For iPad & Apple Pencil

Write by hand. Polish with intelligence.

A calm, paper-first notebook. You write; Vellum reads the page, tidies the words in your own voice, and pulls out the tasks.

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Free. No account, no trial, no in-app purchases.

Vellum on iPad: handwritten morning pages on warm, lined paper with the floating tool palette below.

Your tools

The whole kit, at your pencil's tip.

Squeeze the Pencil and the palette comes to you — three arcs radiating from the tip for thickness, tools and colour, opening into whichever quadrant your hand isn't in.

Every tool keeps its own colour, so switching pens never costs you the one you were using. Pen, pencil, highlighter, watercolour, shape, eraser, lasso.

  • Left- or right-handed
  • Per-tool colour memory
  • Live nib preview
Vellum's pencil palette: concentric arcs of tools and colours fanning out from the pencil tip on a handwritten page.

Your library

Every page, right where you left it.

Folders, favourites and a 30-day trash, with a real thumbnail of the page you actually wrote — right down to the paper you chose for it.

Search reads your handwriting too: Vellum keeps the recognised text beside the strokes, so you can find a note by what's on it.

Vellum's library: All Notes with folders in the sidebar and handwritten page thumbnails.

Polish

Your handwriting, read and tidied.

Vellum reads the page and gives you back clean prose that still sounds like you — then lifts out the tasks it finds, with the dates you wrote next to them.

On device. Your ink never leaves the iPad to be read. Nothing is uploaded, and you edit the result before you keep it.

Vellum's Polish view: handwritten page on the left, tidied prose on the right, with a Keep button.

Send

A clean copy, straight to your tools.

Post the text and its tasks onward — to Claude, Grok, ChatGPT, or your own journal. You see exactly what leaves the iPad before it goes, and you pick where.

Offline, it queues and drains on the next launch.

Vellum's Post sheet showing the exact text and tasks that will leave the iPad, with destination toggles.

Templates

A ready-made page for the moment.

Start blank, or start somewhere: a daily journal with a date header and a gentle prompt, a checklist with a box per line, a meeting page with agenda and action items, a generous dark page to just think on.

Vellum's New Note sheet: Blank, Daily Journal, Checklist, Braindump, Idea + Tasks and Meeting Notes layouts.

After dark

Warm light for late pages.

Night mode dims everything around the work and leaves the work alone — each page keeps the paper you gave it, so a cream sheet is still cream at midnight.

Vellum's library in night mode: dark chrome around page thumbnails that keep their own paper colours.

Free, and honest about it.

Every feature is in the app: the full canvas, the palette, Polish, search, export, and sync into your own iCloud. There's no trial, no subscription, and nothing locked behind a purchase.

If you want to support the work, there's a heart in Settings — or you can contribute right here. It unlocks nothing — that's the point.

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