs.
Live Paper adds dynamic data to notes.

One app, a world of different note types.

If you’re someone who uses your iPad and Apple Pencil to take notes you really ought to take Penbook for a spin.

There is no shortage of note-taking apps in the App Store and plenty of them are built for use alongside an Apple Pencil. But Penbook comes with almost 1,000 different types of stationery to ensure that there is one that’s perfectly suited to your needs. Looking for ruled or graph paper? Penbook has it. Something more specialist like chemistry or perspective paper? No problem!

Some examples of the types of stationary offered include:

Blank stationery, with an optional date and configurable margin
Ruled paper with variable density
Graph paper with four options for square sizes
Dot stationery, either squared or isometric (offset)
Cross stationery with configurable margins and density
To Do pages with four layout options
Monthly habit paper for tracking streaks, habits, and goals
Day planner paper with a live updating timeline and calendar, and three layouts
Weekly planner paper that highlights the current time and date
Monthly planner paper that keeps track of the current day and shows you what’s coming next
Yearly stationery for getting a complete overview of your next 365 days
Cornell paper for taking perfect study notes
French ruled (Séyès) paper
Penmanship practice paper
Table stationery for hand-written spreadsheets
Polar graph paper for plotting radial data
Semi-log and loglog paper for data with exponential growth or decay
Isometric stationery with equilateral (60-60-60) or isosceles (75-75-30) triangles
Perspective paper, configurable with one, two, or three vanishing points
Developer stationery with device stencils and configurable note-taking areas
Storyboard paper with 3 frame aspect ratios
Engineering paper with variable density
Chemistry paper for easily sketching molecules
Staff (music) paper with optional linked staves
Tablature paper with vocal parts and chord charts

Penbook even supports something called Live Paper, with dynamic stationery that uses the “smarts of your iPad” to add data that your iPad already knows. Your iPad has the date and time, for example, and Penbook can automatically enter that data when you want it to.

While there are apps that let you draw and write with an Apple Pencil already, Penbook offers such a huge collection of paper options that it’s unlikely you won’t find the one that fits your needs — no matter how special they are. If you’re looking for the best iPad app for taking notes you should at least take Penbook for a spin.

Penbook is a free download from the App Store and you can grab it right now. An optional annual subscription is available with additional functionality, too.