Carbo › Digital Notebook 4+
Organize your notes & drawings
Creaceed SRL
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Carbo brings all your iPad or iPhone-created notes right into your Mac through a new Mac Catalyst app.
Carbo lets you capture and organize handwritten notes and sketches, bringing handwriting in the digital age, right on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. 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.
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 Apple 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 (iOS): 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, modern iOS 14 photo access (browsing & searching).
• macOS 11 Big Sur / Mac Catalyst (Optimized for Mac).
• Universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
• Pro Pack 2 or Pro Plan: one-off purchase to remove the 10-note limit.
PRICING
You can unlock all features either through Pro Pack 2, a one-time purchase, or through Pro Plan, an affordable subscription. Pro Pack upgrade pricing is also available if you own a previous version.
HELP & FEEDBACK
Visit creaceed.com/carbo for more information.
Send your questions and feedback to carbo@creaceed.com
Terms of Use: https://creaceed.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://creaceed.com/privacy
What’s New
Version 2.2.5
- Modernization for latest OS & bug fixes
- Carbo now requires macOS 12 Monterey or higher.
Ratings and Reviews
Great for diagram capture
I use this app frequently for capturing diagrams drawn on paper or whiteboards. The cleanup tools are "just enough" to help me get the diagram clean any usable. The tagging is quick and gets out of the way when I am in a rush.
I gave the app only four stars because there are no colour options. I don't need full colour but being able to capture whiteboard marker colours would be very helpful.
Can not save as PDF
It very unique formate, only can edit by itself
Developer Response ,
Hello. In order to export a Carbo note into the PDF format, please follow these instructions: when viewing your note, tap on the export button in the top-right corner and select the "PDF Document" action in the iOS Share Sheet. You will be able to change the resolution of your note before sharing it. If the "PDF Document" action does note appear in the Share Sheet, you will need to add it to your visible actions by tapping on "Edit Actions". /TC
Nothing special, try another app...
I have tried Carbo out for the past day and a bit on my iPad and tried to on my iPhone as well, without real luck.
So, though it set up easily on the iPad and the stench with Evernote was easy, the iPhone keeps switching off the attempt to synch with Evernote and will therefore be useless. Also, the actual handwriting recognition and taunted finesse of this app leave much to be desired. It can recognize pen on paper; but pencil, forget about it.
If you need an app like what Carbo purports to be, look somewhere else. This isn't worth the money.
In-App Purchases
App Privacy
The developer, Creaceed SRL, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
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Information
- Seller
- Creaceed SRL
- Size
- 26.4 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Creaceed SPRL
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Pro Pack 2 $19.99
- Pro Plan (Monthly) $1.29
- Pro Plan (Yearly) $9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.