improve the quality by playing around with its frequencies.Though audio recording has become an industry-standard in 2023, not many apps can sync recordings to both handwritten and typed notes, or animate your handwriting per pixel. Let us know if you’ve found the ruler tool in the app useful for measuring items and stuff. We love the snapping guidelines, that help us align items on the page. We’re still waiting for opacity options for our shapes or their fill at least. You can change your shapes after you’ve drawn them to adjust the border type, thickness, colour and fill. You can draw regular and irregular shapes in Notability as well as curved lines and arrows. A text box can have a transparent background, solid colour or a paper template. Text boxes mix better with handwritten notes than body text. Text alignment is limited to your text boxes, and line spacing is easier to appreciate with them too. The app can save three favourite text styles, which helps if you use a lot of text in your notes. Formatting your text makes it bold, italic or underline. You can use custom fonts that you can resize, and change their colour. Notability supports three bullet point and numbering types for creating hierarchies in your lists, which is great. You can add, unnumbered, numbered or interactive checklists to your notes. Your text options are the same for your body text and text boxes. Adding items to your notes Body text & text boxesīody text which goes directly on the page and aligns with your basic template lines, which we love. It can house up to twelve tools and you tuck it away when you don’t need it. ![]() You can save your favourite pens, highlighters, erasers and lasso tools on a mobile, favourites toolbar for easier access. It supports auto-advance and your writing tools are easily accessible. The zoom tool in Notability has a decent zoom range. The handwriting experience in Notability is excellent palm rejection is perfect and there is no lag when using the Apple Pencil. It also has twelve fixed sizes and can selectively erase the highlighter only. The eraser tool erases per stroke and pixel. It has the same options as those for your pen tool. So, it does not dim your notes when you layer it. The highlighter in Notability, goes behind your ink. The app has a lot of default colours, and you can add custom ones using the Hex code, slider or colour picker. Pencil tools are the best! All your pen tools have a decent range of fixed pen thicknesses that simply work. We now also have a pencil tool in the app. The dashed and dotted pens are not great for handwritten notes, but are, cool for drawing diagrams maybe. Notability has two types of pen tools ballpoint and fountain pens. Even though the developers keep adding more features, they’ve kept the icons at a minimum. It is clean, minimalist and modern – exactly what you’d expect from a note-taking app in 2023. We’ve always loved the user interface in Notability. We always use our minimalist digital notebooks in all the note-taking apps. If you’re still not happy with all those, you can simply add your own templates to the app’s library. The gallery has more templates shared by other Notability users from around the world. You can also choose to use landscape or portrait page templates. The basic templates in the app even have line-spacing options, which is rare to find in a note-taking app. The app has many page templates, with plenty of colour and size options. Creating new notesĬreating new notebooks is very easy in Notability. This review focuses on the subscription version of the app, for the iPad. Notability has a free trial, so you can try it before signing up for the subscription. Nebo: $7.99 (Editor’s choice for handwriting-to-text conversion). ![]() If you dislike subscriptions, here are some alternatives you can consider: We’re still waiting for the app to support family sharing for its subscription, which could help many of us. You get a discount for your first year at $11.99, which renews at the normal price. It costs $2.99/month or 14.99/year to access it on all your devices. ![]() Notability is a handwriting note-taking app for the iPad, iPhone and Mac.
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