Comparison

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter vs Clew

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter

Annotate web pages, PDFs, Word, and PowerPoint documents with customizable highlights and comments. Organize your content into folders and sync across devices using iCloud. Share and export your annotated files to various cloud services and other apps.

Highlights
  • Highlight web pages and PDFs
  • Add comments in multiple colors
  • Reader View for web and PDF
  • Organize content in folders
  • iCloud synchronization
  • Share and export annotations
Features
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One app to highlight Web pages, PDF, Word and Powerpoint documents, synchronized to iCloud. Our users say: - "Highlight Delight" - Cat North - "Only app that highlights properly" - Sparticle - "Exactly what I was looking for" - Bren With RePaper: - Open web pages and PDF files from anywhere - Add your highlight and comments in several colors - "Reader View" like Safari but works for Web and PDF files (text only) - Organize your articles in folders - Synchronized with iCloud - Share your highlights on social media and email - Export to other apps like iBooks, DropBox, Box, Drive and Evernote

About

Clew

Capture and organize quotes, notes, and highlights from books, articles, films, and podcasts. Discover connections between your saved content through powerful tagging and intelligent recommendations. This app acts as a digital commonplace book, synced across all your devices.

Highlights
  • Save highlights from books, web, film, TV, and podcasts
  • Organize and search saved content
  • Discover connections between saved items
  • Tagging and intelligent recommendations
  • Syncs across all devices
  • Camera scanning for book pages
Features
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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/

Screenshots

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter4 screens
Clew4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Clew at Free against RePaper Web PDF Highlighter's $2.99. Clew also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1). RePaper Web PDF Highlighter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (11 vs 3). On update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Clew is free to download; RePaper Web PDF Highlighter costs $2.99 up front. Clew sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. RePaper Web PDF Highlighter asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clew holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter ships an update monthly, Clew every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter versus Clew: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRePaper Web PDF HighlighterClew
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating3.1 (11 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews32.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better3
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB36 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAppBlit LLCThomas Twardzik

Customer experience

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter

All ratings11 ratings
Positive54.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative45.5%
Written reviews68 reviews
Positive32.4%
Neutral1.5%
Negative66.2%

Clew

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter

Reported bugs

24 issues
  • Things don’t sync between devices if folders aren't created
  • Text in reader font can’t be adjusted
  • Deleting a paper seems temporary
  • Tutorial video gives code 404 message
  • Instruction video is missing, link broken
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  • Video tutorial has been removed
  • Bookmarklet doesn't work
  • App will not find documents
  • Won't allow highlighting on iPhone
  • Force closes when extracting files
  • Cannot use on PDF documents saved in iBook, PDF, and Dropbox directly
  • Stubborn highlighting, difficult to adjust selection
  • App shuts down after 30 seconds
  • Crashes multiple times or does not highlight
  • App crashes when hitting save
  • Undefined is not an object error
  • Doesn't work at all
  • No selection made
  • Says 'no selection found'
  • Does not allow highlighting more than one word at a time in a PDF
  • Does not allow highlighting more than one sentence at a time
  • Highlights only in its own browser
  • No logical segregation in library
  • Takes 10 to 20 times to make one highlight

Requested features

10 requests
  • Cloud support
  • More obvious new folder creation
  • Consistent stable operation without folders
  • IOS 8 extension
  • Bookmarklet
Show 5 more
  • Shortened link to highlighted article
  • Comments pop up automatically
  • Ability to comment on highlighting
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard

Clew

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

RePaper Web PDF Highlighter

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Clew

One-time3
  • Small Tip - $0.99$0.99
  • Generous Tip - $2.99$2.99
  • Super Tip - $9.99$9.99

Questions

Is RePaper Web PDF Highlighter free?
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clew free?
Clew is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Clew?
Clew is rated higher. RePaper Web PDF Highlighter averages 3.1 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Clew averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Clew have ads?
Neither RePaper Web PDF Highlighter nor Clew shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RePaper Web PDF Highlighter or Clew?
RePaper Web PDF Highlighter ships an update monthly, and Clew every 3 weeks. Most recently, RePaper Web PDF Highlighter was updated on October 18, 2026 and Clew on October 10, 2026.

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