Notability Plus is only going to be available for free to old users for one year. We have to pay subscriptions for everyone now. Everyone in my family (six people) uses Notability, our team (4 of us) uses Notability. Now it’s costing $14.99/year without family sharing. Here is the Maths, Notability cost me $14.99 some five years ago and it supported Family Sharing. The Notability shop was a good idea, subscription, not so much. They only work for businesses and professionals. You guys know how we feel about subscriptions they are not sustainable. To help you fully understand this, we’ll cover this later.įor $14.99/ year, which is currently on sale for $11.99, you get an unlimited note-taking experience and access to all the items in Notability Plus. The freemium version has limited editing abilities (amongst other painful limitations), where the app tracks your ink “allowance” per month. Notability is now a freemium app with a yearly subscription.
The biggest and most depressing update with version 11.0 is Notability’s business model. It is one of the things we love about the app. Notability continues to be committed to minimalism. It’s simple, minimalist and straightforward. When you choose to Publish to the Gallery, you can then add a: You can publish your notes from the homepage or the app’s workspace. You can also easily browse to see all the notes published by other users. It displays your published, favoured and downloaded notes. Your profile is very simple in the Notability Gallery.
For simple annotations, you’ll want a PDF version of the notes.
If you want an editable version of the notes, you can download a Note version. Notability makes it very clear what document you’re downloading and we like that. You can then Download the notes as a PDF or Note. When you tap to view a note, you get a short description of the notebook. Read about a similar feature in GoodNotes here. You can also search for topics, or tags and filter to see Popular or Recently Created documents. You can browse through the topics in the gallery, at the moment, they are few but we are sure they will increase as more people start sharing their notes. They have been working on this for months! It explains why Notability had us creating Notability accounts a while back. The Notability Gallery is a new feature that lets you browse and save other people’s study material. We have begged for these updates for years! Naturally, we are ecstatic about them! Notability Gallery For those of you that wanted more organisational levels in Notability, they have delivered. You can now add folders-within-folders for up to five levels. We have suffered, and our developers have finally done something about it! You can then Copy, Paste, Duplicate, Rotate, Copy Background, Clear Page or Delete. Multiple page selection: you can now select multiple pages for editing in the app.We were happy to see that we can rotate our pages in PDFs and other documents and we look forward to having that for native pages too. Page rotation: it seems we can only rotate pages for non-native paper templates.At the moment, these have limited customisation (only three colours and no line spacing options). Page templates: Notability now has some paper templates for education, creativity and planning.If you ever wanted more page colours in Notability, you’ll love this. You can now use all the colour options in the app. Page colour: you are no longer limited to the 15 page colours.What are the chances you’ll not find what you need? You can now choose the line spacing option for your notebook from 1 to 10. Line spacing: for basic paper templates.We hope to get page rotation for native paper templates. Landscape mode: no more turning your iPad to write in landscape mode! For now, all the pages in your notebook have to be landscape.Let’s hope our developers can add an option to see the zoom percentage of our pages. Notability has always snapped at 100% zoom, but it was easier to appreciate when we had one page size. It’s difficult to appreciate these paper sizes when you don’t know how zoomed in you are on the page. The first size we tried, of course, is the smallest. We are still to determine what optimized means. Page sizes: A7-A3, Legal, Tabloid and Letter (optimized).Templates unleash a new way of creating notebooks in Notability! We now have: How exciting is that?! You can still create a new notebook with a single tap, but for more options, long-press the pen icon (bottom left corner). After years of asking, asking and asking, Notability finally said yes to better page customisation.