Blad: Notes and Docs

Blad is a handwriting app for lecture PDFs that keeps your notes as ordinary files. Point it at a folder you already have, such as your course folders in iCloud Drive, and tick which subfolders come in. Every PDF in them shows up in a library, sorted by course. Open one, write on it with Apple Pencil, and Blad saves your ink back into that same PDF. Open the file on a Mac, in Preview, in Files, or send it to a friend: the ink is there. Nothing is exported, nothing is locked inside the app, and nothing is uploaded anywhere. WRITE Pen, pencil and highlighter with pressure, an eraser that takes a whole stroke or part of one, a lasso to move and restyle ink, shapes that snap clean when you hold the Pencil still, text boxes and images. Add, reorder, duplicate and delete pages, or insert pages from another PDF. Undo as far back as you like. RECORD Record the lecture while you write. Later,…