Did you catch Apple's announcement of Pencil Pro? We certainly did. The new hardware was in our hands days later so we could bring you this 6.5 update.
In brief: Pencil Pro, when paired with the new iPad Pro or iPad Air, lets you squeeze the Pencil to access on-the-fly palettes and menus. We loved it during our testing and tweaked our palettes to make Penbook quicker than ever.
You will also get hover pencil tip shapes, pencil rotation support to orient the pencil nib direction, and a funky 3d-modelled mirror-world shadow of your pencil (e.g. you'll see a fountain pen's shadow and orientation right on the screen). If this sounds weird, it is – but it’s effective, too. Here's what it looks like.
If you've picked up the new hardware, we'd love to hear what you think.