PenForm
Perfect your handwriting, one letter at a time.
Practice Print, Cursive, Italic, Greek, or Russian/Cyrillic with guided lessons on iPad or iPhone, then drill any letter on your own in Free Practice.
PenForm turns your iPad or iPhone into a personal handwriting coach. Trace and write real letters and words with Apple Pencil or your finger, get instant on-device feedback, and watch your mastery grow letter by letter.
Everything you need to write better
Privacy Policy
Last updated: 15 July 2026
PenForm is designed to respect your privacy. This policy explains what the app accesses on your device, why, and what happens to it. In short: PenForm has no sign-up, no login, and no user accounts of any kind, and there is no backend server of any kind for this app. Everything you practice stays on your device, with one optional exception, an iCloud backup you control entirely through your own Apple ID, explained below.
Accounts
PenForm does not require you to sign up, log in, or create an account of any kind. The app is fully usable standalone.
Handwriting input
When you trace or write during a lesson or in Free Practice, your pen or finger strokes are captured on-device using Apple's PencilKit framework and scored on-device. This handwriting data is never uploaded to any server, because PenForm has no backend server of any kind.
Practice progress
Your mastery scores per letter, practice streak, XP, levels, and earned achievements are stored locally on your device only.
iCloud backup (optional)
PenForm can back up a small snapshot of your progress, your mastery scores, streak, XP, completed lessons, and earned achievements, but not your actual handwriting strokes, to your own private iCloud account. This happens automatically, and you can also trigger it manually using the "Back up now" and "Restore" controls in Settings. This uses Apple's NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore, which stores the data in your personal iCloud account. We have no access to this data, no copy of it, and no server that receives it, it is entirely under your control through your own Apple ID and iCloud settings.
Game Center (optional)
If you are already signed into Game Center at the system level, PenForm reports the IDs of achievements you earn to Apple's Game Center service so they appear in the system Game Center dashboard. This is governed by Apple's own Game Center and Apple ID privacy terms, not by us, we do not control or separately store this data.
Notifications
PenForm can schedule local reminders on your device, for example to help keep your practice streak going, using Apple's UserNotifications framework. These reminders are scheduled entirely on your device, and nothing about them is sent anywhere.
Information we do not collect
- No analytics or usage tracking of any kind.
- No advertising and no ad networks; PenForm does not use advertising identifiers.
- No third-party SDKs of any kind, only Apple's own frameworks (SwiftUI, SwiftData, PencilKit, GameKit, and UserNotifications).
- No access to your camera, microphone, location, contacts, or photo library.
- We do not sell, rent, or share your data with any third party.
- No cross-app or cross-site tracking.
Data retention and deletion
All of your practice data lives locally on your device. Deleting or uninstalling PenForm removes it, with one exception: if you have used the optional iCloud backup, that snapshot remains in your own iCloud account until you remove it yourself through your iCloud settings. We cannot delete it on your behalf, because we never have access to it.
Children's privacy
PenForm does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, including children. There are no accounts, and no data leaves your device other than the optional backup to your own iCloud account, which is controlled entirely by you.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new "last updated" date.
Contact
Questions about this policy or your privacy in PenForm? Email nagy.lukas50@gmail.com.