Saber: Handwritten Notes

The app is still in development — in fact, one can look at the GitHub page and see active progress being made! As such, there are plenty of slightly glitchy features, and a couple missing pieces of functionality such as moving handwriting between pages and allowing copy/paste of handwriting. However, this app: - has not asked me to pay to subscribe - has not removed existing features, made them worse, or asked me to subscribe in order to access them - tried to get me to use an AI tool or shoved something AI in that doesn’t belong - have I mentioned I’m not asked to subscribe every time I open the app? :) In conclusion, the app is good enough to use now, and I look forward to what it will be in another year or two.

I’ve been using Saber for a few semesters now, up until December 2024, and everything has worked great! No complaints. But ever since I came back for spring semester in 2025, Saber has been glitchy and now I cannot use it at all. First, the lasso tool stopped working, and although annoying, it was still better than nothing. Recently, however, I haven’t been able to write in my notes whatsoever. Saber is effectively useless for me right now, which I am sad to see. I really enjoyed Saber! I’m not sure if this is a known issue, but I hope something can be done soon. I would love to continue using Saber if I can.

This app is excellent as a free alternative to goodnotes. But you can still do better. I find the pen is a little bit laggy. Whenever I write too fast, the stoke will tuen into segements rather than a fluent curve. This is an essential problem to user experience.