Penlo reads the handwriting on your BOOX, reMarkable or Supernote with Google's Gemini image recognition, turns it into searchable text, and sends it to Notion, Obsidian, your inbox or your AI assistant. Automatically. Now on Android too.
BOOX tablets sync straight to Penlo with the Penlo Android app. Every other tablet that saves PDFs to Dropbox or OneDrive works too. Switch hardware any time without changing your workflow.
How it works
No exports, no manual uploads. Close a notebook on your tablet and Penlo takes it from there.
On BOOX, install Penlo and scan a QR code with your phone. On other tablets, link Dropbox or OneDrive and pick the folder.
Use your e-ink tablet normally. Close a notebook and the new pages are on their way.
New pages are picked up in real time and read by Gemini, Google's industry-leading image recognition: cursive, mess and mixed languages included.
Notion pages, Obsidian Markdown, an email, or a question you ask Claude. Searchable from one dashboard.
Install Penlo on your BOOX and it uploads your notebooks itself, in the background. No Dropbox, no OneDrive, nothing to connect. On your phone, the same app gives you every notebook, every page and every word, in your pocket.
Available now on Google Play. Penlo on the web works today on any phone, tablet or computer.
Get the Android appFull-text search across every notebook, page and date. Find the meeting where you wrote that one number.
Industry-leading image recognition from Google reads real handwriting. No daily cap, plus optional cleanup that joins lines and fixes spelling.
Notion, Obsidian, Markdown, searchable PDF and email. Re-syncs update pages in place, never duplicate them.
A built-in MCP server lets Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor search your handwriting mid-conversation.
Everything you write, in one calm dashboard. Pick a part to see it.
Thumbnails, page counts and sync status for every notebook from every device.
Open a notebook to see each page beside its transcription. Copy, export or re-run OCR.
Penlo AI answers questions across your whole library, grounded in what you actually wrote.
Three cleanup passes, each one a toggle. Turn them all off for raw OCR.
Meetings, research, study. See all use cases.
Write by hand in the room. Get a searchable summary in Notion before you're back at your desk, and ask Claude what was agreed last month.
Fill notebooks during user interviews, then search patterns across every session. AI summaries and tags do the sorting.
Lecture notes and drafts become searchable PDFs and Obsidian Markdown with backlinks. Revise from anywhere.
Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor about anything you've written. Penlo's MCP server lets them search your handwritten notes right in the conversation.
Pricing
Every plan includes a 7-day Power trial. No credit card required. Prices include tax, except in the US, Canada and India, where sales tax is added at checkout.
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Notebooks hold your most personal thinking. Penlo encrypts them in transit and at rest, stores them in the EU, and locks every page to your account. It reads your cloud folder without ever changing your originals.
Built on Supabase, Vercel and Google Cloud. No ads, no data selling, and you can delete everything in one click.
How we protect your notesEverything you need to know before you connect your tablet.
BOOX tablets sync directly with the Penlo Android app, no cloud account needed. reMarkable, Supernote, Kindle Scribe and any other tablet that saves PDFs to Dropbox or OneDrive work too: Penlo watches your cloud folder, so the brand doesn't matter.
Yes. Penlo for Android is coming soon to Google Play: on a BOOX it syncs your notes folder in the background, and on a phone it's your whole notebook library in your pocket. Penlo on the web works on any device today. Close a notebook on your tablet and Penlo reads it, indexes it and sends it to your destinations automatically.
Penlo uses Gemini, Google's industry-leading image recognition model. It handles cursive, messy handwriting, mixed languages and multi-page notes. There is no daily cap: every page is processed in full.
Penlo includes an MCP server. Install the extension in Claude Desktop, or add Penlo as a connector in ChatGPT or Cursor, and the assistant searches your notes when you ask about them.
Yes. Penlo runs on Supabase in the EU. Notes are locked to your account with row-level security, cloud access keys are encrypted with a separate vault key, API keys are hashed, and everything is encrypted in transit and at rest. See our security page for details.
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