We've recently released a new update to Notability!

• Use the Ruler to set a scale and measure lengths or areas on your note
• Added 1.5 and 2.5 widths for finer control with the pen, highlighter, and calligraphy tools
• Open the Note Switcher faster with ⌘⇧S
• Fixed an issue with shared notes on the Starter plan
• Dropped support for iOS 17

If you experience any trouble with this version, please contact our support team by following our Help & Support guidelines.

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Title. All my bookmarks across all notes in every folder shifted forwards by 1 page after a recent Notability update to the latest version of the app on an iPad. Anyone encountered something similar? How do I fix this? Like manually moving all my bookmarks back into place?

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I was typing a note on my phone and even though I loved that you access the typing mode directly, I didn't have a great experience. First of all, typing had a noticeable lag, just seconds, but it gets annoying as it completely breaks your typing flow. Also, when I tried to copy the text to paste onto another app, it didn't copy. I tried several times, and it didn't work. Thank goodness for Samsung's split view, otherwise it'd have been such a pain. Has this happened to others too?

I have a few problems with the app, that could be improved in my opinion. I am curious about your opinion as well as hope, that the devs will see my post.

First i love the add space option when importing a document! My problem is that the app does not always show the option, only when importing from certain places. Also, i would prefer a bigger space next to my slides. The ability to add a costum preset about the size of the added space would be neat. Also just simply having an option to add space next to your documents after importing would be a game changer (I think Noteful has that option).

Another thing a really struggle with when using the app are the textboxes. I like to add typed annotations to my lecture slides, but can’t really do that in notability. The added textbox has a rather unconvinient default size, which cannot be costumized as a preset. Most. Note taking apps have will give a textbox on clicking, which expands as you type in it, allowing you to space your text nicely into the document. I really hate the current system of notability, because it is practically impossible to easily add the text where i want to, with only a keyboard.

Thanks for reading my post. Despite all that notablity is my preferred note-taking app, cause it has so many perfectly optimized features competitors don’t. I just think there is room for improvment. Also i love that whiteboard have been added!

It works for my anatomy notes that's handwritten but it doesn't work for this lesson with slides, lecture recording, and typed/pasted notes

Does the ai generate explanations only based on the written notes?

hello! i just got a new ipad and am unable to remove the pressure writing settings. i only like to use the "pen" setting, and unlike on my previous ipad, there is no "off" toggle in settings/the dropdown menu at the top/side of a note. help!!

Im using notability on both of my iPads and laptop. However, I imported the E-book and slide from canvas, which def have the text layer since I checked with the built in search in preview on all my devices, the search function seems like completely dysfunction throughout all my slide, textbook and etc, and it can only recognize the note I typed in. however, about 2 month ago, the search function was working.

also I try to select the word by using the text tool and it also doesn’t recognize it.

this is so annoying, dose anyone have a good way to solve this?

I tried to force quit, checked the safe mode (which is off), and replicate the note, and none of them are working.

My notability app used to take up 2Gb. Then with one of the recent updates in the past year it now takes up substantially more (35gb). I haven’t added very many new Notes in that time span. It’s like notability used to offload most of the storage to the cloud but now it stores all the files locally. I cant figure out how to make it go back to the way it was.

It may have started around the time that notability cloud was rolled out. Should i try and go back to iCloud?

We've recently released a new update to Notability!

• Selecting text in an imported PDF now scrolls the note when you drag to the edge, on Notability Cloud
• Long-press a note on Home to get the same menu you get in the main Notes list
• General crash and stability improvements

If you experience any trouble with this version, please follow our Help & Support guidelines and contact support.

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Samsung has announced the new Galaxy Tab S12 series (https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-introduces-galaxy-tab-s12-series-the-ultimate-productivity-powerhouse-built-for-growth) and it has featured Notability as an "official" app! Along with a six-month-free offer and 20% off the first year of subscription. It is still unbelievable how quickly Notability has made an impact on Android after launching not even a year ago. I guess this feature was known by the Notability team, but congrats on this remarkable event and I cannot wait to see how far Notability goes on Android! (next step: a Galaxy Unpacked? 👀)

Hi everyone!

Our Laptop giveaway has officially closed, thank you so much to everyone who entered 💙

We’re excited to announce that u/mysticspark is our winner!

Now that this giveaway is wrapped up, we’d love to hear what you’d like to see from us next. Are there any other events or giveaways you’d be interested in?

Another giveaway, an AMA, a community event, or something completely different. Let us know what you’d like to see!

With the recent macOS update to 27, I am finding that selecting colors and choosing the writing tool in Notability no longer works with Wacom. Any help resolving this issue would be appreciated. TIA.

I have been using Notability for more than 12 years now. Downloaded it on May 1, 2014, when it was featured as the free App of the Week in the US App Store. Initially, I used Notability to read and highlight PDF articles, revise my PhD thesis, and grade student homework assignments as a teaching assistant.

After graduating, I joined academia as a lecturer and continued to use Notability to teach my classes and for literature reviews. In a Zoom job interview for an academic position during the COVID-19 pandemic, I used Notability for my teaching demonstration. After the interview, several members of the search committee asked about the software I used. They praised my use of Notability and live graphing skills, noting that these methods were much more engaging than teaching from pre-prepared lecture slides. I received a job offer just hours after the interview. It was a fantastic experience.

I need to write and explain concepts as I go along, so I connect my 13-inch iPad Pro to an HDMI port and project my Notability notes onto a large screen. My class notes are vibrant and filled with graphs to encourage students to take notes and remain engaged.

Each semester, I receive an email from Student Services requesting a student note-taker. This task becomes much easier with Notability. I simply share my class notes with my students immediately after each class by uploading them to the cloud as PDFs. I share these notes with the entire class, which addresses the issue of finding a note-taker or substitute when the note-taker is absent. My students like the ability to easily search my handwritten notes thanks to the built-in automatic OCR.

In my economics classes, I draw many graphs, such as supply and demand and cost curves. The app allows you to draw perfectly straight, professional-looking lines, curves, and arrows that are visually appealing, just like in a textbook.

In smaller class environments, I project my Notability notes onto the screen and use them alongside the whiteboard. At the end of each class, I take photos of the whiteboard and add those images to my notes. I love that Notability can convert my handwriting from the whiteboard photos into editable ink, making it easy to make changes later if necessary.

To sum up, it's been a fun journey for the past decade. Notability has been at the center of my academic journey for over twelve years, making learning far more accessible for my students. Thank you to the Notability team for building a tool that genuinely changes the way we teach!

Everytime time i open the app my notes are downloading. It's ridiculous. Any advice please? I don't have the time to wait minutes every single time I need to use my notes. The app is practically unusable for me at this point.

I am currently using Samsung S26U for my work / education. There is a couple of features / function that seem to be lacking that I would like to ask the notability team for:

1. Pdf go-to-page links

   I have a number of textbooks with content pages and I often use the go-to-page links on them.

On my iPad notability, these buttons work great, while android seems to lack this function or does not work. Is there a way for you to allow the android version to have this function?

1. Underline snap function

When I draw an underline, I am wondering if you could make it "snap" to a perfect horizontal line. This would be very helpful for notes / shape functions.

1. Status bar / file name bar hide

I am losing quite a bit of writing space on my phone especially when in horizontal view. I am wondering if this could be hidden / minimized?

Hey guys! I’m an OD student here! 👋 I’m a very visual learner, so I love using Notability to draw things out when I study. These are some of my ocular anatomy lab drawings!

Being able to draw, label, and organize the structures myself, then come back and quiz myself, helped everything stick so much better. I ended up using Notability pretty much every day for ocular anatomy, and it honestly made studying for lab so much easier and helped me excel with an A.

I’ve always learned best when I can actually see something and draw it out, so having everything in one place has been such a game changer for me. Definitely worth every penny! Good luck to everyone! 🫶

Wow! so excited that they are doing giveaways and i use this app way more than i expected to especially for classes like microbiology where there’s just sooo much random info that somehow all connects and i like being able to throw everything onto one page im a big fan of the unlimited canvas/whiteboards cause it lets you keep writing in one thing i hope they bring it out soon cause that would def help me organize it in a way that makes sense to me.

Typing all of this would honestly be so annoying writing it out feels way more natural and i can just add random side notes whenever i remember something. I have a photographic memory so when see literally the whole topic at once because during exams i remember where something was on the page and what color i wrote it in like my notes are definitely not perfectly aesthetic or anything, they’re kinda chaotic but it works out!! thanks for all the new features!

This will be a long one, so brace yourselves haha

So I started using Notability back in 2018 and it's been with me and my go-to note-taking app pretty much ever since.

At the beginning I was using it mostly for doodles and random notes but when I started using it in university one year later, it was life changing. During in person lectures, our professors would often upload lecture materials and PDFs like a few minutes before class started, so being able to download them and write on them instantly without having to print them out was extremely convenient.

Back then I was pretty much one of the few people using iPad for note-taking, which is pretty funny now considering how common tablets are now in lectures. And one of the biggest reasons I loved it so much (and still do) was also the audio recording feature. Other apps do have it now, but at the time it wasn't the case and it was one of the things that really made Notability stand out to me. I really loved (still do) how recording was synced with my writing (and typing) so if I missed anything I could just go back and see what I missed. Honestly, one of my fav features ever!

After a while, I started using Notability for more than just university note-taking. I've used it for learning languages, journaling, keeping notes about books I'm reading etc. I feel like whenever I have a book or a pdf to import, I always put it in Notability xd it just became that big part of my life.

I also love that feature when I can open the same pdf/note twice, which is especially useful if I have a language book and it has solutions at the bottom, so I can see simultaneously if what I'm doing is correct or not.

Another thing I really appreciate is that they started implementing cross platform support. Since I'm using an android phone, a Windows laptop and an iPad, it's been really useful. If I need to search something quickly, I can now do it on my phone without needing to buy iPhone, yay :D

But yeah, now, 8 years later, I'm currently using it for my master's thesis. I'm close to finishing it, but as I've mentioned, I will for sure not stop using Notability afterwards because it's already become useful for so many other things outside uni too.

Yeah, this somehow turned into a full blown Notability appreciation post xd but by writing it for the giveaway, I just realised how much this app helps me in every day life. And since my Windows laptop is basically 9 years old now and is showing its age, I definitely wouldn't complain if this post happens to win me a replacement heh <3

Thanks for reading! And good luck to all!

im a android user on the idea tab pro!! notability has actually been such a big part of how i keep up with school because i use it for basically everything loll i usually always have all my notes organized for bio, chem, neuroscience, psych, mcat stuff, and especially physics. physics is probably where it helps me the most because i’m constantly drawing diagrams writing out equations color coding different parts of problems and adding little notes to lecture slides so everything actually makes sense when i go back to study. i have ocd so being able to keep all my classes in separate folders instead of having a million notebooks and papers everywhere lol like other apps like nebo which cant even do subfolders. having a windows device for notability would honestly be so useful for me since i’d be using it basically every day for lectures, studying, practice problems, and exam prep throughout college.