Notability – Take great notes on iPhone and iPad
Notability was an amazing iPad-only note taking app. Now its available on the iPhone as a universal app, and its been redesigned in a great way! Once you start using it you’ll know why. The beautiful user interface is just the start. Soon you’ll be bullet-pointing and creating sleek outlines. My favorite part is a toss-up between the auto syncing to Dropbox and the audio recording. Notability will record audio while you take notes and can even fast-forward to whatever point in the notes you jump too. Amazing. This video will show you how it all works.
Notability is just one of our favorite notes apps for iPhone and iPad. We’ve collected all of our favorites here. And if you’d like to see more of our top app selections in different categories, just head on over to our Best Apps Series.
Welcome to Notability: powerful, yet wonderfully simple note-taking and PDF annotation.
Apple Editors' Choice on iPad, iPhone, and Mac! Top selling paid app on iPad App Store, regularly ranked #1.
Students, teachers, and business professionals use Notability daily to enrich their lives. It is uniquely designed for each device to provide the best note-taking experience at school, home, and work.
STREAMLINE YOUR WORKFLOW
• Become fully paper-free, in the classroom, office, and at home.
• Complete, sign, and share documents in Notability.
• Drag and Drop to move files, text, photos, GIFs, web pages, and more from other apps into Notability with Multitasking.
• Secure and lock your notes using Face ID and Touch ID.
HANDWRITE AND SKETCH WITH BEAUTIFUL INK
• Fully express your artistic side with custom colors and match any color with the color dropper.
• Easily create perfect shapes.
• Precisely erase freehand ink or shapes with varied brush sizes.
• Ink is fine-tuned for 1st and 2nd generation Apple Pencil for the most responsive, precise writing experience yet, including double-tap gesture for switching tools, erasing, and more.
SEARCH AND CONVERT HANDWRITTEN NOTES
• Search for handwritten words from the Library and in the note view in any of our 15 supported languages.
• Convert handwriting to text.
• It all happens on your device, so your information stays private.
SAVE TIME WITH MULTI-NOTE
• Multi-Note lets you work with two notes side-by-side.
• Quickly switch between notes with the Note Switcher.
• Drag & Drop handwriting, typed text, images, and more between notes.
TYPE ANYWHERE
• Notability includes full-featured, left-aligned typing with word count and a wide range of fonts, sizes, and colors.
• Create outlines, interactive checklists, and text boxes.
• Save time with keyboard shortcuts.
IMPORT AND SHARE
• Import PDFs, DOCs, PPTs, images, GIFs, and more - conversion to PDF happens on your device, so your information stays private.
• Annotate imported pictures, lecture slides, and meeting agendas, or complete class assignments.
• Share notes via email, AirDrop, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, OneDrive, and more, or share note content to other apps with Drag and Drop.
RECORD AND PLAYBACK AUDIO
• Get more out of your lectures and meetings when you record them.
• Notes are automatically synced with audio recordings so during playback you can listen to what was happening as you wrote.
AUTO-BACKUP AND ICLOUD SYNC
• Use iCloud to automatically sync your notes to Notability on iPad, iPhone, and Mac, or to retrieve previous versions of your notes.
• Use Auto-backup to send your notes to a cloud service for archiving or recovery. Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, WebDAV, and OneDrive are all supported!
Mac app sold separately.
Notability is a registered trademark of Ginger Labs, Inc.
Here are a couple of our other picks of the best notes apps for iPhone and iPad:
Notes Plus for iPad – Convert handwritten notes to typed text
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September 3, 2014 @ 12:55 pm
Very nicely done. Long time user of Notability and just got it for my Mac. Thought I’d browse around to check out features I didn’t know about. I was impressed by your presentation-you explained with good examples and gave a very complete overview. Glad I found hour site.
September 3, 2014 @ 4:54 pm
Thank you so much for your kind comment! Glad to hear my overview could help! I haven’t checked out the Mac version yet. How do you like it? What scenarios will you use it in?
October 3, 2014 @ 7:36 am
Often overlooked is the fact that far better quality recordings can be made by not using the internal mic of the ipad. A simple method is to use Griffins iMic and an iPad usb adapter. An FM source such as iPod nano 6 which I use for FM reception at Assemblies is suitable. I use a dock audio output from the nano 6 to 3.5mm jack fed into Griffen IMic. As my hearing is not so good I can still use earbuds (also necessary for the aerial).
Recording off of an inductive loop for the hard of hearing can be done simply by replacing the FM receiver with an eagle telephone coil. The inductive telephone coil will also pick up stray magnetic field from a loud speaker if in close proximity enabling recording from that type of source also.
Lots of audio background auditorium noise is eliminated by using this method. FM reception is my preferred method where available as I personally don’t like the compressed audio of inductive loop amplifiers.
April 21, 2015 @ 3:12 pm
Can I use this with the new interactive regional meeting download?
April 24, 2015 @ 4:30 pm
Notability does not work well with the interactive program. But PDF Expert works great with it! Check it out here: http://appchasers.com/2013/12/04/best-file-management-reader-annotation-app-for-ipad-pdf-expert-5-review/
June 21, 2016 @ 11:54 pm
Is it possible to SHARE recordings made in this App with other programs or people?
June 22, 2016 @ 12:12 am
Yes you can export the sound files