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.
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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.
Best notes app
kallanwang
Since starting sixth form, I’ve needed a notes app that is both reliable and easy to use. Notability has allowed me to store my notes whether it’s handwritten, types, or even an uploaded picture from elsewhere and has allowed me to annotate freely. Dare I say I now have the neatest most organised notes out of everybody. Not only does it allow me to feel satisfied with my organisation, it also has unique perks like audio recording that I’ve never seen in other notes apps before. In addition, it also has templates that you can use to plan to do lists, weekly plans or even a Callander. The options are endless with incredible aesthetic ranges that most definitely will fit your vibe. However there are also existing colouring templates or even interactive worksheets uploaded by existing users so everyone is able to share and use each other’s works. But most importantly. It’s incredibly simple to use coming from somebody that is awful with anything technology. Notability is something I will always recommend to people starting college or uni because it’s so accessible. In my opinion the subscription is also incredibly fair. It is affordable and can guarantee excitement when taking notes.
Amazing but...
Matvei Ivanov
Notability is an amazing app and I’ve been using it on my iPad for almost a year. Handwriting is smooth and nice(I switched off the pressure sensitivity), by the way im an engineering student. I like how the files are organised. But the most important feature that keeps me using notability is voice recording. The way it is done is just amazing! It’s all good but lest face a few problems of natability that are actually annoying on a daily basis:Notability doesn’t recognise geometric shaped and can’t make them look better as some other does that. To draw a nice square we have to go and press some Figure option which takes us to some new window etc... what I am saying that it is the ugliest way of drawing a nice circle on the market. Developers should definitely make it simpler and more intuitive and pleasant to use. Right now it is such a disappointment that I was so close to stop using notability and go on to another app.Another things - highlighters. I don’t understand what the developers thought of when they designed them. Why are they like this? Why are they so transparent? Why do they mess up with the handwritten text? Why do highlighters of the same color overlap each other? It is utterly annoying.In general, it is an amazing app but I hope the developers will listen to the app users and fix those issues as so many people are irritated of the highlighters and figure drawing tool.
BEST APP EVER. PERIOD.
OllyZ33842
The reason this app is 5* is not because the note taking is fluid or because the organisation is good, the reason I give this app 5* is because of how easy it is to use. With a lot of other note apps out there, there’s lots of little things that you need to know for it to work well. With Notability there is 1 simple easy step, put pen to, well, iPad and away you go. It’s as simple as that. If you’re reading this wondering if this app is worth the money let me tell you it’s worth every penny. Every day I go to college and instead of taking a bag full to the brim with papers and textbooks I just take 1 thing, my iPad. It reduces clutter and makes you more organised from the minute you start using it. With Apple Pencil, it is by far one of the best things I have purchased. Writing is easy and seamless and changing the colour of your pen or size of the stroke is easy. My favourite part to the app is the eraser and scissor tools. The eraser is quick and easy and saves you loads of time and the scissor tool has changed the way I write. For example, on paper, if I were to make a mistake in pen I would cross it out and start again. With notability I can chop and change my notes and move things around with ease. Another thing that I love about this app is the ability to easily import PDF’s. As a student, doing past papers for revision is key and notability has made it easy as ever. I simply go online and find a paper I want to do, download the pdf, and open it in the notability app. It’s as easy as that! Amazing! I guess my main point is that if you’re looking for an app that does everything that pen and paper does and more, that’s easy to use and worth every penny, THIS IS IT.Finally I’d like to say a huge thank you to the developers who have done an amazing job on the app.
• Optimized images on Notability Cloud to take up less storage space while keeping quality
• Improved Zoom View experience across all toolbar positions
• Better layout for Learn on smaller screens
Thanks for using Notability!
Version 16.1.4
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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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