Penvy

Terms of use

Last updated 28 October 2026

The rules for using Penvy. What happens to your data is in the privacy policy.

What Penvy is

Penvy turns typed text into handwriting: as an image, a PDF page or a notebook file. It is free. We don't promise that it is always available or keeps every feature, and we may change or discontinue it.

Your account

Your account has a username and a password, nothing else. Don't use your real name or someone else's as your username, and keep your password to yourself. Without an email address we can't reset a forgotten password or give a lost account back; you can always create a new one. You must be at least 16, or at least 13 with your parents' or guardians' permission.

Fair use

Penvy is free within fair limits: every account has a daily limit (a smaller one on its first day, and while an account created without JavaScript isn't unlocked), and without an account you can try a few short texts a day. When Penvy's free server time for the month is nearly used up, it pauses writing for everyone until it's back. Your account, your settings and your handwriting stay as they are. Don't try to get around these limits, for example with many accounts or scripts.

Using Penvy

You are responsible for the texts you convert and for what you do with the results. If your school, university or exam requires work in your own handwriting, following those rules is up to you. Don't use Penvy for anything unlawful, to infringe other people's rights, or in a way that overloads or attacks the service.

Your own handwriting must really be yours: write it yourself, and don't use Penvy to imitate someone else's handwriting or signature.

What you create

The images, pages and notebooks you create are yours to use however you like. The handwriting fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, which allows this. Your handwriting samples stay yours. We use them only to write your texts for you.

Ending

You can delete your account at any time in your account settings, which ends this agreement. An account nobody has used for 2 years is deleted automatically, which ends it too. We may suspend or delete accounts that seriously break these terms.

Liability

Penvy is provided as it is, free of charge. We are fully liable for intent and gross negligence and for injury to life, body or health. Beyond that, our liability is excluded as far as the law allows.

Changes

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the current version.

Create your account

Your settings and your shortcut are saved to it.

Don't use your real name. 3 to 24 letters, digits, dots, hyphens or underscores.
At least 10 characters. There's no email, so we can't reset your password if you forget it. Let your password manager save it.
Forgot your password?

Penvy doesn't know your email, so it can't reset your password. Check your password manager first. If it isn't there, create a new account, pick your settings again and connect your shortcut in Set up.

By creating an account you agree to the Terms. We store your username, a hash of your password, your settings, how many texts Penvy wrote for you and, if you tell us, how you heard about Penvy. No email, and never your texts. Privacy policy