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Graphite

Apple Pencil-first study app for your Obsidian vault: notes, handwriting, PDFs and lecture recordings as ordinary files. iPad, iPhone and Mac.

  • Completely free
  • macOS and iOS
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Graphite is a PDF toolkit, available on macOS and iOS.

Features described in its GitHub repository: Markdown support.

File formats mentioned: PDF, SVG and PNG.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “Graphite gives an Obsidian vault the notebook and PDF tools of Goodnotes without locking anything away.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “It opens an ordinary folder and edits it in place: notes stay Markdown, notebooks and slides stay PDF, drawings stay PNG, PDF or SVG, and recordings stay M4A.” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Graphite is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (Apache-2.0) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub Graphite-Note/Graphite (Apache-2.0)

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