PhatPad

As an added bonus this app can add a handwriting keyboard so you can add handwriting recognition to any app. I wrote this review with this app's keyboard and cheap stylus.

This app is terrible, needs allot of updating, not worth the money if you re looking or a good note taking app you should try notability. Don't make the mistake I did say your money.

This app would be perfect if it had bulleted lists where a wrapped sentence aligns with the first letter of the sentence. Please add this very important bulleted list feature since it is very important for clean looking notes.<br/><br/>Also, please add the ability to rotate text. This is useful when you draw something like a map and need to make the text rotate in a slant or vertical position.<br/><br/>Please also allow the user to stop a recording and then insert a new recording or continue the recording. Right now, if one stops the recording, you cannot continue recording more audio. Also, please make the recording box less obvious and screen real estate hogging.

This app is not stable, you will experience crashes very often with the risk of loosing your work.

I had planned to use this app mainly for writing notes. However, it doesn't register the difference between my wrist and the stylus, so I get lines all over. It is also not doing the best at character recognition.

This note taking and annotation app has a number of excellent features not available on other apps, such an OCR Engine that is quite flexible and gesture shortcuts. Text is box orriented rather than page oriented. These boxes can be moved about on the page and can even be layered! There is access to a huge varriety of adjustable fonts. Ink can be written or drawn anywhere on the page, even on top of inserted pictures. Handwritten text can be OCR recognized at a later time. There is a large library of clipart included that can be downloaded and used. There are a variety of inputs and outputs to the app that are quite flexible, including cloud service in and out and pdf out that can be open in other apps. Audio notes can be added. There will be a learning curve to the many features and options available, but if you like to have more tools and settings at your disposal, you will like this app!

There aren't many apps I will pay for but took a chance on this. There is a lot of work that needs to be done on this before it is marketable. First, it flipped my photos when I tried to email my work. Also the prompts don't respond very well at all. The handwriting recognition isn't perfect, but those imperfections are more forgiveable.<br/>Please don't sell an app until you have it pretty perfect. The tutorial isn't the easiest to follow either.

I think it is amazing, but there are some things that I don’t understand why it’s happening. The app usually recognizes all of my handwriting, but as I just finished writing 10 pages, I kept having mistakes. I would write “If” and it would put “it”. I would make sure that I made a really clear “f” but it would keep putting “t” and not even make “f” a choice. It happened the other way as well. And then capital versus lowercase. It kept putting in capital “W” and I would have to type Ww and then delete the capital. Sometimes, it wouldn’t even give me the lowercase. It would only allow uppercase. And then it was like there are some words that they don’t want you to spell. I tried to type Sodom and Gomorrah and it would let me spell Sodo but it wouldn’t let me put the m. It kept changing it to n and then change the d to double tt. On Gomorrah as well. Gomorr was recognized but as soon as I put the ah it would change to something really strange. Anyway, I still like the app other than those flukes making me take 6 hours to write 9 pages when it should have been done in less than an hour... I will keep trying. I really do like it if it would get past those issue. Also, I would like to be able to copy all the text in all the pages at one time so that I can paste it into any app that I want. Thank you. If the Bible is true, we are going to be in trouble soon... that’s all I’m saying.