Notion's mobile rebuild finally feels native.

Notion’s iOS app has been the company’s open wound for years — slow, glitchy, oddly proud of being a wrapped web view. Last week’s release feels different. The app is rebuilt in SwiftUI, the keyboard responds in tens of milliseconds, and the gesture system works the way an iPhone user expects it to.

The most telling change is offline. Open a page in airplane mode and edits commit instantly to a local copy; reconnect and the sync resolves cleanly. Anyone who used the previous version on a flight knows how big a deal that is.

There are still rough edges. The new editor occasionally fights iOS Live Text. AI features remain locked behind the higher tier, and the iPad app — while improved — has nowhere near the parity Notion’s blog post implied. But the foundations are now solid enough that fixes feel routine rather than existential.

If you bounced off Notion’s mobile app before, this is the time to give it another look. If you stuck with it through the dark years, you’re already halfway through a relief sigh.