# Notability Reviews **Vendor:** Gingerlabs **Category:** [Note-Taking Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/note-taking-software) **Average Rating:** 4.6/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 44 ## About Notability Notability is a versatile note taking app designed and built in San Francisco. Notability enhances productivity and streamlines workflows on iPad. It has a rich feature set, including the best-in-class handwriting engine, PDF annotation, document import, and audio recording. Whether you work in the field or in the board room, Notability gives you all the tools you need to mark up and review documents, take notes, share everything, and safely back up your documents to your cloud storage of choice. Notability is the most powerful, most intuitive note taking app on the market. Join millions of users who are getting the most out of their iPads with Notability. Try it today for free. ## Notability Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users find Notability's **easy setup** ideal for organizing notes and enhancing daily school activities seamlessly. (2 reviews) - Users love the **dynamic note-taking capabilities** of Notability, enhancing visual understanding and flexibility in their notes. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **organization** features of Notability, facilitating quick access and daily integration into school life. (2 reviews) - Users find Notability extremely **easy to use** , seamlessly integrating into their daily school routines for quick note access. (1 reviews) - Users love the **easy integrations** of Notability, enhancing their daily school life with organized and accessible notes. (1 reviews) - Users love the **easy sharing** features of Notability, enhancing collaboration and making note-sharing seamless across devices. (1 reviews) - Efficiency (1 reviews) - Users love the **no cost** feature of Notability, enjoying seamless access on multiple devices for free. (1 reviews) - Users love the **simple design** of Notability, enabling easy navigation and effective note-taking across devices. (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **slow loading** times in Notability, affecting their ability to access notes efficiently. (1 reviews) - Time-Consuming (1 reviews) ## Notability Reviews ### 1. Note-taking with Notability **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mr. C. | Teacher, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2025 **What do you like best about Notability?** Notability if multi-functional and allows for many options in how you handle your note taking and what you do with them after-the-fact. It integrates easily into my LMS and is very easy to use for just about any type of scribbling and note taking. I use it on a daily basis in my teaching because it has so many options. **What do you dislike about Notability?** The formatting within notability is not the best. There are relatively few options for how to organize the notes, and it takes some personal creativity to make your notes look interesting and to distinguish between sections of your notes. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Notability helps me to deliver notes to my classes in a few different ways. I do my notes "live" in my classes and write on them constantly. I can have an outline set already and then write or type or highlight them as I go through them as needed. I can also directly email them to students who miss class, if they need them. That is an amazing feature. ### 2. Notability Makes Daily School Notes Easy and Organized **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Alternative Medicine | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2026 **What do you like best about Notability?** Notability is so easy to use and implement in my everyday school life. It organizes my notes for quick accessibility, and it is easy to integrate. I use it literally every day for school. **What do you dislike about Notability?** I think it sometimes is unable to load notes quickly, but that is it. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I do not have to use paper or notebooks, so it makes it so much easier. I can also search for my notes in minutes instead of having to spend hours looking for them. ### 3. Notability is more than just a digital notebook. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2025 **What do you like best about Notability?** With a clean design and a variety of writing tools Notability makes/simple to switch between different strokes and shades making it easy to visually understand my data. Not only does it allow me to integrate images or diagrams into my notes but also allows me to draw, making note taking more dynamic; and it gives me the ability to view and modify my files from my iPad or Mac. **What do you dislike about Notability?** It has my expectations covered, Notability's combination of simplicity and adaptability make it one of my favorite tools for managing my information and ideas. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Notability is an excellent support for organizing information such as my meeting notes, summaries and reference materials; its classification functions allow me to group documents according to projects, topics or priorities; and its synchronization system means I'm not dependent on a single device or physical documents. ### 4. Notability provides many different tools to make your notebooks unique, and meet your specific needs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atticus S. | Chief Executive Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2023 **What do you like best about Notability?** Notability has an extremely simple interface. It reminds me of Apple software in that it doesn't appear at first to be able to do much; the incredible power of the app is lurking beneath the simple surface. I love how easy it is to open the app up and just start taking notes right away, and the ability to connect with vocal recordings is awesome. Additionally I love that the apple pencil writing tools are robust enough to make complex diagrams, but not so complicated that it's not intuitive to use. Finally, I love all the different paper templates, as well as the ability to import your own templates. **What do you dislike about Notability?** There isn't much that i don't like about Notability, but if i had to nitpick these would be my complaints: - The interface for converting handwritten text to copyable text isn't very robust - I wish there was a way to archive notebooks - I wish there were more sticker options **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main reason i use Notability is for the ability to use my apple pencil to create basic charts, diagrams and record free-flowing hand-written notes. The second most common use for Notability in my life is to coordinate voice recordings with note taking. ### 5. The most complete note-taking app **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laura C. | Textile graphic designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Notability?** About Notability I like the most that it has a very simple and intuitive interface. I like how the folders and documents are organised. I also love all the features and the fact that you can record audio notes. **What do you dislike about Notability?** I dislike the subscription payment mode. At the beginnings you could buy the App with a one time payment and it was perfect, but now everything is a suscription. In this way it doesn't matter how many money you have paid, if you miss the payment you lose the right to use the app. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Is solving the digital note taking with the iPad and Apple Pencil. It feels like if you were doing handwriting. It is very useful for students and for professionals meetings. ### 6. Notability review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashish N. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 01, 2023 **What do you like best about Notability?** I like how easily we can organise all our notes in one place. **What do you dislike about Notability?** One thing I dislike in Notability is that the free version of the app comes with limited edits for each month and there is o clear statement as to what constitutes an edit. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping us to organise notes properly with the help of sub folders like subjects, binders, etc. ### 7. Notability is a shareable whiteboard! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Notability?** I use Notability as a whiteboard that I can project in my classroom or share during online meetings. I can save and share the pages of the document, too. Importing images into the Notability document is easy. **What do you dislike about Notability?** I wish editing imported images were more intuitive. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a digital whiteboard, which I absolutely need as a teacher, both in my classroom and with online teaching and tutoring. ### 8. Notability is my fave digital notebook! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sofía D. B. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Notability?** I like how easy it is to use the application's different tools. It makes it easy to take engineering classes, make calculations, draw models and send everything to myself or peers in various formats. It's also good to brainstorm ideas for events, engineering problems, group meetings, and more! I also use it as a planner and read PDFs and take notes. **What do you dislike about Notability?** So far, I've liked almost everything! Maybe they could add more options to save different types of favorite tools. For example, I have pens/markers for meetings and others that I prefer to use for math problems. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** The main benefit for me is recording meetings, classes, and audio notes while I take my notes. It's helped me complete tasks more efficiently and faster. I've illustrated house models for demolition projects, calculations for geotechnical problems, and more! In general, it makes my work notes look neat. ### 9. Fantastic addition to my research reading **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Seth Matthew M. | Grad Student, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Notability?** I am someone who has to read dozens of research articles every week, and no debility helps me to stay organized and helps me to feel like I'm really digging into the things I am reading **What do you dislike about Notability?** I don't love the import process is five or six steps it feels like at least. I wish it was easier to create presets so that things could be entered more smoothly. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's hard to feel like you are really getting enough out of a PDF when you were reading off of a computer screen, but when using the app on an iPad you can really feel like you are engaging with the text ### 10. Simply put, this is an excellent application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tyler B. | Sales Development Representative, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Notability?** I used notability for note-taking, thought download, meeting preparation, planning, and a whole host of other tasks in both my personal and professional life. Simply put, it is an excellent application. **What do you dislike about Notability?** Essentially nothing. All of the features are simple and easy to use. And somehow it is also a fun application to use. Great tool and resource - no complaints from me. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Use it! Master the features and have fun. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Notability allows me to take notes in a non-distracting way during meetings and client calls. It also gives me one place to have all of those meeting notes complied so that they can be shared and accessed easily. ### 11. Great For Note Taking and Filling Out Forms **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amanda R. | Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Notability?** I love that notability allows you to combine several different ways of altering a document -- writing with an Apple Pencil or other stylus and typing. There is also a highlight function. Changing how you alter documents is also really easy with the lasso tool, which you can also use to make things that you have written larger or small. This makes editing documents easy. **What do you dislike about Notability?** I dislike the sharing function. I have had a hard time backing up my Notability files to an online source such as Google Drive. I have also noticed that emailing documents can be tricky. There is a function where you can back up your files to the cloud and share with a Mac computer; however, the notes usually look different on the computer. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Problems currently being solved include figuring out the best way to back up documents and keep them safe. I have realized that it's super nice to have all documents I need saved in one app. ### 12. The best app in the market to take take notes **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Çağrı E. | MCV Powertrain Engineering Leader(IPTSE), Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2021 **What do you like best about Notability?** During business life you need take notes. With this smart applications I started to take my notes digitally and leave my nıtebook on my desk. This software working very good with Ipad. It offers straightforward user interface makes you more focused what you do **What do you dislike about Notability?** As I would expect this software work fast with low level HW Ipads .I have some bad experience when I use notability with my older Ipad. I think engineers would work to imrove this to get more user experience this remarkable product. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It increases my enthusiasm to take notes. It increases my efficiency I can easily important thing in a documentation. OCR feature is really working fine. Software is definetely value for money. ### 13. Overall Great Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brittany J. | Online Learning Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Notability?** The ease with which I can use it on an iPad Pro. Our students find it invaluable. **What do you dislike about Notability?** The saving feature makes it look like it is saving to your iCloud account when it is not. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Notetaking for classes - providing alternative means for those who struggle in classes. ### 14. consolidates notes! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannah L. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2021 **What do you like best about Notability?** I like that i can created folders for organization! Keeps my classes separated. **What do you dislike about Notability?** Sometimes the text boxes don't pop up where i want them to. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Much better than google docs when it comes to organization/accessibility! **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving computer storage issues. Benefits include having all your notes organized in one spot ### 15. Very useful application when using iPad and Apple Pencil **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Notability?** Easy to use A lot of colors, possibilities of notes sorting, supports drag&drop of images (e.q. from browser directly to the note) **What do you dislike about Notability?** Synchronization sometimes doesn't work and all notes get downloaded again from the cloud. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I need to write my ToDo notes by hand in order to organize my time. Also, I use this app for keeping songs, notes, and chords for playing my guitar. ### 16. Essential **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Writing and Editing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Notability?** A quick place to jot down important notes and ideas and comes with a ton of features that feels good/easy to use. **What do you dislike about Notability?** Notability isn't a free app and the design display could be better. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** a perfect place to keep all my writing ideas such as articles, books, or just website/newsletters. ### 17. I Recommend This App Weekly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monica R. | Keynote Speaker | Executive Coach | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** This app not only makes it simple and fast to do scale drawings and make notes on them, but you can export your notes and drawings as PDFs in about three seconds! **What do you dislike about Notability?** I have two things I dislike. 1. The "file" structure. They have these things called "Subjects" and "Dividers" and I can't keep them straight. It's non-intuitive. 2. The search function will ONLY find an actual NOTE as opposed to finding the note's "container" (the subject or divider that contains it) This needs to be improved. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Be sure to set up your "subjects" and "dividers" in a way that makes it easy for you to find each note, as the search feature isn't really as robust as it should or could be. I bought the app way back when it was only $2.00 (probably five years ago?) and now it's $9.99. I marked it as "expensive" because as apps go, ten bucks is pretty expensive, BUT it's worth every penny. So relatively speaking, it's NOT expensive. One other thing is that it's very stable. I have it installed on my iPad TWO (yeah yeah, I know) but it never freezes, doesn't get buggy, updates itself when necessary and it's just great. Also, you can set it (optionally) to automatically back up your notes to Dropbox, Google Drive and more. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to take client notes in my own handwriting and export them directly to Evernote, Dropbox, or email without having to take the extra step of transcribing them into text first. This is a huge time saver. Secondly, I'm able to create scale drawings right on client site and export them directly to the client (or anywhere else) very quickly. This is also a time and effort saver. ### 18. Great App, but recent updates not good for me **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Charles K. | B, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Notability?** User friendly. Great utility. Has many uses. Indispensable for business and personal use. **What do you dislike about Notability?** Until recent updates removed full-keyboard typing option in favor of handwriting recognition, I would have nothing to put in this box. As with many others in this age, I type better and faster than I hand write. Tiny keyboard option not sufficient. Need to go back to full-keyboard typing option - please! **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Get it now. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Marking up drafts, filling in forms, making notes. All far easier with greater utility than other options. ### 19. Amazing Product, Life Saver **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Notability?** Ability to take notes on the fly across multiple devices. **What do you dislike about Notability?** Better handwriting text recongnition. Better desktop app. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Just get it for your devices, much better than apple notes. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** No more paper notes. All my notes are with my. ### 20. Has been No. 1.. but latest Mac update is disappointing. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohan D. | Managing Director **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Notability?** simple tools reliable sync. overall past versions have been good **What do you dislike about Notability?** 1. recent mac update has removed some features like ability to select multiple pages to move up and down in the notebook. 2. only single level folders **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** office work ### 21. Best Note Taking App for Large PDFs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Law Practice | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Notability?** I like that you can straighten out your highlighting by holding your finger down an extra second. That makes my PDFs look a lot neater and cleaner. I also really like that you can resize any handwriting that you make directly on the PDF. **What do you dislike about Notability?** I don't like how the "undo" button doesn't really work... Like sometimes it works and at other times, it doesn't and sometimes it erases a mark that is not the last one made. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Try using this over OneNote! You'll like it much better. My only criticism is that it's harder to organize your notes than in OneNote **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** This makes note taking easier and more fun. It also make storing my electronic notes in one place easy. I hated taking notes from a PDFd document before Notability. Now, I prefer having PDF copies of all my texts instead of having a paper version. ### 22. Pricey for a free product **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Megan H. | Social worker, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Notability?** There are obviously tons of features available on Notability. It makes note taking fun, educational, and has everything packaged into one app. **What do you dislike about Notability?** The things that Notability is doing aren’t new. There are many apps that offer some of the services for free. This would require the user to download more than one app and then there’s a possibility that you wouldn’t be able to transfer notes. I worry that after I am finished with my education the money spent on Notability will be wasted as I may no longer use the program. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** I began using Notability toward the end of my academic journey. I wish I had known about the product when I began in order to get more use. If you don’t have much time left in school and are unsure if you will use the program post grad- it may be better to utilize a free app. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** As stated prior, many apps would Need to be utilized to get the same affect as Notability.All the features increase my motivation to study and revisit my notes. ### 23. Notability **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yevgeniy D. | Professor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Notability?** Ease of the interface. The best note taking app. Simple joy. Also great for zoom calls. I also love the laser pointer function when connecting to zoom calls. It does me to point on the screen without writing, which is a great way to explain the material. Overall the fact that I can use multiple colors, easily cut and paste, make this a truly unique product. **What do you dislike about Notability?** Sometimes shrinking the region does not work well. Requires a lot of effort. Same with moving regions. I often have to try it many times, and sometimes cannot succeed no matter how many times I try. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Just get it. Amazing product. Cannot go wrong. At this stage I cannot function without notability. No more paper notes I lose **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Doing research. Also great as whiteboard during zoom calls. Have me a great way to teach classes, even after the covid situation. I love the fact you can easily convert to PDF and send it out right from the application. ### 24. Amazing App for Medical Student **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Clare Kelly R. | Intern, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Notability?** I love being able to share and download so easily with the app. As a student, it makes it so easy to download course work and annotate directly onto it. It’s also convenient sharing notes with peers. The split screen function is very convenient as well- having two notes open at once makes it a lot easier. Dragging photos into notes is so helpful and easy. I use notability to take all my notes in medical school. It is so much easier to use over classic paper and pencil notes. **What do you dislike about Notability?** I don’t like how it is not available on windows/androids. I have an iPad and a windows laptop- if i could share notes between the two devices it would make the app even better. I also would like if you could make more folders within other folders to help organize notes further - ideally I would have 1 large folder for a semester with folders for each class within that and then folders specific to different topics within the class folders. There are also some frequent glitches that make the app run a little less smoothly- commonly I can’t scroll or write with my pen until I exit the note and come back to it. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** It’s great if you have a tablet to use it on- I have not used it on a computer so I don’t know how it works on a laptop/desktop but I would imagine a lot of notability’ s benefits would not be as useful if you are not able to use a tablet. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to take notes much more efficiently. Being able to download course packs, power points, PDFs ect. And take notes directly onto them is awesome. Also being able to have all my notes with me on my iPad saves paper, space, and time. It’s great being able to just take my iPad with me nd having everything I need. I also love being able to search through all of my notes for key words- it makes finding specific information super easy and quick. ### 25. Notability - a powerful whiteboard for a swift online instruction **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohamed S. | Senior Specialist Tutor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 28, 2020 **What do you like best about Notability?** I'm an educational therapist. And I use the Notability app with iPad Pro + Apple pencil. Solely, I was using it for note- taking purposes. COVID-19 created a situation where I needed to switch to online instruction at short notice. I tried many virtual whiteboards but none of them came handy till my son, a teen with special needs, who is also a heavy user of Notability in the university told me that Notability could be re-purposed to be a virtual whiteboard. **What do you dislike about Notability?** Notability freezes when shared via Zoom. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** This assistive technology adaption helped me to deliver my lesson with ease and confidence. My lesson plans, lesson notes, instructional worksheets, and the whiteboard all in one app. ### 26. Fantastic tool to help organize school notes! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Notability?** I really like all the different features that notability has to offer including image insertion the different colors of pencil marks in the different tabs as well as the option to include voice. When it comes to work it really helped me organize my ideas and present it to my team and they were very impressed by the visuals that the app provided in dissecting the discussion at hand even further **What do you dislike about Notability?** I really wish that there was a way to add the voiceovers to certain aspects of your notes. There’s also no way to really move the folders around in a different order which is frustrating sometimes but other than that it’s pretty great. The great thing about Notability is that they are constantly making updates which definitely help keep the users engaged **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** I highly recommend notability to everyone who wants to organize their thoughts and give it a more visual representation **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Overall I don’t really see many problems with Notability it is a fantastic tool for up-and-coming college students it saves a lot of paper as well. The many benefits of using Notability include the layering the subjects option the different colors of pencils the different tabs the ability to share these notes with your friends in an instant in PDF format or any other format that you choose. Notability also has a left-handed feature. And as someone who is left-handed herself this really helps me use the app to the optimal value possible ### 27. App that makes the iPad worth having **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2020 **What do you like best about Notability?** The app that means I can use my ipad to replace pen and paper. Used throughout education to record lectures, neatly write equations and easily conduct reworks. Goodbye, educational books, notepads and pencil cases.... this is all you need **What do you dislike about Notability?** Genuinely not much.... perhaps better integration with PowerPoint, speaker notes are lost on import. That’s the only thing I can think of that’s bugged me while using it. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Now only need to pick up my iPad and pencil and I have everything I need for a day at uni thanks to note ability ### 28. A great app for handwritten notes on the iPad **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 01, 2020 **What do you like best about Notability?** Great easy to use handwritten notes app. Some good basic drawing features and the synced audio recordings is great. **What do you dislike about Notability?** The organization of notes is not intuitive and with a lot of notes an a lot of projects it becomes very hard to manage. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for handwritten notes when working with my coaching clients. And for taking notes during training and classes. ### 29. Simple and easy to use note tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** I like the pen style and the fact that it is very simple and easy to use. Notability included only the useful stuff to make it with a minimum interface. **What do you dislike about Notability?** One feature that is missing is the option to crop a picture taken with the camera and scale/resize/fit like a scanner. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** I recommend this tools for those who want a simple tool to take notes. It’s the best note I have ever tested. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I’m using using notability to take notes in my classes and meetings with my iPad Pro. ### 30. Best medical school resource on the market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Practice | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** I love that I can sync my files instantly To all of my devices. I love that I can take notes in class directly on PowerPoint files using my apple pen and files uploaded to Notability. I have pdf textbooks uploaded to that I take notes on. I have folders for each class and beautiful files saved on each. I can search any key word and find every time it was ever mentioned in lecture. It saves me so much time by helping find stuff in my notes. I also read notes on the phone app when I have down times. Basically it keeps me organized in school and it’s honestly worth double what I paid for the app **What do you dislike about Notability?** Nothing this app is the greasiest app I’ve ever purchased! **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Get the app on all of your devices. It will come in so handy for studying when you have downtime like in line at Starbucks or at the gym. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It keeps me so organized. It helps me access information from my notes so fast. My notes are clean and color codes and written both free hand and directly on powerpoints or textbooks. It saves me so much space because I don’t have to use paper anymore. I just use my notability app and my apple pen for all my school needs. ### 31. great, simple product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacob K. | Graduate Research Assistant, Biotechnology, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** It is so easy to use. great place to store documents, or to create content in the app. **What do you dislike about Notability?** I have issues using this on my iPhone. It seems that if I go more than a few days without using the app all of my content needs to be redownloaded from the cloud. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Great for personal use. I don't see this as a project that would be beneficial for collaborative project. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use this software to organize documents and notes. It allows me to easily organize them by project, annotate and share. ### 32. Use it everyday, all day. Life Changing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** I use it everyday for notes on every call and interview I do. Love that I can search my own handwriting (which is terrible) and find what I'm looking for in a huge quantity of notes. **What do you dislike about Notability?** Wish there were more than 2 levels of saving notes/files and more ways to organize. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Most beneficial tool I brought in to my work life all year **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I take notes on every call u make. Switched from using spiral notebooks for my daily work notes. Now can sort and save my notes. Do everything on my iPad now. Everything is in its specific section. ### 33. Notability is the best way to take notes and keep them organized. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Notability?** In using Notability on my iPad, the thing I love most is the ability to write in an organized way in my own handwriting. The Notability app on the iPad offers a zoom in tool while writing that keeps your lines straight and allows you to write naturally. On my Mac, Notability also allows for safe organization of all files into folders and allows files to be connected through the Cloud. Notability also allows voice recordings to be added directly to files, which is something that is beneficial in all sorts of environments. **What do you dislike about Notability?** One thing I dislike is the tools offered in the Mac version. In writing something in regular text, for example, there are not many effects or fonts available to customize your work. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** I would recommend using Notability on your iPad versus a PC or Mac. Not that the product does not function on these, but the ease of use and tools offered on an iPad exceed what can be done on a Mac or PC. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Notability provides multiple business benefits, but the main one being organization. Notability allows notes to not only be recorded in an organized way, but for files to be saved, uploaded, and viewed in the most efficient way possible. In note taking, it also allows for portions of a file to be highlighted or noted. ### 34. amazing **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Federico T. | Ergonomist and Human Factors advisor (EUR-ERG), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** I like the versatility. you can write on your iPad notes using apple pencil, or type down notes and record audio file. everything you o you can find it on your laptop **What do you dislike about Notability?** if you take a picture the resolution is too high and the file becomes very heavy and hard to share **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it every day. I take notes and share them with clients and colleagues. If I deliver a lesson I use as it if were a Flipchart writer notes in real time and project them by a projector ### 35. Great Product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** This product has really been great to allow members of the team to customize their notes from team meetings and any other events. You are able to edit things to your liking, add voice overs or record, and write in your own notes in order for things to best make sense to you. It has really given our team the ability to customize things enough so that it makes it more valuable to them. **What do you dislike about Notability?** At this time I just wish that it was easier to share across platforms. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making it easier for people to access meeting notes and add it what they deem necessary and valuable to them. Making people more productive and on top of their game. ### 36. Notability Organization, Easy notes, fast search **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jennifer B. | Program Monitor Birth to Three, Education Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** I enjoy being able to record lectures and organize myself by class. I can easily back track and go back to something I specifically wrote. I also love the update- where your handwriting is searchable and you can also convert it to standard text. **What do you dislike about Notability?** I wish the app could be a little flexible for categorizing or bullding binders. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for both work and as a graduate student. I find it easy to take notes and search through them. ### 37. Easy to keep an well organized notebook **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Fu L. | student, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Notability?** I like to the way it is compatible with writing. It feels smooth use input by keyboard or Apple Pencil. It also provide a nice recording function **What do you dislike about Notability?** I hope there could be more paper types to choose so that it makes the note better to look. I also think it is not good for collaboration. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** I think it is worthwhile to buy this software if you prefer handwriting yet want to keep a digital record **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I keep notes with it for preparing my daily activity record. ### 38. Notability is a great tool for productivity. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** I love that Notability allows you to mark-up nearly any document using the highlighting function, drawing, text boxes, and even allows for audio recording. This tool has greatly improved my productivity and I am able to share modified documents with ease. **What do you dislike about Notability?** There is nothing I dislike about Notability. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Notability is a great tool for increased productivity. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Notability allows me to modify documents and share them with my team members. I can download office memos, mark them up in real time, and add audio recording to get the most out of my meeting experiences. ### 39. My favorite note taking app, serious game changer. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** My favorite thing is the ability to record the meeting while you take notes so you can click on a certain note you took and hear exactly what the person was talking about at that moment. Incredible stuff. **What do you dislike about Notability?** I love everything about this application, the only things I had complaints about like not being able to search your text was changed in an update. So since that was fixed, no complaints! **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Use this application, it truly is amazing. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am solving the issues of taking notes more efficiently and having all of my subjects neat and in one place. ### 40. Best note taking app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cesar G. | Co Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** Great note taking app. I like the ability to record while writing. Create different subject tabs and it has different paper backgrounds. **What do you dislike about Notability?** I would like for it to be more user intuitive. And have better menu settings. Like be able to make quick changes. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me organize my memos a lot better. Its easy to use and to store notes. ### 41. notability experience **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Josiane T. | Clinical Assistant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** really useful for taking notes in classes - i like the fact that you can type, highlight, and mark the notes/slides with a stylus / pencil **What do you dislike about Notability?** sometimes the program glitches and i can’t download / open the notes or the notes won’t back up to google docs **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** using them to take notes during meetings / keeping up with work process ### 42. Great for PDF annotation **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** I love how easy it is to annotate PDFs and also searching through documents including your own handwriting. **What do you dislike about Notability?** I dislike how you can't make subfolders when organizing your notes. Also, you have to buy a separate version for mobile and desktop so most people only buy one which is annoying. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Worth the money **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** More organized note taking during meetings or research. ### 43. Powerful Note App for iPad Pro **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sky S. | Graduate Research Assistant, Nanotechnology, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** It has stable sync with clouds and supports apple pen feature. **What do you dislike about Notability?** Somewhat slow when it has many items in one note. **Recommendations to others considering Notability:** Much improvement of productivity using iPad **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Remove old-fashioned paper note to synchronized digital note all over the devices. ### 44. Best note app **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Veterinary | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Notability?** Notability easily integrates PDF to the app for easy note taking. I like that we can record lectures. **What do you dislike about Notability?** Hard to convert powerpoints that I had to download to the app. Limited ways to edit photos to add to notes. **What problems is Notability solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy way to download PDFs, place your notes and comments, and easily sent the new edited PDF via email. ## Notability Discussions - [Add to laptop](https://www.g2.com/discussions/26796-add-to-laptop) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [What is Notability used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-notability-used-for) - 1 comment - [Is notability free on iPad?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-notability-free-on-ipad) - 2 comments - [What does the notability app do?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-does-the-notability-app-do) - 1 comment - [View Notability pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/notability/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+11%3A35%3A35+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=2501e6e0-b2ab-42cb-ac0d-5eecd8806943&secure%5Btoken%5D=53c02fb1207fb9b3589b42f2187d8b5b2c83912e1a9df42ed95931b1c5944581&format=llm_user) ## Notability Features **Agentic AI - Note-Taking Software** - Autonomous Task Execution ## Top Notability Alternatives - [Notion](https://www.g2.com/products/notion/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (10,733 reviews) - [Evernote](https://www.g2.com/products/evernote/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (2,008 reviews) - [Microsoft OneNote](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-onenote/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,815 reviews)