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I have an iPad Mini with Notability. I'm quite happy with it as I bought it before the switch to a subscription model.

• Jtsummers 2y ago
  Notability is very nice, at least before the subscription pricing. They even put iCloud sync behind the subscription, that's not using their servers or datacenters. Freeform covers a lot of my use-cases for Notability, but last I tried it wasn't as good for some things. A specific use I had was with importing PDFs (like, say, a textbook chapter) and marking up the chapter, tossing blank pages after exercise sections and writing out my solutions/answers or directly marking the pages. IIRC, Freeform would let you import a document like a PDF but not display it (or specific pages from it) within the Freeform document itself, instead it was a linked file. I'll have to try again but haven't had much need for this recently. EDIT: At least on iPhone, it's the same behavior. It's attached so I can open the PDF but not embedded in a way where I can directly mark it up within the larger Freeform document. I have to open the attached file to mark it up and can't just display (and then markup) selected pages.