Main board
One board, many slates, immediate context.
Chalks is built for active writing, crafting diagrams, and evolving notes.
Soon available on the App Store
Chalk and slate, reimagined for iPad
The fastest way to catch an idea is to write it down.
Chalks turns iPad into a digital slate for notes, diagrams, explanation sketches, quick derivations, and the first structure of a thought. It is built for the academic moment before ideas become polished documents.
No clutter. No feature maze. No artificial workflow. Just a calm writing surface with Apple Pencil-first interaction, strong contrast, per-slate backgrounds, fast tabbing, and export paths that stay out of the way while you are still thinking.
- Built for handwritten thinking rather than typing-first note management
- Boards with up to 25 numbered slates that stay easy to navigate
- Per-slate backgrounds, guides, PDF export, and PNG sharing
Board-based note making
Made for study, research, and explanation
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Screenshots
The app in use, not just a concept.
Chalks is designed to feel calm, direct, and legible while ideas are still fluid. These screens show the board-and-slate workflow, per-slate colour variation, and the writing-first interface in practice.
Diagram-ready surface
Useful for arrows, structure, graphs, and explanatory layouts as naturally as text.
Fast slate navigation
Move through slates quickly without losing the overall thread of the board.
Ready to leave the slate
Export, share, and archive without rebuilding the same work somewhere else.
Think in handwriting
Use words, arrows, shapes, diagrams, and fragments the way real ideas often first arrive.
Stay in motion
Switch slates quickly, keep related work together on a board, and avoid losing momentum to interface friction.
Export cleanly
Share a slate as PNG or export a full board as portrait PDF without having to rebuild the work elsewhere.
Features
A writing surface tuned for academic and visual thinking.
Chalks is designed for students, researchers, teachers, and anyone whose ideas come as handwritten structure before they become polished text.
Board and slate model
Each board can hold up to 25 slates, keeping connected thoughts together while still giving each slate its own space.
Apple Pencil-first flow
Write naturally, erase with fine control, and keep the experience focused on marking rather than managing tools.
Per-slate backgrounds and guides
Choose a background for each slate and optionally show ruled lines or grid when structure helps the work.
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Clean export and share
Export the current slate or an entire board, share to Mail or Reminders, or save a slate directly to Photos as PNG.
Contrast-aware chalk colours
Available chalk colours are chosen to stay visible across the supported slate backgrounds so work does not disappear.
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Orientation-aware chrome
The app supports all device orientations while keeping readable interface elements aligned for easier use in motion.
Workflow
From sudden thought to saved record in a few simple moves.
Start a board
Open Chalks and begin on the default slates, or create a new board for a different thread of work.
Add slates as ideas expand
Keep one line of thought moving across multiple slates without fragmenting the session into separate documents.
Write, sketch, and explain
Use text, arrows, diagrams, quick equations, and structure as naturally as you would on a physical slate.
Export or share
Send out the result as PDF or PNG when the idea needs to leave the slate and continue somewhere else.
Export
Portrait-first outputs for records, sharing, and printing.
Board to PDF
Export a full board as a multi-page portrait PDF suitable for saving, sending, or printing.
Slate to PNG
Share the current slate with its background intact to Photos, Mail, Reminders, Calendar, and other iPad share destinations.
Guide control
Choose whether guide lines should appear in exports when structure matters to the finished output.
Chalks is built for the moment before thoughts harden into polished prose. It is for jotting down first structure, preserving flow, and making diagrams that carry an idea forward.
Release
Soon available on the App Store for iPad.
Chalks is nearing release and will be available soon as a modern digital slate for handwriting, diagrams, quick explanation sketches, and idea-first academic workflows.