Faster everywhere • Your notes appear almost instantly when you open the app • Opening and closing big notes is much quicker • Exporting a long note as a PDF now takes seconds instead of minutes • Notes take up about half the space on your iPad, with every stroke kept exactly as you wrote it • Much less work while you write, so your iPad stays cooler and the battery lasts longer • Photos keep their original quality and take up less space Apple Pencil • Squeeze or double-tap your Apple Pencil (set to "Show Tool Palette") to open a ring of tools, colours and sizes right at the tip • Strokes now end exactly where you lift the Pencil, with no extra tail Fixes • Ink stays sharp at every zoom level • No more white streaks while erasing • Double-tap now opens the tool ring reliably • Fixed slow loading on launch

Notely 1.4.2 makes big PDFs feel fast. • Share a PDF from any app straight to Notely — it's ready in a tap • Writing on PDFs shows up live again, and pencil looks the same before and after you lift • Large PDFs keep your iPad cooler and use less battery • The app and your notes open without freezing, including from the widget • Faster PDF import and export, and instant paste • The eraser stays smooth, even after a lot of erasing • Apple Pencil double-tap and squeeze follow your Apple Pencil settings — squeeze to erase, let go to go back • The lasso menu no longer covers small selections • Bigger, easier-to-tap buttons in the library

Notely 1.4.1 is a big feel update. • Zooming and panning bounce and settle like they should, and pinch works with flat fingers • Your palm no longer moves the page while you write • Ink stays put while you draw — no more shifting or popping when you lift the Pencil • Three stroke sizes right in the palette, down to 0.1 pt • Scratch out a word to erase it • The eraser only erases what the dot touches • Tap empty paper with the lasso to paste right there • Write over text boxes without moving them, or handwrite into them with Scribble • Open Notability, Goodnotes and PDF files straight into Notely • Folder colours, and empty notes you never touched are cleaned up • Lots of small fixes and a more consistent look

Notely 1.4 is mostly a redesign. • Every icon redrawn by hand, plus handwritten headings • A rebuilt pencil: paper grain, pressure, tilt shading • A blank page is always waiting at the end, and it's left out of exports if you don't use it • A cleaner home screen widget with recent notes • Highlighter no longer darkens where it overlaps itself • Lasso outlines what you picked instead of a box • Cut is instant, with Undo • Scribble-to-erase is stricter • Zoom up to 32×, no lag or blur • The eraser works with your finger

BUG FIXES - Fixed lasso selection so its outline, hit target, and controls stay accurate at every zoom level - Added a selection toolbar with copy, cut, paste, style, duplicate, mirror, and delete actions - Improved eraser responsiveness in notes with lots of handwriting - Fixed missed eraser contacts between fast Pencil samples - Reduced repeated text layout and canvas geometry work while erasing

Notely 1.3 turns your notes into a private lecture and study workspace while keeping your content on device. PRIVATE LECTURE MEMORY - Start recording from the compact microphone control in the note toolbar - Pause, resume, recover after interruptions, rename, delete, seek, and change playback speed - Revisit supported on-device transcripts that stay synchronized with recording time and written content - Tap transcript text to seek audio and return to the nearby page content - Mark important moments with touch, keyboard, or an optional Apple Pencil squeeze action - Search transcript text and insert selected transcript passages into a page - Share an M4A recording or plain-text transcript separately On-device transcription appears only when the device, system, language, and downloaded speech assets support it. Audio recording remains available without transcription. SOURCE-LINKED STUDY TOOLS - Ask a specific question about one note or selected notes on supported iOS 26 Apple Intelligence devices - Get answers built only from retrieved note evidence, with source chips that reopen the exact page, region, object, transcript, or recording time - See “not found in these notes” when the available evidence cannot support an answer - Review an answer before choosing whether to insert it; generated text never changes a note automatically - Create manual study cards or editable AI card drafts with source-linked answer keys - Review due cards with Again, Hard, Good, and Easy ratings using a deterministic offline schedule - Enable optional offline review reminders - Add nondestructive tape regions to hide and reveal study material - Build a structured outline that uses the same exact source locations FASTER FINDING AND ORGANIZING - Open search matches at the exact page and source location - Browse cached page previews, filter to bookmarked pages, and collapse page sections - Restore open-note tabs after relaunch while automatically excluding missing, locked, or deleted notes - Pin notes, add normalized tags, and save smart collections - Jump into Recent, Unfiled, Review Due, Pinned, and tag-based collections SAFER EXPORTS AND BACKUPS - Export a page range with visible progress and cancellation - Detect low storage before rendering and clean up temporary export files - Preserve recordings, transcripts, and source-linked study state in validated portable archives MORE WAYS TO START - Choose from an expanded offline template catalog for everyday paper, study and review, science and math, creative work, and project planning - Create structured Cornell notes, study guides, flashcard sheets, lab reports, music staff pages, storyboards, planners, and more Also included: smoother two-dimensional canvas navigation, more reliable zoom and lasso movement, alignment guides that clear after dragging, quicker text-box actions, recording and archive hardening, and privacy protections that keep locked or trashed notes out of search, restored tabs, widgets, and study answers.

This update builds on version 1.2 with faster handwriting conversion, deeper search, real page organization, stronger library tools, and a friendlier everyday workflow. ONE-TAP HANDWRITING - Convert canvas handwriting directly into editable text - Replace only the pen or pencil strokes matched to recognized lines - Keep unmatched ink untouched - Undo the complete conversion as a single edit REAL PAGE MANAGEMENT - Add pages before or after the current page - Duplicate, reorder, name, section, and bookmark pages - Confirm before deleting a page that contains work - Keep blank pages in PDF and PNG exports - Navigate imported PDF pages without rewriting the source document SEARCH INSIDE YOUR WORK - Search titles, typed text, sticky notes, handwriting, images, and PDFs on device - See highlighted context plus page and source details - Find unlocked notes from private system Spotlight results A STRONGER LIBRARY - Sort by modified date, creation date, or title - Switch between grid and list layouts - Select several notes for move, favorite, export, trash, restore, or permanent deletion - Keep selections active after sharing or changing favorites - See immediate visual feedback for destructive bulk actions - Create validated portable backups for a note, selection, folder, or full library FASTER EDITING - Copy, cut, and paste mixed lasso selections across open notes - Use Focus Mode for a distraction-free canvas - See clear Saving, Saved, and Save Failed status without changing timestamps unnecessarily - Convert handwriting from a dedicated toolbar button - Use larger tool targets and reposition the toolbar with a deliberate hold and drag - Place text boxes with a finger - Pan smoothly and keep curves and text crisp at extreme zoom - See a temporary zoom percentage while pinching - Keep a single page centered when fully zoomed out MORE CONTROL - Customize or disable Apple Pencil double tap and squeeze - Turn finger drawing on or off - Choose global stroke smoothing, paper, page size, and orientation defaults - Keep separate toolbar positions for portrait and landscape - Run Quick Note and Recent Notes from Shortcuts QUICKER EVERYDAY ACTIONS - Open a new note immediately while the library refreshes behind it - Get visible progress when importing notes, PDFs, or photos - Use clearer template controls with single-line button labels - Long-press a library note without enlarging its title and date - Switch between grid and list layouts with a smoother transition STUDY BUDDY - Add a configurable owl, cat, or frog to the Home Screen - Open a quick note and recent unlocked notes from the widget - Choose layouts for small, medium, large, and extra-large widgets Also included: resizable ruler controls, fitted text boxes, reliable note closing, PDF Open In support, consistent Notely branding, and stability improvements throughout.

Drawing in Notely just got a major upgrade. SMOOTHER DRAWING • Predicted touch rendering eliminates pencil-to-screen latency — strokes feel instant • New point smoothing reduces micro-jitter for cleaner, more natural handwriting • No more stroke tails when lifting the Apple Pencil BETTER SHAPE SNAPPING • Circles, rectangles, lines, and parabolas now render with pixel-perfect geometry at every zoom level • Fixed shapes appearing smaller than drawn at extreme zoom • Rectangle corners are now sharp — no more rounded edges after snapping INFINITE ZOOM RANGE • Zoom from 0.001% all the way to 100,000,000% • Draw and snap shapes accurately at any zoom level • Pages stay centered when zooming out STABILITY • Fixed a crash when snapping shapes at extreme zoom levels • Performance improvements across the board

Notely's biggest update yet — rebuilt and packed with new features. NEW TOOLS • Pencil and highlighter tools alongside the original pen • Shape drawing — lines, rectangles, ellipses, and parabolas • Lasso tool to select, move, and manipulate strokes • Partial eraser mode in addition to whole-stroke eraser RICH TEXT EDITING • Full text formatting — bold, italic, underline, strikethrough • Headings, bullet points, numbered lists, and checklists • Font picker with adjustable size and color STICKY NOTES • Drop floating sticky notes on any canvas with custom colors DRAWING REPLAY • Watch your work play back stroke by stroke with speed control and timeline scrubbing ORGANIZATION • Color-coded folders and nested subfolders replace basic subjects • Favorites for quick access to your most-used notes • Trash with note recovery • Search across your entire library • Multi-tab editing — work on several notes at once SECURITY • Lock individual notes with Face ID or a password MORE • Image insertion and positioning • Letter, A4, and custom page sizes in portrait or landscape • Moveable toolbar (left, right, top, bottom) • Apple Pencil squeeze to toggle eraser • Adjustable stroke smoothing • Performance and stability improvements