In Notability, your zoom window has writing tools on the left and navigation tools on the right. Writing ToolsĪ zoom tool lets you add more information in tiny spaces on pages with little space left. Both apps have accurate handwriting representation and no lag. The handwriting experience in either app comes down to your personal preference. Apple Notes uses raster ink, which loses its resolution on zooming in. Notability uses vector ink that does not pixelate as you zoom in. Notability does not have a pencil tool, and you can’t adjust the opacity of your writing tools. You add as many custom colours as you need, to a secondary colour palette. Apple Notes measures opacity in percentages that show on the tools. Each writing tool has five default colours at the end of the toolbar. Both writing tools have an opacity range from 0 to 100 and 5 fixed thicknesses. You can save your favourite pens to the favourites toolbar.Īpple Notes has a pen and pencil tool. Each has 12 fixed pen sizes, 32 default colours and 32 custom colours on your colour palette. Notability has four pen tools ( ballpoint, fountain, dashed and dotted pens). A favourites toolbar saves you the time you’d waste customising your tools when you want to use them. You can toggle it away and put it on any side of your screen. You also get a favourites toolbar to save your favourite pens, highlighter, eraser and lasso tool. Notability’s toolbar is fixed at the top (right-handed) or bottom (left-handed). You can move it around the page or minimise it to get it out of the way. You can’t select multiple pages for editing.Īdd custom paper templates to the app’s library.Your whole notebook has the same page template (down to the colour).All your pages are in portrait mode, with no option to rotate them.The date and time on each make every new note unique. In Notability, you can set a default title for all new notebooks.
It creates unique titles that are relevant to the information in your notes, which you can edit if you’re not happy with it.
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See: How to add custom pages to Notability.Īpple Notes automatically generates a title for your notebook from the first words in your notes (handwritten or typed). It doesn’t cut your notes unexpectedly because you can prevent that while taking your notes.
Though you can still overlap your handwriting across pages, Notability is better for exporting your notes. However, unlike in Apple Notes, with Notability, you can see where pages end and new ones begin. Notability gives a similar impression with its seamless scrolling. They continue extending downwards if you keep writing. Apple Notes has no page colour or size options. Its pages are vertically infinite with fixed widths. A narrower line spacing option would be greatly appreciated. But Apple Notes’ options are worse.Īpple Notes has three paper templates: plain, lined and squared with 3 line spacing options. Notability has the worst paper customisation of all the third-party note-taking apps on the market. Each has 4 line spacing and 15 paper colour options. Notability only the A4 paper size on four paper templates: plain, lined, squared and dotted. Not only can you create notes faster in Notability, but you can also continue from already existing notes.īoth apps create new notebooks with a single tap. Notability on the other hand lets you start from any of the four most recently opened notes from Files and two from Notability itself. On your iPad home screen, you can start a new notebook with a new note, checklist, photo or scan in Apple Notes. It also has a web-based version that works on any operating system, as long as you have an Apple ID. It comes preinstalled on all your Apple devices. We can assume Notability will be releasing more paid updates in the future.Īpple Notes, on the other hand, is free. To date, we have paid for the math conversion update. It brings the total cost for Notability to $11.98. Handwriting recognition is a must-have in 2021, therefore, it’s a compulsory purchase. It also has in-app purchases for handwriting recognition and math conversion, amongst other items in its Notability shop. Notability costs $8.99, a universal purchase for the versions of the app. We have ranked Notability an 8.5/10 versus 8/10 for Apple Notes.
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