Best Notable Apps

246+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.2 avg rating
20 free apps
Updated October 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 (October 2026)

#AppPriceRatingAdsIn-App PurchasesUpdated
1Notability: AI Notes & StudyNotability: AI Notes & StudyFree4.8★ (459K)NoYesNov 2026
2Notion: Notes, Tasks, AINotion: Notes, Tasks, AIFree4.8★ (91K)NoYesNov 2026
3Notable - Ai Note TakerNotable - Ai Note TakerFree—NoYesOct 2026
4Noteful: Notes & PDF MarkupNoteful: Notes & PDF MarkupFree4.8★ (24K)NoYesNov 2026
5Notable: Journaling Made EasyNotable: Journaling Made EasyFree5.0★ (51)NoNoNov 2026
6Notable - Control Voice MemosNotable - Control Voice MemosFree5.0★ (1)NoNoAug 2026
7Goodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDFGoodnotes: AI Notes, Docs, PDFFree4.7★ (468K)NoYesNov 2026
8Notable: Takeaways with AINotable: Takeaways with AIFree4.5★ (8)NoYesOct 2026

Top Picks for Notable

Notability: AI Notes & Study#1

Notability: AI Notes & Study by Ginger Labs

Handwriting, PDF & audio
Editor's Choice
📊 Productivity
4.8😊(459K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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Capture, organize, and enhance your thoughts with digital ink, typed text, and audio recordings. This app helps you mark up documents, create presentations, and study smarter with AI-powered tools. Access your notes across all your devices for seamless productivity.

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😊(91K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
#50in Productivity
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An AI-powered workspace for notes, tasks, and project management. Organize personal to-do lists, class notes, or team projects with customizable tools and AI assistance for streamlined workflows.

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

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FAQ about Notable

What are the best notable apps for iPhone?
Notability: AI Notes & Study tops our notable apps ranking as of October 2026, with a 4.8-star average from 459K 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 & Study and Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI.
Notability: AI Notes & Study has no ads and offers in-app purchases, according to its App Store listing as of October 2026.
We track 246+ notable apps on the iOS App Store as of October 2026, ranked by rating, recency, and analysis of real user reviews.

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