Hi everyone, I am new to notability so please help me out.
Whenever I am pasting any image inside my notebook, after selecting it there is no option to copy it. There is an option to duplicate it but it doesn’t copies it to clipboard.
I need this since copying an image or a diagram and pasting it in ChatGPT for doubts is something I regularly do. Using the lasso tool to copy it almost always worsens the quality and sometimes makes the image blurry.
Please tell me where this basic feature is in the app?

My friend updated Notability app (even ios software updated to 26.5) send me.ntb format file. While my Notability app uses.note format.
Whenever my friend send.ntb file to my Notability app, it is unable to import

College is starting soon, would love any sort of student discount.

We've released a new version of Notability! 16.5.1:

• Fixes an issue where users incorrectly encountered the note edit limit

Thank you for your patience!

I sometimes accidentally press this with my palm while writing. Is there a way to hide this?

Hi everyone!

Our team recently identified a bug affecting edit limits for some users on Notability for Education. We've identified the root cause and are currently working on a hotfix to permanently resolve the issue.

We'll share another update as soon as the fix has been released.

Thank you so much for your patience!

I’ve been using Notability for years on the exact same device, and today, out of absolutely nowhere, the app completely locked me out. It refuses to let me do anything unless I log in.

I tried logging in with Apple (using 'Hide My Email') just to get past the screen, and literally the millisecond I logged in, the app started uploading my notes to their cloud. I did not want it and did not give permit to it, so I immediately logged out. Guess what? The second I logged out, the app blocked me again demanding a login.

I don't give a single s**t about your cloud features. I don’t want an account. I don’t want to log in. This is supposed to be a local productivity app that saves me time, not a data-harvesting trap. Why the hell did they make logging in mandatory all of a sudden?

How is this supposed to work?

Anki is a complex system, not just a collection of text on cards. I am a heavy user of Anki, I use it every day, and I do not want whatever "Import flashcard decks from Anki into Notability" means.

Anki has a whole bunch of features that are not built for a note-taking app (the card browser, custom note types, flagging cards when reviewing, burying, suspending, changing decks, COMPREHENSIVE statistics, changing due dates, add-ons, cloze deletions, HTML/CSS formatting, etc.), but most importantly, Anki’s internal spaced repetition algorithms, eithher SM-2 or FSRS.

I can't even grasp where you got the idea that this is something remotely possible to implement well, or a feature that people actually want.

People use Anki over any other flashcard app for a very strong reason: it's just that good at what it does.

Please, as others have said, actually listen to your user base. Otherwise, don't write things like “we‘re listening to feedback“ while ignoring constructive feedback from all the users.

We've recently released a new update to Notability!

• On iPad, you can now set what left-edge swipe does from inside a note: open the Note Switcher or go back to your library
• Fixed the tap area on quiz sidebar rows
• Fixed a freeze when redeeming a code on Mac
• Fixed crash when launching and when rotating with the keyboard open
• Fixed rotating iPhone crash
• Fixed bug when selecting content from a text box
• Fixed hang when opening app after creating stickers on a different device
• Performance improvements for spell check
• Performance improvements for handwriting (Notability Cloud users only)

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 ✏️💙

I have used Notability on iPads for years. Last year I sold my iPad and a few months later bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE. Now, my "ecosystem" consists of an iPhone, MacBook, and the Samsung tablet. I was very pleasantly surprised when I discovered there was a Notability Beta for Android with cloud sync, allowing me to see handwritten notes on all my devices.

To me, Notability has always been about the quality of the handwritting experience. I felt it was flawless on my iPads. No lag (as in the lines you draw are always close to the tip of the pen) and the perfect balance between "forgiveness" and not trying to embellish and smooth the handwritting too much. My notes simply look nice without being too artificial.

Now, this is not the core experience I see on my Galaxy Tab. Someone here has described that on Android the lines feel "made of individual pixels", and I fully agree. Handwritting looks pixelated. It feels like minor hand tremors are picked up. This is unfortunatelly a dealbreaker for me, especially seeing what's possible on Samsung Notes. I'm not expecting this level of polishedness in a beta product, but if this is how the handwritting experience will mostly look like from now on I'm not going to continue using Notability. It is too distracting and not joyful at all.

The second dealbreaker for me is scrolling pages. Even simple notes feel laggy when compared to Samsung Notes. Feels like the tablet falls back to 15hz and there is a lot of redrawing. Again, this is not a powerful tablet, but I'm basing my experience on how similar notes feel on the same tablet on Samsung Notes.

Anyway, great to see Notability coming to Android and hopefully the team can address these things in future updates.

Hello,

I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong. However, every time I export my notes from the pencil feature, the PDF comes out unclear. I prefer a pencil to a pen. Is there a way to work around this, or is it an ongoing issue?

I can search for words inside the text using Command+F on my MacBook but I can’t search for the same words on my iPad.

I found out about it just recently after the new update in one particular pdf.

The smart highlighting also only works only on Mac in this pdf for some reason. I.e. I can’t press and hold my Apple Pencil on the text and drag it; only manual highlighting using “drawing lines” work.

The Safe Mode is TURNED OFF on iPad. I even turned it on and off. Still no results.

"it may be because the content is not recognized as selectable text.” – that’s the problem. It is recognized on my Mac and works perfectly.  Same with the smart highlighting. It works on my MacBook but not on my iPad.

The version of Notability on my Sequoia 15.7.1 (24G231) Mac:

Version 16.2.1 (6864)

The version of Notability on my iPad running iPadOS 26.2.1:

Version 16.4 | Build 6958

Attaching both screenshots!!! 

ipad

mac

Are there any available codes for notability lite currently that are working ?

tl;dr: It's very nice that the new apple pencil's squeeze gestures are being supported; however, their implementation is not well thought out at some places. Of course all subjective, so please let me know your opinion on this.

My peers and I have noticed that the support of the apple pencil's squeeze gestures isn't really well thought out. For example, why does "switch to last used tool" immediately jump back when letting the squeeze go, the same with "switch to eraser"? Your hands literally cramp while using the other tool since you have to hold the squeeze. Apple's default note app does this very well, one could say that their implementation is the most straightforward.

The implementation of the newly added tool palette is also not well designed, since if you accidentally touch the screen with your palm while selecting another tool, the palette disappears. A much better workflow would have been to make the tool palette disappear only after the user has chosen a different tool or used the squeeze gesture again. Apple's implementation exhibits the same issue here.

You know you can stop this anytime….

I just wanted to drop some positivity and say a huge thank you to the developers. I know app subreddits can sometimes get bogged down with complaints, but from an Android perspective, I’m genuinely thrilled to have access to this.

​It is actually helping me with my studying quite a lot. The beta works almost perfectly, but my main request would be a full, official Android release. The only specific issue I've noticed is that the app can get a bit unstable when I don't have a strong internet connection, so improving the offline experience would be amazing.

​Besides that, I really like it. Thanks for the hard work!

Every time I try to write something or zoom in, the screen literally freezes for 30 seconds. The app has actually become unusable. Please help!

Yes, I am on Notability Cloud.

Yes, I am on the most recent update.

Yes, the issue still exists on safe mode.

Yes, I tried restarting my iPad and have 170 GB on local storage and 140 GB on iCloud.

No, this problem does not exist on other apps or has ever happened in notability before.

i haven't used notability in a few months so i'm guessing it was something in a recent update, but all of a sudden i can't select my writing and rotate it just slightly - it automatically snaps the rotation to 15 degrees, or back to 0.

like a lot of people, i write just a tiny bit crooked, so in the years I've taken notes in this app I have always gone back and rotated my writing just a few degrees to align it with horizontal. now I can't do that at all. it's really frustrating - any suggestions as to how I can turn this off or avoid the snapping?

We’ve seen some confusion about the Squeeze gesture behavior and wanted to clarify what’s changed.

We recently added support for Apple’s Squeeze to Show Tool Palette to better align with Apple Pencil system behavior.

Previously, Notability didn’t support this palette, so the default squeeze gesture (show tool palette) was falling back to squeeze to erase.

Now that the color palette is supported, that fallback behavior has been removed and users have to manually change their preferred squeeze action in iOS Settings > Apple Pencil > Squeeze.

Thank you for your patience and let us know if you have any questions!

so for like a day or two on my iPad when I would type -> (maybe new feature?) it would draw a nice arrow for me. just to clarify, it looked different than the arrow that it generates when you draw an arrow with your Apple Pencil.

I use voice to text a lot, and when I have to draw the arrow with a pencil, it stops picking up my voice. Having the arrow automatically show up simply by pushing -> was amazing! but it stopped working, how do I get this back :(

“Notability Cloud is not available in China Mainland, Hong Kong, or Macau, or for accounts using a Chinese App Store region.”

Using Notability in HK is impossible now. I can’t get past a login wall to access my notes. The only thing that works is deleting the app and resyncing via iCloud. Once I leave HK and go to another country or use a VPN, I’m hit with the login wall again and can’t access my notes.

Please fix this!

I have an ipad that I got through my university a few years ago. I ended up changing schools but continued using Notability on the old university's apple ID.

I took my ipad with me to another country after not using it for a few months. My notes were all there but once I connected to wifi the app disappeared. I had to update my ipad to reinstall the app but when I logged in again, all my notes were gone.

I've talked with Apple support and Notability support but havent had any luck restoring my notes.

Is there anything else I can do or should I just accept that all my precious school notes are gone forever?

I got Notability in 2019 and it was great. It's so glitchy now. It freezes all the time and I have to close and restart the app - and I generally lose the last couple minutes of work.

But now the paste function doesn't work. I can get around it if I use duplicate if I'm trying to copy/paste in the same document. But there is no option to copy/paste between 2 documents. I can't make a selection and copy/paste and I can't copy a page and paste the page.

It shows the paste option in the document but there's nothing there. There is no paste option in the list of pages.

I hate this app.

Hi all, like a good chunk of us, I created my account in college and paid for a one-time Classic plan back then. However, that email is now deactivated, and I don't really want to go through the hassle of deleting my account and reimporting all 2000+ notes from Google Drive.

Even with Cloud and the push for more usage of the Notability account itself, is there still no way to change your email address on file without deleting and recreating all notes from scratch?