Skip to content

Penbook: Paper Planner & Notes

User Camp Inc.

4.55star45,077 ratings

ProductivityHandwriting notes app market$4.99–$49.99 · 7 tiers
Penbook: Paper Planner & Notes, App Store screenshot
Penbook: Paper Planner & Notes, App Store screenshot
Penbook: Paper Planner & Notes, App Store screenshot
Penbook: Paper Planner & Notes, App Store screenshot

5 decisions.

Shares of this app’s 142 recent negative reviews.

Billing is at typical. Skip it

31.7% here · 29.2% in its market · 30.8% store-wide. Normal for the store.

Watch sync fails between devicesextreme

8.5% here · 8.5% in its market · 0.9% store-wide.

Watch UXelevated

7% here · 5.5% in its market · 4.9% store-wide.

Watch performanceelevated

20.4% here · 25.7% in its market · 16.3% store-wide.

Protect login & auth, limits & caps and support

Login & auth, Limits & caps, Support all run well below the store’s typical rate.

n = 11. Too thin to act on. We recount weekly.

Read those two together. Ratings are cumulative, reviews are recent. A 4.55star average beside 41% negative is the finding, not an error.

Ratings.

45,102 ratings · Apple’s own count, fetched daily

5star35,245
4star4,633
3star2,112
2star1,027
1star2,085

The market in numbers

All 12 panel members · 2026-09-02 snapshot.

AppRatingsBilling
Kilonotes-Notes & Mark up PDF4,92345.3%
Noteshelf 3: AI Digital Notes6,42241.7%
Goodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDF450,34638.5%
CollaNote: Notes & PDF Markup13,50536%
MyScript Notes: AI Handwriting38,55131.7%
Penbook: Paper Planner & Notes45,07731.7%
Feenote - Notes and lists1,99422.2%
SuperNote Notes Recorder+Photo4,47220%
Element Note2,55718.6%
Noteful: Notes & PDF Markup23,29918.2%
tatter1,34417.6%
Microsoft OneNote1,061,6403.9%

Counted from real App Store reviews · 2026-09-02

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. Shares are of this app’s own recent negative reviews; the market figure is its rivals with this app excluded. The graded words have fixed cutoffs against the store’s typical rate: elevated from 1.15, high from 2, extreme from 3.5 times it. The page says what is broken and how it compares, never how to fix it, and never whether this app can win.