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Best Book Highlights Apps

250+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.8 avg rating
20 free apps
Updated August 2026

Looking for free book highlights apps? 20 of our 250+ tracked titles are free to download — no subscription, no trial. The rest are premium picks worth paying for.

Compare top Book Highlights Apps (August 2026)

#AppPriceRatingAdsIn-App PurchasesUpdated
1ReadwiseReadwiseFree4.8★ (1.5K)NoYesAug 2026
2Margins: Save Book HighlightsMargins: Save Book HighlightsFree5.0★ (1)NoYesAug 2026
3Book Tracker: HighlightedBook Tracker: HighlightedFree4.9★ (713)NoYesAug 2026
4Excerpt - The Book HighlighterExcerpt - The Book HighlighterFree4.8★ (36)NoYesMay 2026
5Revue - Recall Book HighlightsRevue - Recall Book HighlightsFree—NoNoMay 2026
6ReMarkly: Book HighlightsReMarkly: Book HighlightsFree—NoYesJun 2026
7Shortform Daily Book SummariesShortform Daily Book SummariesFree4.6★ (1.4K)NoYesAug 2026
8Rememberly - Save highlightsRememberly - Save highlightsFree—NoNoMay 2026

Top Picks for Book Highlights

Readwise#1

Readwise by Readwise, Inc

Remember & Learn from Books
Editor's Choice
📚 Education
4.8😊(1.5K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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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.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Powerful spaced repetition
  • 📚 Seamless integration with reading apps
  • 🔍 Helpful AI-powered features
  • 🗓️ Useful daily review routine

Room to Improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription
  • 🔌 Sync issues with some platforms
  • 📱 Subpar mobile app experience
Margins: Save Book Highlights#2

Margins: Save Book Highlights by Daniel Plata

Remember everything you read
Strong Contender
📚 Books
5.0(1 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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Organize your book collection and save important passages. Capture text manually or with your device's camera. Sync your library and notes across all your Apple devices and import from Kindle.

Book Tracker: Highlighted#3

Book Tracker: Highlighted by Damir Stuhec

Bookshelf, Notes & Quotes
Worth Considering
📚 Books
4.9😊(713 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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Capture, organize, and revisit key passages from your books with advanced text recognition. Create collections, add tags and notes, and easily export your highlights. Stop forgetting what you read and make your reading more impactful.

What We Love

  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🚀 Accurate text recognition
  • 💡 Useful for readers and students
  • 🔖 Allows organizing highlights by book and tags

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Issues with text ordering and formatting
  • 🔍 Limited search and filtering options
  • 📱 Needs offline support and sync capabilities

More Book Highlights apps to explore

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Excerpt - The Book Highlighter
Excerpt - The Book Highlighter
Excerpt - The Book Highlighter
Scan books and compile notes
Free

Capture and organize quotes and images from physical books using your device's camera. Add notes, customize highlighter colors, and share your findings. Export your compiled excerpts into a PDF for easy reference.

Scan book pages with cameraCapture quotes and imagesAdd notes to excerpts
📊 Productivity
(36)
free with in-app purchases
5
Revue - Recall Book Highlights
Revue - Recall Book Highlights
Revue - Recall Book Highlights
Import kindle flashcards
Free
📚 Books
(0)
6
ReMarkly: Book Highlights
ReMarkly: Book Highlights
ReMarkly: Book Highlights
Kindle import. Recall daily.
Free
📚 Books
(0)
7
Shortform Daily Book Summaries
Shortform Daily Book Summaries
Shortform Daily Book Summaries
Micro Learning & Podcasts
Free

Access high-quality book summaries and analyses that go beyond key ideas, offering comparative insights and interactive exercises. Learn essential lessons from bestsellers and classics, reinforced through audio narration and offline reading.

1-page summariesChapter-by-chapter analysisAudio narrations
📚 Education
(1.4K)
free with in-app purchases
8
Rememberly - Save highlights
Rememberly - Save highlights
Rememberly - Save highlights
Scan and save book quotes
Free
📚 Books
(0)
9
Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes
Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes
Highlights: PDF Reader & Notes
Edit Research Documents/Books
Free

This app is a fast and lightweight PDF reader designed for research. It allows users to read, highlight, and annotate documents, and then extract this information into organized notes. Advanced features include table data extraction, text recognition, and smart copying of annotations into various formats.

Read and browse PDF documentsHighlight, underline, and strikethrough textAdd comments and sticky notes
📊 Productivity
(1.6K)
freemium
10
BookNotes | Save Highlights
BookNotes | Save Highlights
BookNotes | Save Highlights
Save highlights while reading
Free
📚 Books
(0)
11
Inkive: Book Highlight Scanner
Inkive: Book Highlight Scanner
Inkive: Book Highlight Scanner
AI Snaps Highlights into Notes
Free

This app uses AI to automatically capture physical book highlights and quotes, organizing them into a searchable digital library. Review, edit, and export your saved passages to various formats, all while keeping your data private and offline.

Automatic highlight and underline detectionExtracts full passagesBatch capture for multiple pages
📚 Books
(0)
free with in-app purchases
12
PastReads
PastReads
PastReads
Save what you read, see & hear
Free
📊 Productivity
(0)
13
Cite – Book Highlighting
Cite – Book Highlighting
Cite – Book Highlighting
Read deeper with AI help
Free
📚 Books
(0)
14
Wisdom Daily: Book Summaries
Wisdom Daily: Book Summaries
Wisdom Daily: Book Summaries
Read or listen in 15 minutes
Free
📚 Education
(0)
15
PageMark: Book Highlights
PageMark: Book Highlights
PageMark: Book Highlights
Capture quotes. See patterns.
Free
📚 Books
(0)
16
Book Cover Maker: BookFrame AI
Book Cover Maker: BookFrame AI
Book Cover Maker: BookFrame AI
Highlight Covers & Flyer Art
Free

Quickly design professional book covers with auto-calculated print specs and genre-specific templates. Utilize photo and AI art tools for unique designs, and ensure series consistency with branding features. Generate instant 3D mockups and export for both print and eBook formats.

Auto-calculated print specs (KDP/Ingram-ready)Genre-specific pro templatesPhoto and AI art tools
📚 Books
(1)
free with in-app purchases
17
Book Companion – Scanner
Book Companion – Scanner
Book Companion – Scanner
Book highlights and more
Free
📚 Education
(0)
18
Highlights quotes and library
Highlights quotes and library
Highlights quotes and library
Kindle book highlights snippet
Free
📚 Books
(0)
19
Liberom: Book Summaries & Chat
Liberom: Book Summaries & Chat
Liberom: Book Summaries & Chat
Reading Tracker, AI & Reviews
Free
📚 Books
(0)
20
AI Book Tracker: Bookly
AI Book Tracker: Bookly
AI Book Tracker: Bookly
Smart reading & highlights
Free
📚 Books
(0)

FAQ about Book Highlights

What are the best book highlights apps for iPhone?
Readwise tops our book highlights apps ranking as of August 2026, with a 4.8-star average from 1.5K App Store ratings, and it's free to download.
Yes — 20 of the top book highlights apps we rank are free to download, including Readwise and Margins: Save Book Highlights.
Readwise has no ads and offers in-app purchases, according to its App Store listing as of August 2026.
We track 250+ book highlights apps on the iOS App Store as of August 2026, ranked by rating, recency, and analysis of real user reviews.
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.
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.

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