# Excerpt - The Book Highlighter — user reviews > 42 indexed App Store user reviews of Excerpt by Ryan Maksymic, rated 4.80/5 from 36 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/excerpt-the-book-highlighter/id1447907126/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/excerpt-the-book-highlighter/id1447907126.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 32 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1 ## Newest reviews (16 of 42) ### 5/5 — So fast, so simple! Exactly what I wanted. *2022-03-05, version 2.1* I was looking for an app like this for a while, this one is perfect. It’s free, easy, quick and even lets you upload a pic of the book cover! The scan to text is very accurate, even in low lighting. Kudos! Lisa ### 5/5 — Excerpt *2022-02-27, version 2.1* An excelent experience! ### 5/5 — Incredible *2021-09-12, version 2.0* This app solves so many problems for me. I have often used tools like dragon dictate to take notes from books, however either the ease of a camera this app quickly takes notes and allows me to store page numbers and comments. This is absolutely a life changing app for researchers. ### 5/5 — Amazing!! *2021-08-19, version 2.0* So, so useful. I wish I had this when I was in Uni! ### 5/5 — It works! *2021-06-27, version 2.0* That’s it, it’s exactly what I was looking for. It works and it’s a clean layout. Great work. ### 5/5 — Great, easy to use app! *2021-06-12, version 2.0* This app is very straight forward and was such a easy app to learn how to use. I can tell that this is going to be one of my all time favorites since I love reading! ### 5/5 — just what i was looking for *2021-03-07, version 2.0* have only been using this for an hour but it's exactly what i needed and works great. it took me no time at all to get started- setting up my first book was straightforward and intuitive, and the text recognition is very accurate. i'm currently making a database of all of the flower essences i have in my collection. i tried some other OCR/scanner apps and kept running into the same issue, namely, each time i highlighted a new item, it wanted to save it as it's own unique file; this one still allows me to view each one individually but it groups them by book and displays them together. anyway so far so good =) ### 5/5 — Great App *2021-02-25, version 2.0* The app works seamlessly and well, and the creator even got back to me after my suggestion and was very nice. Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Great tool to study with!! *2020-12-02, version 2.0* Easily and with near perfection allows you to capture excerpts from print, record the reference, and take personal notes. Love this app!! ### 5/5 — Excerpt *2020-09-15, version 1.4* Very helpful ### 5/5 — No complaints *2020-08-08, version 1.4* Minimalist and quick. Not bloated in any way and no distractions. Character recognition sometimes has problems, but works surprisingly well. ### 5/5 — Great for learning! *2020-06-23, version 1.3* Great to see new tools helping us make notes from traditional books! ### 5/5 — Really good! *2020-05-06, version 1.3* This app is really great, for those who still enjoy reading physical books. ### 5/5 — Everything I wanted and more *2020-04-30, version 1.3* This app has done everything I wanted to and more. Couldn’t be happier with it. Thanks ### 5/5 — Great app, it does what it’s supposed to! *2020-04-29, version 1.3* I’ve been using the app for many months now and it’s always been a great experiences. It’s so simple yet so helpful. I mostly use the photo-to-text feature and it really does pick up the text very well. I hope you keep up the good work! ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2019-12-28, version 1.2* Super helpful with compiling quotes from books for my papers. 10/10 would recommend ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not compatible with iPad *2019-07-08, version 1.0* I was so excited to come across this app but soon became disappointed when I found out it is not useful on the iPad. You are forced to view an iPhone sized screen, in portrait mode. I do most of my reading on the iPad so this app is no good to me until it becomes and iPad compatible app. Please give this app true iPad compatibility. ### 3/5 — Love the app except one thing *2025-04-02, version 2.2.1* I really love this app except it’s simple and clean. Easy to capture text. Exporting into a pdf is, again, easy. But I have one major complain. When capturing, the options are at the top of the screen. Which means you can’t just hold your phone with one hand. You have to move your hand to a different potion to hold the phone to then make the selection. All the options to capture text and add page numbers etc should be at the bottom of the screen. So when you’re reading a book you can just grab your phone and not have to contort your hand around. We should also have the option of having the options to capture on the left or right side or middle. Make this changes and it’s a fantastic app for capturing info from physical books. ### 4/5 — Loved it *2021-09-25, version 2.0* Exactly what I was searching for, but please request you to have an option to backup the excerpt in case change of device. Would give full stars if that happens ### 4/5 — Finally! A way to digitally highlight paper books *2020-08-17, version 1.4* Works well. Needs some additional features to be a “killer app” (like getting book info from a scan of the book’s isbn barcode) but right now the best (only?) app out there that lets you save “highlights” (text snippets) of physical books. ### 4/5 — Good idea but impractical for larger books *2020-03-05, version 1.2* I like the idea of this and the book text to phone text transition is super helpful. That said I wish there was a way to organize highlighted sections within a book. For example I used this on a 2,000* page clinical nutrition text book and would never we able to find the highlighted section I wanted as the list is far to long. Being able to make topic sections within a book would be great! ### 4/5 — Does what it says *2019-12-28, version 1.2* Recommended - it’s a good app for readers who like to keep a note of their favourite quotes. Sort of wish you could highlight text on the image itself, change the colour of the text on the highlight (from neon yellow) and add notes to your quotes. Otherwise it’s a simple and easy to use app. ### 4/5 — Great app *2019-04-01, version 1.0* The app is simple and fast, makes it really easy for scanning quotes from books. But there isn’t an option for exporting the data. It’ll be great if there’s an option to sign in, so that the data is not lost even when the device is changed. ### 4/5 — The app I have been looking for, for so long! *2019-01-31, version 1.0* Came across through Product Hunt. The experience is fast and reliable. Ryan, awesome work! Would appreciate it if we could highlight specific things within an excerpt. ### 5/5 — So helpful to a bookworm *2024-01-16, version 2.2.1* This is the best app ever if you like to read. ### 5/5 — Very good *2023-12-18, version 2.2.1* The ability to batch delete would be nice. ## Most praised reviews (8 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fantastic App *2023-08-02, version 2.2.1* The App full filled all my requires when reading a book. ### 5/5 — Çok kullanışlı *2023-07-30, version 2.2.1* İçe Türkçe karakterleri sorunsuzca tanıyor, notlarınızı PDF e dönüştürüp gönderebiliyorsunuz ücretsiz ve kenarda köşede kalmış güzel bir uygulama ### 5/5 — Clear and super easy to use *2022-10-20, version 2.2.1* This app is refreshingly simple to use and works like a charm ### 5/5 — This app appears to be fantastic!! *2022-10-14, version 2.2.1* To be transparent, I just started using this app. I am doing some research and wanted a way to capture various pieces of info and texts from various digital sources. This app is superb and has allowed me to do EXACTLY what I wanted to do. Bravo developers!! This app has let me create my own “books” with a “title” and “author”. I created a new book for each of the research sources I am using. Once you are in the book, you can add a “note,” “image,” “manual text” or “page number.” If you enter a “page number,” it will allow you to enter a “section” of that page and then follow that up with a note or image. The best part is it’s all free! I’ve created 16 books so far and entered several notes. If I could make only one suggestion, it would be to allow the ability to change the “sections” to custom categories instead only having the options in the drop down menu to choose from. Other than that great, excellent job!! And may I just say, THANK YOU for your commitment to creating a helpful and easy-to-use product. It is so unbelievably refreshing to come across an app that is clearly not driven by monitory motives. The full access to your features and the lack of annoying ads interrupting my work every 3 minutes was a welcomed and refreshing change!! Again, BRAVO!! ### 5/5 — As a person who jumps from book to book just for those really good points… *2022-09-01, version 2.2.1* I love using this app to make a book list as well and take excerpts from books once I’ve finally read them! The text excerpt does an incredible job and the design of the app is just fantastic. It feels clean and organized and all of the colors are aweeesome. It is a great way to keep your highlights organized while skimming through multiple books a week! ### 5/5 — Best app if you like reading paper book... *2022-08-13, version 2.2.1* But missing the kindle app highlight feature. ### 5/5 — Been using it for 30 minutes and I love it!! *2022-04-28, version 2.1* I’ve been looking for a tool to make it easier to review books, take notes, store the nuggets and this one is fantastic!! Added all my books in and couldn’t be happier! Thank you for making this app ### 5/5 — The best and most useful free app I have ever seen *2022-04-12, version 2.1* Absolutely loved it. Great and easiest way to remember the important parts of your readings. Many thanks to the developer of this splendid app. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-12.*