PenCake: Minimal Writing App

Name: PenCake: Minimal Writing App
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.4210524559021 (8170 reviews)
Author: Diffathy, Inc.

Diffathy, Inc.

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About this app

A beautifully minimal space for your thoughts.
Pencake helps you focus on your words—whether you’re writing a journal, a story, or something just for yourself.

Since 2018, more than 2.3 million writers have chosen Pencake as their space to write in peace.

Its clean, distraction-free interface helps you focus entirely on your words. No clutter, no noise—just you and your story. With elegant typography and smooth spacing, writing on Pencake feels as natural and beautiful as writing in a real book.

Minimalist, yet powerful
- Clean and aesthetically refined interface
- Designed to enhance focus and creativity
- Beautiful fonts and themes that suit your mood

Writing made effortless
- Start writing instantly with an intuitive experience
- Enjoy smooth performance even with long-form writing
- Stay organized with “Stories” that group related entries

Write anywhere, anytime
- Sync your work seamlessly across all your devices
- Continue writing wherever inspiration strikes

Safe and secure writing
- Auto-save, version history, and trash recovery
- Face ID / Touch ID protection

Built for real writers
- Supports Markdown for flexible formatting
- Word and character count, image insertion, and preview mode
- Ideal for all kinds of writing—journaling, blogging, novel writing, and fanfiction

Whether you're an aspiring writer or just someone who loves writing in peace, Pencake offers a simple yet inspiring place to put your thoughts into words.

* Some features such as auto-sync, desktop access, themes, and advanced fonts are available through Premium.

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- Official website: https://pencake.app/
- Desktop app: https://pencake.app/download/desktop/
- FAQs: https://pencake.app/faq/
- Format text: https://pencake.app/guide/markdown/
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pencakeapp
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/pencakeapp

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Privacy Policy: https://pencake.app/privacy/

A private, focused space to write your journal, diary, notes & stories.

Updated on

17 Jul 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.

This app may share these data types with third parties
App activity, App info and performance and Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
App activity, App info and performance and Device or other IDs
Data isn’t encrypted
Data can’t be deleted

Ratings and reviews

7.6K reviews

A Google user

6 September 2019

It takes up quite some space for a note app. Nevertheless, I still love it as it has a minimalistic design which is so lovely. By the way, does it have back up? Like Google Drive etc. I would like to save it because if not, I'll have to transfer it to a notebook manually which is going to be really exhausting. Oh, and can you make us watch let's say 3 ads in order to add one extra book? It'll help a lot for those who can't pay. Thanks for the app though!

2 people found this review helpful

Diffathy, Inc.

8 September 2019

Hi, thank you for your great suggestions! :) It's superb helpful! We're now considering the exactly same idea to add more stories by watching some ads. For now, you can back up via Dropbox. We're now working hard to develop an auto-sync feature that supports Google Drive. We hope these helps you. If you have more ideas, please let us know. :)

Jessica Zhou

24 May 2024

Everything I wanted, & more. Theres a slight learning curve in the menu/home page for how to navigate between articles and documents, but it's easy to pick up. What makes this app truly impressive though, is the extensive extended keyboard short cuts which lets you access "" and () easily, so it doesn't break your flow when creative writing. The extensive list of shortcuts in that shortcuts bar is very very helpful, and increases my productivity by at least 300%.

1 person found this review helpful

Diffathy, Inc.

24 May 2024

Hello, thank you for using PenCake and for your positive feedback! We are delighted to know that our app has been helpful for your writing. We will continue to enhance PenCake by adding various features while maintaining its simplicity. If you have any feature requests, any issues, or any questions, please feel free to contact us. Thank you! :)

starstruck

28 July 2020

I really enjoy PenCake's features; they're easy to use, and minimal enough so you can keep track of everything. The design of the app is simple, and aesthetically pleasing. However, I do wish there was a way to manually rearrange the articles. Nonetheless, thank you for creating this app! (For users looking to download PenCake, I would like to note that you have a limit of two stories you can create unless you pay for a premium version, but the amount of "articles", or chapters, is unlimited.)

71 people found this review helpful

Diffathy, Inc.

10 August 2020

Thank you for your review with kindness! :) We promise you that we will add the way to manually rearrange the articles in the future. We will never stop improving this app. If you have other issues or suggestions, please feel free to let us know. Thank you! :)

What's new

PenCake 3.17

• Many new fonts added, now filterable by category
• 23 new themes added
• Adjust first-line indent width in two levels
• A smaller and a larger font size added
• Safer sync: a new step confirms the sync direction
• French and Indonesian supported
• Fixed a crash when editing a long entry
• Fixed a crash when exporting an image after a search
• Fixed indentation not applied when opening an entry after a search

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