WritePad: Handwriting Recognition for the iPhone

WritePad is a neat little iPhone app if you can’t be bothered with the keyboard – portrait or landscape. With WritePad, you write on the touch screen, and the handwriting recognition software turns it into text.

It works surprisingly well, and it learns the more you use it.  There are gestures for return, backspace, undo last recognition etc, and they speed up the writing process, too. Your text is stored until you delete it, or you can send it to the email app. It works in portrait and landscape mode.

This app could be my new weapon of choice when it comes to writing down ideas quickly. I’d be even more impressed if I could use WritePad to send text to a number of other apps, like, say, my WordPress app.

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