Community reviews for Notability

This is, without question, the most important app in our 1:1 initiative. It serves as a binder, note-taker, and assessment support tool that increases efficiency in a classroom for all involved. Students who previously were disorganized found this to be a life-saver and it was because of this app that many parents (whose children left our 1:1 team to go to a non-iPad team) complained that their child needed to keep an iPad with them in school. It is a must have!

We have Notability on more than 1,000 iPads rolled out 1:1 in grades 5-12. It is, BAR NONE, the single most important and useful App we have and worth far more than the $2.99 price tag.

This app in my opinion is a great learning tool for the general student body. Although, there is a small glitch that does not really affect the learning environment, but should be looked at; if you tap with two fingers very quickly next to each other with the drawing or highlighter tool it draws a line that is perfectly strait. Now that I think about it, maybe that was on purpose, but if it is not it should definitely be looked at.

I find Notability to be much more versatile than Evernote. While Evernote is free, to get the full benefit the user needs to subscribe to unlock features which are included in the $2.99 price of Notability. iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox integration is great but the only drawback I find is that there is not a companion desktop app (the only true advantage Evernote may have over Notability) to make the work seamless across platforms. The students love being able to write directly on the work sheets, especially when they magnify the space on math sheets so they can show their work then shrink it back down to the regular size and still read what they have written.

This app just keeps getting better and better. Every update improves the app in ways that are clearly user driven. Always a good sign when a company is responsive. I would like the next improvement to make it cloud based. That is all that is missing for right now.

Notability is a great app that allows you to go paperless if you choose to in the classroom. It also is great for note-taking and students in a 1-to-1 program can benefit greatly from its usage in the classroom.

I have tried many of these productivity/ notetaking types of apps, and have found pros and cons with each. Notability is cheap, has an appealing interface, and the audio and picture-snapping features are a nice-to-have, but not need-to-have, at least in my experience. The biggest con for me was the palm-recognition feature, and handwriting functionality, which I found to be lacking. After consideration, I have used the Goodnotes app, with which I've been very satisfied.

I think that notability would be a fantastic teaching tool to utilize for students to take notes or work collaboratively together on projects. I wish it had been around when I was in school!

This is a must have app for any ipad or iOS devise in the classroom. Well worth the money that is spent. Even more needed if you are working with a 1:1 class or those that are trying to go paperless.

I really like using this for annotations. It is a little bit difficult for students to remember to scroll with two fingers through the text. When they use one, the pen tool makes a line instead of scrolling the text. With enough practice, they can figure this out. Although we have Social Studies textbooks, the idea of reading them in Notability makes it very engaging for students. They get more out of the lesson since they are able to interact with the text. We also read other articles using this tool.