Carbo › Digital Notebook
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Productivity | $7.99 | Creaceed SPRL | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Carbo lets you capture and organize handwritten notes and sketches, bringing handwriting in the digital age, right on your iPhone and iPad. Carbo's innovative visualization technology sets you free from pixel artefacts, while preserving all expressiveness of your original drawings. Collect notes, design sketches, or whiteboard drawings. With Carbo, you do not draw on screen, but instead use your favorite pen and paper without any constraint.
Tag and annotate your notes for easy retrieval. Store them either on the device itself or in the cloud, with native support for iCloud, Evernote, and Dropbox. Finally, turn your notes and drawings into beautiful creations using a variety of handcrafted export styles and share them with the world.
KEY FEATURES
• Hybrid visualization technology: note picture is cleaned up and turned into a highly accurate monochrome representation. Carbo’s innovative rendering technology offers both the advantages of vector (sharpness) and bitmap (easy editing) techniques.
• Image-based input options: take a new picture, import from camera roll, or import an image from iCloud Drive.
• Drawing support: highly accurate and natural sketching capabilities. Full support for iPad Pro Pencil & 3D Touch pressure sensitivity.
• Note editing: edit any part of your note, i.e. select, resize, relocate, or remove any element. Make strokes thinner or thicker.
• Annotations: add descriptive text to your note. These annotations are archived along with the image, and are globally searchable.
• Tag your notes. Tags are colored for easier detection, and will help you classify notes.
• Notes can be stored either on your device, or in the cloud using Evernote, Dropbox, and iCloud.
• Efficient file-based storage: typical note is 400KB instead of the usual 3MB JPEG of a photo.
• Export styles: choose among 7 beautifully handcrafted styles and their variants to customize your notes (Blackboard/chalks combos, Blueprint, Paper with several pen styles…).
• Up to 1200-dpi black-and-white high-fidelity exports for print.
• Many sharing options: Twitter, Facebook, AirDrop, Mail, Messages, iCloud Drive, Open in (another app)...
• Latest iOS Support: App Search, iPad multitasking, Siri 'Remind Me', 3D Touch shortcuts
** Help & Feedback **
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Reviews
Pleasantly Surprised
BottleRocket_
I was worried when I saw that this app went to a subscription plan, especially after losing functionality in other paid apps after they’ve done the same. Im happy to see that I haven’t lost any of the functionality of the app and it still works great. Thanks!
Great for what I need
lucenvoyage
Carbo has long been my go to for scanning written notes. It’s clear and allows me manipulate the scan exactly as I want. Its export options work well. I haven’t used the pencil option much, but it has come in handy. As someone who prefers to write on paper then scan for long term reference it’s perfect for me and well worth the investment.
Great for making study notes from textbooks
Audiophile31441
This is perfect for pulling diagrams and tables out of high yield review texts for classnotes without maintaining the in-book design. I scanned a table and was able to make original looking notes in a concept map format from all the info within a minute. Realize that this is definitely meant to do that, not much more. The template can only be applied post editing, so you cant write on the paper background you want it in. Only one pen option which you can change the style of in the post editing template area, but not in active editing. The pen absolutely needs to have a smaller line width option - 3 available and to really use this practically, the narrowest setting is where I'd have a highlighter set to. The app is great for not getting distracted and for what it is. A few minor tweaks would make it excellent, in my opinion.
Needs viable export option
Island Life
Carbo makes pretty good scans, but it’s crippled by the lack of a viable export option. Users need to be able to select multiple scans and export them to PDF or other file formats. Until that happens, save your money and consider this unusable for most purposes.
Well done and works well.
Shoobiedoo
The developers have managed to take a very complicated process and make it simple. This is a great utility for capturing images and then moving them around within the same document. It's perfect if you take notes freehand or draw diagrams and then have need to put all of those little things together into one page or a single document. I don't know of another app that can do this as easily or as quickly.
Good So Far; Needs Sync
OriginalSactobob
This should do a very nice job of getting rid of miscellaneous notes. I'll go to five stars when it syncs. Until then, items will stay local and I will only use on my iPhone. As it is, one chooses where to store in terms of local, Dropbox or iCloud --- and wherever chosen is the only place the photo is. As far as I could, there is not even a copy feature so that one could manually store both local and cloud.
Not yet ready
ZC111
There's no edge-detection that's the standard for (free) scanning apps. You have to ponderously drag the corners to the edge of the document. For lined paper (who doesn't use lined paper for taking notes?) the app imports the lines and ties them to the text/images. This means that you can't lasso your text/images and manipulate them. You can reduce the line thickness when you first import the image to try to make the lines disappear but you run the risk of not capturing some of your written text/images. I should note that the beta Evernote sync does not work.
Not as advertised
GrailHunter01
I don't see any writing/editing tool like a pencil or brush. Also file import from iCloud shows files but can't be opened. Great concepts but not quite ready for sale.
