PENCIL SPACES × APPLE

An entire classroom.
On every Apple device.

The classroom your tutoring runs on — built for Vision Pro, iPad, MacBook Neo, iPhone, and AirPods. Not retrofitted. Not ported. Built.

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The lineup

Six devices.
One classroom.

Each Apple device gets the part of Pencil Spaces it's best at. Hover any one to skip ahead.

/ 01 — Vision Pro
⊙  Apple Vision Pro · visionOS 2.4

An infinite whiteboard.
In infinite space.

On Vision Pro, the whiteboard isn't a window — it surrounds you. Pin a graphing tool here. A reference equation there. A small group breakout right where you're looking. The classroom becomes the room.

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The board becomes the room

Pin pages and tools anywhere in your space. Reference material here, student work there, the lesson video right where you look.

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Persona for natural eye contact

Native Persona support — teachers see students' real expressions and gaze, so questions don't get missed behind a headset.

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Hand and gaze, not menus

Built natively with the visionOS SDK. Pinch to draw. Look to select. The tools fade so the lesson can take over.

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Mac Virtual Display, integrated

Bring your MacBook Neo's whole screen into the same space — rich tools on Mac, infinite canvas in Vision Pro.

/ 02 — iPad
◐  iPad · Apple Pencil Pro

Where ink meets imagination.

We rebuilt our ink engine for Apple Pencil Pro. Pressure curves tuned for handwriting. Hover preview on iPad Pro. Sub‑100 ms ink — below the threshold where writing stops feeling like writing.

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True pressure, tilt, and squeeze

Full PencilKit support. Variable line weight, shading on tilt, the squeeze gesture for the tool palette.

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Hover preview on iPad Pro

Students see exactly where their stroke lands before it lands. Small thing. Big difference for kids learning to write.

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Scribble & handwriting recognition

Students hand-write answers. Pencil Spaces auto-grades them — in math, English, and dozens of languages including non-Latin scripts.

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Stage Manager & multi-window

Pencil Spaces alongside Notes, Calculator, or a Safari tab. The full power of iPadOS, used the way iPad was built for.

/ 03 — MacBook Neo
⊞  MacBook Neo · From $499 with education pricing
Hello, Neo.

At $499 with education pricing, MacBook Neo is the most accessible Mac Apple has ever made — built for the way schools learn. Pencil Spaces opens in Safari. No download, no install. Sign in and teach.

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Education pricing for K-12, university, and certified educators worldwide.

A18 Pro

The same chip in iPhone 16 Pro — fanless, silent, AI-ready.

16 hr

Battery that lasts a full school day on a single charge.

4 colors

Silver, Blush, Citrus, Indigo — with color-matched keyboards.

Mac is more than Neo.

Pencil Spaces runs on every Mac Apple ships. From the laptop cart to the computer lab to the kiosk by the front desk.

Computer Lab

iMac

The 24-inch all-in-one. One profile per period, swap students at the bell. Continuity Camera built into the bezel.

Kiosk · Cart

Mac mini

Pair with a Studio Display for a tutoring station. Park it under the desk; the room stays yours.

Creator labs

Mac Studio

For schools running Final Cut, Logic, or Xcode tutoring. Pencil Spaces sits in Stage Manager next to the project.

/ 04 — iPhone
▢  iPhone · Live Activities

Class, in your pocket.

Class starts in 5? It's already on the Lock Screen. Tomorrow's homework? It's a widget. A parent wants to peek in? One tap.

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Live Activities & Dynamic Island

The countdown to class lives in the Dynamic Island. Late students get a tap, not an email.

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Lock Screen widgets

Today's classes, tomorrow's prep, this week's assignments — glanceable from a locked phone.

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Sign in with Apple, everywhere

Offered to every parent, every student, every educator. The most private way to sign in to anything.

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/ 05 — Apple Watch
⌚  Apple Watch · watchOS 11

Class, on your wrist.

A complication on the watch face. A Live Activity when class starts. A haptic tap when a student raises a hand. For tutors who walk between rooms, the watch is the quietest interface we ship.

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Live Activities, on the wrist

The same Live Activity that lives in iPhone's Dynamic Island runs on Apple Watch. A countdown to class without lifting the phone.

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Today's lesson, glanceable

A complication on Modular, Infograph, or Wayfinder shows the next class and how many students are already in the room. Tap to start.

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Haptic alerts when a student needs you

Raise-hand gestures send a directional haptic. Over time you learn to feel which side of the room the question came from.

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One tap to start a session

Built with WatchKit. Open the room from the watch face — your phone unlocks the canvas, the watch becomes the controller.

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/ 06 — Apple Audio
◯  Apple Audio · AirPods · AirPods Max · Beats

Every word.
Especially the quiet ones.

Spatial Audio puts students inside the room. Active Noise Cancellation gets them through tests. Conversation Awareness drops the volume the moment a teacher speaks. Tuned for every Apple ear — from AirPods 4 in a 4th-grade classroom to AirPods Max on a tutor's commute.

Spatial Audio with head tracking

The teacher's voice comes from the front of the room, even as students turn their heads. Recordings sound like memory.

Active Noise Cancellation for tests

Test mode engages full ANC. The hallway disappears. The cafeteria disappears. The lesson stays.

Conversation Awareness

The moment a teacher speaks, the volume drops and ANC eases. The moment they stop, the lesson swells back.

Hearing aid mode (AirPods Pro 2)

Students who use AirPods Pro as hearing aids get the same first-class experience as everyone else. Same toggle. Same room.

Tuned for every Apple ear
AirPods Pro 2 AirPods Max AirPods 4 Beats Studio Pro Beats Solo 4 Beats Pill Made-for-iPhone hearing aids
/ 07 — Continuity
⇄  Continuity

Start anywhere.
Finish anywhere.

Hand off across Vision Pro, iPad, MacBook Neo, and iPhone. State syncs in under 100 ms across the whole Apple ecosystem. The whiteboard you started in Stage Manager is the one you finish in spatial computing.

/ 01 · Plan

On MacBook Neo

Author the lesson. Embed PDFs, YouTube, graphing tools. Sequence the breakouts.

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/ 02 · Teach

On iPad + Pencil

Walk the room. Hand-write annotations. Watch all 12 students draw at once.

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/ 03 · Immerse

In Vision Pro

Pin reference material in space. Pull breakout groups around a virtual table.

visionOS 2.4
/ 04 · Check in

From iPhone

Parents see a Live Activity. Admins see attendance. Tutors get a daily summary.

iOS · LIVE ACTIVITIES

Universal Control

One mouse, one keyboard, across iPad and Mac. Drag a worksheet from MacBook Neo straight onto an iPad whiteboard mid-lesson.

Continuity Camera

Use any iPhone as a document camera for a Mac during a tutoring session. Mount it on the desk; the worksheet appears on the board.

AirPlay to Apple TV

Send the lesson to the classroom TV with two taps. The teacher's iPad becomes the chalkboard and the room becomes the classroom.

SharePlay over FaceTime

Co-watch a recorded lesson with synced playback and shared annotations. Office hours that aren't bound to a Zoom link.

/ 08 — Built native
⌘  Swift · SwiftUI · Native APIs

Swift on every device.
Web where it makes sense.

Pencil Spaces ships native apps written in Swift and SwiftUI for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro. We use Apple's APIs the way Apple intended — not web shims, not bridges. Web on MacBook Neo because Safari is the right answer there. Native everywhere else.

PENCILKIT

Ink that feels like ink

The same engine Notes uses. Pressure, tilt, hover, squeeze — all of it. Sub-100 ms ink across iPad, Vision Pro, and Mac.

ACTIVITYKIT

Live Activities

Class countdowns, attendance, recording state — rendered by the system, updated server-side without waking the app.

WIDGETKIT

Lock Screen widgets

Today's classes, tomorrow's prep, a student's progress. SwiftUI widgets for iPhone, iPad, and macOS — single codebase.

WATCHKIT

Complications & haptics

Native Apple Watch app. Modular and Infograph complications. Directional haptics for raise-hand events.

VISIONOS SDK

Spatial whiteboards

Built with RealityKit and SwiftUI for visionOS. Hand and gaze input. Persona-aware rendering. The board floats because the SDK lets it.

SWIFT CHARTS

Analytics that feel native

Mastery charts, attendance trends, engagement curves — drawn with Swift Charts on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS.

SHAREPLAY

Co-watch recorded lessons

Send a recorded lesson over FaceTime. Synced playback, shared annotations, group questions — all on the system framework.

SWIFT PLAYGROUNDS

Teach Swift inside a Pencil Space

Coding tutors embed Swift Playgrounds in a board. The code runs on iPad. The whiteboard explains it. The future of CS tutoring.

/ 09 — Intelligence
✦  Apple Intelligence

Intelligence on device.
Privacy on principle.

We run Pencil Spaces' AI on Apple silicon wherever the model fits — handwriting recognition, distraction detection, summarization, translation. Less data leaves the device. Faster results. Lower cost for schools.

A+

Handwriting auto-grade

Run on the Neural Engine for math, science, and language responses. Even the messy ones.

RUNS ON-DEVICE

Focus monitoring

Spot when a student gets idle or switches tabs — without a single byte of behavior data leaving the device.

RUNS ON-DEVICE

Lesson summaries

End-of-class recap delivered to parents in dozens of languages, generated locally on the teacher's device.

PRIVATE CLOUD COMPUTE
/ 10 — Accessibility
◈  Built for every student

Accessible by default.

Apple builds the most accessible computers on earth. Pencil Spaces uses every API they ship — and a few of our own. Education is the audience this matters for most.

VOICEOVER

Full screen reader, every surface

Every panel, every button, every annotation has a VoiceOver label. Tested on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and visionOS.

LIVE CAPTIONS

On-device, real-time captions

System Live Captions transcribe the teacher in real time. We save the transcript inside the lesson recording, automatically.

SWITCH CONTROL

One-button navigation

Students with motor differences can drive the entire app with a single switch. Every interactive element is reachable, in order.

EYE TRACKING

Hands-free on iPad

iPadOS 18 ships system-level eye tracking. We respect it. Students who can't use their hands can still draw with their gaze.

PERSONAL VOICE

Speak with your own voice

Students using Personal Voice or Live Speech can answer questions through Pencil Spaces in a voice they helped create.

MFi HEARING

AirPods Pro 2 + MFi hearing aids

Hearing-aid mode on AirPods Pro 2. Made-for-iPhone hearing aids. Live Listen with iPhone as a remote mic. All supported.

/ 11 — Apple in Education
⊞  Apple in Education

Every part of Apple's
school stack, supported.

Pencil Spaces fits where Apple already is — in the IT closet, on the iPad cart, in the principal's MDM dashboard. Deploy in an afternoon.

DEPLOY

Apple School Manager

Push Pencil Spaces to a thousand iPads with one MDM profile. Zero-touch setup. SSO via Managed Apple IDs.

ASSIGN

Schoolwork & Classroom

Teachers assign Pencil Spaces activities through Schoolwork. Lock student iPads to a single board with Apple Classroom.

IDENTIFY

Managed Apple IDs & Sign in with Apple

Districts control identity. Students never type a password. Privacy-first by Apple's own definition.

INTEGRATE

PencilKit, FaceTime, Files, AirDrop

Native APIs, not web shims. Drag a file from Files into a board. AirDrop a worksheet to the whole class.

★  Trusted by educators

Real classrooms.
Real change.

“Pencil Spaces has been instrumental in our transformation — enabling us to serve more students and bring literacy to the children of Charlotte‑Mecklenburg.”
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Steve Hall Executive Director · Augustine Literacy Project
/ 12 — Privacy
◐  Privacy & Compliance

Privacy is a feature,
not a footnote.

We share Apple's view: students are not products. Pencil Spaces was architected around data minimization from day one. We don't sell data, don't show ads, and don't train AI on student work without explicit consent.

On Apple devices we go further: on-device processing wherever Apple Intelligence supports it, Sign in with Apple offered everywhere, and Managed Apple IDs so schools control identity — not us.

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Type II
Audited annually
FERPA
Compliant
United States
COPPA
Compliant
Under 13
GDPR
Compliant
European Union
CCPA
Compliant
California
ISO
27001
Certified
HIPAA
Compliant
Healthcare ed
SDPP
Signatory
Since 2021
Apple
Privacy Labels
Data Not Collected
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