Notability: AI & PDF Notes

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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 30 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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Terms of Service: notability.com/terms
A digital notebook: take notes with AI, annotate PDFs, handwrite study notes.
Updated on
Nov 12, 2026
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Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, Messages and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.52K reviews
Alpha Beta
October 19, 2026
Where do I start? Well, I don't have much time anyway, but I'll start with the picky stuff. Can't even move my documents to folders after I've uploaded the file. It's just forever stuck in unfiled leaving it disorganized. Another thing is the eye dropper doesn't even work so I can match the pen color to whatever I wish to. This might seem like frivolous things to some, but I expect these minor details to work of I'm PAYING for an app which I am.
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Ginger Labs
October 20, 2026
Thank you for writing, and we are sorry for the trouble. Notability for Android is new, and we read every review and fix issues release by release, so please keep the app updated from Google Play. If this still happens on the current version, open Settings in Notability, tap Help, then Contact Support, and mention this review.
Aromaki
October 27, 2026
The app is good, as I've said that I use screenshots to edit my notes in my online class, the zoom is really nice and the highlighters work well, but after this update my notes look a little blurry? when I hold to click to move around my notes they clear up, and when i untouch the screen they blur. I do hope you look into this it wasn't there before.
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Ginger Labs
October 27, 2026
Thank you for the kind words, and thank you for telling us about that. We read every review and fix issues release by release, so please keep Notability updated from Google Play. If it keeps happening, open Settings in Notability, tap Help, then Contact Support, and mention this review.
Preston Nichols
October 17, 2026
when I tap my Google account, it says I have no WiFi connection, even though j have full bars of internet and full mobile data. no matter how much I update the app, do software updates on my phone, and also no matter how many time I restart my phone, nothing fixes it. 0/10 . would not recommend.
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What’s new

• Gestures settings for undo and redo, the stylus side button, and Draw with fingers.
• Clip web pages, and bulk import folders.
• Present a note on a connected display.
• Favorite fonts, your device's fonts, and Markdown shortcuts.
• Step through search matches and browse a note's outline.
• Faster typing, smoother PDF scrolling, and bug fixes.