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Analog by nature. Clever when asked.

Thinkblot is a paper notebook for iPhone and iPad, for people who still think best with a pen. It reads your handwriting on the device and leaves the page alone. Where a line could become something, a reminder, a message, a payment, an hour on the calendar, a small blot of ink soaks in beside it. Tap the blot and it's done; ignore it and the page stays a page. There's no account and no server: notebooks live on your devices and in your own iCloud.

Fact sheet

Name
Thinkblot
Developer
Shean Studios LLC
Business model
No subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads. One purchase covers every device on the same Apple Account.
Platforms
iPhone and iPad (iOS and iPadOS 27.1 or later), including iPhone Duo. Made for Apple Pencil.
Languages
20, including Arabic and Hebrew, right to left
Launch
Coming soon

Key features

  • Tap the blot after a line for the reminder, the drafted message, the payment or the hour on your calendar.
  • Circle a line to ask about it. The answer opens under the circle, and the circle stays in ink.
  • Write an equals sign and the answer is written in ink. Write total under a column and it adds itself.
  • Tick the box on paper and the task is done in Reminders too.
  • Voice notes, transcribed on the device, each errand on its own line.
  • Each notebook decides how much it reads: Paper, Tasks or Everything.
  • Pens worth choosing: fountain, monoline and a brush pen that tapers like the real one. Blank, ruled, dotted, squared and staff paper.
  • On iPhone Duo, folded notebooks are covers on a shelf, and Blot notebooks press ink across the fold.
  • Private by design: read on the device, kept in your own iCloud, nothing sent until you tap.

From the founder

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Founder, Shean Studios

Assets

Free to use in coverage of Thinkblot. Please don't alter the mark or the wordmark.

Contact

For interviews and anything else: hello@thinkblot.app