--- title: "Notability Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of Notability Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Productivity Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/) / Notability Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/alternatives/) # Notability Review From $15-$19.99/year Free version 3 plans Wondering if Notability is right for your organization? Our Productivity Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Notability 4.6 [(47)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/reviews/) Pricing Starting at $15.00 per year ### About Notability Notability is a mobile-based note-taking solution designed to help individuals manage projects ideas with sketching and PDF annotation tools. It allows employees to build hand-crafted notes using web pages, GIFs or photos, scale, rotate and recolor ideas, and organize them with custom dividers or subjects. Notability enables users to combine multiple outlines or sketches and share them with peers via third-party platforms such as Google Drive, Dropbox, AirDrop and more. Users can prepare searchable multi-page PDFs and make use of left-aligned typing with various fonts, sizes and colors. The application also allows users to markup lecture slides, images, documents and imported textbooks. Individuals can receive written or verbal comments from other members, and playback audio recordings by tapping on specific notes. Notability offers mobile application for iOS. It is available on a one-time basis and support is extended via documentation. Do you work for Notability? [Manage this product listing](https://www.g2.com/products/notability/claim_requests/new?auto=true) Wondering if Notability is right for your organization? Our Productivity Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. ## Notability User Interface ## Popular Notability Alternatives Main Product Notability 4.6 [(47)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.74Ease of use - 4.25Value for money - 4.44Customer support - 4.47Functionality Pricing Starting at $15.00 per year Get Price Alternative Product [Microsoft OneNote](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/onenote-profile/) 4.6 [(1986)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/onenote-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.56Ease of use - 4.56Value for money - 4.32Customer support - 4.48Functionality Pricing Starting at $6.99 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Notion](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/notion-profile/) 4.7 [(2846)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/notion-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.36Ease of use - 4.57Value for money - 4.39Customer support - 4.62Functionality Pricing Starting at $12.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Evernote Teams](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/evernote-profile/) 4.4 [(8254)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/evernote-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.43Ease of use - 4.32Value for money - 4.23Customer support - 4.38Functionality Pricing Starting at $7.99 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Plottr](https://www.softwareadvice.com/note-taking/plottr-profile/) 4.8 [(237)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/note-taking/plottr-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.71Ease of use - 4.88Value for money - 4.92Customer support - 4.77Functionality Pricing Starting at $15.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Google Keep](https://www.softwareadvice.com/note-taking/google-keep-profile/) 4.7 [(248)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/note-taking/google-keep-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.86Ease of use - 4.89Value for money - 4.37Customer support - 4.38Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price ## Notability Pricing and Plans Notability has three plans. Lite is $15.00/yr billed annually. Plus is $19.99/yr billed annually. Starter is custom-priced. Free version Starter Free No plan information available Lite $15.00 per year No plan information available Plus $19.99 per year No plan information available Confused about pricing? We've got you covered. Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ### How does Notability pricing compare to alternatives? Notability's starting price is $15.00/year. Explore how its pricing and plan options compare with top alternatives below. | Product | Starting price | Free trial | Free version | Value for Money | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Notability4.6[(47)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/reviews/) | $15.00 /yr | Not available | Available | 4.3 | | [Microsoft OneNote](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/onenote-profile/)4.6[(1,986)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/onenote-profile/reviews/) | $6.99 /user/mo | Available | Not available | 4.6 | | [Notion](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/notion-profile/)4.7[(2,846)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/notion-profile/reviews/) | $12.00 /user/mo | Available | Available | 4.6 | | [Evernote Teams](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/evernote-profile/)4.4[(8,254)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/evernote-profile/reviews/) | $7.99 /mo | Available | Available | 4.3 | | [Plottr](https://www.softwareadvice.com/note-taking/plottr-profile/)4.8[(237)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/note-taking/plottr-profile/reviews/) | $15.00 /mo | Available | Not available | 4.9 | Notability4.6[(47)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/reviews/) * * * Starting price $15.00 /yr Free trial Not available Free version Available Value For Money 4.3 - [Microsoft OneNote](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/onenote-profile/)4.6[(1,986)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/onenote-profile/reviews/) * * * Starting price $6.99 /user/mo Free trial Available Free version Not available Value For Money 4.6 - [Notion](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/notion-profile/)4.7[(2,846)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/notion-profile/reviews/) * * * Starting price $12.00 /user/mo Free trial Available Free version Available Value For Money 4.6 - [Evernote Teams](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/evernote-profile/)4.4[(8,254)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/evernote-profile/reviews/) * * * Starting price $7.99 /mo Free trial Available Free version Available Value For Money 4.3 - [Plottr](https://www.softwareadvice.com/note-taking/plottr-profile/)4.8[(237)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/note-taking/plottr-profile/reviews/) * * * Starting price $15.00 /mo Free trial Available Free version Not available Value For Money 4.9 ## Notability Features - Popular features found in Productivity Collaboration Tools Content Creation Productivity Tools Progress Tracking Task Management - More features of Notability Annotations Audio Recording Commenting/Notes Data Import/Export Drag & Drop File Sharing Handwriting Recognition Meeting Notes Notes Management Project Management Search/Filter Templates To-Do List ## Notability Integrations Dropbox Integration rated undefined from -1 review ## Notability User Reviews ## Notability customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.6/5 - Total reviews: 47 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 33 reviews (70%) - 4 stars: 11 reviews (23%) - 3 stars: 3 reviews (6%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.7/5 - Value for money: 4.3/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.5/5 --- ### Notes just SPIN - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: December 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Good to begin with, but the spinning, inaccessible notes have put me over the edge. When I need to find something, random files are inaccessible. It’s incredibly annoying #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 2/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros In the beginning, I loved the ease of use, the variety of templates, fonts and the search ability they the app had. #### Cons Even though I I have a paid subscription, the notes spin and are often not accessible. It is VERY frustrating! So much so, that, I am looking before a replacement note taking app --- ### Best note taking app for iPad - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Alexandrine D. - Industry: Medical Devices - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Best note taking app on iPad, perfect for annotating or signing pdfs. Used it for most of my engineering course, and still using it for note taking at work. I love the iCloud and OneDrive integration. #### Cons Sometimes it bugs, takes a long time to load my notes. I would also like the possibility to use hyperlinks inside my notes, it's inefficient to have to copy and paste links in my browser. --- ### Helpful Note-Taking Tool That Syncs across Devices - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · weekly - Reviewed: January 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. My overall experience with Notability is that its the notetaker that I keep coming back to for its dependability, ease of use, and intuitive features. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I love Notability for its ability to let me type or handwrite notes and have those notes sync across my iPhone, Mac, and iPad. Notability allows me to edit notes and e-mail them as well. #### Cons I find that occasionally the copy and paste function can be a bit finicky. Other than that, I have no real complaints. --- ### High Utility, Promising New Features - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: April 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Despite the small flaws, I don't see a near future where I'm not using Notability on a daily basis - its essential to my workflow as a student. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I have used Notability the past five years as a student and it has been essential in keeping my information organized and easily accessible on all my devices. I also love the new tape feature, it has already been a quick addition to my workflow for learning. #### Cons The cloud syncing really should be much faster, if I have the same document open on my computer and iPad it takes far too long for them to catch up. That and I often have to restart the Mac app as pages will just randomly be blurry. --- ### Good product bad business model - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Construction - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: 1-3 years · monthly - Reviewed: September 2024 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The product was good. I do not agree with their business model. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It was great for taking handwritten notes #### Cons I did not like that. They moved to a subscription model. I despise software that is a subscription. --- ### Good notes taking app for school and university students in need to develop productivity skills - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: October 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. having bought it as my first notes taking application and having it at base price with no annual pricing. I initially had no such use of the application. however overtime with understanding of notes and reducing paper footprint in long way have been major motivators for me utilising this application. however due to its annual pricing the feature that I bought initially have been the only one that I am using as the feature that I forgot to buy in initial phase due to restricted financial income have not really affecting my work but same may not be said for current new user who go though annual subscriptions. overall the application is great for usage and has good interface in comparison to goodnotes and native notes taking application. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 1/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 2/5 #### Pros to be able to work on text, scribble and subjects to divider mechanism to divide each section in predefined format. also having different notes template that fits in school, university and research background which are handy. one can also work it out in social experiments requiring working on multiple pdf questionnaires into subject specific. also the with audio ability to record interviews and lecture is plus point in case for individual which like taking up revision and optimising the notes at later phases #### Cons The pricing mechanism on the application have been shifted annual which is downside for those individual for whom this application have been designed. if following could have been something like 30-50 $ for version and if there are major feature updates, they could make version once in every 3-5 years which can be provided as upgrade for exisintng user at certain discount and retain the 30-50$ price. additionally family sharing could be restricted to single user across multiple devices, instead of provided family sharing which can provide better ability to understand usages and version upgrade feasibility. --- ### One of the best note taking/making apps available - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have been using Notability since it became available. It has had a very good roadmap and the company has been very careful not to convolute the tool with unnecessary features. It is a very tight and well rounded product. A true workhorse of note taking. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The ease of use and UX are way better than any other similar tools. The audio recording and its synch with the note taking is a killer feature and works like a charm. #### Cons The folder structure is not flexible enough for advanced use. --- ### Simple & Amazing Organization with Easy Features - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered My overall experience has been fabulous. I have used Notability for two years now and tried many different note-taking applications, but this is the simplest and user-friendly app I have used. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros My favorite features about Notability is definitely the organization of notes. You can create folders that are easy to access with as many separate notes as you need, and you can create categories to separate the folders. Everything is super easy to access and create as a user. Importing and exporting are easier than making coffee. The Lasso Tool in Notability can move things around, make them bigger or smaller, copy it, and duplicate. You can turn handwritten words to text, and you can even keep recorded notes! #### Cons There isn’t anything super specific that is outrageously bad, but this is definitely not an app for drawing or being creative. It’s only function is to take notes in all different ways. --- ### Notability, multifunctional Note taking app with many built in features, great for Students - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Naja H. - Industry: Medical Practice - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: 3-5 years · daily - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Overall I think notability is a great software and I utilize it every day for hundreds and hundreds of notes over the course of my higher education. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Some of the things that I like the best about not ability or the ease of organizing different courses or topics and the ability to put in multiple different tabs within a specific course or within a specific project. Additionally I like that you are able to directly back up your notes into another storage feature such as Google drive or box. #### Cons Some of the things that I like the least about this software are that if you are running out of space on your device it is extremely difficult to upload the notes to be used. You would need to delete some notes or back them up somewhere else and then delete them. Otherwise as you are trying to open the notes up it just says downloading from the cloud and that typically takes a long time if it even downloads at all. --- ### Opinion - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: less than 1 year · daily - Reviewed: November 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. What i like is that i can store large quantities of information in one app and don’t have to carry many notebooks at the same time, and that I’m doing my part in saving the environment, and i can change the fonts of ink without having to carry many pens and making a mess #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Organization system, preview of notes, dividers to organize subjects, it lets you search recognizing handwriting notes, 15 different paper color options Quick notes, bookmarks, multitasking within the app. #### Cons That everything is contained within one no itself if you want to add a picture you can do that but you have to either added to a new note or into an existing note with, doesn’t have many paper templates it only has 3, you cannot have mixed paper templates within one document --- Showing 1 - 10 of 47 Reviews [See All Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/reviews/) ## Notability Popular Comparisons [Microsoft OneNote vs Notability](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/vs/onenote/)[Notion vs Notability](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/vs/notion/)[Evernote Teams vs Notability](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/evernote-profile/vs/notability/)[Plottr vs Notability](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/vs/plottr/)[Google Keep vs Notability](https://www.softwareadvice.com/note-taking/google-keep-profile/vs/notability/)[Goodnotes vs Notability](https://www.softwareadvice.com/note-taking/goodnotes-profile/vs/notability/)[LiquidText vs Notability](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/liquidtext-profile/vs/notability/)[Otter.ai vs Notability](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/vs/otter/)[Zoho Notebook vs Notability](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/vs/zoho-notebook/) [Compare All Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/productivity/notability-profile/alternatives/) ## Other Top Recommended Productivity Software [Google Workspace](https://www.softwareadvice.com/marketing/google-workspace-profile/) **4.7** (87167) Recently recommended **0** times [Slack](https://www.softwareadvice.com/remote-support/slack-profile/) **4.7** (24244) Recently recommended **0** times [Trello](https://www.softwareadvice.com/project-management/trello-profile/) **4.5** (23647) Recently recommended **0** times [Dropbox](https://www.softwareadvice.com/file-sharing/dropbox-profile/) **4.5** (21718) Recently recommended **0** times Stuck Between Options? 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