Readwise
Remember & Learn from Books
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Readwise helps you get the most out of what you read by making it fun & easy to revisit your highlights from all your favorite reading platforms in one place.
Quickly synchronize your highlights from Kindle, Apple Books, Instapaper, Pocket, Medium, Goodreads, and even paper books. Then start building a daily review habit using the app and daily email. By reviewing your highlights every day, you'll retain dramatically more and you'll finally stop forgetting all the details from books you just finished!
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“Readwise is my favorite new service this year. Save highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, and now tweets... one of the best long-term personal learning tools I’ve come across.” — Caleb Hicks
“Besides my Kindle, Readwise has been the most influential tech for improving my reading process.” — Blake Reichmann
“If you use Kindle or Instapaper or just enjoy keeping and reading highlights, please sign up to Readwise. It will become one of your cherished services.” — Christopher Galtenberg
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ACTUALLY USE YOUR HIGHLIGHTS
Highlighting is great, but why bother if you're never going to see any of your highlights again? Readwise makes it easy to quickly liberate all your highlights into one place, ensuring that you'll actually see and use them, including highlights from:
• Amazon Kindle
• Apple iBooks
• Instapaper
• Pocket
• Medium
• Goodreads
• Twitter
• Physical Books (using OCR)
• Manual Input
• CSV Upload
STOP FORGETTING WHAT YOU READ
How often do you finish a book, only to forget the key ideas two weeks later? We don't remember things by just reading them once.
Readwise solves this problem using scientifically proven learning techniques called Spaced Repetition and Active Recall. Readwise resurfaces the right highlights at the right times using a daily email and an app. Readwise even makes it possible to convert your best highlights into flashcards for added retention.
TAG, NOTE, SEARCH, AND ORGANIZE
With your highlights all in one place, Readwise enables you to organize and connect these ideas in new ways. Use search to find a highlight instantly; use tag to organize highlights within your library; use notes to add your own annotations.
HIGHLIGHT PAPER BOOKS
Readwise also makes it possible to take highlights from your physical books and papers using your phone’s camera. Just snap a pic, highlight with your finger, and have your favorite highlights saved forever.
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If you are not already a Readwise subscriber, you can get started immediately with a 30-day free trial with no credit card upfront. At the end of the trial, you will not be charged unless you choose to subscribe to Readwise Full or Readwise Lite. Price may vary by location. Manage your subscription from your dashboard.
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Support: Check out readwise.io/faq or email us at hello@readwise.io
Privacy Policy: https://readwise.io/tos
Terms of Service: https://readwise.io/privacy
more Not only does this app serve as an incredible tool for retaining and revisiting insights—it is constantly being updated and improved, bringing new features to transform your interaction. It’s an excellent antidote to continuously scrolling social media—providing a continuous scroll of actual insights and ideas you have highlighted. Recent features take it even further: the ability to ask questions of your highlights helps surface insights and connections across your reading. And now, the Daily Review has been super-charged with an audio version that is so thoughtfully built you’ll find it a friendly and insightful way to begin the day. It’s like listening to a morning podcast made up of hand-selected meaningful facts and passages. This one app has found a way to lift all of the knowledge, perspective, and wisdom from books and infuse them into the digital mediums we swim in every day. How lucky we are to be in a time when the great writers, researchers, and practitioners throughout history can be encountered in a digital scroll on the phone, a penetrating search at the desk, or on a morning commute. Thank you to the team that keeps this app—and the books we read—not only alive, but thriving.
Developer Response Wow, thanks so much for such a thoughtful review — we love hearing how Readwise helps you stay connected to the ideas that matter most from your reading.
Not only does this app serve as an incredible tool for retaining and revisiting insights—it is constantly being updated and improved, bringing new features to transform your interaction. It’s an excellent antidote to continuously scrolling social media—providing a continuous scroll of actual insights and ideas you have highlighted. Recent features take it even further: the ability to ask questions of your highlights helps surface insights and connections across your reading. And now, the Daily Review has been super-charged with an audio version that is so thoughtfully built you’ll find it a friendly and insightful way to begin the day. It’s like listening to a morning podcast made up of hand-selected meaningful facts and passages. This one app has found a way to lift all of the knowledge, perspective, and wisdom from books and infuse them into the digital mediums we swim in every day. How lucky we are to be in a time when the great writers, researchers, and practitioners throughout history can be encountered in a digital scroll on the phone, a penetrating search at the desk, or on a morning commute. Thank you to the team that keeps this app—and the books we read—not only alive, but thriving.
Wow, thanks so much for such a thoughtful review — we love hearing how Readwise helps you stay connected to the ideas that matter most from your reading.
I am currently studying for a major exam, and I must say that this app is awesome at bringing up the information based on your feedback/settings for each book and article that you import. Also, with the Mastery feature, that is definitely helping with the recall of information over time.I have found that it is best that you sync your information via their Readwise iBooks app that is installed on the Mac so that the highlights from your Books app, as well as any PDFs that you are reading (which I’m seeing works best with the latter if you simply a) highlight your PDFs while having the Readwise app active in your browser, then b) copy and paste those highlights, one by one, into Readwise’s Freeform Input area to ensure proper translation between the PDF and Readwise, but I digress…). If you are attempting to study for an exam, or even to recall what has been taught in a class from a book that you are reading, I highly recommend this app!
I am currently studying for a major exam, and I must say that this app is awesome at bringing up the information based on your feedback/settings for each book and article that you import. Also, with the Mastery feature, that is definitely helping with the recall of information over time.I have found that it is best that you sync your information via their Readwise iBooks app that is installed on the Mac so that the highlights from your Books app, as well as any PDFs that you are reading (which I’m seeing works best with the latter if you simply a) highlight your PDFs while having the Readwise app active in your browser, then b) copy and paste those highlights, one by one, into Readwise’s Freeform Input area to ensure proper translation between the PDF and Readwise, but I digress…). If you are attempting to study for an exam, or even to recall what has been taught in a class from a book that you are reading, I highly recommend this app!
I finished my Readwise trial a few days ago and I have to say that I really like the app. I like the myriad of options it has for import and export, including an integration with Notion, an app that I SWEAR by in every sense of the word. I love how the cards look when you export a highlight. It has the color of the book cover create the background and the font and theme choices are gorgeous. Also, I like how it has a ton of books already built in so you can get the most popular ideas from it.That being said, the price is steep. $4.99/month for the lite isn’t the worst thing in the world since that is what Pocket charges but you can’t get the integrations with Evernote and Notion without getting Readwise Full, which is $8.99/month when billed monthly and approx. $7.99/month when billed annually. That is nearly $100/year. Notion doesn’t even cost that amount for a year and you can create entire wikis and databases from it to the point where you can delete most of your typical apps. I understand that devs need to make money to continue building and I do think Readwise is worthy of costing something, but $100/year is WAY too much for an app like this. I think that subscription models can only go so far before people jump ship. If you want to have a subscription, be reasonable. Also, if you’re going to try to get people to “save” by getting the annual instead of the monthly, the annual price (billed monthly) should not be only a dollar difference between the monthly plan. There should be a big enough of a difference between the two that gives people a real incentive to opt for the annual.
Developer Response Hey there, we definitely appreciate the candid feedback. Pricing consumer software products is hard :)For what it's worth, we do offer 50% discounts to students and members of academia as well as those in developing countries. Please feel free to reach out at hello@readwise.io if you qualify!Also, you should know that we're a bootstrapped (ie not VC-backed) startup focused on a narrow niche. You can read more about that decision here: https://blog.readwise.io/why-were-bootstrapping-readwise/
I finished my Readwise trial a few days ago and I have to say that I really like the app. I like the myriad of options it has for import and export, including an integration with Notion, an app that I SWEAR by in every sense of the word. I love how the cards look when you export a highlight. It has the color of the book cover create the background and the font and theme choices are gorgeous. Also, I like how it has a ton of books already built in so you can get the most popular ideas from it.That being said, the price is steep. $4.99/month for the lite isn’t the worst thing in the world since that is what Pocket charges but you can’t get the integrations with Evernote and Notion without getting Readwise Full, which is $8.99/month when billed monthly and approx. $7.99/month when billed annually. That is nearly $100/year. Notion doesn’t even cost that amount for a year and you can create entire wikis and databases from it to the point where you can delete most of your typical apps. I understand that devs need to make money to continue building and I do think Readwise is worthy of costing something, but $100/year is WAY too much for an app like this. I think that subscription models can only go so far before people jump ship. If you want to have a subscription, be reasonable. Also, if you’re going to try to get people to “save” by getting the annual instead of the monthly, the annual price (billed monthly) should not be only a dollar difference between the monthly plan. There should be a big enough of a difference between the two that gives people a real incentive to opt for the annual.
Hey there, we definitely appreciate the candid feedback. Pricing consumer software products is hard :)For what it's worth, we do offer 50% discounts to students and members of academia as well as those in developing countries. Please feel free to reach out at hello@readwise.io if you qualify!Also, you should know that we're a bootstrapped (ie not VC-backed) startup focused on a narrow niche. You can read more about that decision here: https://blog.readwise.io/why-were-bootstrapping-readwise/
I have been a huge fan of this app for years. I found it through Tiago Forte’s Building a Second Brain course back in 2020. And have been using it to track all my highlights in Kindle and other sources for years now. My reading habits soared with the ability to recollect and use this info I was consuming. It changed my life, my businesses, the way I interact with the world. My thoughts are more processed now. And with the addition of AI chat, it has blown my mind. It’s an easy way to essentially consult with all the people’s voices I value. I can ask it any question and generally come away with insights I wouldn’t otherwise have surfaced without a lot of time and effort. But it’s all at my fingers tips. It’s truly wild to be able to do this. It feels like unlocking a whole new world. I can’t wait to see what the next chapter holds! I love Readwise. Hands down my favorite app of all time!
Developer Response Incredible to hear how deeply Readwise has shaped your thinking, reading, and daily life—this kind of feedback keeps us building, and we’re truly grateful!
I have been a huge fan of this app for years. I found it through Tiago Forte’s Building a Second Brain course back in 2020. And have been using it to track all my highlights in Kindle and other sources for years now. My reading habits soared with the ability to recollect and use this info I was consuming. It changed my life, my businesses, the way I interact with the world. My thoughts are more processed now. And with the addition of AI chat, it has blown my mind. It’s an easy way to essentially consult with all the people’s voices I value. I can ask it any question and generally come away with insights I wouldn’t otherwise have surfaced without a lot of time and effort. But it’s all at my fingers tips. It’s truly wild to be able to do this. It feels like unlocking a whole new world. I can’t wait to see what the next chapter holds! I love Readwise. Hands down my favorite app of all time!
Incredible to hear how deeply Readwise has shaped your thinking, reading, and daily life—this kind of feedback keeps us building, and we’re truly grateful!
NEW! Themed Connections — We launched a new experimental 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.
Previously:
We fixed a glitch where Chat with Documents could throw a websocket error for some users, as well as a glitch with the manage subscription button.
We launched an integration with Capacities, allowing you to sync all of your highlights to Capacities seamlessly.
We also launched an Apple Notes integration: you can now export your Readwise highlights to Apple Notes (although only from a mac desktop/laptop device).
We also launched new and improved (completely rebuilt) versions of our Notion and Roam exports, that should work a lot more reliably and better data.
Many improvements to the Readwise API, that allows developers to build integrations on top of your Readwise highlights.
We fixed a gnarly issue with the "save highlights via camera" feature where the camera wouldn't focus properly! We also fixed an issue where hitting the "find similar highlights" button, then returning to reviewing your highlights after, would stop saving your review progress. Finally, we've fixed a ton of bugs with the daily review, saving tweets/threads, and more.
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.
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
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 :)
2.26.1 11/26/2025
We fixed a glitch where Chat with Documents could throw a websocket error for some users, as well as a glitch with the manage subscription button.
Previously:
We launched an integration with Craft docs, allowing you to sync all of your highlights to Craft seamlessly.
We also launched an Apple Notes integration: you can now export your Readwise highlights to Apple Notes (although only from a mac desktop/laptop device).
We also launched new and improved (completely rebuilt) versions of our Notion and Roam exports, that should work a lot more reliably and better data.
Many improvements to the Readwise API, that allows developers to build integrations on top of your Readwise highlights.
We fixed a gnarly issue with the "save highlights via camera" feature where the camera wouldn't focus properly! We also fixed an issue where hitting the "find similar highlights" button, then returning to reviewing your highlights after, would stop saving your review progress. Finally, we've fixed a ton of bugs with the daily review, saving tweets/threads, and more.
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.
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
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 :)
2.23.1 11/21/2025
We fixed a glitch where Chat with Documents could throw a websocket error for some users, as well as a glitch that sometimes caused the keyboard to pop up when it shouldn't.
Previously:
We launched an integration with Craft docs, allowing you to sync all of your highlights to Craft seamlessly.
We also launched an Apple Notes integration: you can now export your Readwise highlights to Apple Notes (although only from a mac desktop/laptop device).
We also launched new and improved (completely rebuilt) versions of our Notion and Roam exports, that should work a lot more reliably and better data.
Many improvements to the Readwise API, that allows developers to build integrations on top of your Readwise highlights.
We fixed a gnarly issue with the "save highlights via camera" feature where the camera wouldn't focus properly! We also fixed an issue where hitting the "find similar highlights" button, then returning to reviewing your highlights after, would stop saving your review progress. Finally, we've fixed a ton of bugs with the daily review, saving tweets/threads, and more.
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.
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
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 :)
2.21.1 11/15/2025
We fixed a glitch where Chat with Documents could throw a websocket error for some users.
Previously:
We launched an integration with Craft docs, allowing you to sync all of your highlights to Craft seamlessly.
We also launched an Apple Notes integration: you can now export your Readwise highlights to Apple Notes (although only from a mac desktop/laptop device).
We also launched new and improved (completely rebuilt) versions of our Notion and Roam exports, that should work a lot more reliably and better data.
Many improvements to the Readwise API, that allows developers to build integrations on top of your Readwise highlights.
We fixed a gnarly issue with the "save highlights via camera" feature where the camera wouldn't focus properly! We also fixed an issue where hitting the "find similar highlights" button, then returning to reviewing your highlights after, would stop saving your review progress. Finally, we've fixed a ton of bugs with the daily review, saving tweets/threads, and more.
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.
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
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 :)
2.20.1 10/27/2025
We fixed a gnarly issue with the "save highlights via camera" feature where the camera wouldn't focus properly!
Also, we fixed an issue where hitting the "find similar highlights" button, then returning to reviewing your highlights after, would stop saving your review progress.
Previously:
We launched an integration with Craft docs, allowing you to sync all of your highlights to Craft seamlessly.
We also launched an Apple Notes integration: you can now export your Readwise highlights to Apple Notes (although only from a mac desktop/laptop device).
We also launched new and improved (completely rebuilt) versions of our Notion and Roam exports, that should work a lot more reliably and better data.
Many improvements to the Readwise API, that allows developers to build integrations on top of your Readwise highlights.
Finally, we've fixed a ton of bugs with the daily review, saving tweets/threads, and more.
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.
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
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 :)
2.17.2 09/20/2025
We fixed a gnarly issue with the "save highlights via camera" feature where the camera wouldn't focus properly!
Also, we fixed an issue where hitting the "find similar highlights" button, then returning to reviewing your highlights after, would stop saving your review progress.
Previously:
We launched an integration with Craft docs, allowing you to sync all of your highlights to Craft seamlessly.
We also launched an Apple Notes integration: you can now export your Readwise highlights to Apple Notes (although only from a mac desktop/laptop device).
We also launched new and improved (completely rebuilt) versions of our Notion and Roam exports, that should work a lot more reliably and better data.
Many improvements to the Readwise API, that allows developers to build integrations on top of your Readwise highlights.
Finally, we've fixed a ton of bugs with the daily review, saving tweets/threads, and more.
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.
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
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 :)
2.15.3 08/22/2025
We fixed a gnarly issue with the "save highlights via camera" feature where the camera wouldn't focus properly!
Also, we fixed an issue where hitting the "find similar highlights" button, then returning to reviewing your highlights after, would stop saving your review progress.
Previously:
We launched an integration with Craft docs, allowing you to sync all of your highlights to Craft seamlessly.
We also launched an Apple Notes integration: you can now export your Readwise highlights to Apple Notes (although only from a mac desktop/laptop device).
We also launched new and improved (completely rebuilt) versions of our Notion and Roam exports, that should work a lot more reliably and better data.
Many improvements to the Readwise API, that allows developers to build integrations on top of your Readwise highlights.
Finally, we've fixed a ton of bugs with the daily review, saving tweets/threads, and more.
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.
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
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 :)
2.12.8 07/21/2025
We launched an integration with Craft docs, allowing you to sync all of your highlights to Craft seamlessly.
We also launched an Apple Notes integration: you can now export your Readwise highlights to Apple Notes (although only from a mac desktop/laptop device).
We also launched new and improved (completely rebuilt) versions of our Notion and Roam exports, that should work a lot more reliably and better data.
Many improvements to the Readwise API, that allows developers to build integrations on top of your Readwise highlights.
Finally, we've fixed a ton of bugs with the daily review, saving tweets/threads, and more.
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.
Previously:
Fixed many bugs with Chat with Highlights and related highlights.
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
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 :)
2.12.5 06/13/2025
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 :)
Fixed a bunch of bugs with Chat with Highlights and related highights.
Previously:
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* 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 :)
2.11.9 02/18/2025
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 :)
Fixed a bunch of bugs with Chat with Highlights and related highights.
Previously:
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* 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 :)
2.11.5 02/16/2025
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 :)
Fixed a bunch of bugs with Chat with Highlights and related highights.
Previously:
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* 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 :)
2.11.4 02/05/2025
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 :)
Previously:
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* 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 :)
2.10.17 01/30/2025
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 :)
Previously:
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* 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 :)
2.10.15 01/30/2025
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 :)
Previously:
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* and of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app
2.10.14 01/29/2025
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Previously:
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* and of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app
2.10.10 12/14/2024
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Previously:
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* and of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app
2.9.2 10/21/2024
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Previously:
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* and of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app
2.9.0 08/20/2024
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Previously:
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* and of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app
2.8.13 08/09/2024
We shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* and of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app
2.8.11 05/01/2024
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
We also shipped a performance improvement which should make opening the Daily Review faster :)
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Save your Twitter bookmarks
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* and of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app
2.8.10 11/21/2023
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15!
We also shipped a performance improvement which should make opening the Daily Review faster :)
As well, we continue to add many new integrations to Readwise! Recently we added:
* Save your Twitter bookmarks
* Export to Reflect and Logseq
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* and of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app
2.8.9 11/13/2023
This version fixes our Twitter integration, which was broken due to recent Twitter API changes
We also continue to add many new integrations to Readwise :) Recently we added:
* Save your Twitter bookmarks
* Export your highlights to Reflect
* A massively updated integration with Kobo for saving your highlights
* Export your highlights to Logseq
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
* and of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app
2.8.6 04/10/2023
This version fixes an issue in the new iPhone 14 where the bottom navigation bar would be partially cut off.
We also continue to add many new integrations to Readwise :) Recently we added:
* Save your Twitter bookmarks
* Export your highlights to Logseq
* Save highlights from Raindrop.io
2.8.4 09/25/2022
We've fixed a bunch of bugs with the OCR (take a picture to save highlights) feature, as well as our in-app payments. We've also added a way to access your Account Preferences from inside of the native app, allowing stuff like changing your name, deleting your account, or resetting your password!
2.8.3 06/29/2022
Some speed improvements! Daily review should load marginally faster, sharing images is faster, and search should be about 10x faster :)
Also: a quick fix for iPhone 13 devices to prevent the bottom menu overlapping with the bottom of the screen.
- Readwise Team
2.8.1 10/04/2021
NEW! Themed Connections — We launched a new experimental 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.
Previously:
We fixed a glitch where Chat with Documents could throw a websocket error for some users, as well as a glitch with the manage subscription button.
We launched an integration with Capacities, allowing you to sync all of your highlights to Capacities seamlessly.
We also launched an Apple Notes integration: you can now export your Readwise highlights to Apple Notes (although only from a mac desktop/laptop device).
We also launched new and improved (completely rebuilt) versions of our Notion and Roam exports, that should work a lot more reliably and better data.
Many improvements to the Readwise API, that allows developers to build integrations on top of your Readwise highlights.
We fixed a gnarly issue with the "save highlights via camera" feature where the camera wouldn't focus properly! We also fixed an issue where hitting the "find similar highlights" button, then returning to reviewing your highlights after, would stop saving your review progress. Finally, we've fixed a ton of bugs with the daily review, saving tweets/threads, and more.
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.
We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications.
Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights.
Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones.
Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review.
Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster!
Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance.
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 :)
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