EncriaDownloadIf you write by hand every day — lectures, meetings, a journal, field notes — the hard part was never the writing. It is getting the page back on the day it matters. Encria turns a stack of pages into clean digital text, with the words it was unsure of flagged under the original.
No account required. Your pages stay on your device.
A notebook is the fastest place to think and the slowest place to look something up. Six months of pages hold the decision you made in March, the reference someone gave you in passing, the name of the person you promised to call back — and none of it answers a search.
Retyping it all is honest work that nobody keeps up: a page takes longer to type than it took to write. Generic scanner apps offer to do it for you, then hand back text that mangles proper nouns, swallows line breaks and quietly invents words. We explain why in why OCR fails on handwriting. Handwriting needs a tool built for handwriting.
Photograph a page or import several images from Photos. One transcription takes up to three pages on the free tier and twenty with Encria Pro, so a meeting or a run of lecture notes stays in one document instead of scattering into a dozen files.
The raw transcription is always kept, word for word. On top of it, “Improve after transcription” — on by default — repairs reading errors and broken sentences. The language is detected automatically, so a bilingual notebook needs no setting.
The transcription sits under the photo of your page, and every word the engine was unsure about is underlined. Tap one to correct it — no re-reading the whole page, and no going back and forth between the screen and the paper on your desk.
Everything lands in a local library on your iPhone and iPad. Browse your history, edit the text, then copy or share it into your notes app, a document, or an email.
Handwriting is personal: the shortcuts, the swallowed letters, the abbreviations that mean something only to you. Encria remembers the corrections you make on your device and reuses them in later transcriptions.
Not every page should be tidied up. An interview, a quotation you intend to cite, a legal note, the draft of something still being written — moving a comma there changes the record. Encria never makes you choose between the two: the raw reading is kept whatever you do.
Whatever the settings, Encria keeps exactly what it read, word for word, and that raw text stays available for verification and recovery. It is the version that counts when the page is the record: interviews, citations, archive material, anything you might have to defend line by line.
“Improve after transcription”, on by default, repairs reading errors, fragments and broken sentences while preserving your spelling, abbreviations and writing style. Add “Correct spelling” and it also fixes agreement, punctuation and grammar. Turn it off for meeting notes you want verbatim; leave it on for lecture notes you will rework anyway.
Lecture notes become revision material: search a term, paste an extract into an outline, send the page to someone who missed the session.
Decisions and actions written at speed become a recap the people who were not in the room can actually read.
Years of personal pages, kept in a local library on your device, legible again without deciphering your own handwriting from 2019.
Interviews, observations and references, with every doubtful word flagged before they make their way into a paper or a thesis.
Start free with 10 pages a month. Encria Pro raises the limit to 500 pages a month when the stack grows.