You might know about MyScript from their enterprise handwriting apps for Windows tablets, but now the company is targeting mobile keyboard-averse consumers with a new iOS app for iPhone and iPad users and a beta app for Android users.
MyScript Stylus for iOS and Android offer an alternative to typing on your device’s cramped onscreen keypad or your add-on keyboard accessory. The two handwriting apps feature an interactive panel that lets you write in handwritten print and cursive text using a stylus or your fingertip.
The apps have an auto scrolling input panel that lets you write in any application including email, text documents, calendar, web browser, SMS, MMS, etc. As you write, you can see your handwritten text digitized instantly. MyScript Stylus also lets you edit and correct content using intuitive gestures to split, join, overwrite, and erase characters, words or sentences.
Based on recent user reviews, MyScript has polished its Stylus apps well enough to compete with other popular handwriting apps like Google Handwriting Input, Inkredible, MetaMoJi Note, and Papyrus. MyScript Stylus for iOS is available now on the App Store, and the MyScript Stylus Beta for Android is available on Google Play.
Developer tools for built-in handwriting apps
MyScript also offers its patents pending technology to developers who want to include handwriting as an input method in applications for tablets, smart phones, and other devices in the Internet of Things. MyScript can be integrated as a standalone application or as a complement to an existing input method, and there are lots of customization options.
MyScript Stylus uses the Single Line Text Widget found in the Application Toolkit (ATK) for iOS. You can evaluate and implement this functionality in your own iOS application by downloading the latest ATK 1.2 from the MyScript Developer Program website. An ATK for Android is also available.
MyScript also offers a cloud development kit for web-based online applications, and native access (offline mode) to the company’s core handwriting app technology through its software development kit (SDK).
