PenCake - simple notes, diary 12+

Name: PenCake - simple notes, diary
Rating: 4.2 (97 reviews)
Author: Diffathy, Inc.

Dive into your story ‪–‬

Diffathy, Inc.

- 4.2 • 97 Ratings

- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Minimalist and Clean Design for Writing –

The world is overflowing with countless stories, but the most precious story of all is yours. Everything about you is a story in itself—your daily life, travels, parenting, hobbies, thoughts, notes, novels, and so much more. Bring all your stories together with Pencake. Pencake provides a minimalist interface designed to let you focus entirely on your stories. This simplicity allows you to capture every story in a clean and beautiful way. Just as you capture life’s moments with photos and videos, record your stories with Pencake. Cherish them, revisit them, and make them a part of your memories.

Pencake is built around Stories and Entries. Multiple entries come together to form a single story. In Pencake, you can create multiple stories organized by theme. Fill Pencake with your unique and diverse stories.

(Experience the delightful side effect of feeling inspired to write more and more.)

MINIMAL DESIGN
• Clean and simple, but elegant
• Aesthetically pleasing
• Can focus on writing

EASY WRITING
• High readability
• No lag even in a very long article
• Useful tools: easily enter a pair of quotation marks and an ellipsis
• Categorize by story

SAFE WRITING
• Auto save
• Version history: restorable from previous versions
• Trash can: deleted articles are kept in the Trash
• Sync via iCloud and Google Drive
• Sync iPhone and iPad devices
• Auto sync (Premium)

MARKDOWN
• Format text using Markdown
• Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, highlight, headings, and horizontal rule

DESKTOP APP
• Support all platforms (Premium)
• Can improve productivity
• Advanced search function
• Powerful preview feature in edit mode

OTHER FEATURES
• Search articles
• Word and character count
• Insert photo with caption
• Lock with password
• Various themes (Premium)
• Various fonts (Premium)
• Face ID / Touch ID (Premium)

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- Official website: https://pencakeapp.github.io/info/
- Desktop app: https://pencakeapp.github.io/info/desktop.html
- FAQs: https://pencakeapp.github.io/info/faq.html
- Email: pencake.app@gmail.com

Please help translate into your language.
https://crowdin.com/project/pencake

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://pencakeapp.github.io/info/privacy.html

Jan 1, 2025

Version 3.13

■ Various new fonts have been added!
■ Now you can swipe through the toolbar in edit mode.
■ We’ve changed the term used to refer to notes in the app from 'Article' to 'Entry’.
■ Fixed an issue where fonts could not be downloaded in certain regions.
■ Fixed an issue where Chinese characters were not displayed in the Nanum Myeongjo font.
- To use the updated font, please download it again.

4.2 out of 5

97 Ratings

Personally, best notes app i've ever used

I downloaded the app recently, and this is the most relief i've felt in so long. I've been looking for a note-taking / journaling app for months that actually makes me want to use it; pleasing to the eye, simple and elegant-ish format, and easy to use. This is everything I want it to be, and the layout of having different "stories" with articles under each, and then each story having its own page that can be easily reached by swiping, it's literally a dream. I have nothing but praise for it. The design, format, and concept, it all gives me such a calming feeling and doesn't create any of the anxiety and pressure i've felt trying to use other notes or journaling apps. I don't know if what I'm trying to express comes through the way I want it, because reading this again it sounds overdramatic, but i'm just so grateful i've found an app that doesn't make me feel obligated or overwhelmed. I've never ever found one that I've been able to stand for longer than a week. Whatever. This app is great. Good job!!

Beautiful, minimal, and focused

I browsed, downloaded, and tried a handful of writing apps before finding this one. Many of the other apps available become bloated in both features and aesthetics, whereas PenCake focuses on the innate beauty of text and writing. This allows you the space to simply focus on writing. It’s a wonderful and welcomed break from the attention-grabbing methods in most apps these days. My only wish is for the ability to set up a daily reminder to write, but that’s solved easily enough with third-party apps I already have. 100% recommended.

Dark Mode shouldn’t be “Premium”

Simple, clean, and fairly easy to use, however, I would never actually use this app exclusively because it considers Dark Mode as a “premium’s feature” and not a necessity.

Most people, including myself, aren’t using Dark Mode for aesthetic purposes, but as an accessibility option, as Light Modes can be genuinely painful and headache inducing to look at.
Dark Mode is required for those with visual disability or impairment, as well as for those who work with writing at night.

Without that, this app is nothing to me but the dream of what could have been.
Ideal in that it’s free to use, easy to navigate, has basic markdown, a decent amount of functionality.
Impossible to give a good review, because it’s actively hurting me every time I try to look at it.

Dark Mode is an Accessibility feature, and shouldn’t be behind a paywall, having it stay like that is a huge slap in the face to night owls and the visually impaired.

2 stars given for being free and good at it’s job.
3 stars withheld for having all that and being rendered unusable to me and an entire demographic by mere virtue of considering accessibility a paid privilege.

The developer, Diffathy, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Location
Usage Data
Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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Diffathy, Inc.

Size

102.7 MB

PenCake - simple notes, diary 12+

Dive into your story ‪–‬

Diffathy, Inc.

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Personally, best notes app i've ever used

Beautiful, minimal, and focused

Dark Mode shouldn’t be “Premium”

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Data Not Linked to You

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