Readwise

Readwise

About this app

Readwise helps you get the most out of what you read by making it fun & easy to revisit your highlights from all your favorite reading platforms in one place.


Quickly synchronize your highlights from Kindle, Apple Books, Instapaper, Pocket, Medium, Goodreads, and even paper books. Then start building a daily review habit using the app and daily email. By reviewing your highlights every day, you'll retain dramatically more and you'll finally stop forgetting all the details from books you just finished!


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“Readwise is my favorite new service this year. Save highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, and now tweets... one of the best long-term personal learning tools I’ve come across.” — Caleb Hicks


“Besides my Kindle, Readwise has been the most influential tech for improving my reading process.” — Blake Reichmann


“If you use Kindle or Instapaper or just enjoy keeping and reading highlights, please sign up to Readwise. It will become one of your cherished services.” — Christopher Galtenberg


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ACTUALLY USE YOUR HIGHLIGHTS

Highlighting is great, but why bother if you're never going to see any of your highlights again? Readwise makes it easy to quickly liberate all your highlights into one place, ensuring that you'll actually see and use them, including highlights from:


• Amazon Kindle

• Apple iBooks

• Instapaper

• Pocket

• Medium

• Goodreads

• Twitter

• Physical Books (using your phone camera)

• Manual Input

• CSV Upload



STOP FORGETTING WHAT YOU READ

How often do you finish a book, only to forget the key ideas two weeks later? We don't remember things by just reading them once.


Readwise solves this problem using scientifically proven learning techniques called Spaced Repetition and Active Recall. Readwise resurfaces the right highlights at the right times using a daily email and an app. Readwise even makes it possible to convert your best highlights into flashcards for added retention.



TAG, NOTE, SEARCH, AND ORGANIZE

With your highlights all in one place, Readwise enables you to organize and connect these ideas in new ways. Use search to find a highlight instantly; use tag to organize highlights within your library; use notes to add your own annotations.



HIGHLIGHT PAPER BOOKS

Readwise also makes it possible to take highlights from your physical books and papers using your phone’s camera. Just snap a pic, highlight with your finger, and have your favorite highlights saved forever.


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If you are not already a Readwise subscriber, you can get started immediately with a 30-day free trial with no credit card upfront. At the end of the trial, you will not be charged unless you choose to subscribe to Readwise Full or Readwise Lite. Price may vary by location. Manage your subscription from your dashboard.


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Support: Check out readwise.io/faq or email us at [e-mail]

Privacy Policy: https://readwise.io/privacy

Terms of Service: https://readwise.io/tos

Ratings and reviews

I really wanted to love this app (and Reader) but good luck reading even basic Wikipedia articles in Reader. It'll display a couple paragraphs and no images. Forget about more complex pages. Even if you report parsing issues for a page they still don't fix it weeks later. College CS students could fix these in a day. Every web page you try to read in Reader you need to consistently check the original page to know if you're missing anything. I really wanted to love this but it's unusable.

It does its fundamental job, to collect clippings from phone to Readwise cloud, but it's painful. Pro: 1. adds webpage clippings to my collection, unified across multiple devices. 2. OCR for clippings from paper sources. Con: 1. Doesn't collect & separate html-tagged metadata (eg, web page title). 2. Disables keyboard (moves cursor to end after every keystroke). 3. Review of collection on phone is just a long list, can't sort/filter.

I really want to like this app, it has a ton of potential. However for whatever reason, it typically only shows me highlights from my top 3 highlighted books. I have hundreds of other highlights from articles, podcasts, and Libby books. Which never show in the daily highlight feed/review. The repetitiveness of cycling through the same three books, limits it's power as a learning tool. It's really unfortunate because I would pay for premium in a heartbeat If the algorithm issue was addressed.

What's new

We fixed a gnarly bug where leaving the app while in the daily review would make you leave the daily review when you returned.

Recently we shipped:

* A big performance improvement
* Save your Twitter bookmarks
* Export to Reflect, Logseq, and Google Docs
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* and of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app