Notability: Notes, PDF
Note-Taking Beyond Paper
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Description

Take your notes beyond paper! Download for free and enjoy the powerful, yet wonderfully simple note-taking experience. You will quickly see why we’re Apple Editor’s Choice!

Notability is as versatile as you. Jot down thoughts, import & annotate textbooks, sync your notes with audio, or sketch your next masterpiece. Whether you’re a student, professional, or hobbyist—you’ll find all the tools you need.

MORE THAN PAPER AND PEN
• Write on a variety of paper templates with customizable spacing and backgrounds.
• Take notes with multi-media tools like pencil, highlighter, text, and audio.
• Mark up textbooks, documents, lecture slides, assignments, or images.
• Clean up calculations with Math Conversion technology.
• Search anything in your notes, including handwriting and imported documents.

HANDWRITE AND SKETCH NATURALLY
• Write with the most lifelike, vector-based digital pencil on the market.
• Ink is fine-tuned for the most responsive, precise writing experience (compatible with Apple Pencil & Logitech Crayon).

STAY ORGANIZED, PAPER-FREE
• All your notes in one place! Always keep notes with you, without the weight, hassle, or paper waste.
• Organize notes with customizable subjects and dividers.

NEVER MISS A THING WITH AUDIO PLAYBACK
• Get more out of your lectures and meetings with audio recording, synced to your notes.
• Tap anywhere (in playback mode) to see your note come to life in real-time.
• Search or copy time-stamped text from Audio Transcripts.

EASILY SHARE IDEAS IN PRESENTATION MODE
• Present ideas full-screen without distracting toolbars.
• Engage an audience with all of Notability's tools including a Laser Pointer.

MULTI-TASK WITH MULTI-NOTE
• Work with two notes side-by-side.
• Drag & Drop handwriting, typed text, and images between notes.

IMPORT, ANNOTATE, AND SHARE
• Import and mark-up PDFs, DOCs, PPTs, images, GIFs, and more.
• Easily create searchable PDFs using built-in Document Scan.
• Full-featured, left-aligned typing with word count and formatting options.

FIND AND SHARE INSPIRATION
• Publish your notes for the world to see in the Notability Gallery.
• Browse notes from the community, search topics, save favorites, and download templates!

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Download Notability for free on iPad, Mac, and iPhone and enjoy Notability with limited editing and features.

Unlock the premium, unlimited note-taking experience with an annual Notability subscription. Subscribers get:
• Unlimited edits, Audio Transcripts, Auto-Backup support, and iCloud sync.
• MyScript Handwriting Recognition and Math Conversion technology.

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Subscription auto-renews unless canceled, and will be charged via Apple iTunes account on an annual basis. Prices vary by location. You can manage your subscription in account settings after purchase. Family Sharing is not supported.

For technical assistance reach our team at [email protected]. Visit notability.com or connect with us @notabilityapp on social.

Privacy policy: https://notability.com/privacy
Terms of Service: https://notability.com/terms

Notability is a registered trademark of Ginger Labs, Inc.
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Annual Subscription
$29.99
Family Subscription
$79.99
Monthly Subscription
$7.99
3 Months Subscription
$14.99

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User Rating

4.63 out of 5

19,177 ratings in Australia

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Reviews

Needs lots of improvement of the iCloud Syncing Feature

Red and Charizard on

I have been a notability user for about 6 years and until now its been working absolutely fine. However, I needed to upload some homework a while back and it was done on notability. However, as I am about click on the note file to open it shows a loading screen. After waiting a bit, I click on it and it says ‘wait for notability to finish downloading files from iCloud’ or something along those lines. However, a few days after it did finally load, well past from when my homework was due. The interesting fact is I never toggled this feature on. A few days ago the same thing happens, so I look this up and how to fix this and turns out you have toggle iCloud syncing off in order for it to load but even after that it took a good half and hour of me constantly restarting the app and my iPad. I do understand that the longer wait times are possibly because of multiple external factors such as bad internet and device model but regardless, a good note-taking app should pose the ability to work smoothly on most devices and low internet speeds while being able to provide a note when asked for with at minimum a few seconds of delay. This is not expected from what used to be such a great app. Please improve this as soon as possible. Have a Great Day, A user of Notability,

Good app

时代仍然 on

Very good

Absolutely GARBAGE

Brian1438 on

This app was bad, and the new editions are useless Worst notes app ever made Use GoodNotes, it’s better 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮 Too many user subscription areas

Search text on images.

Jaxon K... on

Please enable searching text on images pasted into the notes pdf. Please. Please.

Best option available for students

c_g_t on

Tried all options and this is best, good pdf viewer and etc. Only main complaint is that there is not really an option to make lots of nested folders/subjects. Otherwise is the best choice. I love the night mode and minimalist UI.

Great, easy to use!

JF_work on

Easy to use, great business tool in the field & office.

Gotten worse in the last two years

Stephanieo546 on

In the last two years Syncing does not work across platforms I paid for the lifetime memebrrship, didn’t work so now I pay for the yearly that still doesn’t work I lots ALL of my notes thousands of them just to disappear, it took about 6 months for them to all come back through but now I have duplicates and files that aren’t the final file everywhere, it crashes constantly, and it still does not have a spell check or auto capitalise your first word? This app has gone down the drain, I am only sticking with it as it’s too hard to move my 7000 files to a new app 6 months before graduation

Misleading

JenLig on

This product may well be of benefit. But if, as I did, believing that you can use the family sharing ability from Apple ( in order to better understand the app in order to support my young daughter) please think again. I’ve been charged TWICE for the same product in the same family. Downloaded twice in error and despite requesting a refund immediately for one…we are perfectly happy with the original…we have been faced with an outright no!! Poor show from the app developer and sadly also from Apple. A real shame as the product is decent and for the youngest member of the family ideal. We will not be renewing. Feel completely, misled, blindsided and in essence robbed. UPDATE;- I’ve had a response from the developer, thank you. You’ve advised me to reach out to apple to get a refund….they wont as they’ve already deemed it non-refundable. Once more short changed.

Good, but can’t Trust in their pricing policy

Down With Caesar ! on

We are using other apps more often, because of our “distrust”. The app certainly has a range of useful features however, we purchased it in a “once-off price” structure, whereby further updates could be purchased, if desired. This has been discontinued, in favour of an annual rental fee structure based on $USD, which fluctuates depending on one’s local currency value at any given time. This could mean $22USD = $35AUD (approx.) … every year and rising ! SO, they bug you with constant offers to upgrade for a tiny amount and then, from the next annual renewal, the price increases substancially. Yes, it’s a usfull app, but others as just as good - without the trust issues, so far.

Money hungry

StardustSeafoam on

Literally tried to add a whole second note and the app demands a subscription. Embarrassing.

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App Info

Publisher
Ginger Labs, Inc.
Languages
English, Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Chinese, French, Dutch, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Recent version
14.9.3 (2 days ago )
Released on
Apr 1, 2010 (14 years ago )
Last updated
1 week ago