Ideas shape the world around us. To make ideas come alive, you need to capture, shape, share, and collaborate with those ideas. Your ideas should not be held back by the technical restrictions of a keyboard or mouse. True creativity requires creative expression. We need the power of digital ink.

Digital ink for the 21st century is flexible, collaborative, ubiquitous, and expressive. No longer reserved for graphics professionals, digital ink is now available for everyone through WILL, the Wacom Ink Layer Language.

Enter WILL, the global standard for universal ink

WILL gives you the power to add powerful expressive tools to your new or existing application. With WILL, your users can share and collaborate with drawings and handwritten notes quickly and seamlessly, on whichever device they prefer, using any input from a finger to a Wacom enabled pen.

WILL provides cross-platform, high quality, universal ink. Create an idea on the iPad and continue refining that idea on a smartphone. Collaborate in real-time with coworkers in another country, regardless of platform. Release your app from the restrictions of text entry and allow the natural flow of ideas.

Why add WILL to your app?

Smartphones and tablets are overtaking laptop and desktop computers as a primary computing devices. Touch screens are everywhere, and a fast growing number support pen input. Stand out in the crowded app marketplace with precision input and advanced features enabled by WILL.

• Business - For business users, WILL enables new categories of applications, including advanced note-taking, document markup, and online collaboration with digital whiteboards. Imagine a completely digital workflow enabled by digital ink, sharing with others worldwide. Work with remote colleagues on a digital canvas the same way you would use a whiteboard.
• Signature - Want to take your paperless workflow to the next level? Add secure digital signature capture. Integrating WILL along with Wacom’s Signature solutions gives the flexibility of WILL ink input with the security of biometric handwritten signature capture.
• Consumer - In the consumer world, WILL allows enhanced personal expression, connecting us more closely with the people and ideas we care about most. Instead of typing another emoji, you could share your expression directly with your friends.

Inking isn’t just for sketching, although it’s great for that too. Advanced metadata and precision input make WILL a natural fit into many industries.

Digital pen adds more

For the best experience, create applications that use the full feature set of WILL combined with a Wacom enabled pen, like the Samsung S Pen or Wacom feel™ technology devices. Bluetooth pens like the Bamboo Stylus fineline add advanced features to iOS and Android devices with standard touch screens.

Wacom believes in a world alive with creativity, so WILL provides digital ink to any device supporting a touchscreen or digitizer, even if your only touch is from your fingers.

$51,250 in prizes

1. Click “Register” to sign up for important challenge communications.
2. Visit the Resources page to learn about how to access and integrate the WILL SDK into your app.
3. Register for free to access the Wacom WILL developer tools and resources.
4. Create your app!
5. Shoot your demo video and take screenshots of your functioning app.
6. Provide a way for us to access your app.
7. Get started on your entry and submit early!

• Quality of Idea
  Includes creativity and originality of the idea. Applications that are not primarily drawing related will be given preference.
• Implementation of Idea
  Includes how well the idea was executed by the developer and the extent to which it utilizes the full feature set of the WILL SDK.
• Accessibility
  How accessible is the application? Does it run on multiple platforms? Is it publicly available?
• Potential Impact
  Includes the extent to which the application could impact the life of the user, change daily use patterns, and increase the use of digital ink.