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.
Suggestions as a user who used the app since 2018
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Hello I have been using this app since 2018 until now. Since then until now, I genuinely thank the app developer for making my life as a student so easy. The app makes note taking to be very efficient. I haven’t experienced any errors when I am downloading pdfs and editing those files, merging files and adding pictures to the note. Also, the new function called ‘library’ where users can download and upload templates is very useful as I can search and get templates that I want. I especially like the fact that notability backs up files really fast, because whenever I edit something and check my drive (I made files to be backed up in my drive folder), after a few seconds I can see the changes already being uploaded in the drive.However, as user who truly wishes the app to develop further and achieve even more success, I would like to give some suggestions that I hope developers can ponder about. First of all, the latest update is amazing, the user interface improved so much and it looks really decent, but I am experiencing lagging issues (sometimes when I write something it appears after 2 to 3 seconds). It seems to get especially worse when I am using split screen view. Second of all, when selecting page options to share the note, instead of making user to select/deselect pages, I think it will be better to allow the user to type the page range. For example, when I want to select page 10 to page 50 from a 200 page file, it gets very tiring to press all the pages from 10 to 50.
Want an Expandable Margins for Annotations
Applepie_520
I have been using Notability since my college days, and as a law student, it has been an invaluable tool for reading cases and making notes. However, I often find that PDF documents have limited space for annotations, and adding a new page below is not always convenient for reviewing my remarks. I would love to see a feature that allows users to extend the page sideways, creating additional space for annotations next to each paragraph rather than at the bottom of the page. This would make it much easier to keep notes organized and contextually relevant. Overall, I am very satisfied with the app’s functionality!
Notability Re-loads all notes every time I open the app. Even if it was in the background.
jskdjjrwkmc
I am a tech director at a school with 600 of these on iPads and iCloud is terrible with Notability and Notability won’t even respond to tickets I had in for months.This means they are in iCloud but not downloaded for one of a few reasons. With iCloud on it doesn’t believe any of your notes belong to your iPad and it can delete them and download them again at any time. I have single students with 5GB of notes so this is a huge problem. This can even happen mid note, it just disappears. This is with students with 200GB if iCloud and 128GB of iPad storage so no issues. If you run out of iCloud or iPad storage you may lose some of those notes permanently. Notability has not been able to show me a way to sync only some parts of your notes. They did respond to tell me iCloud was not an acceptable backup only a sync.If you turn off iCloud this goes away, and can download the notes to your iPad. If you turn on iCloud again they will be back on the sync cache and could disappear.
Developer Response
Hello, If you have not done so already, can you please submit a support ticket by going through the steps described here: https://support.gingerlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/4414054941594-Contact-Support. We can take a look at your support/device diagnostics and dive deeper. Thanks!
• Selecting text in an imported PDF now scrolls the note when you drag to the edge, on Notability Cloud.
• Long-press a note on Home to get the same menu you get in the main Notes list.
• General crash and stability improvements.
Thanks for using Notability.
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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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