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Use Your Handwriting
  • Price
    Free
  • CategoryProductivity
  • Versions4 archived
  • Installable2 of 4
  • AvailabilityRemoved from the App Store
  • SellerGee Whiz Stuff

RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 2.0 or later.

Customer Ratings

As of December 10, 2018
     
92 Ratings

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Use Your Handwriting® (UYH®) lets you finger write quick notes, lists and messages on your iPhone or iPad and view them on your Apple Watch. Its unique handwriting engine simulates the physics of a fountain pen to produce smooth and fulfilling drawing strokes. Your handwriting will flow beautifully and come out looking elegant with natural variations in darkness and thickness.

The beauty of UYH is accompanied by a powerful set of features: multi-level lists, quick alarms, sync across devices, visualize notes online, calendar and hands-on tutorial for every feature. Use it to take notes, for brainstorming, to outline your ideas, as a whiteboard, as a calendar for task management, or as a replacement for sticky notes.

NEW! Shop with UYH on your Apple Watch. Simply "pinch out" your shopping list to make it appear on your Apple Watch.

UNIQUE FEATURES

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BEAUTIFUL CALLIGRAPHIC WRITING STYLES

No matter what your 4th grade teacher told you, you have beautiful handwriting. What you couldn’t do with a pen, you can do with UYH. Choose between five different writing styles and your calligraphy will be amazing everyone in no time.

LEAN AND MEAN CALENDAR

Plan your weekly schedule in UYH by annotating days with your handwritten notes. It's quick but also powerful. Use it to jot down a quick todo and see it in Notification Center, or to take down elaborate categorized logs. Calendar notes scheduled for today appear in the UYH app on your Apple Watch!

QUICK HANDWRITTEN ALARMS

Need a reminder? Scribble a note, press and hold it and pick a time. You will be alerted in time even if the app is not active, or your device is asleep. The alert will even show on your Apple Watch!

TAKE NOTES OF ANY LENGTH

With UYH, there’s no limit to expressing yourself. Your long notes are automatically broken into multiple lines at word boundaries.

EMAIL/FACEBOOK/TWITTER YOUR ARTISTIC NOTES

Why? Because handwritten messages to friends mean so much more! Create your own colorful greetings for any occasion and email them to that special someone, or cut and paste them in other apps, such as MMS.

CREATE POWERFUL LIST HIERARCHIES

Want to drill down into something? In UYH, any item in a list can become its own sublist, so there’s no limit to how many lists and notes you can make.

HARNESS THE CLOUD - SYNC AND MORE [In-app purchase required]

You can sync notes across any number of devices via www.myuyh.com. You can even publish your notes as web pages and view them online. The website lets you view your notes in several formats suitable for brainstorming and mind mapping.

This feature is part of our premium package, "Best of Use Your Handwriting" which is available as an in-app purchase. The purchase activates a subscription that auto-renews monthly, charging $0.99 (or rate applicable in your country) to your iTunes account. The subscription can be canceled anytime up to 24 hours prior to the end of the current period by going to Account Settings. Further details in our terms of use: http://www.myuyh.com/terms_of_use.txt.

AND MORE...

* Hassle-free writing - To add a new item, simply press '+', start writing, and hit 'Done' - it's as simple as that.

* Tutorials that teach you how to use the features of UYH by actually using them

* See high priority todo items blink, like Neon Lights

* Dim low-priority todo items

* Toggle easily between lists with 2-finger swipes

* Customize the title of each list with a name or a doodle

* Icon badge to show the number of current items

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To install apps directly onto this device, it must be jailbroken with AppSync installed.
2.2
Requires iOS 2.2.1+
Non-Retina
October 29, 2009
288 KB Encrypted Install Download 2 more copies ›
UYH 2.2 (iOS 2.2.1) · 185 KB Encrypted Install Download
[UYH][Use Your Handwriting.app][i-funbox.com][iOS_v2.2.1_and_above].ipa · 195 KB Encrypted Install Download
3.62
Requires iOS 3.0+
Retina (iPhone only)
9.0 MB Encrypted Install Download
6.7
Requires iOS 4.3+
11.4 MB Install Download 1 more copy ›
UYH_6.7_AppDoc.ipa · 15.4 MB Encrypted Install Download
7.5
Requires iOS 5.0+
14.3 MB Install Download 1 more copy ›
Use Your Handwriting 7.5.ipa · 20.4 MB Encrypted Install Download

Chart History

Top Free · Productivity View chart ›
Peaked at #22 (March 25, 2010) · 4 archived captures · Mar 2010 – Aug 2011
Top Free · Productivity · iPad View chart ›
Peaked at #31 (October 13, 2011) · 3 archived captures · Oct 2011 – Dec 2011

Ratings Over Time

sampled from 6 archived captures
DateVersionRatingRatingsPrice
February 23, 2010 2.2 — 30,724 Free
March 9, 2012 — — 58,736 Free
March 7, 2013 — — 59,470 Free

From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.

Archived Reviews

8 of 25
Great app for people who cannot speak. Please, please upgrade!
     
by MyVoiceNow · February 19, 2017

Your apps have changed my life because it merges low and medium tech communication methods in a unique format! I'm a subscriber with cerebral palsy who's visually impaired, Deaf and mute. I've worked in the speech technology industry since I was old enough get paid for my input and designs. I utilize UYH and Calligraphy to communicate with style when text-to-speech apps just don't work. The colors and ability to underline allow to put inflections in my voice. Hospitals and clinics are looking for something like this. In emergencies writing and pointing at messages is much quicker. However the interface must be enlarged a little bit in order to create editable templates and communication boards. Will you please consider widening the board so we can point messages? I appreciate your efforts, time and attention! Thanks!

New Old School
     
by RainbowRein · October 2, 2019

LOVE this app! Have used it for many years and still enjoy the simplicity of it. Using your own hand to write a quick note or list is just like using a pencil and paper. Only you won’t lose the “paper” and not be able to find a “pen”. Highly recommend this app!

Very handy app
     
by Freckles99 · June 12, 2016

Easy to use. Maintain all my shopping lists here.

App
     
by Columbuscop · November 15, 2017

Nice!

Use it, but don't live it as much as I used to...
     
by Sisarie · September 22, 2016

Great app. The problems since recent update: 1) the super annoying & loud ads in an otherwise silent app= ridiculous. 2) it used to automatically scroll as you wrote & the words were continuous. Now it jumps & leaves an annoying, huge space in the middle of a word Seriously considering dumping this app, but I used to really love it. Now I have to try & write super tiny & end up rewriting most of the time, which defeats the purpose of an otherwise much faster note writing app. Change it back PLEASE!!!

Fun but for 1 disappointment
     
by biscuitflyer · July 21, 2018

It’s fun and would be great if not for a glitch or malfunction. I’ve tried and tried the multi color notes. It won’t change colors. All I can get is red. Tried everything possible

This app no longer works properly
     
by geezwizard · May 6, 2020

I’ve got an iPhone running iOS 13. I haven’t seen an update in years so maybe they don’t support the latest iOS. My problem is when writing a note, ie 12345678910....the app cuts of the left and right side instead of skipping to the next line. So my 1-10 note will look like 3456789 cutting off the first part of the note and the last. I’ve used this app for years and never had this problem until the last few years so that’s why I think it may no longer support recent iOS updates. When the app cuts off the first part of your notes and last part then it no longer, for obvious reasons, is of any use.

Use It Every Day!
     
by RallyNY · January 20, 2018

From the first day I discovered this I have used it every day. Grocery list, To Do list, Wish list, Idea list, and more. Super easy to use, love being able to reorder lists, and the sub-list feature is genius!

Period reviews recovered from Apple's customer-review feeds via the Wayback Machine.