Version 2.0.0
Build 8
New
- CarPlayListen in the car with CarPlay: choose a book on the car’s screen and it reads on from where you left off.
- Chapters and speed, in the carOn the car’s screen, skip between chapters and change the reading speed without reaching for your phone.
- Kokoro in eight languagesKokoro reads in eight languages, with 54 voices: English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese.
- Pens that write like inkYour pens finish each stroke the way ink does on paper: a little heavier where you press, and running out to a point as the pen lifts.
- A panel for every penEvery pen has a panel of its own: how its ends taper, how it answers pressure, its thickness and darkness, with a sample stroke that shows each change.
- Dotted, dashed and ruled highlightersHighlighters can lay down dots or dashes, and rule themselves straight.
- Lines your wayLined, dotted and squared paper can have their lines in a colour and a spacing of your choosing, when you start a notebook and in Settings.
- Paper in any colourThe paper itself, and its lines, can be any colour you like.
- Pages the shape of your screenNew notebooks start on pages the shape of your screen, so the page fills it edge to edge.
- Apple’s pen paletteApple’s own pen palette, if you prefer it: switch it on under More.
- A fresh page, waitingScroll or turn past the last page and a fresh one is waiting.
Improved
- The tools stand down a rail at the side of the page, and the page runs the whole height of the screen. One tap folds the rail away.
- Lines on the paper stay crisp however far out you zoom.
- Starting a notebook is simpler: cover and first page side by side, a carousel of covers, and the paper’s colour, lines and spacing to hand.
- Kokoro’s British voices speak with British pronunciation.
- On iPhone, typing past the foot of a page carries on at the top of the next.
- A pen set lighter stays that shade where strokes cross, or where you go over a letter.
- Neat Writing and tapered ends settle a word at a time as you pause, never under the pen.
- Ink follows the paper under your pen, so it shows on a dark page beside a light one.
- The pen panel’s sample stroke is as thick as the line it draws on the page.
Fixed
- On iPhone, the keyboard stays up when you start typing in a text box.
- Light ink no longer turns dark a moment after you lift the pen.
- A line snapped straight no longer leaves the line you drew beside it.
- A stroke you undo no longer comes back when you write again.
- A stroke written just as a page is added or synced is no longer lost.
- The preview of a shape you hold to snap shows in your own ink, not black.
- Arrows no longer have a darker tip in a light pen or a highlighter.
- In the zoom window, the box moves on as soon as you write into the margin.