From your first lecture to your next big meeting, Notability helps you think, learn, and work better. Take handwritten notes, annotate documents, record audio, and stay organized in one place so your ideas are always clear, searchable, and ready when you need them.
NEW: NOTABILITY CLASSIC IS BACK
Prefer to pay one time for Notability? Our Classic plan is a one-time purchase with no subscription required.
FREE DIGITAL NOTES FOR WORK & SCHOOL
• Write, type, or sketch with digital ink, highlighters, and text tools.
• Mark up anything: PDFs, textbooks, lecture slides, images, and more.
• Combine handwriting, typed text, images, diagrams, and sketches on the same page.
• Stay organized with customizable folders and subjects that grow with you.
FOR PROFESSIONALS: WORK SMARTER AND SAVE TIME
• Mark up documents, capture meetings, organize ideas, and present with confidence.
• Import and handwrite on any document: PDFs, DOCs, presentations, reports, and more.
• Fill out forms in the office or on a job site.
• Combine handwriting, text, photos and documents in one place.
• Record calls and meetings to transcribe voice in real-time. Audio is synced to your notes so nothing is missed.
• Receive automated meeting notes, takeaways, and summaries.
• Search handwriting, transcripts, text, and PDFs to quickly revisit decisions and action items.
• Present notes, documents, and ideas in full screen, with a laser pointer to guide attention.
• View and edit two notes side-by-side to stay focused and productive.
• Share a PDF of your note in one tap.
FOR STUDENTS: STUDY SMARTER AND ACE EXAMS
• Take handwritten notes digitally or annotate lecture slides or your textbooks.
• Record lectures and get instant audio transcripts and real-time summaries in your notes.
• Audio recordings are synced to the exact moment you write in a note — perfect for lectures.
• Import lecture slides, textbook PDFs, and assignments into organized folders and subjects.
• Search across handwriting, typed notes, and transcripts to instantly find content from classes.
• Study content from your note with personalized quizzes and flashcards to practice with active recall.
• Chat with your notes to review concepts, clarify ideas, and prepare for exams.
WORK YOUR WAY
• Seamlessly switch between handwriting and typing.
• Import files instantly and keep everything connected.
• Share notes easily to collaborate or get feedback when needed.
• Access your notes across iPad, iPhone, Mac, and the web.
• Create beautiful notes using templates from the Notability Gallery.
UPGRADE TO A NOTABILITY SUBSCRIPTION
Notability is free to use. With an upgraded subscription, you can receive:
• Unlimited note-taking
• AI-powered productivity and study tools
• Handwriting recognition and math conversion
• Live Audio transcripts
• Auto-backup and iCloud sync
Download for free on iPad, iPhone, Mac, and web.
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We rely on this sleek, powerful notetaker to annotate documents, record lectures, sketch illustrations and more. With built-in iCloud support, it’s perfect for keeping notes, documents and doodles up to date across devices.
Feature request
afxale
I really like the app design. Its user friendly and appealing. But I find that adding a new page is a very difficult job. I have to make multiple clicks and especially click on a three-dot icon to add a page between two pages. And every time I add a new page, it uses the default template. But I have different page types for different notebooks. I would greatly appreciate an easy to use add page feature for adding pages between existing pages and a choice of template
review
notability huge fan
I really like this app although it has some annoying flaws. 1) The filesystem needs to be rebuild - i really wish i could organize my notes better using more subsections. 2)I would like to be able to use stickies in different way. Very often I want to make some note inside my pdf files but there is no free space. If I could write it on a sticky note a then minimize it, that would be awesome. If I wanted to read it later, I would just resize it back. 3) It would be really beneficial to add some gesture shortcuts: for example to change the tool or opacity etc.. 4)I don’t like the current spacing of the rasters. Very often I find myself wanting the lines be little more further away from each other or the other way around. 5) Sometimes when I import some pdf file, the white borders are really wide so i need to zoom in on the text. But then when I scroll up or down it isn’t fluent. It shakes from left to right because of the zoom. It would be nice to have an option to cut the border or to lock it in place. 6) This is an addition to point 3. I need some bar of the most used tools so I can change between them fast. The current way is just simply slow.. For example I very often use just the pencil and change just its opacity and colour - the additional taps are really annoying. TLDR: Notability is a nice app, but needs some fixes for better productivity.
DO NOT BUY
Agent macko
It has very annoying bugs, most notably the one where if you copy and paste more than 3 pages with handwritten highlights or anything, the handwritten stuff just jumps up or down sometimes several pages away. The sorting system is not nad but it is nowhere near to what goodnotes has. But the worst thing was when the app straight up stopped liking my icloud an decides not to be friends with it anymore. Co it stopped working, the icloud loading icon popped up every 20 seconds and when I restarted the app, my notes were gone. So I turned off the icloud backup and the notes returned but so has the 170GB of data to my ipad storage. So then my ipad was quite mad. When i deleted almost all of my old notes the storage usage WENT UP?! Like what? I tried reinstalling the app, tried everything with the icloud, nothing worked. So i jumped ship to goodnotes, the icloud works flawlessly, ipad is happy again, everything works. All in all notability worked well for me for almost 2 years but it has been a bit annoying to use during the 2 years. The icloud fiasco was just the last straw.
Developer Response
Thank you for writing, and we are sorry for the trouble. Please make sure Notability is updated to the current version, since fixes ship with every release and the problem may already be addressed. If it is still happening, the fastest way for us to see exactly what you see is a copy of the note or PDF where it happens: press and hold that note in the library and choose Report Problem with Note. That sends our team the note and its diagnostics without changing anything on your side. For anything else, open Settings in Notability, tap Help, then Contact Support, and mention this review.
• Fixed an issue with zooming and scrolling on iOS 27.
Thanks for using Notability.
Version 16.13.2
The developer, Ginger Labs, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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