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What Users Really Think About Notability: AI Notes & PDF app

We analyzed 340 negative reviews of Notability: AI Notes & PDF app from the App Store. Here's what users are saying.

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Note Taking
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What Users Are Saying

I have been an avid user for almost 8 years, but within the past 2 months, my Notability has randomly unsynced and removed all my notes and it takes maybe hours to days for all of it to come back. I have been trying to take notes for an exam but the note hasn’t been recovered yet. I love all the fea...

app keeps freezing and crashing. it's only gotten worse. i've updated everything and i have plenty of storage. i pay for a yearly subscription- please fix this.

No basic features to use for free

I originally bought this app for $7.99 roughly 10 years ago but now I am required to pay a monthly fee for something I thought I owned. This is the level of greed written in the bible, absolutely despicable and rotten.

Notes are not shared between devices.

I’ve been using notability for a year now for undergrad. I have hundreds of files on there and (if you are a student) trust me it does not take long. I used to love notability. It’s the most user friendly note taking app that exists. However, it will not even import any files anymore. I will not op...

Notes in the notability app for my iPad will never load back up and can not find any way to get issue resolved.

I paid $9 for notability a while ago and went to use it again and it randomly cut me off in the middle of my work and said I need to pay a subscription to continue editing which is crazy cause I paid for the full app

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