Built for iPad and Apple Pencil
The Apple Pencil math solver.
Write the problem on your iPad with the Pencil the way you would in a notebook. Canvas Math reads it, solves it exactly, and graphs the result — pressure, tilt, and palm rejection make it feel like paper.
Canvas Math is an Apple Pencil math solver: write a problem on your iPad with the Pencil, and it reads your handwriting in place, solves it exactly with a symbolic engine, and graphs the result live. Pressure, tilt shading, and palm rejection make it feel like writing on paper — not tapping a calculator.
The engine, running on the page.
This is the same plotting engine your Apple Pencil drives inside Canvas Math, live here. On the iPad you write the problem; the curve, the area, and the field below are all computed from the math — never an image.
A right-Riemann sum under y = x² tightening toward the exact area as the rectangles multiply.
Writing on the iPad, not tapping a calculator
The two usual ways to do math on an iPad both put a wall between you and the work. A camera-scan app reads a photo of a problem you already wrote on paper and lists the steps; a calculator or graphing app makes you tap expressions into a keyboard. Either way, you are not writing on the iPad — you are operating an app about your math.
Canvas Math puts the Apple Pencil at the center. Strokes carry real pressure for line weight, the Pencil's tilt shades like a soft pencil, and palm rejection lets you rest your hand on the glass. You write the problem, it recognizes the ink and shows you what it read so you can correct it, and a computer-algebra engine returns the exact answer in your own handwriting.
Then it draws. Tap a result and the area fills under the curve, a tangent sweeps, a slope field flows, a 3D surface turns on the iPad's GPU — every frame computed from the math. A voice mode will even teach the steps out loud, working them by hand on the canvas.
Apple Pencil handwriting vs. the usual iPad math apps
A check marks where writing with the Pencil on a real canvas has the edge; a dash marks where the approaches are comparable.
| Dimension | Canvas Math | Scan & calculator apps | Canvas Math verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you write | Apple Pencil with pressure, tilt shading, palm rejection | Photo of your work or an on-screen keyboard | |
| Recognition | Reads Pencil ink as you write, with a correction gate | OCR on a still photo, or no handwriting at all | |
| The answer | Exact, from a symbolic engine, in your own ink | Steps from a scan, or you compute it yourself | |
| Graphing | Live graph drawn on the page, picked automatically | Separate calculator app, if any | |
| Motion & 3D | Animated calculus visuals and 3D surfaces on the iPad GPU | Static results | |
| Teaching | A voice teaches the work by hand on the canvas | Tap-through step lists at best |
Who it's for
If you have an iPad and an Apple Pencil and you already think best by writing math out by hand, this is built for you — keep working on the page and get the exact answer, the graph, and the explanation without switching apps. If you only ever need to scan a printed problem for steps, a camera app on your phone is quicker; Canvas Math is for doing the work yourself, on the iPad, with the Pencil.
Common questions
Is there an Apple Pencil math solver?
Yes. Canvas Math is built for the Apple Pencil: write a problem on your iPad with the Pencil and it recognizes your handwriting, solves it exactly with a symbolic engine, writes the answer back in your ink, and graphs the result live on the page.
Does Canvas Math use Apple Pencil pressure and tilt?
It does. Strokes respond to pressure for line weight, the Apple Pencil's tilt produces shading like a real pencil, and palm rejection lets you rest your hand on the iPad while you write. It is designed to feel like writing on paper, not tapping a calculator.
Can it solve handwritten calculus on an iPad?
Yes — from arithmetic through calculus and beyond. Write an integral or a differential equation by hand, and a computer-algebra engine returns the exact result, then graphs it: areas under curves, slope fields, phase portraits, and rotating 3D surfaces.
Do I need the latest iPad or Pencil?
No. Canvas Math runs in the browser on any iPad that supports an Apple Pencil, and a native iPad app with on-device, offline AI is in progress. Any stylus works too — S Pen, Surface Pen — and so does a finger.
Pick up the Pencil. Watch your math come alive.
Write it on the iPad, get it solved exactly, and see it graphed right where you wrote it.