Readwise

4.5
865 reviews
100K+
Downloads
Content rating
Everyone
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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 hello@readwise.io

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

Terms of Service: https://readwise.io/tos
Updated on
Nov 6, 2023

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Device or other IDs
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.4
785 reviews
Charles Kahle
January 27, 2024
I have to agree with Eric Moss, I really want to like the app as it fufills a useful need, but the loading of pdfs is not clean on the Reader and syncing between the Reader and Readwise app is not consistent. I've gone through 11 videos and read all Readwise's online documentation and there are just painful gaps. I'll check back in another 6 months to see if they've hammered out the issues.
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Eric Moss
June 11, 2023
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.
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Jonathan Saine
June 23, 2023
In app dictionary please. I pay for this app. And it has a polished appearance. However, it lacks a function to assist in over half of what I highlight, which are words to learn. It would be nice if they could have a word look up from the long press menu. As it is I have to long press, select define with Google, leave the app, copy, return to app, paste the definition and then format the card. I'd like that to be stream lined and I don't think I'm alone.
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What's new

We just shipped a performance improvement which should make opening the Daily Review faster :)

As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:

* Save your Twitter bookmarks
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* 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