NotelixWrite it by hand. Let AI answer in your hand .
A calm, paper-feeling place to think — handwrite and mark up PDFs with Apple Pencil, then ask Notelix to write the answer back as real ink, right on the page.
Free to use · no ads, no tracking · your notes stay on your device.
Real paper, on
Apple’s own ink.
Built on Apple’s native PaperKit & PencilKit — it feels like a first-party app, not a custom canvas. Pick up your Pencil and start.
- Apple Pencil firstLow-latency, tilt & pressure. Double-tap and Pencil Pro squeeze switch tools.
- 18 page templatesRuled, Cornell, dot grid, graph, music staves — generated natively.
- Mark up any PDFImport slides, worksheets and forms, and write straight on the page.
handwritten, not typed
Three moves, all by hand.
Write & sketch
Take notes, draw diagrams, or open a PDF and annotate it with Apple Pencil on a real-paper canvas.
Ask on the page
Tap the intelligence button, type a question, and lasso where the answer should land.
Get it in ink
Notelix reads your page and writes the answer back as real, editable handwriting — in your chosen hand.
Ask on the page.
It answers in ink.
It reads your real notes and writes the reply back as undoable PencilKit ink — in the hand you choose.
- Reads the page you’re on — answers fit your work.
- Writes real ink — not a chat bubble. Erase it, move it, keep writing.
- Handwritten math — real fractions, roots and integrals.
Twenty-eight hands. Twenty languages.
Your hand 8 free
28 faces across Latin, Chinese, Korean and Japanese — tune ink, jitter and pressure so the AI writes like you.
20 languages
The whole app and the AI’s replies in your language, switchable live in-app without a restart.
Private space
A second, Face-ID-locked space with its own notes, theme and a warm companion that writes back.
The first notes app where the answer looks like you wrote it — because it’s real ink on your page.
At home on iPhone, iPad & Mac.
The same canvas, Pencil tools, AI and PDF features everywhere — Mac is a real Catalyst app, not an iPad in a window.
Everything you need to take notes is free.
Plus is $4.99/month for expanded AI and every handwriting font. No ads, ever.