Organise notes with Bear’s intuitive hashtag system, or let Grammarly polish your content as you write. With a simple command, Notion’s AI will customise a template for your task, while iA Writer’s Focus mode dims everything but the line you’re writing to tune out distractions.

Ulysses’ robust folder system and templates make it perfect for bigger projects. Noted can record meetings and generate a tidy transcript. Marrying a calendar with robust note-taking, Agenda bubbles up the right note at the right time. And Craft makes it easy to format and rearrange blocks of text on the fly.

These apps work seamlessly with Apple Pencil. Goodnotes converts messy scribbles into clean text and charts, while Notability generates quizzes from longhand notes. Use Penbook’s elegant stationery to keep your daily agenda or task list. If you’re mostly drawing, check out Paper, which has myriad markers and pens.