Your books read aloud in the car with CarPlay, pens that write like ink on paper, and your tools down the side of a page that fills the screen. NEW • Listen in the car with CarPlay: choose a book on the car's screen and it reads on from where you left off. • On the car's screen, skip between chapters and change the reading speed without reaching for your phone. • Kokoro reads in eight languages, with 54 voices: English, Spanish, French, Hindi, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese. • The book you were listening to waits at the foot of the bookshelf, ready to go on in a tap, even after the app has been closed. • Choose how far Back and Forward skip, from 10 seconds to a minute, by holding the buttons in the player. • Send the reading to an AirPlay speaker from the player. • Kokoro's voices have faces: a portrait beside each as you choose, and the face of the one reading in the player. • Choose the voice from the player, next to AirPlay. • Your pens finish each stroke the way ink does on paper: a little heavier where you press, and running out to a point as the pen lifts. • Every pen has a panel of its own: how its ends taper, how it answers pressure, its thickness and darkness, with a sample stroke. • Highlighters can lay down dots or dashes, and rule themselves straight. • Lined, dotted and squared paper can have lines in a colour and spacing of your choosing. • The paper itself, and its lines, can be any colour you like. • New notebooks start on pages the shape of your screen, so the page fills it edge to edge. • Apple's own pen palette, if you prefer it: switch it on under More. • Scroll or turn past the last page and a fresh one is waiting. IMPROVED • The tools stand down a rail at the side of the page, and the page runs the whole height of the screen. One tap folds the rail away. • Lines on the paper stay crisp however far out you zoom. • Starting a notebook is simpler: cover and first page side by side, and the paper's colour, lines and spacing to hand. • Kokoro's British voices speak with British pronunciation. • Play, Back and Forward answer at once: Kokoro keeps what it has just read, and begins a long sentence while the rest is made. • Kokoro is ready as a book opens, so the first tap on Listen isn't a wait. • Trying a voice pauses the book, which goes on when the sample ends. • Under their names: Heart is Kokoro's best, Nicole whispers, and the three Santas are who you'd think. • Come back from a pause and the voice starts its sentence again; after a long break, the one before it too. • When the sleep timer runs out, the voice finishes its sentence before it stops. • Kokoro's voices fade out gently as you pause, and back in as you play. • Kokoro's voices keep downloading while you use another app, and a download that stops carries on from where it got to. • On iPhone, typing past the foot of a page carries on at the top of the next. • A pen set lighter stays that shade where strokes cross, or where you go over a letter. • Neat Writing and tapered ends settle a word at a time as you pause, never under the pen. • Ink follows the paper under your pen, so it shows on a dark page beside a light one. • The pen panel's sample stroke is as thick as the line it draws on the page. FIXED • On iPhone, the keyboard stays up when you start typing in a text box. • Light ink no longer turns dark a moment after you lift the pen. • A line snapped straight no longer leaves the line you drew beside it. • A stroke you undo no longer comes back when you write again. • A stroke written just as a page is added or synced is no longer lost. • The preview of a shape you hold to snap shows in your own ink, not black. • Arrows no longer have a darker tip in a light pen or a highlighter. • In the zoom window, the box moves on as soon as you write into the margin. • If a Kokoro voice can't start, an Apple voice reads on rather than leaving you in silence. Thanks for reading with Apricity.