Handbound is a handwriting notebook for iPad and Apple Pencil — ready when the thought arrives, and quiet enough to stay out of the way.
Download on the App Store$4.99, once. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no account.
Thoughts, kept.
Ideas rarely arrive after everything has been organized.
Handbound gives them somewhere to land.
Open a notebook, put Pencil to page, and keep going. No system to maintain. No workflow to learn. No decision about what the thought needs to become.
Just write.
Capture / Find / Keep
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Write naturally with Apple Pencil on familiar pages that are ready when you are.
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Keep your notebooks together in one simple visual library, and return to the page where you left off.
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Print when paper is useful. Export to PDF when you need to share. Save the notebook itself when you want to keep it.
Nothing competing with the thought.
Handbound's pencil is calibrated for one thing: writing well.
Instead of asking you to tune endless settings, Handbound starts with a pencil that feels consistent, natural, and ready to use. Choose your color. Start writing.
Enough by design.
Some thoughts need lines. Some need a grid. Some need room to sketch.
Handbound keeps the page familiar so you can focus on what belongs on it. Portrait or landscape. Notes or drawings. Use the page that fits the thought.
The thought comes first.
A notebook should not trap what you put into it.
Print directly from Handbound or export your pages to PDF when that is the simpler answer. Technology does not have to be the solution every time.
Use what works. Keep thinking.
Questions
$4.99, one time. There's no subscription and nothing else to buy inside the app.
An iPad running iPadOS 17 or later. Handbound is made for Apple Pencil, and your finger works too.
Any Apple Pencil your iPad supports.
Yes. Pages export as PDF, and you can print directly from Handbound.
Not automatically. You can save any notebook as a file to wherever you keep files, such as iCloud Drive, Dropbox, or your iPad, and open it again later.
None. Your notes stay yours. Privacy policy
Handbound for iPad
A notebook for the beginning of an idea — and a place to keep it afterward.
Download on the App StoreFor iPad and Apple Pencil. $4.99, once — no subscription.