In its latest iteration, the new Apple Pencil is even more useful and intuitive. If you’re thinking about upgrading your writing or drawing experience, you will want to find some apps that are optimized for the addition of the pencil. Here are some of our favorite apps that work well with Apple Pencil: Apple Notes, Linea Sketch, Paper by FiftyThree, GoodNotes 4, Procreate, ZOOMNotes
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Best Apps For Ipencil
- Apple Notes
Apple Notes Apple Pencil Drawing
Before you jump into the abyss of amazing third-party apps, don’t forget everything Apple Notes can do. The built-in Notes app comes with support for the Apple Pencil.
Make a new note, then just start writing with the Apple Pencil. You can scribble, draw, or do whatever else you want. Tap on the Pencil icon at the bottom to reveal the toolbar. From here, you can switch to a pen or a marker tip and pick any color you want.
Tap on the lasso tool icon to make a section. With it, simply draw over part of the note and you’ll be able to pick it up and move it around.
The best reason to use Apple Notes as a quick note-taking app on iPad is its integration with iOS/iPadOS. Tap on the Lock screen with your Apple Pencil and you’ll instantly open the Notes app with either a blank note or the last note you accessed (you can specify this in the app’s settings).
- Notability
Notability Apple Pencil Notetaking
Notability is designed as a multipurpose note-taking app, especially for students. When you open a note, you can choose to write with your Apple Pencil or type with the keyboard (and easily alternate between them).
Plus, you can record the audio in the background. This makes Notability the best tool for taking lecture notes. You can change the background to show graph paper and write as much as you need, thanks to the infinite scrolling feature. Notability also marks page breaks, which makes it easy to export notes as PDFs or print them later.
Download: Notability ($8.99, in-app purchases available)
- Adobe Photoshop
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As the iPad continues to become more powerful, desktop-class apps are making their move to the tablet, including Adobe Photoshop. Adobe designed the app to take advantage of the iPad’s touchscreen and include support for the Apple Pencil.
With the app, you can create full PSDs with layers and use features you know from the desktop version, like spot healing and blending. There are other familiar tools like the Layer stack and Toolbar. To better help you while working, the app’s UI is context-aware, so it will only show tools that you really need.
You can try the app out with a 30-day free trial. Anyone with a current Adobe Photoshop monthly membership can use the app at no additional cost.
Download: Adobe Photoshop (Free trial, subscription required)
- AstroPad Standard
Astropad Standard
You can bring an iPad and Mac together with AstroPad Standard. Requiring a special app to run on a Mac simultaneously, connect your iPad via Wi-Fi or plugged in with a USB connection. On the iPad, you’ll be able to mirror any Mac app on the tablet screen. Along with full touch support and gestures, you can use the Apple Pencil all across the system and with any app. That opens up a wide variety of ways to bring stylus support, including full pressure sensitivity, to the Mac.
For example, you can draw directly into any creative software like the popular Adobe Creative Suite, Pixelmator, and more. You can also use the Apple Pencil for annotation, whiteboarding, and other tasks. When using the app, it bursts up to 60 FPS, even when using Wi-Fi. The app also sports accurate palm rejection for an even better experience.
Download: AstroPad Standard ($29.99)
- Linea Sketch
Linea Sketch App Prototype Sketching
Linea Sketch sits somewhere between a simple doodling app and more professional drawing tools like Procreate. It gives you the simplicity of doodling whatever you want, with power user tools like unlimited layers, transform tools, automatic ruler, grids, and more.
Like every other drawing app, Linea takes a canvas-based approach. Unlike Notability, you won’t find an endlessly scrolling page here. However, you can create multiple canvases and organize them in projects.
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The grid tool gives you backgrounds for note-taking, drawing, and user interface design. Linea Sketch’s genius lies in its simple design. The tools are arranged in two panels on either side of the screen, letting you ignore features you don’t need.
But this is a double-edged sword, as many of Linea’s interesting features are hidden behind buttons. Once you get comfortable with the app, you should create a blank page and try all the tools at least once.
Download: Linea Sketch (Free, subscription available)
- GoodNotes 5
Goodnotes 5 iPad Drawing Notes
GoodNotes 5 is the modernized version of the original versatile note-taking iPad app. The first app’s premise was simple: it replicated a physical writing environment on the iPad. If you liked writing on a yellow legal pad, you could essentially get the same feeling on your iPad.
But this also meant that GoodNotes was limited in functionality. For example, it didn’t have the endless vertical scrolling we’re used to in apps like Notes and Notability. Instead, you had to flip pages every time.
GoodNotes 5 takes care of these annoyances. The continuous vertical scrolling makes note-taking much easier. And this version improves on all the aspects that make GoodNotes such a robust note-taking app. You can now nest as many folders as you want and organize them easily.
Plus, the handwriting recognition works even if your handwriting is poor.
Download: GoodNotes 5 ($7.99)
- LiquidText
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LiquidText takes the usual note-taking app to a new level. The app is designed to bring the true paper experience to an iPad. On the tablet, using an Apple Pencil you can gather and organize notes, ideas, a more from a number of sources. And a single tap can show the original context of the information. The app’s unique visualizations allow you to bring search results and highlights to see the big picture. Once the notes and excerpts are organized how you’d like, results can be exported into a PDF and other standard formats to share with others.
The free version offers limited functionality. There are multiple purchases opportunities for a single device or a cloud-based version that can be used across multiple devices.
Download: LiquidText (Free, in-app purchases and subscriptions available)
- Pixelmator
Pixelmator iPad Photo Editing
Pixelmator is known as an intuitive and simple image editor. While you can use Pixelmator to quickly edit photos, it does a lot more than that. You can create an empty canvas, add and arrange photos, create shapes, add text, and more. Each lives on its own independent layer.
The Apple Pencil adds an extra layer of creativity. Using the selection tool, you can accurately single out parts of images that you want to edit. You can also write over images freehand, or draw any shape you want. Pixelmator comes with a variety of brushes, from calligraphy to crayons.
Download: Pixelmator ($4.99)
- Procreate
Procreate iPad Apple Pencil Brushes
Procreate is the ultimate Apple Pencil app. If you can dream it, and you have the skills, you can probably make it using Procreate on iPad. If you don’t want to use Photoshop, Procreate is rightly championed as an Adobe suite replacement and one of the best professional iPad apps.
However, Procreate is best suitable for drawing and painting. It’s not really designed for graphic design and vector work.
Download: Procreate ($9.99)
- Nebo
Nebo Handwriting iPad app
Nebo is a full-featured note-taking app that’s made even better with the Apple Pencil. With it, you can edit and format text and do tasks like add or remove content and space, plus decorate and apply different styles.
One of its headlining features is converting handwriting from the Apple Pencil into text that you can edit and add to different notes. The app recognizes more than 65 languages and will also convert handwritten symbols. You can also enter text using a keyboard if you prefer. When looking for specific information, both typed and handwritten text are searchable.
When you finish a note, it can be converted into Word, PDF, HTML, or text. While the app is free to download, the majority of features require an in-app purchase to unlock the Pro version.
Best apps for apple pencil 2022
- Autodesk SketchBook
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From quick sketches to intricate artwork, here’s an ideal app for all your creative needs. It’s packed with drawing tools and a minimalist user interface. Give free rein to your ideas and take advantage of helpful features like perspective guides, a snapping toggle, vanishing point lock, and horizon line visibility.
It supports Scan Sketch for newer iPad models and the double-tap feature of the 2nd-gen Apple Pencil. Moreover, the fully-featured version of SketchBook is free to use without any annoying ads or purchases.
Price: Free
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- Paper by WeTransfer
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Here’s an immersive sketching app that features perfectly-tuned tools to sketch, collage, paint, draw, and explore your imagination in whatever way suits you. The intuitive gestures will aid your creative flow and help you focus, free from distractions.
And if you’re facing a block, there are tons of creative prompts, how-tos, tips, and tricks, etc. to inspire you. Furthermore, it’s incredibly easy to use, without the hassle of complex layers. Just add multiple images to a single page and cut, stick, and move them around to create masterpieces.
Price: Free (In-app Purchases start from $1.99)
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- Procreate
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Unleash your creativity with hundreds of brushes, innovative artistic tools, an advanced layer system, and a blazing graphics engine that keeps up with your flow. It’s one of the best Apple Pencil apps to take your art studio with you wherever you go.
Some of the notable features include super HD canvases of up to 16k by 4k on an iPad Pro, intuitive Apple Pencil interface, 250 levels of undo and redo, over a hundred customizable brush settings, and a lot more.
Price: $9.99
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- Adobe Fresco: Draw & Paint
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This Adobe app has been exclusively built to be used with the Apple Pencil on your iPad. It merges the power of your favorite Photoshop brushes with the refined precision of vector brushes and innovative Live Brushes. This takes your artistic expression to the next level!
Further, it enhances the essential tools for artists such as selection and masking to make the creation process easier and faster. And when you upgrade to the Premium version, you also get access to Photoshop for iPad with automatic cloud syncing to work across devices.
Price: Free (Premium Features – $9.99)
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- Astropad Standard
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This innovative Apple Pencil app lets you use your iPad to paint directly into Photoshop or other creative apps on your Mac, such as Illustrator, Corel Painter, Lightroom, etc. Just connect wirelessly or with USB for complete creative freedom.
It provides a natural drawing experience with your Apple Pencil and delivers impeccable image quality with zero compression. It’s also blazing fast to keep up with your hand movements and enhance the ease of use.
Price: $29.99
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