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Best Readwise Apps

130+ iOS apps curated and reviewed

4.6 avg rating
20 free apps
Updated August 2026

From beginner-friendly picks to power-user tools, our Readwise list covers 130+ iPhone apps updated through August 2026. Compare ratings, prices, and screenshots in one place.

Compare top Readwise Apps (August 2026)

#AppPriceRatingAdsIn-App PurchasesUpdated
1ReadwiseReadwiseFree4.8★ (1.5K)NoYesSep 2026
2Readwise ReaderReadwise ReaderFree4.6★ (579)NoYesSep 2026
3Notion: Notes, Tasks, AINotion: Notes, Tasks, AIFree4.8★ (90K)NoYesSep 2026
4Matter: Reading AppMatter: Reading AppFree4.6★ (1.2K)NoYesSep 2026
5Obsidian - Connected NotesObsidian - Connected NotesFree4.5★ (2.7K)NoNoSep 2026
6InstapaperInstapaperFree4.6★ (3.5K)NoYesSep 2026
7Goodreads: Book Tracker & MoreGoodreads: Book Tracker & MoreFree4.8★ (747K)NoNoSep 2026
8Cubox: AI Read-It-Later AppCubox: AI Read-It-Later AppFree4.4★ (236)NoYesSep 2026

Top Picks for Readwise

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
  • 🧠 Boosts knowledge retention
  • 🎨 Visually appealing interface

Room to Improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription
  • 🔌 Sync issues with some platforms
  • 📱 Subpar mobile app experience
  • 🕰️ Lack of flexibility in daily review
  • 🔍 Limited search functionality
Readwise Reader#2

Readwise Reader by Readwise, Inc

All your reading in one place
Strong Contender
📊 Productivity
4.6😊(579 ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
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This app consolidates all your reading content, including web articles, newsletters, and PDFs, into a single, organized platform. It offers advanced highlighting, text-to-speech, and AI-powered assistance to enhance your reading workflow and knowledge retention.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Fantastic reading experience
  • 👍 Seamless integration with Readwise
  • 🎨 Beautiful and intuitive UI
  • 📚 All-in-one reading solution
  • 🔍 Powerful search and organization
  • 🗣️ Excellent text-to-speech capabilities
  • 💡 Innovative AI-powered features
  • 🤖 Helpful ChatGPT integration

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and performance issues
  • 🔍 Cluttered interface for some users
  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 🖥️ Lack of iPad-specific features
  • 📚 Missing basic reader features (e.g., bookmarks)
Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI#3

Notion: Notes, Tasks, AI by Notion Labs, Incorporated

Plan, organize, track projects
Worth Considering
📊 Productivity
4.8😊(90K ratings)
FreeIn-App Purchases
#44in Productivity
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This AI-powered workspace helps you write notes, manage tasks, organize projects, and collaborate with others. It offers features like AI meeting notes and interactive maps to streamline your workflow for personal, student, or professional use.

What We Love

  • 🚀 Great tool for school organisation
  • 👍 Game-Changer for Productivity
  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Versatile and customizable
  • 👍 Calendar view is amazing
  • 👍 Amazing & altruistic
  • 👍 Amazing! Great for students
  • 🚀 Truly game-changing
  • 👍 Life Changer
  • 👍 Fellow Researching Nerds, this app is a game changer!
  • 👍 Absolutely love this app
  • 👍 Amazing app, although the features are a bit clunky and unintuitive at times
  • 👍 Awesome app, but Stop opening new pages in tables when adding new items please
  • 👍 Never been more organized
  • 👍 Amazing productivity app

Room to Improve

  • 🐛 Frustrating Search and Useless AI
  • 🐛 Buggy and nagging (iPad M1)… moving to click up if it does get more stable
  • 🔒 No offline mode
  • 🐛 Glitchy iPad experience
  • 🐛 Terrible on iPad
  • 🐛 CS is most likely AI bots
  • 🐛 Nightmare
  • 🐛 Terrible mobile app
  • 🐛 Swipe to type unsupported
  • 🐛 Broken?
  • 🐛 S-L-O-W
  • 🐛 Needs better instructions
  • 🐛 The mobile app is a disaster
  • 🐛 Doesn't
  • 🐛 Clunky on iPad OS, needs better copy paste, no offline mode

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FAQ about Readwise

What are the best Readwise apps for iPhone?
Readwise tops our Readwise 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 Readwise apps we rank are free to download, including Readwise and Readwise Reader.
Readwise has no ads and offers in-app purchases, according to its App Store listing as of August 2026.
We track 130+ Readwise 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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