Blackboard by Boogie Board

I cannot recommend these boogie boards. So far I have a larger size one and no matter what I do the lock feature does not save what I write on the board even if I try the different steps like removing battery, etc. nothing has worked. I thought it was just a glitch and the company I bought it from sent me a second one and it’s doing the same thing. I wish there was a feature that had it like a magnet on the back so I could hang it. I can sit there and write notes on it, but it erases the minute I press the erase screen is supposed to save it. It’s not working on either board as far as the reason I bought it. The reason I bought it was to save notes to the boogie board app, and I can’t even figure out how to do that because nothing’s working. The fact that it’s not simple out of the box clear instructions no instructions came with this thing is ridiculous for the amount of money I paid for it. I will be sending both of them back. I do not recommend this. Go on Temu and buy just a plain simple one.

It’s 2025. This app should have a lot more features. For example there’s no writing to text feature. All your handwritten notes are not searchable for instance. Also, it would be great if you could connect different folders to different services. I don’t want my school notes going to my work email, but I do want meeting notes to do so. In short, the boogie board itself is nice but this companion app is pretty much synonymous with taking pictures of notes you’ve written on a paper pad. No real advantage here except for the fact you can save multiple pages of boogie board notes to the same file. Would love for this app to be more fleshed out.

I’m a big fan of Kent Displays’ Boogie Blackboard products and the new Carbon Copy pen, which works wonderfully. The app in its current state is relatively bug-free and functional at a baseline (e.g. minimum viable product) level, but it has much more potential and I hope to be able to award more stars and update my review when more features are implemented. Commentary of some features: -App decently takes picture scans of board and inverts colors to make for legible scans. The edge detection could be better, but the feature desperately needed is side edge move when cropping, rather than just corner moving. -Carbon Copy sync with the camera pen works great with nearly perfect recording of strokes. -File management is useful folders, color tags, and auto naming by date, but a feature missing here is iCloud sync, as the files seem to be only local. What I ideally want to do is have the CarbonCopy pen synced with the phone, but be able to edit the files on an iPad and Apple Pencil later, but not having the files synced and the pen only able to paired to one device at a time doesn’t make this a streamlined workflow as it should be. I was originally only going to give a 3-star review, but I’ve given it 4 stars given the utility and in good faith that the app continues to be developed 🤞