WritePad is a handwriting-recognition app for iPhone and iPod touch. It lets you write notes by drawing out letters and words on your screen and turns them into text.

The problem is that everyone’s handwriting is different and WritePad has a very hard time getting even one sentence right. At least it has a spare, “normal” keyboard for correcting errors. Just touch the button at the top-right corner of the screen. You can also save your WritePad notes, but you can’t open them in iPhone’s Notes or the other way round.

I made a little test to see if I could write a sentence  faster in Notes, using the normal (vertical) keyboard, or by drawing out the letters with WritePad. It took me 19 seconds to write “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.”  in Notes and a poor 37 seconds to draw out something like “The Quick bro in fox jumps over the Lazt dog..” in WritePad. Judge for yourself.

And as I already had my stopwatch ready, I had a go in Notes with the new horizontal keyboard. 17 seconds. Almost 15% faster! Precision saves a lot of time.

Even though it makes a lot of mistakes, Write Pad is a fun way to write shorter notes and show off.

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