Notability: AI Notes & Planner

Notability: AI Notes & Planner

Digital notepad, daily planner

458K ratings
3781 reviews
#114 in top-grossing Productivity
📚 Education
📊 Productivity
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Released
April 1, 2010
Updated
October 26, 2026

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Capture, organize, and enhance your thoughts with a versatile digital notebook. Seamlessly blend handwriting, typing, and multimedia to annotate documents, record lectures, and generate summaries. Ideal for students and professionals seeking to boost productivity and learning.

✓Handwritten and typed notes
✓PDF and document annotation
✓Audio recording and transcription
✓AI-powered summaries and quizzes
✓Customizable organization
✓Cross-device sync
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What's New in Notability

16.13.3

October 26, 2026

• Introducing Graphs: write a function by hand and see it plotted in your note. • Chat supports images again and keeps your conversation when you return. • Turn on Narrow Margins in Note Editor settings for smaller text margins in new notes. • Connected Services in Settings shows your most recent cloud sync. Thanks for using Notability.

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Top Grossing

📉 114-2

Productivity

This app dropped -2 positions in Productivity chart.

Last updated on October 29, 2026.

Top Free

📉 178-2

Productivity

This app dropped -2 positions in Productivity chart.

Last updated on October 29, 2026.

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Add comments to your notes

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Oct 12, 2026 — Nov 1, 2026

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Chat across all your notes

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Sep 14, 2026 — Oct 1, 2026

User reviews

Great app and great support

I’ve had Notability for many years as a Classic User and I would be lost without it. It’s generally easy to use all it’s aspects. I’ve had a few issues mainly where I’ve needed help understanding tools or where I’ve made mistakes needing correcting. The Support section always provide prompt help to sort out issues.
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iPhone Duo Blank Space!

As nice as it is that this has been updated for the new iOS and iPhone duo, it is very annoying that there’s always the massive right bar on the side. It is totally unusable space with no menus and no utility. It makes the small screen completely useless for notability, and the large one only useful in portrait mode. Please remove this and let the space be usable! Goodnotes does not have this limitation.
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Contacting customer support was a nightmare

I love using Notability for studying, but this ordeal was a rollercoaster. One of my notes disappeared. It wasn’t in recently deleted or in unfiled notes, and it was over 60 pages’ worth of work. I went online and followed all the steps to try and recover the note, but nothing was working. There was one option I could not try, which was to search iCloud Drive. There’s no option for me to search iCloud Drive within the app. However, when I searched for the note using my Mac’s Spotlight search, it showed that the file existed, but Notability wouldn’t allow me to open it. I emailed support, and it was an AI bot that couldn’t understand “there’s no option for me to search iCloud Drive,” even though I repeated myself multiple times, submitted images and a screen recording for proof. It responded a whole day later, asking if I found it. No, I did not. Thankfully, my laptop backs up automatically, and I was able to find an older version of the note, but I lost about 6 pages of work. Genuinely so upset.
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Used to be good, now it sucks

Endless popups about further upgrading and spending more money. Sucks at syncing across devices. Takes forever to load docs when you open it. Was better before all the AI garbage was added.

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Reported Bugs

4 issues

Notes disappearing or getting corrupted

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Frequent crashes and performance issues

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Palm rejection problems after updates

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Inconsistent behavior when importing files

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Requested Features

5 requests

Improved folder/hierarchy organization

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More shape recognition and drawing tools

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Side-by-side viewing of multiple notes

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Ability to edit/rename audio recordings

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Better integration with other apps and services

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FAQ

What does Notability do?

Notability is a digital note-taking application that allows users to write, type, annotate, draw, and record audio. It helps users organize their thoughts, study materials, and work documents in one place. The app supports annotating PDFs, lecture slides, and other documents, and offers AI-powered features for summaries and quizzes.

What are the key features of Notability?

Key features include the ability to combine handwriting, typed text, images, and sketches on a single page, annotate PDFs and other documents, record audio synced to notes, and generate real-time transcripts and summaries. It also offers AI-powered study tools like quizzes and flashcards, and allows for side-by-side note viewing.

How much does Notability cost?

Notability is free to download and use with basic features. An optional subscription unlocks unlimited note-taking, AI-powered productivity and study tools, handwriting recognition, math conversion, live audio transcripts, and auto-backup with iCloud sync.

What devices is Notability compatible with?

Notability is available for free on iPad, iPhone, Mac, and the web. Users can access and edit their notes seamlessly across all these devices, ensuring their information is always connected and accessible.

Who is Notability for?

This app is designed for students who need to take lecture notes, annotate textbooks, and study effectively, as well as professionals who need to mark up documents, capture meeting details, organize ideas, and present information efficiently.