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.
NEW: NOTABILITY CLASSIC IS BACK
Prefer to pay one time for Notability? Our Classic plan is a one-time purchase with no subscription required.
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.
nice note app
Denisaaaaa
I like this app very much, I use it to take notes in college. a few things that could be added: nicer brushes for writing ( like "syrup" in procreate, or some more for calligraphy ). improve the text search. i really appreciate that you can search by text in the whole folder, but sometimes it bugs and it marks a piece of blank page and not where the searched text is. also it would be great to add maybe some feature to search for more words than just one, and it would mark for example the page where all the searched words are located. also when I normally type text on the keyboard I miss easier highlighting of text ( also changing the color of the highlighted text). and also that when I add a pdf file and highlight the text with my pen and later add something to it, the highlighted text is all shifted and it's not on what I wanted to highlight.
Not best pdf workflow
maldo6939
*After Pdf import would be nice use highlighter which is working. Visibility is very poor from my experience after almost year, so instead I am forced use pen an strike throught text, what is not best solution. *Would be nice if I could lock stickers or use different template on different pages in same document. If I try use 2 stickers on same place (smaller and bigger) and work with lasso later , its easy to “lost”smaller behind bigger one. *Writing experience is not good as goodnote5 but yeh , its not the same app. But at leastone more pen would great.
Works very poorly with ICloud sync on.
TasiiTasya
Nice app, but works horribly with Icloud sync, sometimes I open an app and have to wait up to 10 minutes for a file, that I have previously opened to open. One time the files just completely disappeared from the app. After reloading my tablet I had to wait more than !!TWO HOURS!! to be able to open them again. And again that all with perfectly strong and stable connection to a wi-fi. Also, when open my iphone that is connected to the same account as my ipad often it doesn’t even show all the files, which further defeats the purpose of Icloud sync. A nice app, if you aren’t planning to use it across devices. Would definitely not pay for a subscription to an app that is this faulty again.
Developer Response
Thank you for writing, and we are sorry for the trouble. If your notes sync through iCloud, downloads stall when iCloud or device storage is full or the device is in Low Power Mode, so free some space and keep the device charged and connected while it catches up, and do not turn sync off while it is running. If you use Notability Cloud, notes reach the web app, Windows, Android, and your other Apple devices only when every device is signed in to the same account, so check that each device shows the same account email at the top of Settings. A device still on iCloud is invisible to the others. If notes are still not appearing, open Settings in Notability, tap Help, then Contact Support, and mention this review, so our team can see the sync report the app attaches.
• Notability for Business Templates: Add templates for your team to use when creating notes.
• Fixed an issue with scrolling alongside text selection.
• General crash and stability improvements.
Thanks for using Notability.
Version 16.12.2
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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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