Notability: AI Notes & PDF app

Write, type, annotate, draw

Free · In‑App Purchases

445K Ratings
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Editors’ Choice

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4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

Ginger Labs
Language

EN
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Size

411.5
MB

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. 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. Privacy Policy: notability.com/privacy Terms of Service: notability.com/terms

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Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

445K Ratings

Editors’ Choice

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 your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Almost perfect
12/06/2023

Jd966875
I’ve been using the app for years and I really love the latest upgrade that includes transcripts because I often have to record meetings with clients and I don’t have to spend too much time trying to take detailed notes. Having the transcript is really helpful and keeps me from having to go back and listen to the entire audio especially when you have a fairly long audio file. That said, there are a few features that I would love to see in Notability, and these include layers, tags, and the ability to create outlines or a table of contents of the pages in the document. I use a digital planner as well as a multi section notebook for work, and only being able to bookmark pages is not helpful when I have a lot of notes. I would love the ability to actually add the page with a label into an outline that I could click on to quickly navigate to that page like you are able to do in Goodnotes. This is similar for digital planning when I add extra template pages to various sections of the planner they often are not hyperlinked the way the standard pages are, and therefore makes it difficult to sometimes find those pages, and so having the ability to outline, or even tag, the page would make it easy to navigate to. Lastly, because I digitally plan as well as do a lot of notetaking for coursework having layers would be helpful because then I could have a layer with notes or annotations or stickers that can be turned on and off as needed like you are able to do in Noteful and ZoomNotes
Almost perfect
12/06/2023

Jd966875

I’ve been using the app for years and I really love the latest upgrade that includes transcripts because I often have to record meetings with clients and I don’t have to spend too much time trying to take detailed notes. Having the transcript is really helpful and keeps me from having to go back and listen to the entire audio especially when you have a fairly long audio file. That said, there are a few features that I would love to see in Notability, and these include layers, tags, and the ability to create outlines or a table of contents of the pages in the document. I use a digital planner as well as a multi section notebook for work, and only being able to bookmark pages is not helpful when I have a lot of notes. I would love the ability to actually add the page with a label into an outline that I could click on to quickly navigate to that page like you are able to do in Goodnotes. This is similar for digital planning when I add extra template pages to various sections of the planner they often are not hyperlinked the way the standard pages are, and therefore makes it difficult to sometimes find those pages, and so having the ability to outline, or even tag, the page would make it easy to navigate to. Lastly, because I digitally plan as well as do a lot of notetaking for coursework having layers would be helpful because then I could have a layer with notes or annotations or stickers that can be turned on and off as needed like you are able to do in Noteful and ZoomNotes
New Mac App is not good
05/27/2021

troyfig
I’ve been using Notability for the past few years and love it. Being able to upload PPT and PDF decks for meetings and then take notes on my ipad has been a game changer for productivity. I can review documents - mark them up - and then send the notes directly back to my team. Except for a (very) slight delay sometimes between my Mac and my ipad, everything was seamless. I recommended Notability to everyone. However, the latest release of Notability for Mac is a disaster. It crashes often. When it isn’t crashing it’s nearly impossible to use. Trying to drag notes from one folder to another is incredibly frustrating - difficult to accomplish and takes a ton of time to get it to work. Often I can’t seem to drag and drop except on the fourth or fifth try. Imagine if your mouse pointer only worked about 25% of the time. Also - I used to be able to “print to Notability” directly from PPT (incredibly useful for quick uploads) and that feature is gone. And uploading a folder from Finder by dragging it over to Notability is frustrating - super laggy, often results in the “spinning wheel of death”, or just crashes the app. I would go back to the previous version is a hot second if I could. It’s so annoying that I’ve even considered moving to a different notes system - although I really don’t want to do that.I love Notabilty and the ipad version works great. But I need my full Notability ecosystem to work well together. Like it used to.
New Mac App is not good
05/27/2021

troyfig

I’ve been using Notability for the past few years and love it. Being able to upload PPT and PDF decks for meetings and then take notes on my ipad has been a game changer for productivity. I can review documents - mark them up - and then send the notes directly back to my team. Except for a (very) slight delay sometimes between my Mac and my ipad, everything was seamless. I recommended Notability to everyone. However, the latest release of Notability for Mac is a disaster. It crashes often. When it isn’t crashing it’s nearly impossible to use. Trying to drag notes from one folder to another is incredibly frustrating - difficult to accomplish and takes a ton of time to get it to work. Often I can’t seem to drag and drop except on the fourth or fifth try. Imagine if your mouse pointer only worked about 25% of the time. Also - I used to be able to “print to Notability” directly from PPT (incredibly useful for quick uploads) and that feature is gone. And uploading a folder from Finder by dragging it over to Notability is frustrating - super laggy, often results in the “spinning wheel of death”, or just crashes the app. I would go back to the previous version is a hot second if I could. It’s so annoying that I’ve even considered moving to a different notes system - although I really don’t want to do that.I love Notabilty and the ipad version works great. But I need my full Notability ecosystem to work well together. Like it used to.
Best notes app I’ve ever used
12/10/2024

Marianna_g123
I love this app, I’ve been using it for a few years and it’s the only app I’ve ever left a written review on because I just think that it is such a good app and deserves a good review. I love that there are templates that let me take unique notes and that I can organize everything. There’s so many useful features like the math conversion and the learn features. I like that I can easily import documents and large files to directly annotate and take notes, it is super easy to do and doesn’t take a long time to load the imported files. It’s really useful to be able to access my notes across devices and without internet as well so I can review anywhere any time. One thing I hope to see from this app in the future is an expansion on the AI Learn features, there is so much potential for this feature. A few suggestions, it would be nice to be able to easily access the material generated by learn in one separate area instead of having to open each not individually. Perhaps a separate section that contains all the generated Learn materials from the individual notes so you can easily view and access them. Furthermore I would love more options of study features similar to those of apps like Quizlet or Knowt, that way instead of exporting the AI generated material to a different app everything could be done on Notability. The Learn feature has so much potential and I can’t wait to see where it goes. I highly recommend this app.
Best notes app I’ve ever used
12/10/2024

Marianna_g123

I love this app, I’ve been using it for a few years and it’s the only app I’ve ever left a written review on because I just think that it is such a good app and deserves a good review. I love that there are templates that let me take unique notes and that I can organize everything. There’s so many useful features like the math conversion and the learn features. I like that I can easily import documents and large files to directly annotate and take notes, it is super easy to do and doesn’t take a long time to load the imported files. It’s really useful to be able to access my notes across devices and without internet as well so I can review anywhere any time. One thing I hope to see from this app in the future is an expansion on the AI Learn features, there is so much potential for this feature. A few suggestions, it would be nice to be able to easily access the material generated by learn in one separate area instead of having to open each not individually. Perhaps a separate section that contains all the generated Learn materials from the individual notes so you can easily view and access them. Furthermore I would love more options of study features similar to those of apps like Quizlet or Knowt, that way instead of exporting the AI generated material to a different app everything could be done on Notability. The Learn feature has so much potential and I can’t wait to see where it goes. I highly recommend this app.

• Learn now supports quiz sharing. Share a quiz link with anyone, even if they don't have Notability. • Fixed the status bar overlapping with buttons on iOS 26

Version 16.1 6d ago

Subscriptions

Notability Lite

Unlimited note-taking

$5.99
Notability Plus

Unlock Learn, handwriting recognition and math support

$7.99
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Unlimited note-taking

$14.99
Notability Plus

Unlock Learn, handwriting recognition and math support

$19.99
Notability Pro

Live Transcription, Smart notes and unlimited Learn

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Seller: Ginger Labs, Inc.
Size: 411.5 MB
Category: Productivity
Compatibility: Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.

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Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.

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