Pencora vs CollaNote

CollaNote is a friendly free notes app with collaboration built in. Pencora goes further on the page itself: your typed text in your own handwriting, real graphs, real geometry, and PDFs that come back as ink — with nothing behind a Premium tier.

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Where Pencora is ahead of CollaNote

Pencora compared with CollaNote
Feature Pencora CollaNote
Price
Free — every feature. No subscription, no ads
Free app with a one-time Premium upgrade ($13.90)
Typed text in your handwriting
Teach it your letters once, then type or paste a whole Markdown document — lists, formulas — and it’s written in your own hand. Russian and English, on the iPad
Not available
Graphs on the page
Functions, implicit curves, points and tables — typed, imported from CSV or read from a hand-drawn table; ink on the plane sticks to its coordinates
No graphing — a handwriting calculator instead
Geometry constructions
Bisectors, perpendiculars, tangents, reflections, triangle centres — drag a point and everything built on it follows, in real millimetres
Rulers and a protractor — no constructions
PDFs from other apps
Handwriting comes in as real, editable strokes on the right paper — lasso, recolour or erase any of it
You write on top of the PDF; the original stays untouched

Moving over from CollaNote

  1. Export the notebook as a PDF from CollaNote.
  2. Open the PDF with Pencora — from the Share sheet, or with Import inside a notebook — and choose to bring it in as editable ink.
  3. Pencora detects the paper ruling and turns the handwriting into real strokes, page by page. Long notebooks open at once and finish converting as you go.

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Compared with what CollaNote says about itself on its own website and App Store page, checked September 2026. Apps change — if something here is out of date, tell me and I’ll fix it. CollaNote is a trademark of its owner; Pencora is not affiliated with or endorsed by it.