When typing is not enough, write across the entry.
Premium handwriting keeps PencilKit ink beside structured text, photos, replies, and quotes without flattening the entry into an image.
Updated August 25, 2026
Where can I create handwriting in DiaryThreads?
Verified Premium users can create or redraw handwriting with Apple Pencil or a finger on iPhone and iPad in new entries, replies, quotes, and edits. Mac preserves, displays, syncs, exports, and deletes compatible handwriting, while handwriting creation remains on iPhone and iPad.
- Creation
- iPhone and iPad with Apple Pencil or a finger
- Premium
- Required to create or redraw ink
- Entry types
- New entries, replies, quotes, and edits
- Character allowance
- Handwriting does not count toward 140 characters
- Mac
- Preserves and displays synced ink; no creation surface
- After Premium expires
- Existing ink remains viewable, syncable, exportable, and deletable
Ink and text stay in one record
Handwriting overlays the structured text canvas while keeping paragraphs, to-dos, lists, media, replies, and quotes intact. An entry may also be published with handwriting and no text.
Strokes do not consume the ordinary entry character allowance. When a text edit intersects anchored strokes, DiaryThreads asks before removing only the affected ink.
Designed for the device in your hand
iPhone and iPad use Apple Pencil or finger input through the system PencilKit tools. The creation surface follows the mobile editing experience.
Mac keeps mobile-authored ink readable and preserves it through edits, private iCloud sync, import/export paths, and deletion without exposing a misleading drawing tool.
Your existing writing remains yours
Premium is required when adding or redrawing handwriting. If Premium later expires, existing ink stays available for viewing, syncing, exporting, and deletion.
This access boundary keeps previously created diary content usable while reserving new handwriting creation for verified Premium access.
Questions about this topic
Can I create handwriting on Mac?
No. Creation is available on iPhone and iPad. Mac preserves and displays compatible synced handwriting.
Does handwriting count toward the 140-character allowance?
No. PencilKit strokes are separate from visible text character counting.
What happens to existing ink if Premium expires?
It remains viewable, syncable, exportable, and deletable. Creating or redrawing ink requires verified Premium.