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
$19.99
Family Subscription
$49.99
Monthly Subscription
$4.99
3 Months Subscription
$9.99

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User Rating

4.73 out of 5

326,268 ratings in United States

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Reviews

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JessicaR1000 on

Great app!

iCloud ruins everything

combinatronics on

Open Notability. Start a new note. Switch to another app. Open Notability again. Cannot open note because it is being downloaded from iCloud. Wait. Wait. Wait. Give me a break.

you have to pay for unlimited edits and have to wait for it replenish if you don’t pay

let me use a nick name ok on

Personally think if you make an app dedicated for students to use this as a way to take notes there should be a different system for paying. For example you have to subscribe to use templates and only get the basic ones in the gallery while than making there be unlimited edits for free users. Also could make it to you can pay for other tools.

Super laggy

@abbie.sorell on

New update made the lag from my Apple Pencil to writing so incredibly lagged and it is so incredibly frustrating writing notes.

Absolutely hate the new update July 2024

Too little time too much to do on

I have been using Notability since 2016 and I have never quite hated an update this much. I use the app to keep track of my crafting/cooking patterns as downloaded from various sites. This has always been a somewhat smooth experience and I have about 25 separate subject files for my 612 notes. After the most recent update I now have no subject files and all my notes are listed as unfiled and lumped together in one folder. The amount of time it will take me to sort these files back into their subject files is incalculable. I am seriously wondering if I wouldn’t be better off finding a different app that won’t mess my organization up. I have been reading other users’ complaints about various issues with updates in the past and I was fortunate to not have those same problems as I was using the app differently, however I am wondering why, when it wasn’t broken, the developers felt the need to “fix it”?

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Isabel07724 on

It should have online pictures

I’ve been using Notability for years and love it so much

C.O. B. on

I’ve been using Notability for years and love it so much. It just keeps getting better. Thank you for such a great product. It is intuitive and reliable.

Paid version

Bostonguykk on

I converted from Free to Paid just to support this app. It’s great. Although Apple apps are coming close in terms of functionality, this app has some unique features that make work related note taking more “pro” like.

It’s great

nnkoole on

I downloaded this app for college and there’s so many templates and neat things you can do with them. I honestly don’t understand the negative reviews if there even are any, there’s so many cool tools to use as well and it’s only 14 something a year which is really convenient for a College student as myself. JUST DOWNLOAD IT IF YOUR READING THE REVIEWS TRUST MEEE!!!

Slow

AAMhuJu on

So bad and slow even after I purchased! Note that I’m so old user and bought it when it was 10$ only .. it’s not about the money tho .. I can’t take it anymore, doubling my notes every time I synapse with icloud and take sooo much storage 😡

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App Info

Publisher
Ginger Labs, Inc.
Languages
French, German, English, Chinese, Korean, Danish, Spanish, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Portuguese, Russian, 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