“Please Fix a Longstanding Issue With Quizzes. Paying Customers Deserve Better — Recording a lecture DOES NOT generate quizzes as advertised. I’ve ensured the recording and scribed notes are within the parameters required. The issue/error…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 658 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★457,174 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
431 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
From your first lecture to your next big meeting, Notability helps you think, learn, and work better. Take handwritten notes, annotate documents, record audio, and stay organized in one place so your ideas are always clear, searchable, and ready when you need them.
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FREE DIGITAL NOTES FOR WORK & SCHOOL • Write, type, or sketch with digital ink, highlighters, and text tools. • Mark up anything: PDFs, textbooks, lecture slides, images, and more. • Combine handwriting, typed text, images, diagrams, and sketches on the same page. • Stay organized with customizable folders and subjects that grow with you.…
Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 16.12.4 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 16.12.4, updated 2026-09-28.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.8% of 658 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Tracking and data collection concerns
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
What we saw: Data & privacy concerns: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (0.9% of 658 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 658 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Terrible app very disappointed — I have this app for quite a while years ago I purchased it, let me tell you they have so many advertisement pop-ups and always they have something that the app is not loading right away it’s really not…”
“Not as good as it used to be — Constant ads and features that were included previously seem to slowly be making their way to being a paid add-on”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 16.12.4.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown7
Lowest$5.99
Highest$99.99
Notability Plus$19.99
Notability Lite$14.99
Notability Lite$5.99
Notability Plus$7.99
Notability Pro$99.99
Show 2 more purchases
Notability Pro$19.99
Notability Classic$49.99