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New in 16.12.2

  • Notability for Business Templates: Add templates for your team to use when creating notes

  • Fixed an issue with scrolling alongside text selection

  • General crash and stability improvements

New in 16.12.1

  • Introducing YouTube Import: Start a note from any video's transcript, ready to summarize and study. Only available on Notability Cloud.

  • Introducing Comments: Leave notes on the page for yourself or your team, and resolve them in a tap. Only available on Notability Cloud.

  • General bug fixes and stability improvements.

New in 16.12

  • Chat across your notes - ask questions, explore topics and study with every note in your library

  • Paste your school calendar link to see your schedule in Notability Calendar

  • Record a lecture or meeting and Finish My Notes enhances your notes with context from your transcript

  • General bug fixes and stability improvements

New in 16.11

  • Try the Calligraphy Pen for beautiful handwriting and lettering, now available to all Notability Cloud users

  • Text now wraps around images and other objects in notes on Notability Cloud

  • Improved Learn quizzes, including a question preview on Home and faster quiz starts

  • Fixed an iCloud sync issue after reconnecting to the internet

  • General bug fixes and stability improvements

New in 16.10

  • Performance improvements to handwriting search and large PDFs on Notability Cloud

  • Polished Learn quizzes, flashcard import, and Reset Progress returns to the first question

  • General crash fixes and hang improvements

New in 16.9.1

  • Performance improvements to handwriting search and large PDFs on Notability Cloud

  • Polished Learn quizzes, flashcard import, and Reset Progress returns to the first question

  • General crash fixes and hang improvements

New in 16.9.1

  • Import flashcard sets or manually create your own. Now with spaced repetition to review gradually at different time intervals

  • Faster editing in large notes and improved memory footprint for large libraries on Notability Cloud

  • Browse your nested folders directly from your note list

  • Many miscellaneous bug, crash, and performance improvements

New in 16.9

  • Introducing the Calligraphy Pen: expressive ink that responds to the angle of your stroke. Coming to Plus and Pro subscribers.

  • Introducing note covers: pick a cover for any note from the library or the content manager. Available on Notability Cloud.

  • Bulk import: long-press the + button in the library to import whole folders, subfolders included.

  • Add extra space to the sides of imported PDFs for more room to write.

  • Quizzes now pick up where you left off.

  • Notability uses less disk space, especially on Notability Cloud.

  • Faster handwriting search, smoother window resizing, and other fixes.

New in 16.8.1

  • Introducing code blocks: add code with syntax highlighting for over two dozen languages. Tap the code block button in the text toolbar or start a line with three backticks and a space.

  • Introducing block quotes: set off a quote from a professor, a textbook, or anyone else. Tap the quote block button in the text toolbar or start a line with > and a space.

  • The tape tool now supports 12 sizes for finer control over width.

  • Improved text rendering when font sizes are mixed on one line.

  • Reordering pages in the content manager now moves the page's text with it.

  • Snap guidelines are now hidden in presentation mode.

New in 16.8

  • Flashcards, quizzes, and full exam prep are now available from your Home tab. Pick how you want to study and track your progress as you go

  • Duplicate the selection tool to keep both Boxed and Freeform in your toolbar

  • Fixed a bug with handwriting conversion across page breaks

  • Widgets now support tinting on iOS 26

New in 16.7.1

  • Fixed an issue with Apple Pencil squeeze

  • Crash fixes and performance improvements

New in 16.7

  • Home tab makes it easy to jump into your work. Find a recent note, record, or import all in one place

  • Focus Mode: 4-finger tap in your notes to turn it on. Drag the pill to reposition it, or use the hand tool to hide it

  • Updated academic planners for the 2026-27 school year

  • Less urgent notifications now have a new home. Find them in the notification menu at the top right of the library

  • Learn now supports images in Chat

  • Fixed bugs with the selection menu, Apple Pencil squeeze, and blurry PDF's

New in 16.6.1

Introducing Classic: Notability's one-time purchase is back, with unlimited notes, handwriting recognition, and collaboration across devices.

Classic users who purchased Notability prior to our switch to subscriptions are still grandfathered into this plan.

  • Fixed a crash with text undo

  • Fixed a bug on the compare plans screen

New in 16.6

Introducing Classic: Notability's one-time purchase is back, with unlimited notes, handwriting recognition, and collaboration across devices.

Classic users who purchased Notability prior to our switch to subscriptions are still grandfathered into this plan.

  • Fixed an issue importing .pages files

  • Removed the minimum disk space requirement to migrate to Notability Cloud

  • Fixed gestures in multi-note and multi-window

  • Improvements to Learn

New in 16.5.3

  • Introducing Version History: See your note's past versions and restore the one you need on Notability Cloud.

  • Introducing Referrals: Invite a friend. When they join, you both get rewarded.

  • Added support for Smart Notes on Mac.

  • Fixed an error when importing notes from OneDrive and Outlook.

New in 16.5.2

  • Capture up to 10 photos at once and add them to your note in a single step

  • Sped up partial erase, lasso selection, snapping, and shape recognition for smoother note-taking

  • Brought back the global setting to choose your default view mode for new notes

New in 16.5.1

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

New in 16.5

  • 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 rare crashes when launching and when rotating with the keyboard open

New in 16.4

  • Jump between sections of a note using an outline built from your headers

  • New palette menu for Apple Pencil Pro squeeze gesture

  • Custom colors and new sizes for the Laser tool

  • Settings for sharing note links moved to the Options menu

  • Ruler now works in presentation mode

  • Fixed an issue when selecting part of a line

  • Fixed bugs for cropped images, pasting shapes as images, and Math Conversion

  • Improvements to the library search bar and swiping delete notes

New in 16.3.2

  • Fixed PDF highlighting issues, including highlights missing from exported PDFs

  • Improved rendering performance on ink-heavy notes

  • Fixed freeze when selecting text on Notability Cloud

  • Fixed freehand selection "hold to box" behavior on Notability Cloud

  • Improved the Learn experience on iPhone

New in 16.3.1

  • Improved transcription quality

  • More reliable ink copy & paste across devices

  • Improved image resizing

  • Set a preferred name for your account (on Notability Cloud)

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