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.
The best on the market
@marcin
Notability is the best note taking app for those who like simplicity and minimalism. It’s so easy to just create a start taking a note.It’s killer features are: 🎙audio recording, continuous scrolling and automatic shape recognition. Not to mention the most incredible thing the developers have done - the files in the app are so improbably small 😮In my opinion there are only a few improvements needed to make it a real killer: multiple window feature native to iPad OS (yes, I know you can have two notes opened within the app, but the multiple windows would be better and allow to open even more notes at the same time), the outline feature for long pdf documents and the ability to export that pdf without any annotations done within the app.
Terrible, buy something else because you’ll encounter issues.
Wh!skybrian
I do use notability, bought it years ago and it wasn’t cheap. None of the biggest issues have been fixed since 2018. Apps still is deleting notes and making them inaccessible until they load for some reason. You can’t have two notes with the same name, imagine having multiple courses at a university, not possible to have a note for example called introduction for every subject, it has to be all numbered. If you have 50 courses, you’ll have notes from “introduction 1” to “introduction 50”. Terribly designed. Dividers should be folders. Other is iCloud syncing. I have it off because if you do have it on, you’ll lose all your notes one day. It’s poor design which shouldn’t have been signed on. No redo button. Love the season themes. Another issue, after zooming in on a note and then opening page view, closing it doesn’t go back to the scalling chosen before. Terrible. I also wrote to them years ago, no one ever replied. Now we’re forced ads onto us, although we’re paying users. If my version doesn’t support something, don’t include it.
Syncs issues break a good app
kamisovcanada
The app is fine, has cool functions, some better than GoodNotes, some worse. It’s really a tie between the two, until you compare syncing. I used the app for a year on an iPad with the Apple Pencil. But one day, syncing problems became a factor of my everyday startup. The problem started to increase to the size where it is now. At this point, due to syncing problems (most of my notes are in eternal syncing mode - in which you CANNOT ACCESS them) I have over 200 hundred notes locked in the app (out of 222, 16 are available to edit/export). I have tried all of the many guides to fixing this, nothing has changed. To me this issue is unacceptable and since it has not been fixed, I have moved to GoodNotes, where I haven’t had any issues. After two months I came back to check if notability has fixed the issues and allowed me to get back my notes - nothing has changed, my notes are still syncing.This is such a deal-breaker to an app, that I could recommend if not for my problems. I hope you don’t run into these problems and can enjoy such a great note-taking app.
Introducing Classic: Notability's one-time purchase is back, with unlimited notes, handwriting recognition, and collaboration across devices.
Classic users who purchased Notability prior to our switch to subscriptions are still grandfathered into this plan.
• Fixed a crash with text undo.
• Fixed a bug on the compare plans screen.
Thanks for using Notability.
Version 16.6.1
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Notability Lite
Unlimited note-taking
29,99 zł
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Unlock Learn, handwriting recognition and math support
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Unlimited note-taking
69,99 zł
Notability Plus
Unlock Learn, handwriting recognition and math support
99,99 zł
Notability Pro
Live Transcription, Smart notes and unlimited Learn
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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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