Notability
Launched 2010
85 features found available
In their words
Unleash your ideas your way. Notes are just the beginning. Create and annotate anything, from study guides to storyboards. A simple, powerful toolset for every thought. Read more
Pricing
Our most recent pricing details for Notability:
$ Free Starter
$14.99/yr Plus
Features pertaining to how the app comports itself visually
Display option where the editor shows black background with white text
A mechanism is provided to have more than one note concurrently open for editing in a separate viewing window contained within the application
Different sets of colors can be chosen to alter the appearance of the app window
AI integrations offered by the app or a first-party plugin.
Tasks from notes can be viewed on a calendar
A calendar on which tasks can be viewed is provided in the app
What kind of content can be uploaded or inserted into notes?
Content of the PDF can be marked up inside the note, rather than using an external editor
Features that pertain to how the app interfaces with its customers
There is a dedicated venue such as Discord where users can chat about the product in real time
The company has a specified URL at which users can discuss the product and ask questions in a format where answers can be upvoted to pinpoint the best one
There exists a publicly accessible site upon which users can upvote features they want to see implemented
What measures are taken to ensure customer data remains private, even to employees of the companies themselves?
An explicit policy describes how security is implemented, and what access employees have to data.
Notes can exist purely on the local file system of the device, without syncing
A note or block can have a password applied to hide it
Note content can be created such that even a user who gained access to the note app's cloud database (employee or intruder) couldn't decrypt content (i.e., they couldn't obtain a usable decryption key even if possessing the database contents)
What options are available for formatting text and related content in a note?
Audio can be placed in a note with embedded controls to start and stop the audio
dotted points are used at the beginning of a paragraph to assemble unordered lists
Excluding text that gets colored as a side effect of some other formatting feature listed (e.g., highlight)
App provides a built-in means by which to capture user drawings, sketches, or handwriting
Drawn content from within the app can be translated into text
Can font size be explicitly set? I.e., not just through setting it as a header
A formatting text style that slants the letters evenly to the right
Numbers are used at the beginning of the line to assemble ordered lists
text characters are smaller than regular text, and are set below the baseline (subscript), or above the baseline (superscript), commonly used for mathematical expression
An open canvas view where blocks of text, images, and other content can be dragged to any horizontal or vertical coordinate
What functionality specific to images is possible?
Text with special formatting can be added beneath an image
The note app provides editing tools that allow an image in a note to be cropped (e.g., to remove the left half of it)
An image (such as jpeg, png, gif) can be inserted and viewed in the note editor
Without leaving the app, text can be drawn on top of an image
The note app provides editing tools that allow an image in a note to be rotated (e.g., 90 degrees, counterclockwise)
What features are provided for interoperability between apps? How much lock-in is there?
App automatically syncs note & image data to the cloud without implementing extensions, and without signing up for a secondary account on a storage provider
A list of different versions of the note from past various points with the ability to revert to any of them
What features does the note provider offer in terms of third-party integrations and utilities adjacent to the note content itself?
File can be drag-and-dropped into app to create a note, or a file can be dragged into an import directory to become a note
Supports syntax allowing diagrams and charts (Mermaid, etc) to be inserted into a note body
Pre-configured content (instructions, tasks, etc) can be duplicated from an existing source note
A browsable collection of pre-existing sample notes (e.g., "weekly budget") that can be copied into one's own notebook
Which login types are supported?
Features specific to the mobile experience
How well can the app function without internet access?
Which platforms are officially supported?
An iPad app (separate from iOS app) has been published to App Store
An installable app is available that isn't a Progressive Web App or thin Electron wrapper
What options are there for navigating around the app and finding the note you're after?
A list of all notes containing a word or phrase can be produced
A menu to view available keyboard shortcuts is located within the app
The app provides a means by which to arrange notes such that they can be browsed through a tree structure (e.g., tags, folders)
Groups of notes can be bookmarked and accessed from a dedicated "Shortcuts," "Starred" or "Favorites" area
What features exist to share notes with the world?
Does the app support formatting data in tables?
What to-do list and scheduling features does the app support?
What functionality is offered to capture content discovered on the internet?
The URL of the web page from whence the capture occurred can be included among the content inserted into note
Did we miss something?
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