Coming August 12, 2027 to iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows and Android

Your Creative Workspace.

One home for every tangent. Handwrite, type, draw, plan, study and even write music, all in one calm app on every device you own. Pay once. Every notebook is a file that stays yours.

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$19.99 for the first 30 days · 14-day free trial · No subscription · Works offline

everything has a place

Stop juggling ten apps for one brain.

Notebooks, novels, scripts, canvases, planners, flashcards and sheet music live side by side in one library, so an idea can start as a doodle and end up as a draft without leaving Tansy.

Writing

Documents with real formatting, books built chapter by chapter, papers with citations, and a resume that builds itself from your profile.

  • Document
  • Note
  • Manuscript
  • Paper
  • Resume
  • Cover letter
  • Plain text
  • Track changes, comments, spelling and grammar
  • Compile a manuscript to ePub, PDF or Word
  • APA, MLA and Chicago citations

notebooks

Pen and paper, minus the paper.

Built for Apple Pencil, Windows pens, Android styluses and drawing tablets, with ink that keeps up with your hand.

  • Pens, pencils, markers and highlighters that respond to pressure and tilt, tuned to how you write
  • Bring your brushes from Procreate, Photoshop and Clip Studio, and write with them
  • Layers on every page, so a sketch can sit under your notes
  • Hold at the end of a stroke and it snaps into a clean line, circle or shape
  • Lasso to move, resize, rotate, recolor or turn handwriting into text
  • Decorate the front, spine and back cover, then scroll or swipe through pages like a book
  • Import a PDF or planner and write right on it; export back to sharp, vector PDF

documents & scripts

Writing that leaves ready to send.

Real documents for essays and chapters, whole books, and scripts that format themselves as you type.

  • Styles, tables, pictures, comments, track changes, spelling and grammar
  • Manuscripts with every chapter in one scrolling view, compiled to ePub, PDF or Word
  • Industry-standard script PDFs with title pages, (MORE) and (CONT'D); Fountain and Final Draft
  • A table read with a voice for every character
  • Highlight one actor's lines, each in their own color, for the printout
  • Hear anything you wrote read aloud, or save it as audio to listen to later
  • Export to PDF, Word, Markdown or HTML; import Word, Markdown and text

Script → storyboard in one step. Tansy turns your scenes into storyboard frames, ready to draw on.

for artists & storytellers

Sketch it, board it, watch it move.

Layered canvases for concept art and studies, and storyboards that play back as an animatic.

  • Canvases as large as your device can handle, with layers, blend modes, masks and adjustments
  • Pencil, charcoal, inking pens, paint and airbrush, plus the brushes you import
  • Liquify and warp, symmetry and perspective guides, rulers and reference pictures
  • Sketchbooks of canvases, and flipbooks with onion skin and video export
  • Storyboard panels with shot, duration, dialogue and camera notes, made straight from a script
  • Comic pages with a panel maker; export to PNG, JPEG, PDF or layered PSD

plan & focus

Plan the day, then actually do it.

Tasks from every file gather in one Today view, even the ones you wrote by hand in a planner.

  • Type "every Tuesday" or "next Friday" and the date fills itself in
  • Repeating tasks, reminders and calendars by month, week and day
  • Subscribe to calendar links and import .ics files
  • Planners with dated pages that link to your calendar
  • Projects with milestones, a kanban view and a progress bar
  • A Pomodoro timer you can start from any task

study

Remember what you learn.

  • Note cards with modern spaced repetition (FSRS)
  • Cards from text, handwriting, pictures or audio
  • Vocabulary decks with readings (furigana), meanings and audio
  • Bring your Anki decks with you
  • Flashcards, Learn and Quiz on your phone, too

music

Write music and hear it.

  • Staff notation, guitar tab, chord sheets and lead sheets
  • Play it back, loop a passage and change the tempo
  • Enter notes by typing, on-screen piano or a MIDI keyboard
  • Import and export MusicXML, MIDI and ABC

story maps

Map the world you're writing.

  • Coastlines, rivers and terrain that stay sharp however far you zoom
  • Pins that open a character, a scene or a note
  • Routes, curved labels, a compass rose and a scale bar
  • Saved views and a places list, so you never get lost

spaces

A home for each part of your life.

Group files into spaces (school, the novel, the shop) and give each one a board you decorate like a corkboard or a desk.

  • Spaces inside spaces, each with a board or a simple list
  • Sticky notes, Paper, photos, stickers, widgets and shortcuts on every board
  • Drag files and spaces wherever you want them
  • Tags, [[links]] between any files, and backlinks
  • Search the text of everything, including your handwriting
  • Quick capture to an Inbox from anywhere

on the go

Write on the train. Listen on the walk home.

On iPhone and Android phones, Tansy is a focused companion for writing and listening back to what you wrote.

  • Write and edit documents, scripts and chapters, with formatting right above the keyboard
  • Listen to your writing read aloud, even with the screen locked, from your headphones or lock screen
  • A sleep timer, and it picks up where you stopped
  • Study your decks, tick off planner tasks and add log entries
  • Notebooks, art and boards open to read and zoom
  • On Apple devices, start on your iPhone and carry on at the same spot on your iPad or Mac

no account, nothing collected

Your notebooks are just files. Yours to keep.

Every notebook is a file you can see in your folders, back up however you like, and keep forever, whether or not Tansy is open. There's no Tansy account, and the app collects nothing about you.

  • Sync your way

    Keep your library in iCloud Drive, or a folder you choose in OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Drive. Edits from two devices merge, so nothing gets lost.

  • Nothing lost

    Go back to an earlier version, name the ones that matter, or bring back something deleted by accident.

  • Automatic backups

    Daily encrypted backups to any folder or drive you choose, and the whole library as one file whenever you like.

  • Locked when you want

    Lock Tansy with your face, fingerprint or a password, and encrypt a whole space.

  • Bring your notes

    Import from GoodNotes, Notion, Obsidian, Evernote and Scrivener.

  • Works offline

    On a plane or in a cabin, Tansy just opens.

made for everyone

Comfortable for your eyes, hands and brain.

Accessibility is built in, not bolted on.

Tansy speaks English, Spanish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

make it yours

Planners, stickers and whole spaces, right inside the app.

Browse hand-drawn planner templates, sticker packs and ready-made spaces in the Stationery Shop, then drop them straight into your notebooks and boards. The Travel, School and Music starter sets come free. Buy only what you like and keep it forever, with no subscription here either.

For your own use: print your pages and share pictures of them, but please don't sell the stickers or templates, or things made with them.

simple pricing

Buy it once. It's yours.

Try everything free for 14 days. Then one purchase, and no monthly fee to keep writing in your own notebooks. Ever.

Tansy

One-time purchase

$19.99$29.99

Launch price from launch day until September 10, 2027. $29.99 after that.

  • All ten kinds of file, from notebooks and novels to canvases and sheet music
  • Unlimited files, stored as your own files
  • One purchase covers your iPad, iPhone and Mac
  • Free Travel, School and Music starter sets
  • Buy in the first 30 days for a free Release Journal template
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If you don't buy after the trial, everything you made still opens, prints and exports. Nothing is locked away.

Where to get it

  • App StoreiPad and iPhoneiPadOS and iOS 16 or later
  • Mac App StoreMacmacOS 13 or later
  • Microsoft StoreWindowsWindows 11
  • Google PlayAndroid tablets and phonesAndroid 10 or later

Windows and Android are each bought in their own store.

Questions, answered

Is there a subscription?

No. You pay once for the app and it's yours. Templates, sticker packs and spaces in the Stationery Shop are optional one-off purchases.

How much does it cost?

$19.99 from launch day on August 12, 2027 until September 10, 2027, then $29.99. Either way it's a single purchase.

Can I try it first?

Yes. Every new install gets a free 14-day trial with everything unlocked. If you don't buy, everything you made still opens, reads, prints and exports; making and editing need the purchase.

Which devices does it run on?

iPad, iPhone, Mac, Windows and Android, from the App Store, Mac App Store, Microsoft Store and Google Play. On Apple devices, one purchase covers your iPad, iPhone and Mac; Windows and Android are each bought in their own store. You'll need iPadOS or iOS 16, macOS 13, Windows 11 or Android 10, or later.

What can I do on my phone?

Write and edit documents, scripts and chapters, listen back to what you wrote, study your decks, tick off planner tasks and add log entries. Notebooks, art and boards open to read and zoom. Spaces and their boards are for bigger screens.

Where are my notebooks saved?

In a library you choose: iCloud Drive, a folder in OneDrive, Dropbox or Google Drive, or just on your device. They're regular files you can see. Nothing is uploaded to us, there's no Tansy account, and the app collects no data about you.

Can I use it on more than one device?

Yes. Put your library in iCloud Drive or a synced folder, and Tansy merges changes from each device so neither side's edits are lost.

Can I bring my notes from another app?

Tansy imports exports from GoodNotes, Notion, Obsidian, Evernote and Scrivener, plus Word, Markdown, PDF, ePub, Fountain, Final Draft, Anki, MusicXML and PSD files, and brushes from Procreate, Photoshop and Clip Studio.

Do I need a stylus?

Only for handwriting and drawing. Documents, scripts, tasks, cards and tables work great with just a keyboard. Apple Pencil, Windows pens, Android styluses and drawing tablets all work.

Which languages is it in?

Tansy's menus and buttons come in English, Spanish, Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. You can write in any language, with furigana and vertical writing for Japanese and Chinese.

Can I use Stationery Shop stickers and templates in things I sell?

No. They're for your own use: print your pages and share pictures of them, but please don't sell the stickers or templates, or pages made with them, or use them for business.

When does it launch?

On August 12, 2027, after a small private beta in the weeks before.

How do I join the beta?

Leave your email in the beta form at the bottom of this page and tell us which device you'd test on. The beta is small, so not everyone gets a spot; we'll email you if you're in, and everyone on the list hears when Tansy launches. Testers install it through TestFlight on Apple devices, the Microsoft Store on Windows and Google Play on Android.

Join the beta.

Try Tansy before anyone else and help shape it before it launches on August 12, 2027. The beta is small, so we'll email you if you get a spot. Everyone on the list hears when Tansy launches.