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Note-taking and PDF annotation application

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Notability - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

Notability overview

What is Notability?

Notability is a mobile-based note-taking application, which helps individuals collaborate and manage projects using sketching and PDF annotation tools. Users can create hand-crafted notes with GIFs, web pages, or images, rotate or color the ideas, and organize them as per requirements.

The application allows creators to combine various sketches or outlines and share the notes with team members through third-party platforms such as Dropbox, Google Drive, AirDrop, and more. Users can create custom content, receive written or verbal comments from colleagues, and playback audio recordings by tapping on the required note. Notability enables users to markup photos, documents, lecture slides, imported textbooks, and more.

Individuals can categorize notes with customizable dividers or subjects and secure notes using Face ID and Touch ID. It lets users create searchable multi-page PDFs using a built-in document scanner and allows left-aligned typing using various fonts, sizes, and colors. It also includes a partial eraser feature, which enables users to remove objects to split them apart and select the subdivided object separately for different purposes.

Starting price

15 /
per year

Notability’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Notability pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from 

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
3-4(14)
5(33)

What do users say about Notability?

I would say what I like least about the application is the limitations the free version has, such as having a limit on how much one can edit a document.

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Who uses Notability?

Based on 47 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Enterprises

Midsize Businesses

Top industries

Education Management
Veterinary
Marketing and Advertising
Hospital & Health Care
Others

Use cases

Note-Taking
Productivity

Notability's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Notability users:

Handwriting recognition
Meeting notes

All Notability features

Features rating:

Annotations
Audio recording
Collaboration tools
Commenting/Notes
Data import/export
Drag & drop
File sharing
Handwriting recognition
Meeting notes
Notes management
Productivity tools
Project management
Search/Filter
Templates
To-Do list

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Notability pricing

Value for money rating:

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Starter

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No pricing info

Lite

15

Per year

Plus

19.99

Per year

User opinions about Notability price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Notability's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

“In the beginning, I loved the ease of use, the variety of templates, fonts and the search ability they the app had.”
SL

Stacey L.

Teacher

“I was able to take notes, highlight crucial details, and annotate PDF documents with ease because to the app's user-friendly design and plethora of writing options.”
AB

Angelica B.

University Intern

Notability integrations (2)

Integrations rated by users

We looked at 47 user reviews to identify which products are mentioned as Notability integrations and how users feel about them.

Integration rating: 4.6 (8)

I need to share files with my team

DL

Dorle L.

Global Payroll Administrator

Integration rating: 4.7 (3)

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

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Box

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

Integration rating: 5.0 (2)

for ical use CALENDAR

DH

Dianne H.

Owner

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ownCloud

Integration rating: 5.0 (1)

Having built a 4TB NAS drive connected to my ownCloud WebDav server, I'm able to schedule an auto-backup of all the data (including the hundreds of created notes & PDF exports with Notability) stored on my work & personal devices without being hindered by upload quota limits. Since I have the ownCloud app running on my iPad & iPhone, I can always download & upload files from my handheld devices without an issue as well.

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Mohammad M.

Technical Office Engineer

Notability support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

Email/Help Desk
Knowledge Base

Training options

Documentation
Videos

Notability FAQs

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