It's never been easier to share notes and audio.
Record and Play Back
Smartpens record everything you write and hear so you’ll never miss a word. Replay your meetings or lectures simply by tapping on your notes¹.
Save, Search and Organize
Livescribe™ Desktop saves your notes and recordings to your computer for fast, easy access to what’s important. Search for words within your notes and find what you need fast.
Send and Share with Livescribe Connect
Easily send notes and audio to people and destinations such as Email², Google Docs™², Facebook, Evernote®, Microsoft® OneNote, Google Sites™², MyLivescribe, your mobile device or your computer³ — all from your paper or Livescribe Desktop!
4GB of Memory: Room for Recordings, Notes, and Applications
Whether you're digitizing your notes and audio, or adding additional smartpen apps you'll need storage space; with 4GB of memory, your smartpen has it. A 4GB smartpen can hold over 400 hours of audio*, 64,000 pages of notes, or hundreds of applications.
Included Smartpen Applications
Your Echo smartpen comes loaded with applications ready to work right out of the box:
| • Livescribe Connect Premium: Easily send and share notes and audio to Email, Google Docs™, Facebook, Evernote®, Microsoft® OneNote, Google Sites™, MyLivescribe, your mobile device or your computer |
| • Quick Record: record audio without using dot paper with just a press of a button |
| • Quick Calc: Write an addition, subtraction, multiplication or division problem on dot paper and get the answer on your smartpen screen |
| • Launch Line: launch your favorite app by writing it's name |
| • Password: protect your recorded paper replay sessions with a 4-digit number |
| • System Utilities: multiple language support, time, date, storage info, and battery charge |
Customize Your Smartpen with More Apps
Enhance your productivity and learning with additional apps like the American Heritage® English Dictionary or the American Heritage® Spanish Dictionary. Transcribe your handwritten notes into editable text by adding the MyScript for Livescribe application. Learn travel phrases in a foreign language. Get help studying geometry, organic chemistry, or guitar chords. Play games like Blackjack, Hangman, or Sudoku.
You can even use your Echo smartpen as a mouse and turn your dot paper notebooks into an extension of your screen. Mark up slides, presentations, PDFs, documents, and spreadsheets quickly and easily from your dot paper using the Paper Tablet app.
Livescribe Dot Paper
Livescribe dot paper uses regular paper printed with a unique pattern of tiny microdots. This tiny pattern works a lot like a GPS system for your smartpen. It allows a smartpen to capture everything it writes or draws on dot paper.
Livescribe smartpens only work with Livescribe Dot Paper, so we've created a variety of dot paper sizes and types: College-ruled Notebooks, Lined Journals, Blank Journals, Mini Journals, A5-sized Notebooks, Grid Notebooks, Flip Notepads, and Sticky Notes. You can even print your own dot paper for free from within Livescribe Desktop on many printers.
What You Get in the Box
- The Echo smartpen with 4GB of memory
- Livescribe Connect Premium: Includes Connect Basic (Facebook, Evernote, MyLivescribe, your mobile device, and your computer)
plus additional connectors for Email and Google Docs - Livescribe Desktop software for Mac or Windows (download)
- 500 MB of personal online storage
- Starter dot paper notebook
- Micro USB Cable
- Interactive Getting Started Guide
- Smartpen Tips and Tricks
- 2 smartpen caps
- 2 ink cartridges
What You Need: System Requirements
- Windows XP® 32-bit SP2 or higher, or Windows® Vista 32 or 64-bit, or Windows® 7
- Intel Mac with Mac OS X® 10.5.5 or higher
- 600MHz CPU or higher
- 300 MB minimum free disk space
- Available USB 2.0 port
- Livescribe Desktop 2.7 for WIndows or Mac OS
- Smartpen firmware version 2.7 or later
- Internet connection
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| Total hours of recording time* | 200 | 400 | 800 | 800 |
Livescribe Connect Basic
Evernote, Facebook, Microsoft OneNote, MyLivescribe,
your mobile device, and your computer | • | • | • | • |
Livescribe Connect Premium
Includes all Connect Basic connectors plus
Email, Google Docs, and Google Sites | | • | • | • |
| Smartpen Portfolio | | | | • |
| 3-D Recording Premium Headset | | | | • |
MyScript® for Livescribe Software
Converts handwritten notes to digital text | | | | • |
Livescribe Desktop
software for Mac® or Windows® | • | • | • | • |
| 500 MB of personal online storage | • | • | • | • |
| Livescribe Starter Paper | • | | | |
| Livescribe Starter Notebook | | • | • | • |
| Micro USB Cable | • | • | • | • |
| Rubberized Grip | | • | • | • |
| Ink Cartridges | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Smartpen Caps | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
*Actual recording time varies by audio quality setting.
¹ Livescribe paper required – don't record without permission
² These connectors are available only with Livescribe Connect Premium
³ Mobile device access requires Pencast Player App or Flash®—enabled web browser
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
I am a great believer in Livescribe's smartpens. The first offering three years ago Livescribe 2 GB Pulse Smartpen has worked perfectly ever since. It is not exactly svelte, but it had the capacity to record 200 hours of audio and has proved to be an extremely reliable and useful tool for a busy litigation practice.
