PenCake: Minimal Writing App

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8.17K reviews
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Rated for 3+
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Rated for 3+
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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
Jul 17, 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
September 6, 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!
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Diffathy, Inc.
September 8, 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. :)
César
July 27, 2026
Simple, minimalist, functional, easy to use and aesthetically gorgeous. I love the new themes colors and fonts. Both, the Android app and the desktop versions are awesome. The only, _only thing_ that's a bit confusing is the way images are used. Took me a while to get the hang of it, but I guess it's because that's the way Markdown handle them. Request: could you guys add a way to crop any image in the body like the one used by the covers? Thank you so much!
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Chiparus Maria
September 8, 2026
finally one simple and perfect app for writting easy to use and absolutely not gonna make it hard for u to writte , im writting some of my books in it and its been lovely !
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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