Built by someone who kept losing track of what was inked.

I own more fountain pens than I need and fewer than I want — which is, I've since learned, the natural state of everyone in this hobby. What I didn't own was any real sense of which ones were actually inked. I'd uncap a pen expecting Kon-peki and find it bone dry, or worse, find a nib crusted shut because a bottle of ink had been sitting in it since spring.

Every tracking app I tried treated my collection like a spreadsheet: a static inventory of pens and bottles, sorted and cross-referenced, technically complete and completely useless for the one question I actually had — what's inked, right now?

So Inktend starts there instead. The first thing you see isn't your archive — it's your rotation. What's filled, how long it's been filled, and a quiet nudge when it's time to clean a nib before it dries. Everything else — the ink library, the swatch photos, the Year in Ink recap — is built around that same rhythm: log a fill in ten seconds, forget about it, get reminded when it matters.

A few things I care about

Your collection is yours. Inktend doesn't require an account, doesn't hold your data hostage on a server somewhere, and exports everything — every pen, every ink, every fill — to a plain CSV whenever you want it. If you're coming from Fountain Pen Companion, importing is a single tap. Leaving should be just as easy, if you ever want to.

Depth over decoration. This is a small app made by one person, which means every feature had to earn its place. No social feed, no likes, no algorithm deciding what ink you should buy next — just a well-kept record of a hobby that rewards paying attention.

The hobby comes first. The 365-ink catalog, the brand histories, the paper-pairing notes scattered through this site — those exist because I like knowing them, not because they're padding. If something here is wrong or missing, I'd genuinely like to hear about it.

Where this is going

Inktend is still early. The app is free to use, with a one-time Pro purchase for the people who want to support it further — no subscriptions, no ads. If you want to know when new features (or an Android version) ship, there's a short, infrequent email list at the bottom of this page.

Thanks for reading this far. Now go ink a pen. 🖋