Changelog
What's new
The journey of Dotted Mind so far.
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1.1.1
Smoother and more reliable, with tools that switch the moment you touch them.
- Better
Tools on touch. Your tools switch the moment you touch them, without waiting for you to lift your finger.
- Better
Smoother linking. Pasted links show their preview right away.
- Fixed
Creating a book and opening its first page runs smoothly, and your library stays still while the new book opens.
- Fixed
The dot grid on iPad (6th generation) now measures a true half centimetre.
- Fixed
Older iPads stay responsive while your handwriting is read for search.
- Better
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1.1.0
Search your handwriting and link your notes with the new Link marker, plus better performance and many fixes.
- New
Search your handwriting. Every book has a search field in its overview. Your iPad reads your pages itself, also while it charges, so nothing leaves the device.
- New
The Link marker. A new marker with your highlighters. Mark a few words, lift your Apple Pencil and link them to a page or a website.
- Better
Copy from the page menu. Each page's menu in the book overview now has Copy. Then tap where the copy goes, in this book or another one.
- Better
Find chapters too. Search also finds chapter titles and marks every match right on the page.
- Better
Links in your colours. Give each link its own colour from its menu, and every link lights up once when its page appears.
- Better
The new iPad mini. Your pages fit the new iPad mini with its OLED screen.
- Fixed
Menus, the toolbar, tips and swiping back now work with your iPad upside down.
- New
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1.0.1
Turn your photos, lasso them together with your ink, and no more taps that go unanswered in the book overview.
- New
Turn your photos. A ruler on a placed photo turns the whole picture, and its frame follows the turned corners.
- New
Lasso photos and links. The lasso picks up photos and links along with your ink. Tap it again to choose what it selects.
- Better
Photos past the edge. With the grid switched off, a photo can reach past the edge of the page.
- Better
Swipe back from anywhere. On iPadOS 26 and later, swipe right anywhere over your pages in the book overview to go back to your library.
- Fixed
Taps in the book overview going dead for a moment, often after a long press or after coming back to the app.
- New
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1.0.0
Dotted Mind is on the App Store: free to try, with dark pages, photos straight from the camera and handwriting you can paste into Apple Notes.
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On the App Store. Try every feature in your first book and its first 20 pages. A monthly, yearly or lifetime plan unlocks unlimited books and pages.
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Dark pages. Switch to near-black pages from the menu in the page editor or the book overview.
- New
Take a photo. Shoot straight onto your page, or pick one from your library as before.
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Handwriting in Apple Notes. Copy ink with the lasso and paste it into Notes, or the other way round.
- Better
Arrange your tools. Long-press a tool in the open palette and drag it to another slot.
- Fixed
Pinching while cropping a photo undoing your last step, and thumbnails leaving out photos.
- New
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Beta 13
A demo book to get you started, links in your handwriting, automatic backups and much better palm rejection.
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A demo book. It waits in your library and shows what Dotted Mind can do, page by page.
- New
Links. Circle handwriting with the lasso and turn it into a link.
- New
Automatic backups. Including a copy in iCloud. Find them in Settings, under Backups.
- New
A daily reminder. Pick a time and a book, and Dotted Mind reminds you to write.
- New
Tools at your pencil tip. Squeeze Apple Pencil Pro to open them right where you draw.
- Better
Much better palm rejection. Especially for left-handed writers, and a resting hand no longer moves the page while your pencil hovers.
- Better
Move pages together. Select several pages in the overview and move or copy them in one go.
- Better
Straighten and recolour. Straighten photos while you crop them, and recolour the ink you select.
- Better
Chapters from the start. Set up a new book's chapters while you create it.
- Fixed
The page editor ignoring touches on iPadOS 17.
- Fixed
The top bar sometimes showing the wrong chapter.
- New
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Beta 12
Photos on your pages, a smarter lasso and one calm style for every menu.
- New
Photos on your pages. Place several on one page, move and resize them, and your ink always stays on top.
- New
Crop on the page. Trim a photo right where it sits, and choose which photo lies in front.
- Better
A smarter lasso. It picks up photos too, stays active after an undo and pastes aligned to the dot grid.
- Better
One style for every menu. All context menus share the same rounded capsule.
- Better
The timeline shows its dates. Its title names the dates you are looking at.
- Fixed
Adding photos and the grid button on iPadOS 17, and zooming that stopped working.
- New
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Beta 11
Tap to undo and redo, lines that lock to the grid, and a long list of gesture fixes.
- New
Tap to undo and redo. Two fingers undo, three redo. Turn either off in the new Gestures settings.
- New
Videos in feedback. Attach a screen recording of up to 100 MB.
- Better
Lines lock to the grid. Once you snap one straight line, the next ones follow the dot grid.
- Better
No lost work in pop-ups. Closing one with unsaved changes asks before throwing them away.
- Fixed
A three-finger redo that sometimes undid instead, several times over.
- Fixed
Slow double taps zooming the page, and pinching while something is selected.
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Beta 10
Copy and move pages between books, a quieter start with the pencil, and multitasking.
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Copy and move pages between books. Select pages, walk into another book and paste them there.
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Multitasking. Use Dotted Mind next to other apps on iPadOS 26 and later.
- Better
No pop-up on your first touch. The pencil just starts drawing. Drawing with a finger is a setting now.
- Better
A forgiving lasso. Smaller loops work, and strokes the loop touches count as circled.
- Fixed
Books with mixed-up page numbers heal themselves when you open them.
- Fixed
Icons showing blank on iOS 17.
- New
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Beta 9
Calmer erasing and safer pages.
- Better
See where you erase. A circle follows the eraser on iPads without Apple Pencil hover.
- Better
The eraser stays. It remains selected after you erase, instead of switching back to a pen.
- Better
No shake to undo. An accidental shake can never wipe your work.
- Fixed
The chapter rail going dead after the app came back from the background.
- Fixed
A rare freeze where the screen stopped responding to touches.
- Better
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Beta 8
The lasso arrives: circle your handwriting and move it anywhere.
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The lasso. Circle your ink to cut, copy, recolour, duplicate or delete it, and paste it on any page.
- New
Long-press to paste. Hold anywhere on the page to paste or to select everything.
- New
Screenshots in feedback. Attach them right in the feedback form.
- Better
Crash-safe saving. A crash or power loss can never leave a half-written page.
- Better
Faster covers. Books in your library load quicker.
- Fixed
A freeze when opening the chapter name pop-up.
- New
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Beta 7
Your own tools, hundreds of chapter icons and deleting many pages at once.
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Make your own tools. Add pens to the palette, then reorder, duplicate or edit them.
- New
Hundreds of chapter icons. Sorted into sections, with a faster picker.
- New
Select several pages. Long-press a page, tap the others and delete them together.
- Better
Double-tap to zoom. Jump straight to where you write, at a zoom level you set once.
- Fixed
A short freeze when switching a book to its timeline.
- New
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Beta 6
New covers, and straight lines that keep their hand-drawn feel.
- Better
New covers. A richer cloth and leather look, with the bookmark ribbon back on every cover.
- Better
Straight lines. Hold a line still and it snaps straight, while keeping its hand-drawn feel.
- Better
No empty pages. A blank page you delete skips Recently Deleted.
- Fixed
A freeze after adding a page on the 10.5-inch iPad Pro.
- Fixed
Tiny footer text after rotating the iPad.
- Better
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Beta 5
Fineliners first, the eraser beside your pens, and a first chapter for ideas.
- New
An Ideas chapter. New books start with one, marked by a lightbulb.
- Better
Fineliners first. They lead the drawing tools, and each ink remembers its own width.
- Better
The eraser joins the pens. It sits in the tools row. Long-press it for its options.
- Fixed
Taps on a book in the library getting lost.
- New
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Beta 4
A new icon and cooler drawing on older iPads.
- New
A new app icon. Refreshed in the Liquid Glass style.
- Better
Cooler drawing. Older iPads stay cooler and smoother through long drawing sessions.
- Better
Covers lie flat. Book shadows sit naturally on the surface.
- Fixed
A drop marker left behind after reordering books.
- New
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Beta 3
A new PDF export, palm rejection and smoother chapters.
- New
A new PDF export. An index page, your real cover and tappable links, shared through the share sheet.
- Better
Palm rejection. On by default, so a resting hand no longer draws.
- Better
Smoother chapters. Tapping a chapter responds instantly, and swiping back to the library is more reliable.
- Fixed
Duplicate numbers after restoring deleted pages or chapters.
- New
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Beta 2
A welcome, cover colours and chapter icons.
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A welcome screen. A friendly intro with a handwritten signature on first launch.
- New
Cover colours. Pick a colour for each new book from a curated palette.
- New
Chapter icons. Give each chapter an icon, with search.
- New
Swipe back. Swipe from the left edge to go from a book to your library.
- Better
Where you left off. A bookmark on the cover marks the book you opened last.
- Fixed
A white flash when opening a link.
- New
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Beta 1
Recently Deleted, straight lines and simpler steps to start a book.
- New
Recently Deleted. Bring back deleted pages and chapters.
- New
Straight lines. Hold at the end of a stroke to snap it straight.
- New
Eraser options. Long-press the eraser to pick its type and size.
- New
Move pages across chapters. Drag a page onto the chapter slider.
- Better
Simpler new books. A title step first, then the book opens on its first chapter.
- Better
A calmer Settings. Flatter and easier to scan.
- New