Readwise

Readwise

Remember & Learn from Books

1.5K ratings
325 reviews
Free
In-App Purchases

Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • April 18, 2020
  • September 24, 2026

Features

Readwise screenshot #1 for iPhone
Readwise screenshot #2 for iPhone
Readwise screenshot #3 for iPhone
Readwise screenshot #4 for iPhone
Readwise screenshot #5 for iPhone
Readwise screenshot #6 for iPhone
iphone
ipad
🖼️Get Icon
Icons↘︎

About

This app helps you retain more of what you read by centralizing and revisiting your highlights from various reading platforms. It uses spaced repetition and active recall techniques to improve memory and offers features like tagging, note-taking, and OCR for physical books.

✓Synchronize highlights from multiple platforms
✓Daily review habit via app and email
✓Spaced repetition and active recall
✓Tag, note, and search highlights
✓OCR for paper book highlights
✓Convert highlights to flashcards
Show original description

What users say

See all reviews

What's New in Readwise

3.4.9

September 24, 2026

(We've fixed many of the issues you all have reported in the new Readwise design: from OCR/Camera Highlighting to Mastery cards to Share images to typography issues to frequency tuning and much much more. We also made OCR/camera highlighting much faster. Please keep any feedback you have coming!) Welcome to Readwise 2.0! We've rebuilt the entire app from the ground up: completely refreshed design, smoother animations, and much much faster everywhere. • Daily Review: redesigned with swipeable cards and a new completion screen • Capturing highlights: snap a page with your camera, type one in, or just speak it out loud • Search: completely revamped and much faster • Ghostreader, Chat with Highlights, and Audio Reviews, all in new (easier to find) homes • Literally hundreds of bug fixes and small experience improvements Your account, highlights, streak, and settings carry over automatically. Previously: Themed Connections — We launched a new feature called Themed Connections. By default, you’ll receive a batch of highlights exploring a specific theme or idea each Saturday. This theme will be unique to your highlights and span multiple sources. Since starting Readwise, we’ve heard from thousands of you that one of the most delightful part of reviewing your highlights is the unexpected connections found across sources. This feature supercharges that process. You can now Chat with your Highlights! Ask any question about what you've read, find any highlight effortlessly (it's like superpowered search), and find connections across highlights. This is the biggest new feature to Readwise in over a year, though we still intend to extensively improve it and build even more AI-powered features on top of this base :) You can access Chat from the main Review screen in the app. You'll now also notice a "Find Similar Highlights" button on every highlight you see in Readwise. Hitting this button will quickly pull up semantically related highlights from other books/articles/papers you've highlighted, hopefully sparking unexpected connections. We've wanted to build this feature since we started Readwise 7+ years ago, so excited to share it's finally possible and here :) We also launched a Readwise MCP server, for chatting with your highlights directly from Claude and other apps. And of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app. You can see all of our latest weekly improvements to Readwise/Reader at our changelog at docs.readwise.io/changelog :)

More
4

Subscriptions & In-App Purchases

Readwise Full Monthly Plan

The Full Readwise product, charged monthly

$8.991 Month
How to cancel Readwise subscription ⁉️

User reviews

Siri integration

Love Readwise, any intention on adding ability to add thoughts from Siri into highlights? I like hands free adding thoughts for future.

Five stars

Great app and an amazing team working hard to make reading more useful and enjoyable.

Please Turn Highlights into Living Notes

I love the idea of turning highlights into cards, but I wish Readwise would treat those cards less like Anki review items and more like living note objects.

I want to revisit a highlight days, months or years later, add a new reflection, keep the old reflection, connect it to related highlights, and gradually build an evolving interpretation around that card.

I’m not trying to memorize everything I highlight. I want a structured, searchable commonplace book where highlights become durable units of thought.

The current card model is already very close — I just wish each card could accumulate notes and reflections over time instead of mainly being something to “review.”
Show more

abhorrent app redesign ruins brilliant service

I’ve been a paid member of the service (for about 3-4 years) and find it extremely helpful and I love it, but the lates app redesign is an excellent example how unnecessary redesign can ruin otherwise great app. There was literally no need or sense in redesigning like that. Nothing, nothing has improved user experience in any way. Fonts are smaller, background is distracting, interface is messier, streak stats are tiny icon in the corner and then just a couple of weeks worth of tracking presented as weird calendar. Please stop your UI designers from ruining your service. It has one pure purpose, don’t mess with it.
Show more

Love the redesign

Awesome job!

Developer apps

User experience

🐞

Reported Bugs

3 issues

Frequent app crashes

Bug

Sync failures with certain accounts

Bug

Unreliable highlight capture

Bug
✨

Requested Features

5 requests

Add support for more reading apps

Feature

Improve sync and import capabilities

Feature

Introduce more customization options

Feature

Enhance search and organization tools

Feature

Develop a more intuitive mobile interface

Feature

FAQ

What does Readwise do?

Readwise helps you get the most out of what you read by making it fun and easy to revisit your highlights from various reading platforms in one place. It uses scientifically proven learning techniques like spaced repetition and active recall to improve your retention of information.

What are the key features of Readwise?

Key features include synchronizing highlights from Kindle, Apple Books, Instapaper, Pocket, Medium, Goodreads, and even paper books using OCR. You can also tag, note, and search your highlights, and convert them into flashcards for added retention.

How much does Readwise cost?

Readwise offers a 30-day free trial. After the trial, you can choose to subscribe to Readwise Full or Readwise Lite. Pricing may vary by location, and subscriptions can be managed from your dashboard.

What devices is Readwise compatible with?

Readwise is available as a mobile app and can be accessed through its website. It synchronizes highlights from various popular reading platforms, indicating broad compatibility with digital reading ecosystems.

How can Readwise help me remember what I read?

Readwise utilizes spaced repetition and active recall techniques. By resurfacing your highlights at optimal times through daily emails and the app, it helps combat forgetting and ensures you retain key ideas from your reading material.