Inktend

What it is

Fountain pen people all end up in the same place. A drawer of bottles, three pens inked at once, and no memory of which is which. Inktend answers the question that actually comes up: what is in that pen, and how long has it been sitting there?

Logging a fill means picking from a list rather than typing. The catalogue holds 13,792 inks, 1,784 pens and 862 brands, so whatever you just used is almost certainly already in there, with its real colour attached.

It watches the things you forget. A pen inked too long gets flagged for a flush. A known stainer raises a warning before it goes anywhere near a demonstrator. A shimmering ink tells you to clean the nib gently, and soon.

There is a shelf view that plots everything you own by hue and saturation, so you can see at a glance that you have nine blues and no orange at all. At the end of the year it prints you a card of every fill you logged.

Free to use. No account. Everything stays on the phone, and you can export all of it.

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Specification

Catalogue

13,792 inks · 1,784 pens · 862 brands

Runs on

iPhone, iOS 17 · home screen widget

Languages

5 · en de es fr ja

Terms

Free · no account · fully local

Web

inktend.com

Status

On the App Store