Coming soon for iPad

Handwritten lessons that reveal one idea at a time.

LectureGlyph remembers not just what you put on the page, but the order you put it there — so you can build an explanation once, in your own hand, and walk your audience through it step by step.

A LectureGlyph page: a handwritten worked example finding the equation of a line, with drawing tools and a timeline of pause points
A lesson built in advance — every mark remembered, every pause chosen.

“Your handwriting does not simply sit on the page as a finished image. It becomes something you can teach with.”

— from the LectureGlyph manual

The idea

Write it once. Reveal it with intention.

1

Write

Build the page the way you normally would — notes, equations, diagrams, arrows, labels, sketches. LectureGlyph quietly remembers the order of every mark.

2

Pause

Place pause points between the ideas you want to keep separate. A pause point is a decision about pacing — a place where the explanation breathes.

3

Reveal

Present live, or record a video. The page returns from blank, piece by piece, in the sequence you built it — and waits at every pause point while you teach.

Demo

See the reveal in motion.

An early demonstration of handwriting, timing, pause points, and playback working together as one lesson.

Why one idea at a time

Attention needs a path.

When a full page of notes appears all at once, attention scatters. People read ahead, look sideways, and guess at which part matters now. Revealing one piece at a time gives attention a path: the audience sees the part you are talking about, and the rest waits its turn.

A slide deck moves between finished screens. LectureGlyph is built around the history of your work — the line being drawn, the label arriving after the diagram, the answer appearing only after the reasoning has earned it. The breaks fall where the thinking naturally breaks, not only where one slide ends and the next begins.

Inside the app

The page, the tools, and the timeline.

The LectureGlyph timeline: a ruler strip with red diamond pause points, page markers, playback transport, and a playhead
The timeline. Every diamond is a pause point — a place where the lesson stops and waits. The playhead shows where you are; pages divide the lesson into sections.
The floating drawing palette beside a dark notebook page with handwritten math
The tools. Pens, highlighter, shapes, text, and a lasso — with ink smoothing that steadies your hand.
The LectureGlyph Library showing notebook cards with dates and paper formats
The Library. Lessons live in notebooks; finished recordings keep a shelf of their own.

Draft manual

A guide written for teachers, not technicians.

The draft manual is already underway — the Library, pages, pause points, the drawing palette, the timeline, building a lesson, and recording, all in plain language. It is a working draft, but it gives early readers a real sense of what LectureGlyph is becoming.

Download the draft manual (PDF)

Interested in LectureGlyph?

Questions, classroom ideas, and early interest are all welcome.

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