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About Notability
Notability is a note-taking app for handwritten notes, imported documents and recorded audio with live transcription. It aims at students and anyone taking notes in lectures or meetings.
AI features generate summaries, action items, practice quizzes and flashcards from your notes, let you ask questions about a note, and turn a YouTube link into a note with a transcript and summary. It is available for iOS and Android and on the web, with collaboration features.
Strengths
- Handwriting combined with audio recording and transcription
- Generates quizzes, flashcards and summaries from notes
- Available on iOS, Android and the web
Limitations
- Closed source
- Many AI features sit behind paid plans
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumFree to download, with paid plans for more features.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Ginger Labs
- Platforms
- Android, iOS, Web
- How it runs
- Downloadable app, Web application
- Best suited for
- Students taking handwritten lecture notes on a tablet
- Categories
- Note-taking, Learning tools, AI assistants
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Notability
Compare allSoftware that can replace Notability for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
GoodNotes
Handwriting-first notes app for iPad with Apple Pencil support and OCR search.
GoodNotes focuses on handwriting with Apple Pencil, OCR search of handwritten notes and strong PDF annotation, but runs on macOS and iOS only without Android or web.
Noteshelf
A handwriting notebook app for iPad, iPhone and Mac with PDF annotation and audio recording.
Noteshelf offers handwriting with realistic pens, paper templates, PDF annotation and audio recording, limited to Apple devices and without AI quizzes or flashcards.
MyScript Notes
A handwriting note-taking app, formerly Nebo, that converts pen input into editable typed text.
MyScript Notes converts handwriting into editable typed text, runs on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS, and also offers AI summaries and quizzes for studying.
Flexcil
A study app that combines PDF reading, annotation and handwritten notes on tablets and the web.
Flexcil centres on PDF reading and handwritten notes side by side on Android and iOS tablets, with a web version, and has a free programme for schools.
Saber
An open-source, cross-platform note-taking app built for handwriting with a stylus.
Saber is free and open source for stylus handwriting on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux with encrypted sync, but lacks audio recording and AI study features.
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft's freeform digital notebook with sections, pages, web clipping and cloud sync.
Microsoft OneNote is a free freeform notebook in the browser with sections, pages and shared notebooks, storing notes in Microsoft's cloud rather than focusing on handwriting.
Notability as an alternative
Listings that name Notability as an alternative.
Kami
A web-based classroom platform for annotating PDFs and other resources and making them interactive.
Notability focuses on handwritten notes with audio recording and transcription on iOS, Android and web, and lacks the LMS integration and teacher progress insights Kami provides.
MarginNote
A study app for Mac and iPad that links PDF highlights, mind maps and flashcards.
Notability centres on handwriting with audio recording and AI-generated flashcards and quizzes on iOS, Android and web, instead of linking PDF highlights into mind maps.
Mem
An AI note-taking workspace with an agent that tracks your tasks, projects and goals from your notes.
Notability combines handwriting with audio recording and transcription, generating summaries, quizzes and flashcards on iOS, Android and the web.
RemNote
Note-taking app that pairs outlining with built-in spaced-repetition flashcards.
Notability combines handwriting, audio recording and transcription and generates quizzes and flashcards on iOS, Android and web, though many AI features are paid.
Rnote
An open-source vector drawing app for handwritten notes, sketches and annotating PDFs and pictures.
Notability combines handwriting with audio recording, transcription and AI summaries on iOS, Android and web, closed source with many features behind paid plans.
Stylus Labs Write
A word processor for handwriting that treats pen-written lines as editable, reflowing text.
Notability is a freemium handwriting app on iOS, Android and the web that adds audio recording, transcription and AI summaries, and is closed source.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Granola
An AI notepad that transcribes meetings from computer audio and expands your own notes.
LiquidText
An active-reading app for annotating PDFs and pulling excerpts into a flexible workspace.
