Clew: Highlights and Notes
Thomas Twardzik Productivity iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Clew: Highlights and Notes is a free Productivity app for iPhone and iPad by Thomas Twardzik. Rated 5.0/5 from 3 ratings. Requires iOS 18.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 3 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 36 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 10
- 2026 · v1.7.1
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About Clew: Highlights and Notes
Clew is the fastest, easiest way to save passages, quotes, and notes from the things you read, watch, and listen to, so you can start discovering connections between everything you save. Remember the last time you wrote in the margin of a novel, only to finish the book and never see that thought again? How many times have you clipped parts of articles, songs, and podcasts and saved them to a note somewhere, hidden and forgotten? Clew is a single place for all your highlights, clips, and favorite lines—stored, organized, and searchable in one place. It's a commonplace book that you'll always have with you, easily searchable and synced between all your devices. Clew helps you connect thoughts across sources, centuries, and media types through powerful tagging and intelligent recommendations. Start discovering connections between everything you've saved from: - Books and poems you read - Movies and TV shows you watch - Podcasts and audiobooks you listen to - Songs you love - Articles you read online or on paper Simply copy-and-paste text into the app, use the Share extension, or scan book pages and documents with your device's camera to save a new highlight. Clew makes it easy to sort and search your highlights by source (author, website, etc.), date saved, publication year, genre, keywords, and more. Build your collection, and watch as you start finding connections and patterns across books, artists, decades, genres, languages, and more. This is your new favorite place to store, sort, and share clippings from all your favorite media, whether it's a mind-blowing plot twist in a novel, a hilarious quote in a movie or play, a devastating song lyric, a grand discovery in an article, or simply a quirky adjective you can't wait to use in your own writing. This is Clew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s new
Version 1.7.1 · Updated October 10, 2026
Sharing from the web and other apps - Rebuilt the Safari extension, which now works on iOS 18 and newer - Clew only reads the page you're saving from. It no longer asks for access to all websites - If the popup closes before you save, any note, authors, and tags will be there when you reopen it if you haven't left the webpage - Settings now shows whether the Safari extension is turned on and how to enable it - Saving from the share sheet is faster and more reliable - Tags now show as a colored list, and you can remove a tag by tapping the "x" More improvements - The multi-highlight widget has a new "Latest from Tag" option - Books, songs, web pages, and other sources now appear in Spotlight search - Tapping a TV or podcast episode in Spotlight opens that episode instead of its show - Song search now includes explicit tracks when you allow Apple Music access (no subscription needed) (Clew doesn't see your music data or personal collection) Bug fixes - Names and titles now update in the UI right away when you edit a source, author, or website - Save (⌘S) now works more reliably in sheets and forms - Sharing works correctly when you've selected multiple highlights - Renaming a tag no longer breaks widgets that were set to show highlights from that tag
App privacy
The developer, Thomas Twardzik, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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