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Use Your Handwriting

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.
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Productivity Free Gee Whiz Stuff LLC iPhone, iPad, iPod

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

Reviews

New Old School
RainbowRein

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!


UYH
Alleyooop

Very useful app. Shopping list or to do reminders. Easy to use.


Said FREE, but wow,
BH so tired of these

Listing indicated it was FREE. But tried it and what you get for free is worthless. If you want to make changes, delete,etc. GOTTA PAY.


Ads getting ridiculous STOP THE VIDEOS!
Farmercv

7/31/19 update The video ads have not stopped. This week they have crossed the line though. The ad is for a role playing video game. There is a woman speaking in a heavy accent and she says “how dare you f#*k my boyfriend?” They blank out the letters on the screen, but do not bleep out the word. She says it loudly and clearly. I am not a prude, but this is completely unacceptable!! As I said earlier it’s bad enough that these loud videos pop up possibly in inappropriate places for this to happen and now there is this language to deal with. used this app for years and I’ve put up with the ads because it works well for what I use it for. I’m pretty angry though about the ridiculous video ads that pop up randomly when the app is opened. I use this app to keep multiple lists because I always have my phone with me so when I think of something I need to add I don’t have to remember to do it later. It is horrible to be in a place where the LOUD videos are completely inappropriate so I don’t dare to open the app and have to try to remember things to add later which completely defeats the purpose I use the app for. The gold version used to be $9.99 which is a ridiculous price to get rid of ads. I see now it is $19.99 which is outrageous B.S. It’s one thing to live with ads, but these video ads are unacceptable!


Doesn’t work on photos
MML710

This app doesn’t access photos. I wanted something that I could use to write on my photos besides the lame one defaulted on the iPhone photo app


Fun but for 1 disappointment
biscuitflyer

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


A Best Of Worst Of App
Probata153

This app has many great qualities. It’s useful, fun to use and easy to operate. Unfortunately, you’re deluged with ads with NOISE and no way to shut it off, even in a doctor’s office until it plays for 5 seconds or more. If you hit the wrong button...more ads/music/noise! To remove the ads and noise/music, the cost is $9.99/month...forever! Seriously! Too bad! I liked the app, disliked the heavy-handed money hounding,


Ads getting ridiculous STOP THE VIDEOS!
Farmercv

I’ve used this app for years and I’ve put up with the ads because it works well for what I use it for. I’m pretty angry though about the ridiculous video ads that pop up randomly when the app is opened. I use this app to keep multiple lists because I always have my phone with me so when I think of something I need to add I don’t have to remember to do it later. It is horrible to be in a place where the LOUD videos are completely inappropriate so I don’t dare to open the app and have to try to remember things to add later which completely defeats the purpose I use the app for. The gold version used to be $9.99 which is a ridiculous price to get rid of ads. I see now it is $19.99 which is outrageous B.S. It’s one thing to live with ads, but these video ads are unacceptable!


Use It Every Day!
RallyNY

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!


Not easy. To use for me
skrookey

Hi not easy to use . Need clearer instructions to use and delete . Try to make a lot easier .


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