Moleskine Notebooks

8 of 100 · reviews
4.2of 5 · store
706ratings on the App Store
110reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

A companion app for the Moleskine smart pen. Since 2025 sync has effectively been shut off, support has been silent for months, and promised update dates keep slipping. Users who bought the physical notebooks cannot access their notes.

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What people use it for

No one at this point. The ecosystem is effectively non-functional.

What reviews praise

The concept of digitizing handwriting in real time is appealing, and in the rare cases when it worked properly users marveled at the accuracy of recognition.

What reviews complain about

Sync with the pen has not worked since early 2025.
Data is inaccessible without the cloud.
Tech support does not respond for months at a time.
The app crashes when the pen is connected.

What users experience

3 excerpts from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

Update OCT 22 2025 I can’t express my disappointment enough. There was a silent decision to disable sync in Jan 2025 while working on a new improved version. So far I’ve been given 4 release dates. June of 25, Sept of 25, Oct of 25, and n

The original app was never great but it worked and I could keep my content locally without using their cloud services. This new 3.0 major update forces you to upload all of your old notes to the cloud. After updating the app, they give you no choice.

6/5/2025 EDIT: I just received a response from Moleskine saying the app had backup and cross-device functionality and I just checked it. Neither of those features work on the app.