Early access · Founding members
Catalog your fountain pens and inks with real swatches.
A tactile catalog for collectors — log every pen, nib, and ink; track what’s inked; compare swatches that don’t lie. We’re building it now. Add your name to the founding members.
Join the waitlist — your entry on the founding members’ page.
A note from the ink shelf
Entry — written in the usual hurry
You’re standing at the ink shelf, phone out, squinting at a swatch photo you shot eight months ago on whatever paper was on the desk — and you still can’t tell if that teal is the one you already own. Twice. The pen you meant to flush three weeks ago is starting to crust. The spreadsheet hasn’t been opened since the day you made it.
The records exist; they’re just scattered. Screenshots in one folder, a half-filled sheet in another, and the pairing you swore you’d remember — which pen loved which ink — gone the moment you sat down to write.
NibNote keeps it in one place: the pens, the nibs, the inks, the pairings — with swatches recorded honestly, and a clear answer to “what’s inked right now?”
What we’re building
Four things, built for the way collectors actually keep records — not a productivity tool, a collector’s pleasure.
Catalog
Brand, model, nib grind (EF / F / M / B / stub / flex), filling system (piston, c/c, eyedropper, vac), and the notes only you’d write. One catalog, every detail.
Swatches
Paint a swab or photograph it, then compare side by side. Tag shading, sheen, and shimmer so you stop buying the same teal three times.
Rotation
Mark what’s loaded in which pen and when. A gentle nudge when it’s time to flush. Always know what’s inked — without opening a single drawer.
Wishlist
The bottles you’re hunting, with price notes and where you spotted them — instead of a graveyard of screenshots and open browser tabs.
Planned pricing
Nothing is charged while we’re in early access. These are the plans we’re planning — prices may still change before launch.
Free
Collection log
NibNote Plus
$2.99 / month
Planned · subject to change
Questions, answered honestly
We’re building NibNote now. Founding members on the waitlist get early access first — and a real say in what we build. We’ll write to you before anyone else the moment there’s something to try.
Early access ahead of launch, a founding member’s spot, and the occasional note as we build — questions we’re wrestling with, swatches we’re testing. No spam, and nothing to pay.
That’s the plan. If you’ve kept a sheet of pens or inks, we want bringing it in to be painless — not a retyping chore. Reply to our first email and show us your columns; it shapes how we build the importer.
Real. You record your own swatches — painted swabs or photos — not a generic color picker. Stock approximations lie; your paper, your ink, and your light don’t.
Either. Paint a swab card or snap a photo — both work. Plus adds side-by-side comparison so you can line up the near-identical ones and finally tell them apart.
We’re still settling the order. Tell us where you’d reach for it most when you join — at the desk, at the pen show, on the couch — and it genuinely steers what we build first.
Every pen. Every ink. What’s inked, and what you’re hunting. Be here when it opens.
The last line of the page — add your entry.