Capture and organize highlights from physical books using your camera. Automatically detects highlighter colors and allows manual text selection for unmarked passages. Creates a searchable, shareable digital library of your favorite book passages.
1.1.1
August 10, 2026
This update focuses on polish, accuracy, and a more organized Settings experience: • Reorganized Settings — sorting and filtering now live right in your Library, and the rest of Settings is easier to navigate. • Chapter numbers remember their titles — enter a chapter number you've used before in a book, and its name fills in automatically. • New: a dedicated setting for combined transcriptions — choose "Only Highlighted Text" or "All Text" once, and every page in a multi-photo capture uses it automatically, no more prompts. • Fixed: multi-photo captures no longer drop text or add stray paragraph breaks at the seam between pages. • Fixed: library-imported photos now get the same color processing as camera captures, improving highlight-detection accuracy. • Fixed: duplicate-passage warnings no longer misfire on genuinely new passages.
MoreBright Passages is an app designed to help you digitize and organize highlights from physical books. It uses your phone's camera to scan highlighted passages and allows you to add notes and categorize them.
Bright Passages can detect six highlighter colors: orange, yellow, pink, blue, green, and purple. These colors can be mapped to your personal categories for better organization.
Yes, if you don't want to mark a book, you can select text by hand within the app. This is useful for library books or textbooks.
You can export your organized library in several formats, including CSV, Excel (with formatting preserved), and Markdown. This ensures your data is accessible and usable elsewhere.
No, Bright Passages is a one-time purchase and does not require a subscription. Your data syncs privately through your own iCloud.
Based on the current data, Bright Passages supports iPhone. It is available for iOS devices.
The app was last updated on August 10, 2026, to version 1.1.1. This indicates a recent update, suggesting ongoing development and support.
Yes, Bright Passages is designed with students in mind. It can help organize notes and highlights from textbooks and study materials, making them easily searchable and exportable.
