Pencora vs MyScript Notes

MyScript Notes — the app that used to be Nebo — has superb handwriting recognition, but after its trial the free version keeps notebooks to five pages. Pencora is free without limits, and adds handwriting generation, graphs and geometry.

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Where Pencora is ahead of MyScript Notes

Pencora compared with MyScript Notes
Feature Pencora MyScript Notes
Price
Free — every feature. No subscription, no ads
After a 7-day trial the free version keeps notebooks to five pages; full access is paid
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 in the app
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 graphs in MyScript Notes — plotting is a separate paid app, MyScript Math
Geometry constructions
Bisectors, perpendiculars, tangents, reflections, triangle centres — drag a point and everything built on it follows, in real millimetres
Shape and diagram conversion, a ruler — no constructions
PDFs from other apps
Handwriting comes in as real, editable strokes on the right paper — lasso, recolour or erase any of it
PDFs come in as pages you annotate on top of
Automatic backup
Free: every day to your own Google Drive, five latest copies kept
A manual backup file; automatic cloud sync needs the paid plan and an account

Moving over from MyScript Notes

  1. Export the notebook as a PDF from MyScript Notes.
  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 MyScript Notes 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 Apps change — if something here is out of date, tell me and I’ll fix it. MyScript Notes is a trademark of its owner; Pencora is not affiliated with or endorsed by it.