does syncing from iCloud normally take this long? I’ve been syncing my notes in notability for 3 hours, but only 10 out of 800 notes have been downloaded so far. my notes take up 6.5 GB, and I really need to access them as soon as possible. is this normal, and what can I do to speed up the syncing process?

WHY does it do that?! Whenever my text automatically wraps to the next line, the line spacing becomes much larger than when I press Enter manually. It's really annoying. How to fix it?

We've recently released a new update to Notability!

• Notability now fully supports Liquid Glass on iOS 26 and later (iPhone only)
• Notability now fully supports Liquid Glass on macOS Tahoe and later (Mac only)
• Improved calendar events shown in Home (not China)
• Fixed imported PDFs landing above your last page
• Fixed a bug with the chat bar keyboard on iPhone (not China)
• Fixed a crash when using the camera

If you experience any trouble with this version, please contact our support team or let us know your feedback in the comments below!

Thanks for using Notability ✏️💙

Need to ask a question, leave feedback, or remind yourself to come back to something in a note? Comments make it easy to do without changing what’s already written.

Here’s how Comments work:

Find the comment tool
The comment tool lives in your toolbox. Like any other tool, you can move it between pages or hide it.

You can also open a comment by selecting an existing comment pin with the Text tool or the Select tool.

Add a comment

1. Select the comment tool in the toolbox.
2. Select anywhere on the note to open a comment draft.
3. Type your comment.
4. Select the submit button, or press return, to post it.

The thread opens so you can keep going, and a comment pin appears where you placed it.

To cancel a draft, press escape or select outside the draft.

Work with a comment

• Move a pin: Drag the pin to a new spot. Pins stay inside the note boundaries.
• Resolve a comment: Select the checkmark.
• Delete a comment: While in a comment, select the ⋯ menu, choose Delete, then confirm.

On a shared note, anyone with access can reply. Each comment shows the name of the person who left it.

Use the comments panel
Open a note's options menu (⋯) and select Comments to see every comment in the note.

• Select a comment to open the thread and jump the note to that spot.
• Select the checkmark to resolve a comment.
• Press and hold a comment, then select Delete, to delete it.

Show resolved comments
Resolved comments are hidden by default. Select the filter icon in the comments panel and turn on Show resolved to bring their pins back on the note.

This setting applies to one note at a time, so turning it on in one note won't change the others.

Comments are powered by Notability Cloud.

1.multi windows? shouldn't be that hard to implement right?
2. why does it ask me to enable microphone like every time after I update. and each time it does

there's one more duplicate in the permission settings like OMG

3.the PDF export is broken and I've tried on 3 diff pc

1. would be nice to add/delete/edit pages

It would be really useful if Notability allows handwriting over the tapes for active recall. Right now, the handwriting goes below the tape. Thank you!

I would love a way to archive my notebooks that I want to keep but don't want cluttering my homepage. I make a different notebook every term for each class + a planner for every term. It would be great if I could archive previous terms so they arent on my dash but I could still reach them if I wanted to look over old notes.

I'm surprised this isnt already a feature- maybe it is and I just can't find it? Lol

I enjoy using Notability, but I’ve run into a frustrating issue. When I tap “Generate” or “Finish Notes” after recording, the generated text starts at the top of the note and overlaps anything I’ve already handwritten with my Apple Pencil.

It would be helpful to have an option to insert the generated notes on a new page or at a chosen insertion point.

Has anyone found a way to prevent this without duplicating the note?

Hello Notability! I want to request to bring back this kind of laser feature. This one works better for me than current one since pen doesnt need to be touched with the screen all the time. If possible, could you bring this feature along with the current feature instead of replacing the current one.

Thank you for your time.

The practice questions show only 20 questions at first. After completing through the first 20 practice questions, a new set of questions appears, and the first attempted questions disappear. Why? It would be really helpful if there was a log or history for previously attempted sets of 20 questions, because at some point I would like to revise all 100 questions at once. An option for this would be really helpful. Please help.

Hello Notability Team,

I would like to request a search feature that allows users to type a keyword and find every instance of it within a specific note, similar to Ctrl+F or Command+F. Ideally, clicking a result would take you directly to the corresponding slide. Thank you for your consideration!

The new outline feature implemented earlier this year is a cool addition. However, similar to noteful or goodnotes, I would really like the ability to create and edit outlines (manually add, rename, rearrange, and delete outline entries) within a note instead of being limited to preset outlines from a PDF that can't be modified.

I am unsure whether this is just pure incongruence with the newer iPadOS update but I cannot paste literally anything into my notes unless I use the lasso workaround which also doesn't work 85% of the time. I have spent an hour now trying to copy and paste a table (the copy feature is native in the app its coming from, so I know it is not a markdown issue). I then saved the table saved as an image file (not a photo) and I finally import it to find there is literally zero way to select or format it (size, placement etc), it is just slapped in the middle of an empty page 3 pages below the rest of my notes. The add Media (+) for files also is missing entirely, which is why this has been such a process. The only option for media is from photo album.

I have had this app/been subscribed with this app for years at this point and do not ever recall this being an issue. I won't even suggest new features at this moment I would just love for paste to work at least.

The Calligraphy Pen lets you create strokes that shift between thick and thin as you write, making it perfect for lettering, titles, and anything you want to stand out 💙

Find the Calligraphy Pen

1. Open a note and look for the fountain pen nib icon in the toolbar. On iPhone, expand the toolbar if you don't see it.
2. Tap the tool once to select it.
3. Tap it again to open its options.

To keep it within reach, drag the tool into your primary toolbar.

Set the nib angle
The angle slider controls which direction your nib faces, which decides where your strokes are thick and where they're thin.

• 0° holds the nib flat across the page, so vertical downstrokes come out at their widest.
• 30° and 45° are two common calligraphy angles for right-handed writing.
• Negative angles tilt the nib the other way, for left-handed writing.

The preview next to the slider rotates as you drag, so you can see the nib angle before you write.

Writing with Apple Pencil Pro
If you're using Apple Pencil Pro, the nib angle follows how you're holding the pencil. Roll the barrel and the nib rolls with it.

Hovering above the page previews the angle before your pencil touches the canvas. The angle is set the moment your stroke begins and stays constant for the rest of that stroke.

Notability detects Apple Pencil Pro on your first hover, stroke, or squeeze. Once it does, a Lock angle switch appears in the pen options. Turn it on to ignore barrel roll and use the angle from the slider instead. While Lock angle is off, the slider stays dimmed because barrel roll is setting the angle for you.

The Calligraphy pen is also available from the Apple Pencil Pro squeeze menu.

Stabilization
Turn on Stabilization to smooth out small jitters as you write. Turn it off if you'd rather your strokes track your hand exactly.

Calligraphy notes on Android and the web
You can create calligraphy strokes on iPhone and iPad. Notes containing those strokes sync and open on Android and the web, and they will render as regular ink for now.

The Calligraphy Pen is currently available on Notability Cloud and requires Notability 16.9 or later on iOS.

Have you tried it yet? Show us your best lettering or Calligraphy Pen creations!

I think Notability is a handful of features away from being top tier teacher/lesson delivering platform. I really like this calendar idea of being the front page. However, could we prepopulate the scheduled events with my pdf of lessons that’d be grand.

I’m sure others would find it useful to populate an agenda for example

Hi! Does anybody have experience with restoring notes that were lost and not locally backed up? It seems like this is an issue people post about quite a bit in here so I'm wondering if there is any known fix to recover the files. Thanks!

Hello! I've not been able to resolve this issue on my own, and it may not be Notability themselves but my network settings at work. Has anyone been able to resolve this error when loading from the web app? I've tried syncing my notes, logging out and in, clearing my history, and I still have this result. Am I just SOL? I can't download the desktop app (cpu is slow here).

I have been using Notability for years, and am an active subscriber. I have requested this feature for a while now and thought I would post it on here as well.

“Fill” Feature
- the ability to fill in lines or shapes you have made that are not dedicated shapes made by Notability with either:
- pen color
-highlighter color
And the ability to control the opacity of said filled-in portion. (i.e. Drawings with closed lines)

I draw highly technical diagrams along with my notes to understand the form and function of something, and coloring them in has always been a hassle especially with the highlighter since you can’t pick up and continue without it overlapping.

This single feature would facilitate my workflow tenfold and really the only feature I see that the application is currently missing.

I want a feature that I think would be a cool expansion for flashcards. I want an interactive, default template in an actual note that has fillable fields for the term and definition and looks like a typical vocabulary list you’d receive in school.

When you upload flashcards right now, it already saves a blank note to keep the information. So, it would be cool if the flashcards get automatically populated into the correct fields on the note template. Also, it would be nice to have the option of filling out the template directly as a note and have the information translate into the flashcards feature.

As a life long language learner, I’m always looking to add new words to my vocabulary. But sometimes I don’t want to just test myself on vocabulary one by one, I want to see a typical vocabulary list that I can also add stuff like sample sentences to. I haven’t seen this kind of feature anywhere and I think it would bring a different sense of satisfaction to see my own extremely long vocabulary list in notes form instead of the number of flashcards I’ve made.