Recto: Book Highlights & Notes

About Recto: Book Highlights & Notes

Recto — a home for the lines you underline.

Kindle saves your highlights. Paper books don't. Recto fixes that: point your camera at any page and on-device OCR lifts the text — automatically fixing the broken line-breaks and split words other scanners leave behind. No retyping, no mess. The passages you love become a collection you'll actually revisit.

A commonplace book for the digital age — private, calm, and entirely yours.

HIGHLIGHT ANY PAPER BOOK
• Point your camera at a page — on-device OCR reads it, even offline
• Smart clean-up rejoins hyphenated words and stray line-breaks
• Scan a cover to add the book automatically

BUILD YOUR COLLECTION
• Every highlight organized by book — real covers, page numbers, and your notes
• Your personal library of the lines that stayed with you
• A "Today's Line" home-screen widget brings one back to you each day

MAKE THEM BEAUTIFUL
• Turn any passage into a shareable quote card for Instagram or Threads
• Transcribe mode: trace a line by hand to slow down and savor it

YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS
• No account, no login — everything stays on your device
• Works fully offline
• Back up and export your whole collection to a file anytime

RECTO PRO
Unlock the full experience:
• AI assist — polish OCR text and get thoughtful reflections on your passages
• Unlimited books and full widget access
Try everything free for 7 days. Then choose monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime unlock — honest pricing, no subscription traps.

Recto is for readers who underline, dog-ear, and copy out the sentences that stay with them. Give those lines a home.