Notability: AI Note Workspace

Ginger Labs

In-app purchases

About this app

From your first lecture to your next meeting, Notability helps you think, learn, and work better. Take handwritten lecture notes, add annotations, transcribe using the voice recorder, and use the app as a study organizer, workspace or notebook. Keep your learnings in one place so your ideas are ready when you need them.

A DIGITAL NOTEBOOK FOR LEARNING, WORK & PRODUCTIVITY
• Use handwriting, type, or sketch with digital ink, whiteboard pens, highlighters, annotation and text tools in this notebook app.
• Use your own handwriting in the app to mark up PDFs, textbooks, lecture notes, learnings, images, and more.
• Combine handwriting, typed text, images, diagrams, annotations, and sketches in the same in-app workspace.
• Ditch the notebooks: Boost your learning and productivity with customizable folders, study organizers, and subjects that grow with you.

PRODUCTIVITY FOR PROFESSIONALS
• Mark up documents, capture meetings, organize ideas, and present with confidence.
• Import and add handwriting or annotations to any document with the app: PDFs, DOCs, presentations, learning summaries, reports, and more.
• Fill out forms in the office or on a job site.
• Combine handwriting, text, photos, and documents in a collaborative app workspace.
• Use the voice recorder in calls and meetings to transcribe in real-time.
• Receive automated meeting takeaways, learnings, and summaries.
• Search handwriting, transcripts, text, and PDFs in the app to quickly revisit decisions, learnings, and action items.
• Use as a notebook or whiteboard, or present learnings, 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 boost productivity.
• Share a PDF of your notebook in one tap.

LEARNING FOR STUDENTS: STUDY SMARTER AND ACE EXAMS
• Use as a digital notebook, study organizer or whiteboard. Create a collaborative workspace for group projects.
• Use your handwriting to add annotations to lecture notes, slides, or your textbooks in the app.
• Use the voice recorder to get instant audio transcripts and real-time learning summaries.
• Voice recorder syncs to the exact moment you write — perfect for taking lecture notes.
• Study organizer: Import lecture notes, notebooks, textbook PDFs, and assignments into categorized folders and subjects. Add annotations in the app with ease.
• Search handwriting, typed annotations, and transcripts in the app to instantly find learnings from classes.
• Study content from your digital notebook with personalized quizzes and flashcards to check your learning progress and practise active recall.
• Chat with your lecture notes to review learnings, clarify ideas, and prepare for exams.

WORK YOUR WAY
• Seamlessly switch between handwriting and typing in the app workspace.
• Create a shared workspace to collaborate or get feedback when needed. Use as a whiteboard or notebook to take quick notes.
• Access your lecture notes and learnings across the web, and Android and Apple devices.
• Create beautiful digital notebooks, study organizers and whiteboards using templates from the Notability Gallery.

UPGRADE TO A NOTABILITY SUBSCRIPTION
Notability is free to create 5 notes. With an upgraded subscription, you can receive:
• Unlimited note-taking
• AI-powered productivity and study organizer tools
• Handwriting recognition and math conversion in the app
• Live audio transcripts with the voice recorder
• Auto-backup and sync across devices

Download for free on Android and web.
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Ratings and reviews

It's a great app overall and I recommend it for note-taking over similar apps. There are still opportunities for improvement. 1. It is either not possible (or not intuitive to me) to quickly create drag and drop functionality. If you write/type and then draw a box, they aren't easily pinned together. Sometimes(?) they can be grouped, but that isn't great. if you drop in a sticker, you CAN write on that and move it all as one, but I could not get typed words to do the same.

the only reason I used iPad for years was this app. now you have it on android and I am gonna move to galaxy tab. the only problem that i am facing is the vertical menu bar on the right side and the zoom tool. they are made for left to right users. when using the app on my phone the vertical toolbar is annoying, I wonder if you can put a button to hide it. and when using the zoom when I want to start writing from the right it goes to the next line automatically.

Had an initial issue with it crashing, but the developers fixed it quickly, so well done to the developers. I used this app on iPad and Mac and always thought it was great, but what stopped me from using it was the lack of an Android app. Now I have a great app available on all my platforms, so I'm very happy.

What’s new

• We've heard your feedback on the 5 note limit and are increasing the Starter Tier note limit to 30 notes for Android users!
• Copy a note selection and paste it into other apps as an image.
• Handwriting recognition now covers 72 languages, including Arabic, Hindi and Hebrew.
• Type 1/2 in search to find handwritten fractions.
• Faster note opening and typing in long notes.
• Crash fixes, and better protection for edits that haven't synced yet.