Penultimate

Name: Penultimate
Rating: 4.03139 (1561 reviews)

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Penultimate

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User Reviews for Penultimate

It’s ok, but gets more frustrating over time

I’ve used this app with Apple Pencil for 2 semesters now. I like the writing response with the pencil and I use it in conjunction with Evernote. It generally gets the job done. A few major complaints are the color options are very few and don’t really pop, the blue nearly looks black. The highlighter option is also annoying, I wish that passing over an area twice wouldn’t deepen the highlight, it makes quick highlighting in lecture more difficult. Also, the scrolling is annoying and not very responsive so if I need to scroll up to reference past notes and then scroll back down to continue writing, it’s a struggle. The zoom function is also annoying, a regular pinch zoom would be much easier. I may look for another app to use next semester because this app is really getting on my nerves. The whole time I’ve used it, I haven’t seen any major upgrades or attempts to change so maybe I can use another app that still has active development. It just seems like if you spend the money to subscribe, you should get more bang for your buck. Hope this helps.

/\/\/\:Blondie:/\/\/\, Dec 06, 2019

Works but a couple annoying features

I use this app every morning for journaling and note taking for 4 months now. As a whole The app works pretty well, especially with the Apple Pen. There are a couple very annoying features though that brought me to write this review.1. When I pop between apps by swiping up in the iPad (like readings I am going through), when I come back to this app it will sometimes put me back 2-3 pages in my notes from where I left off. This happens about 60% of the time and really gets annoying when you have to keep popping back and forth. 2. You can’t rearrange anything for better organization. Or at least I haven’t found a way and have looked for a long while. What I mean is, you can create folders to house similar documents but you can’t rearrange the order of the folders so that the most commonly used or similar topics would be grouped by each other. They just become scattered without any rhyme or reason. Also heaven forbid you spend an hour taking notes on something in the wrong folder/location, which I have done a couple times now. And that is unfortunately now where those documents live. There is no way of moving it to the correct folder, which in my opinion is almost a deal breaker for a note taking app. If this is possible it is not easily found in the app.

Billy76856, Apr 09, 2020

Promising

I use this app every day to take notes in class. So far it is the easiest app to use that does what I need. There are a couple things, though, that I wish penultimate did. One thing I would love to see is the ability to create shapes and straight lines. I think being able to incorporate basic shapes is super useful in note taking. I also think the lasso tool could use improvement. It’s really frustrating having to circle something five times trying to get it to capture all of what you want only to have it miss a few spots within the lasso. I would also love to see more features for adding photos. Being able to crop, rotate, zoom, bring forward, send back, etc. are pretty common and would be really useful. My final note is to fix the “bookmark” capability. It’s really annoying to switch between apps because whenever I switch back to penultimate it brings me two pages above where I left off.

Dearheart22, Apr 02, 2018

Simple and fast with a painful bug

This app does a wonderful job of keeping things simple when all you want to do is write. Unlike OneNote, the writing is so much faster and responsive, without any noticeable lag and I feel like everything I've looked for on this app had expected behavior. I never had look up how to do something.The biggest complaint that I have for this app is when switching between apps, the position of your screen is lost. Your placed 3-5 pages above the last page of the book (or generally wherever you left off). It's infuriating when I'm writing down some notes from a web page or plotting a graph and having to constantly find my position again. It destroys my flow and makes the experience more painful and frustrating over time.Hopefully next dev cycle they can target this issue and bring some sensible behavior into this problem.

iamanicknamehearmeroar, Dec 30, 2017

It's good but I keep finding things I wish it did

I use penultimate to take notes for my classes on my iPad Pro. It's nice to just be able to write, not type notes. But it's not perfect. The two major things I wish it did was zoom in on pictures. I often times insert screen shots from PowerPoint or online and when I go back to review my notes I am always trying to use two fingers to zoom in on the picture which is just a feature the app does not do. I also wish it allowed me to arrange my notes in whatever order I want. I have my app organized so that each class gets its own 'noteboook' but when I open the notebook I don't get organize the 'sub notebooks' in my own order, the app automatically organizes them in order of most recently opened. My other big compliment and this one is really annoying! When I double tap my home button to switch between apps to say take a screen shot and then go back to penultimate the app opens at a page 2-3 pages above where I left it. This is probably the most disruptive feature the app is lacking to note taking in class. Maybe Evernote can make this happen in the next update. I really hope so! This app has so much potential and with a little more care it could be perfect

kbearOSU, Oct 04, 2017

This is the best app on my iPad...Hands Down

Ios10 broke this app with Jotscript 2 stylus. Really difficult to use with jotscript and has adversely affected my workflow.Previous review before ISO 10 Penultimate with the recent release is the best release to date. This app is simply amazing, out of all the note taking apps. Notes Plus is good feature set however, I converted to Penultimate because I just use it more. It's super easy to just get down to what matters, my notes. The other apps are really all the same. They have small variances however, penultimate is minimalistic and only holds the best most used features.- syncs seamlessly with Evernote- unique and accurate handwriting experience (Jotscript is amazing) - awesome UI and design. So fresh and clean clean- search is a unbelievably accurate - highlighter & eraser style is very cool and unique- different view helps review notes without the cumbersome scroll- different styles of paper (now free) are super helpful This is def a must try and have app. It's really the best version of penultimate that I've tried. If anything the last piece of improvement is the PDF in annotation that would make it a 10 out of 10. This app you get to work and it just ... works. Everything you'd expect from Evernote. I use it heavy for personal and professional use. If you are a writer, heavy note taker or like to get stuff out of your head and into paper (digital) this is the most amazing app to do that in.

omnizen, Sep 28, 2016

Hard to beat this...

Penultimate, used in conjunction with Apple Pencil on the iPad Pro 9.7, is hard to beat. It literally looks like i am using a sheet of paper and a pen to take notes in a notebook. I wish that it had sub folders for the notebooks as this would greatly help organize my thoughts when writing novels. Right now, I am using penultimate to create a children's book for my son. Using Procreate, Pencil, and the Smart Keyboard, it is the most seamless creating tool i have ever used. Granted, I haven't used this app with any other stylus. I have used other note taking apps with other styli and I have to say that Apple Pencil is the best ever. So maybe it is the pencil that makes this app so great. I have not yet felt the need to try any other note taking app because Penultimate satisfies most of my needs. Four stars because it meets those needs. I'm not feeling pressed to buy anything. Highly recommend in conjunction with pencil.

rmo5008, Jan 06, 2017

Could be a really great app, but falls short.

Penultimate is a great app with a frustrating user experience. The writing is smooth and the tools are very useful for taking notes in meetings or in class, but a few flaws make using the app so frustrating that it’s almost not worth using. 1. You can only change the title of a note AFTER you close it.2. When using an Apple Pencil you still have to use two fingers to scroll and scrolling through multiple pages is a pain because the app will randomly start writing where you’re scrolling awkwardly with two fingers. Most other note-taking apps support pencil-only writing and single finger scrolling, why doesn’t this one?3. You can’t change the colors or appearance of notebook covers in the “notebooks” view. When you have more than a few notebooks it becomes a pain to find the one you’re looking for.4. If you switch between apps, when you return to Penultimate it starts you a few pages back from where you left off. This means you have to constantly scroll through the note to continue from where you were writing before you left the app.If Evernote fixes these problems, the app could become the best note-taking app in the App Store. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like Evernote cares much about user experience.

The Whigs, Jan 23, 2018

Great but still needs progress

I’ve been using this app for a while now and it certainly proves itself to be a pretty great notetaking app for multiple purposesHowever, there are some quality of life things still missing with this app which ruin a lot of the enjoyable experience by adding some level of frustrationSuch things include not being able to move notes from one notebook to another, glitch where you cannot name a new notebook by the same name of an already deleted notebook, with the Logitech Digital Crayon there seems to be some confusion with how the highlighter will be angled, no edits can be made to default note names, can’t change the color of notebooks, selecting certain parts of a piece of writing will from time to time leave little dots of pencil that didn’t move alongside the selection, and a lack of a default paper style.

TheChrisSancho, Dec 27, 2020

Absolutely disappointing

Absolutely disappointed by this app. I used it to write submissions for my university courses, and it’s done nothing but crash every time I even exit the app and try to use it again. Plus, the scroll feature doesn’t work properly when I zoom in and write. I finally managed to write my submission somehow but when I tried sharing the doc to submit it, it says it shared it, but when I check my submission portal for something else the next day I find that it never went through. I tried upgrading to premium so I could move my stuff to Evernote, but it won’t even let me do that because it restricts the card I can use to pay for premium and then fails to process the subscription payment on the card that it allows me to use. In summary: constantly crashes, scrolling doesn’t work properly, sharing files is hit-or-miss, and I can’t even upgrade so all my notes get saved. If I could give it a lower rating I would.

v46749, Mar 07, 2021

Description

The best digital handwriting on iPad. Penultimate combines distraction-free, natural handwriting and sketching with the power of Evernote’s sync and search. Take class or meeting notes, journal your thoughts, or outline your next big idea—in the office or on the go.

From the first stroke, Penultimate makes the experience of pen and paper more productive. INK AND PAPER, MADE BETTER Notes and drawings look spectacular in black or colored ink. Our inking technology produces pen strokes that look natural, and Wrist Protection prevents stray marks for writers of all grips. Choose from a number of paper styles, or import an image to create personalized paper. STYLUS AND SOFTWARE BUILT TOGETHER We worked closely with Adonit to create the stylus we've always wanted: the Jot Script Evernote Edition, the first true precision-point stylus. Penultimate integrates tightly with the stylus and together they make digital handwriting the experience it should be. It’s like writing with your favorite pen. Available now in the Evernote Market. YOUR WRITING KEEPS PACE WITH YOU Penultimate lets you work on any part of the page effortlessly. To zoom in on a location on the page, simply pinch in and start writing. With Penultimate's Drift feature enabled, the page will move along with you, automatically adjusting to the pace you are working at. CONNECT AND SYNC WITH EVERNOTE Sign in to your Evernote account in the Penultimate app to organize your Penultimate notes in notebooks, separated by topic, project, or category. Your Penultimate notes are synced to Evernote automatically, so you can find and share them across all of your devices. FIND WHAT YOU NEED QUICKLY No matter how you prefer to organize your work, Penultimate makes it easy to find the notes you need. Penultimate processes your notes so you can search for handwritten text in the app. Save and browse your work in notebooks and insert, delete, duplicate, and reorganize pages any way you like within them. MAKE PENULTIMATE MORE POWERFUL Penultimate is free to download and use. Pair it with Evernote Premium or Evernote Plus for bigger uploads and many other great features. Two subscription options: Evernote Premium monthly for $7.99 per month | $69.99 annually Evernote Plus monthly for $3.99 per month | $34.99 annually --- Price may vary by location. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. Manage your subscriptions in Account Settings after purchase. --- Privacy Policy: https://evernote.com/legal/privacy.php Terms of Service: https://evernote.com/legal/tos.php