Notability: AI Notes & PDF app

Write, type, annotate, draw

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61K Ratings
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Ginger Labs
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Notes that move you forward. The award-winning note-taking app loved by millions is free to download, simple to use, and powerful enough to support your everyday goals. Whether you’re studying for an exam, organizing a meeting, or sketching your next big idea—Notability is the essential resource you can rely on to capture, organize, and share your thoughts with ease. YOUR ALL-IN-ONE DIGITAL NOTEBOOK • Write, type, or sketch with lifelike digital ink, highlighters, and text tools. • Mark up anything: PDFs, textbooks, lecture slides, images, and more. • Stay organized with customizable folders and subjects. STUDY SMARTER WITH LEARN AI • Live Smart Note instant summaries of your notes. • Quizzes and flashcards tailored to you. • Chat with your notes – your AI-powered assistant RECORD, REVIEW AND REMEMBER • Audio recording synced to your notes; perfect for lectures and meetings. • Search for anything, including transcripts, text and handwriting. WORK YOUR WAY • View and edit two notes side-by-side. • Present ideas in full screen with a laser pointer. • Import, annotate, and share files in seconds. FIND AND SHARE INSPIRATION • Create notes with templates shared to the Notability Gallery. WHY NOTABILITY? Your ideas, organized and accessible anywhere—on iPad, iPhone, Mac, and the web. Notability keeps you on track towards your goals. Upgrade to a Notability subscription • Unlimited note-taking • AI-powered study tools • Handwriting recognition and math conversion • Audio transcripts • Auto-backup & iCloud sync Download free on iPad, iPhone, Mac, and Web. Privacy: notability.com/privacy Terms: notability.com/terms

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Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

61K 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.
I love notability since the new AI feature!
06/29/2025

EmmaNMa19
I honestly hated it until they added the AI feature for creating practice questions and review of my content. It had been very glitching when I was soley using notability on my ipad - and syncing to icloud on my notability made it horredous. However, once I wiped the notability on my ipad and moved all my notes to my laptop, the functionality has become much more seamless! I use google drive as a launching point to connect my ipad and laptop since my ipad doesn't seem to like the volume of notes ( I am in medical school) and the need to sync with icloud would crash my app or make it so slow it was nonfunctional - since resources seemed to be prioritized. I usually only keep the notes I am actively working on - since I have had hundreds of pdfs uploaded on my app originally since the start of medical school - and that seems to make it work great! As for the AI feature, it is exactly what I needed. Now, before I start a lecture, I use this feature to summarize the notes, and then after the lecture I can test my knowlege, pulling question based on the exact resource they use to generate the questions. Additionally, the explain function (which has only showed up on my laptop) is extremely valuable since I can know exactly what the rationale for the right answer is - based on my notes.
I love notability since the new AI feature!
06/29/2025

EmmaNMa19

I honestly hated it until they added the AI feature for creating practice questions and review of my content. It had been very glitching when I was soley using notability on my ipad - and syncing to icloud on my notability made it horredous. However, once I wiped the notability on my ipad and moved all my notes to my laptop, the functionality has become much more seamless! I use google drive as a launching point to connect my ipad and laptop since my ipad doesn't seem to like the volume of notes ( I am in medical school) and the need to sync with icloud would crash my app or make it so slow it was nonfunctional - since resources seemed to be prioritized. I usually only keep the notes I am actively working on - since I have had hundreds of pdfs uploaded on my app originally since the start of medical school - and that seems to make it work great! As for the AI feature, it is exactly what I needed. Now, before I start a lecture, I use this feature to summarize the notes, and then after the lecture I can test my knowlege, pulling question based on the exact resource they use to generate the questions. Additionally, the explain function (which has only showed up on my laptop) is extremely valuable since I can know exactly what the rationale for the right answer is - based on my notes.
Ill give Notability a 4 out of 5 stars
09/18/2021

abeautifulnewworld
I feel Notability is better for me personally. I was struggling between buying Notability or Goodnotes and I chose this. I was excited and impressed at first. I love the audio record feature. That alone is fantastic. Where I started to grow a little disappointed was when I realized you have to pay an additional $3.99 for voice recognition. Ok, no problem. I did. But other little things like not being able to adjust the color of the lines, the pages, those little things. Then there was a point where the inability to add stickers made me grow more frustrated. I couldn't understand why they were being so restrictive. Although, I do understand. They have there own marketplace for templates, etc. However, they keep it pretty thin. So, finally, I went and got Goodnotes. I tried it out for a bit and then I realized, I like Notability much more. It just feels more solid and you cant beat that record function. I also began to appreciate what they are building, a more robust platform with a marketplace to shop for templates, etc. That is awesome because GN doesnt have that. Then, little things like the fact that in Notability, you can grab a piece of writing, an item, etc., and not only move it around the page, you can resize it with pinch gestures. You cant do that in Goodnotes. In notability, you can also create stickers from your drawing or writing. Not exactly the same as allowing you to imprt stickers where it saves it as such, but its still neat. So, neither is perfect but for me, Notability is my choice.
Ill give Notability a 4 out of 5 stars
09/18/2021

abeautifulnewworld

I feel Notability is better for me personally. I was struggling between buying Notability or Goodnotes and I chose this. I was excited and impressed at first. I love the audio record feature. That alone is fantastic. Where I started to grow a little disappointed was when I realized you have to pay an additional $3.99 for voice recognition. Ok, no problem. I did. But other little things like not being able to adjust the color of the lines, the pages, those little things. Then there was a point where the inability to add stickers made me grow more frustrated. I couldn't understand why they were being so restrictive. Although, I do understand. They have there own marketplace for templates, etc. However, they keep it pretty thin. So, finally, I went and got Goodnotes. I tried it out for a bit and then I realized, I like Notability much more. It just feels more solid and you cant beat that record function. I also began to appreciate what they are building, a more robust platform with a marketplace to shop for templates, etc. That is awesome because GN doesnt have that. Then, little things like the fact that in Notability, you can grab a piece of writing, an item, etc., and not only move it around the page, you can resize it with pinch gestures. You cant do that in Goodnotes. In notability, you can also create stickers from your drawing or writing. Not exactly the same as allowing you to imprt stickers where it saves it as such, but its still neat. So, neither is perfect but for me, Notability is my choice.
Room for improvement
02/26/2025

rake 65483740328
Hi, I love notability, but there are some things I find pretty frustrating/easy ways to improve: 1. The majority of stickers provided are useless. Please add more that are relevant or give the people an opportunity to upload their own and be able to remove the background of images. maybe give them an option in setting to select which set of stickers they would like to see available in the sticker section rather than just random ones that are unnecessary (right now I think there are only two that I’ve ever used that has been provided). 2. Make the sticker selection/add another part of that function that has the ability to look up images like how it has for gifs. The way you can look up and add in gifs on this app is very nice but how often do u think someone wants a gif in their notes? they’re distracting and unnecessary for most users goals with the app. Please allow us to look up images and be able to remove their background to optimize organization and facilitate the use of visuals in notes. 3. It is incredibly difficult to write over an image. The image is constantly moving when you try. This makes it almost impossible to annotate a structure/image/etc given in class using this app. Please fix this!!4. you should be able to remove the background of images you would like to add into your notes to make it more organized.
Room for improvement
02/26/2025

rake 65483740328

Hi, I love notability, but there are some things I find pretty frustrating/easy ways to improve: 1. The majority of stickers provided are useless. Please add more that are relevant or give the people an opportunity to upload their own and be able to remove the background of images. maybe give them an option in setting to select which set of stickers they would like to see available in the sticker section rather than just random ones that are unnecessary (right now I think there are only two that I’ve ever used that has been provided). 2. Make the sticker selection/add another part of that function that has the ability to look up images like how it has for gifs. The way you can look up and add in gifs on this app is very nice but how often do u think someone wants a gif in their notes? they’re distracting and unnecessary for most users goals with the app. Please allow us to look up images and be able to remove their background to optimize organization and facilitate the use of visuals in notes. 3. It is incredibly difficult to write over an image. The image is constantly moving when you try. This makes it almost impossible to annotate a structure/image/etc given in class using this app. Please fix this!!4. you should be able to remove the background of images you would like to add into your notes to make it more organized.

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Seller: Ginger Labs, Inc.
Size: 182.9 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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Requires macOS 14.0 or later.

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Languages: English and 20 more

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I love notability since the new AI feature!

Ill give Notability a 4 out of 5 stars

Room for improvement

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