A notebook for your iPad that you pay for once.
Handwritten notes and marked-up PDFs, kept on your iPad and backed up to a folder you choose. Free for 5 notebooks, $24.99 to keep forever.
Pagehold
Pagehold
Handwritten notes and marked-up PDFs, kept on your iPad and backed up to a folder you choose. Free for 5 notebooks, $24.99 to keep forever.
You bought the app, or a lifetime licence, and a year later the features you use moved behind a subscription.
A sync glitch, a forced sign-in or a page that opens blank, and weeks of writing are gone, with no copy of your own to go back to.
Lined, squared, dotted or plain paper, or any PDF from Files.
Pen, highlighter, eraser, shapes, text boxes and pictures. Search finds your handwriting.
Every notebook is copied there as a PDF, plus a full copy you can restore from. iCloud Drive, Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive all work.
Plus for life is $24.99 and never turns into a subscription. Prefer to spread it out? $9.99 a year, cancel in one tap.
Every notebook as a PDF in a folder you pick, plus a full library copy to restore from.
Every page keeps 30 days of earlier versions. Cleared it by mistake? Bring it back from the page menu.
Nothing to sign in to. Handwriting search runs on your iPad, and you can turn it off.
The upgrade screen opens only when you reach a free limit or tap Plus. Never while you write.
Write on PDFs, search scanned pages, quick notes in one tap, folders and favourites, lasso and shapes, formatted text boxes, PDF export, iCloud sync between your iPads.
7-day free trial. Cancel in one tap.
Never a subscription. Family Sharing included.
Hitting a free limit never locks or deletes anything. US prices; the App Store sets prices in other countries.
Yes. It's a one-time purchase in the App Store, not a subscription. It doesn't expire, and we won't move it to a subscription.
Export them as PDFs from the app you use now, then import the PDFs into Pagehold. Your pages come across as they look, and you can keep writing on them. There's no direct importer for other apps' own formats.
On your iPad, and in iCloud if you turn on sync, so they appear on your other iPads. With backup on, a copy goes to the folder you choose too.
No. Pagehold has no sign-in. Purchases go through your Apple Account.
No. Handwriting search uses Apple's text recognition on the iPad itself, and you can switch it off.
Your notebooks stay. You can open, edit and export all of them; you just can't add more than the free limits until you upgrade again.
iPad only for now, on iPadOS 17 or later.
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