Best Notable Apps

246+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.5 avg rating
20 free apps
Updated September 2026

Every iPhone needs a few good notable apps. We benchmark 246+ of them on App Store rating, freshness, and pricing, then surface the standouts so you don't have to scroll the App Store yourself.

Compare top Notable Apps (September 2026)

#AppPriceRatingAdsIn-App PurchasesUpdated
1Notability: AI Notes & PlannerNotability: AI Notes & PlannerFree4.8★ (457K)NoYesSep 2026
2Notion: Notes, Tasks, AINotion: Notes, Tasks, AIFree4.8★ (90K)NoYesSep 2026
3Noteful: Notes & PDF MarkupNoteful: Notes & PDF MarkupFree4.8★ (24K)NoYesSep 2026
4Notable - Ai Note TakerNotable - Ai Note TakerFree—NoYesSep 2026
5Notable: Journaling Made EasyNotable: Journaling Made EasyFree5.0★ (50)NoNoMay 2026
6Notable: Takeaways with AINotable: Takeaways with AIFree4.6★ (9)NoYesMay 2026
7Notable: manage your ideasNotable: manage your ideasFree5.0★ (1)NoYesMay 2026
8Goodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDFGoodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDFFree4.7★ (457K)NoYesSep 2026

Top Picks for Notable

Notability: AI Notes & Planner#1

Notability: AI Notes & Planner by Ginger Labs

Daily notebook & study journal
Editor's Choice
📊 Productivity
4.8😊(457K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
#84in Productivity
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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.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Great app for note-taking
  • 👍 Smooth handwriting experience
  • 📝 Excellent organization and file management
  • 🎙️ Useful audio recording feature
  • 🔍 Handwriting recognition and search
  • 🌈 Customizable colors and themes

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Sync issues with iCloud
  • 🔍 Limited search and organization options
  • 🖍️ Frustrating highlighter behavior
  • 🔒 Concerns about subscription model
  • 🔧 Buggy after recent updates
Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI#2

Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI by Notion Labs, Incorporated

Plan, organize, track projects
Strong Contender
📊 Productivity
4.8😊(90K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
#46in Productivity
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This AI-powered workspace helps you write notes, manage tasks, organize projects, and collaborate with others. It offers features like AI meeting notes and interactive maps to streamline your workflow for personal, student, or professional use.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Great tool for school organisation
  • 👍 Game-Changer for Productivity
  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Versatile and customizable
  • 👍 Calendar view is amazing
  • 👍 Amazing & altruistic
  • 👍 Amazing! Great for students
  • 🚀 Truly game-changing
  • 👍 Life Changer
  • 👍 Fellow Researching Nerds, this app is a game changer!
  • 👍 Absolutely love this app
  • 👍 Amazing app, although the features are a bit clunky and unintuitive at times
  • 👍 Awesome app, but Stop opening new pages in tables when adding new items please
  • 👍 Never been more organized
  • 👍 Amazing productivity app

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Frustrating Search and Useless AI
  • 🐛 Buggy and nagging (iPad M1)… moving to click up if it does get more stable
  • 🔒 No offline mode
  • 🐛 Glitchy iPad experience
  • 🐛 Terrible on iPad
  • 🐛 CS is most likely AI bots
  • 🐛 Nightmare
  • 🐛 Terrible mobile app
  • 🐛 Swipe to type unsupported
  • 🐛 Broken?
  • 🐛 S-L-O-W
  • 🐛 Needs better instructions
  • 🐛 The mobile app is a disaster
  • 🐛 Doesn't
  • 🐛 Clunky on iPad OS, needs better copy paste, no offline mode
Noteful: Notes & PDF Markup#3
4.8😊(24K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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This app revolutionizes paperless note-taking on iPad, allowing for handwritten notes, document annotation, and knowledge organization. It offers a fluid writing experience, PDF markup, powerful tagging, and audio recording synced with notes.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Smooth writing experience
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 💡 Layers feature
  • 👍 Affordable one-time purchase
  • 🚀 Efficient and lightweight
  • 👍 Great organization with tags and folders
  • 👍 Customizable UI

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or freezes
  • 🔍 No handwriting recognition or search
  • 🔍 Limited text editing options
  • 🔍 Lack of advanced features like math conversion
  • 🔍 Exporting PDFs loses some formatting

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FAQ about Notable

What are the best notable apps for iPhone?
Notability: AI Notes & Planner tops our notable apps ranking as of September 2026, with a 4.8-star average from 457K App Store ratings, and it's free to download.
Yes — 20 of the top notable apps we rank are free to download, including Notability: AI Notes & Planner and Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI.
Notability: AI Notes & Planner has no ads and offers in-app purchases, according to its App Store listing as of September 2026.
We track 246+ notable apps on the iOS App Store as of September 2026, ranked by rating, recency, and analysis of real user reviews.
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.
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.

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