Notability – Note Taking App Reviews

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Bad

I cant open my note now. Fix it plz

Good

Please, add portrait orientation.

Two steps to perfect app

This app just turned my education process upside-down: no more tons of paper sheets and copybooks, only iPad. But I really dream about: 1) second mode of rubber to erase only a part of line 2) RULER, im so tired of using my phone/credit card/anything else to draw lines not in "add a picture" mode

Page margins!

please add a setting to change the page margins.

The best app for studying! Thank you! And it is free. Unbelievable

Im enjoying this app, although theres a small annoyance - it doesnt remember the horizontal position in a zoomed-in PDF. How to reproduce : open a multi-page pdf file, zoom in. Switch to some other app and back. Although still zoomed in, the page is aligned along the left side. iPad Air 2, latest iOS, portrait orientation

It needs an OCR to become perfect!

The object is self-explanatory. For me its the best note-taking app around. I use very often the handwriting tool but i really feel the need for an OCR utility, because my handwritten notes can become good all-share pdf if correctly translated into unicode font format.

The greatest

Ive bought and tested lots of note taking program, this is absolutely the best. To be perfect handwriting should be improved: - possibility to move the Automatic Advance Area on the left (during lesson is annoying waiting the area moving on the next line) - some preseted pen/color already present on Zoom area.

Lacks Voiceover support

Not being accessible enough to be attractive for me.

Why

I bought this app to import PDF and take notes but its not letting me do that! Im so frustrated because this is the main reason why I bought this app! Its a waste of $10 at this point for me.

Great app, just needs some iPad Pro and other features

Overall a fantastic app. I would, however, would like an option where using the eraser doesnt erase entire chunks of my writing. Another option is a pencil with varying colors. For iPad Pro, being able to take advantage of the Apple Pencil to its fullest potential would be great. For ex: the amount of pressure on Apple Pencil would dictate how dark the pencil would be.

Marvelous

The recording is marvelous, typing and the vast selection and abilities is MARVELOUS. Needless to say I have yet to experience this app with a pen, true to its track record the pen experience will be MARVELOUS as well.

Just a few tweaks

- Having to go into the menu to change colors is cumbersome. There should be an option to have 3-5 colors on the dock at all times. - Exporting notes to the computer through iTunes is a total hassle.

No Handwriting recognition

Good app but starts crashing on iPad Pro when you have lot of books imported also it doesnt have handwriting recognition tools like other apps have

Great one!

I love this app. Its useful for my lecture and drawing. I wish you guys have more shading on this app would be great!

My favorite app for using pen on the iPad

Have tried many but the low latency of this one together with its design makes it a winner. I like the new feature of drawing straight lines. Next on the wish list would be for drawing lines that connect and are somewhat straight... similar to what sketches of diagrams and UIs look like.

Great app

The app is great. It can be improved further if the following is available. Can we collapse the stickies into smaller stickies so that they dont cover the entire page? Ability to open two different document or the same documents side by side. In most text books figure are at a different page than the text. Navigating without side by side view is very hard.

Great! But needs more colors!

Love this app! In high school we had iPads and we used this for all our notes. But I like to make my notes colorful and semi color coded and when I saw that there was a new pallet I was super excited, until I realized that I dont like half the colors, then I was super bummed :( this had bothered me since I first started using notability. Maybe add a color wheel? Something where you can save your colors and make your own pallet? Thats something Id be willing to pay extra for :)

Great app. Best in class

I have purchased and tried every note taking app there is... This is the most comprehensive and complete one. Auto backup to PDF is the greatest feature to me. Apple Pencil is magnificent.

Great for Student with iPad Pro + Pencil

I am a student who works full time and has a family. This app makes my homework and notes so very easy. Homework - easily imports word documents, use the Apple Pencil to annotate the document and export it for submission. You could even drop pictures from your album or snap a picture with the camera directly into a note. Notes - Taking notes is great, especially using different colors. I never knew I would us the ability to cut, copy and paste so much. The recent update allows you to make perfectly straight lines when creating graphs or tables. Hint: use a highlighter to color the inside of your table or other work to beautifully accent and call out important items. The pages print out as beautiful as you created it. The updates make this jem of an app even better.

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