Tenone Design, makers of the Pogo Sketch and PogoStylus products for the Mac and iPhone, have released Inklet, an application for Mac OS X meant to turn a Mac portable's trackpad into a graphics. Apr 20, 2020 - Inklet turns your MacBook trackpad into a pen tablet. It’s great for artists and presenters.

1. Inklet displays a canvas in most popular drawing and image apps, like Photoshop, Brushes, SketchBook Pro, and Illustrator, on which your trackpad movements become pen and brush strokes.
2. Inklet articles on MacRumors.com. Following its March 9 media event where it introduced 'Force Touch' trackpad technology for the new 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro and upcoming 12-inch MacBook, Apple.

TenOneDesign, makers of the popular Pogo and Pogo Connect tablet pens (among other things), are the first to market with a Mac desktop application that takes advantage of the Force Touch trackpads in Apple's new MacBook and refreshed 13' Retina MacBook Pro. Rather sweetly named Inklet, the application runs in the background to allow users with any capacitative tablet pen to convert the capabilities of the new trackpad into a pressure-sensitive writing and drawing pad -- no Wacom needed (sort of).

Apple's new Force Touch trackpad provides something it calls haptic feedback -- a technology first introduced in the still-to-be-released Apple Watch. Using pressure sensors to record levels of pressure and magnets to supply feedback, the new trackapd allows for unprecedented expansion of the functionality of such a device on a mobile machine; and Inklet is the first app to take advantage of this technology.

Naturally, one might notice the trackpad built into your MacBook (which is roughly or exactly the same size of the new Force Touch trackpads) is quite a bit smaller than even the smallest Wacom tablets, which certainly brings real-world useability into question. While TenOneDesign has developed a unique and seemingly excellent solution to this problem with the implementation of 'workspaces,' which can really only best be described in the video above, the desire for the handiness Wacom Intuos tablet may not vanish, even if the need technically does.

Responsiveness and the detail of sensitivity (or number of levels of sensitivity) do seem to be leave plenty of room for improvement if these specifications were to be paired up against those of the Wacom Intuos tablets. But for a physically compact (a.k.a. infinitly small/virtual), 25-dollar, software-based application that you can download instantly compared to a tablet at least four times the cost, weight, and space, Inklet isn't a bad deal for someone who just needs the occasional added functionality of a pressure-sensitive trackpad or for even for the mobile pro in a bind to quickly edit a file and deliver it on the go.

Despite the fact that I don't draw at all, my Wacom Intuos tablet became an indispensable tool for making quick selections, brushing/dodging/burning/etc. more easily and accurately, and -- most importantly in terms of time-savings -- spotting my film scans to get every last speck of dust out of my images.

While I certainly think Inklet would make it onto a future MacBook of mine (once I upgrade to one with Force Touch sometime in the future), I honestly still don't see myself ever completely getting rid of my Wacom. Thankfully, TenOneDesign doesn't suggest that I should. So here's to Inklet: a life-saver for the photographer that has a capacitative pen, bought a newer MacBook with Force Touch, and happens to be traveling all at the same time.

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Inklet is available from TenOneDesign for $24.95 or with a Pogo pen for $34.90.

Tenone Design, makers of the Pogo Sketch and PogoStylus products for the Mac and iPhone, have released Inklet, an application for Mac OS X meant to turn a Mac portable's trackpad into a graphics tablet. The application not only allows users to draw directly on a trackpad, it also utilizes Mac OS X's built-in handwriting recognition engine. Additionally, the application can tell the difference between a palm and a Pogo Sketch tip, so resting a hand on the trackpad while drawing isn't a problem.

Inklet is intended for use with the company's Pogo Sketch stylus, but it also reportedly works with a finger as an input device. If you want pressure sensitivity, however, the Pogo Sketch stylus is needed. The application does require certain multitouch-enabled trackpads, such as the one built into the unibody MacBook/MacBook Pro and the newest white plastic MacBooks. The best way to figure out if your model is compatible is to download the free version of the application and give it a try.

There is no question that Inklet and a Pogo Sketch could replace a traditional graphics tablet for some users, such as those sold by Wacom, though serious graphic artists are still going to want full-featured solutions. The surface area of a MacBook's trackpad just isn't large enough for much graphic use and, if you look carefully, you will find that the tip of the Pogo Sketch isn't very fine, making us wonder just how precise a user can get with it. That being said, if you are just looking to play with handwriting recognition, create a quick sketch, or sign the occasional document, you aren't going to find anything cheaper.

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The full version of Inklet will set you back $24.95, but you can get a Pogo Sketch bundled with it for $34.95. If you end up picking one up, let us know about your experience. It may not be the Apple tablet, but it also won't cost you an arm and a leg.