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Name: Highlighted: Image to text
Rating: 4.8 (648 reviews)
Author: Damir Stuhec

Book Journal • Reading Tracker

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

648 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Books
Developer

Damir Stuhec
Language

EN
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50.9
MB

3 times "App of the Day" - Apple, Inc. Make powerful book highlights, and stop forgetting what you read. Highlighted makes it easy to capture, organize, revisit, and export the most important parts of your books. ______ MAIN FEATURES • Best-in-class text recognition • Smart sentence & paragraph detection • Book Collections & reading status • First-class tags & notes • Bulk Drag & Drop highlighting (iPad) • Photo highlighting • Page number detection • Powerful search • Highlight sharing • Highlights export • ISBN scanning • Siri Shortcuts • Dark Mode • Home Widgets • Offline mode ______ ABOUT ME I'm Damir, a creator from Europe who loves to read. Say hello at damir.stuhec@gmail.com

Ratings & Reviews

4.8

out of 5

648 Ratings

Advanced Reading Companion
01/24/2024

Tethys-Sea
2024: app is continually amazing. I recommend it wholeheartedly.2022: Highlighted is THE elegant app I always hoped someone would originate—to digitally highlight physical books. eBook quotes and passages can be sent to Highlighted via a Shortcuts app shortcut—as long as either “copy” (or) the iOS share-sheet can be invoked within an eReader. (Apps like Libby will not work, but Apple’s Books app will work.) Accurate OCR (text recognition) is the principal star of Highlighted, making it incredibly easy to save passages of interest. Entries are then globally searchable and easy to export. Artifacts of poorly captured OCR itself are rare. And when aberrations occur it is simple things I’ve seen with almost any OCR capture app. Highlighted seems to work best when you capture text passages in succession, like long paragraphs, rather than whole pages at once. And if you capture text where fragments of text (or sentences) are misplaced, a steady hand and a very clean capture window fixes that tendency. Highlighted is a beautifully designed app, making for a fantastic reading companion. It also supports several languages, with more on the way. And built in ISBN scanning makes it incredibly easy to add new books. Updates are frequent, well considered, and reflect a hard working and thoughtful developer, who's really hitting his stride. Super impressed. All I need now is a tip jar. 2024: app is continually amazing. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Developer Response
Wow! It warms my heart to read this. It makes all the long hours and effort worthwhile. Thank you.Also, thank you for suggestions! Completely agree. Bulk highlights export is coming very soon, as well as options to support the development of Highlighted.Feel free to reach out at any time.
Advanced Reading Companion
01/24/2024

Tethys-Sea

2024: app is continually amazing. I recommend it wholeheartedly.2022: Highlighted is THE elegant app I always hoped someone would originate—to digitally highlight physical books. eBook quotes and passages can be sent to Highlighted via a Shortcuts app shortcut—as long as either “copy” (or) the iOS share-sheet can be invoked within an eReader. (Apps like Libby will not work, but Apple’s Books app will work.) Accurate OCR (text recognition) is the principal star of Highlighted, making it incredibly easy to save passages of interest. Entries are then globally searchable and easy to export. Artifacts of poorly captured OCR itself are rare. And when aberrations occur it is simple things I’ve seen with almost any OCR capture app. Highlighted seems to work best when you capture text passages in succession, like long paragraphs, rather than whole pages at once. And if you capture text where fragments of text (or sentences) are misplaced, a steady hand and a very clean capture window fixes that tendency. Highlighted is a beautifully designed app, making for a fantastic reading companion. It also supports several languages, with more on the way. And built in ISBN scanning makes it incredibly easy to add new books. Updates are frequent, well considered, and reflect a hard working and thoughtful developer, who's really hitting his stride. Super impressed. All I need now is a tip jar. 2024: app is continually amazing. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Developer Response 06/21/2020
Wow! It warms my heart to read this. It makes all the long hours and effort worthwhile. Thank you.Also, thank you for suggestions! Completely agree. Bulk highlights export is coming very soon, as well as options to support the development of Highlighted.Feel free to reach out at any time.
Easily my favorite app on my iPhone now
10/15/2020

ClassyRaptor
For the longest time, I manually added all my book highlights into the default iOS Notes app, so finding Highlighted has been an absolute blessing and game changer. Adding new books, as with every other aspect of the app, is completely frictionless and gives me the same sort of satisfaction as watching my physical bookshelf fill up with new books. It’s gotten to the point where I’m reading a lot more than I was before just so I have an excuse to use the app and expand my digital collection of books. Highlighted is extremely clean, both visually and functionally, which I really appreciate. The developer has thoughtfully included only the most crucial features and omitted any feature bloat that you might find in other apps that try to be the jack of all trades, but end up being the master of none. My iPhone experience definitely wouldn’t be the same without Highlighted and I appreciate all the hard work the developer has put into crafting the best possible experience for taking notes on the books I’m reading. Thank you!

Developer Response
Wow, your review just made my day! 💛 Appreciate it. I'm always here, ready to listen and learn about how can we make Highlighted even better, so feel free to reach out at any time. Enjoy!
Easily my favorite app on my iPhone now
10/15/2020

ClassyRaptor

For the longest time, I manually added all my book highlights into the default iOS Notes app, so finding Highlighted has been an absolute blessing and game changer. Adding new books, as with every other aspect of the app, is completely frictionless and gives me the same sort of satisfaction as watching my physical bookshelf fill up with new books. It’s gotten to the point where I’m reading a lot more than I was before just so I have an excuse to use the app and expand my digital collection of books. Highlighted is extremely clean, both visually and functionally, which I really appreciate. The developer has thoughtfully included only the most crucial features and omitted any feature bloat that you might find in other apps that try to be the jack of all trades, but end up being the master of none. My iPhone experience definitely wouldn’t be the same without Highlighted and I appreciate all the hard work the developer has put into crafting the best possible experience for taking notes on the books I’m reading. Thank you!
Developer Response 10/20/2020
Wow, your review just made my day! 💛 Appreciate it. I'm always here, ready to listen and learn about how can we make Highlighted even better, so feel free to reach out at any time. Enjoy!
Great app!
11/08/2020

Danny A Aguilar
This is my first review ever (from what I can remember) I’m very excited to use this app! Decided to look for an app that would make it easier to save quotes from the books I read rather than taking a picture and using the markup feature to circle the quote and save it into individual albums in my camera roll. This app makes it way faster to save these highlights! I’ve tried other apps, and there are some comparable ones, but the process in this app is the smoothest and most efficient of them all. A few suggestions:-A feature where I can go through my camera roll to add in all my previous highlights would be great.-The ability to randomly scroll through all my highlights would be cool. I rarely go back to look up the pictures of the highlights in my camera roll unless I’m looking for something specific, so I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of gems I’ve highlighted. A randomized feature would be an awesome way to look back at highlights I might have never otherwise revisited.-Lastly, many of the books I read have diagrams or images they reference to. It would be awesome to be able to attach some of these images to these highlights (just like you can add tags and notes). With these features it would really take this app to the next level. Thank you so much.

Developer Response
Hi Danny! So great to hear you're enjoying Highlighted. 🤗Great suggestions! I'm happy to let you know that the ability to create highlights from photos is coming soon. The ability to attach images to highlights is planned for the near future as well. Stay tuned!Regarding the randomly resurfacing your highlights, I think the Highlighted iOS 14 widget can help you here. You can add the "random highlight" widget to your home screen, and it will display randomly selected highlights throughout the day. Feel free to contact me at damir.stuhec@gmail.com in case you need further help.Thanks a lot for your thoughtful review. It helps me understand your workflows and use-cases, which is very important in making Highlighted even better.Feel free to reach out with more feedback and ideas at any time. Enjoy! 😊
Great app!
11/08/2020

Danny A Aguilar

This is my first review ever (from what I can remember) I’m very excited to use this app! Decided to look for an app that would make it easier to save quotes from the books I read rather than taking a picture and using the markup feature to circle the quote and save it into individual albums in my camera roll. This app makes it way faster to save these highlights! I’ve tried other apps, and there are some comparable ones, but the process in this app is the smoothest and most efficient of them all. A few suggestions:-A feature where I can go through my camera roll to add in all my previous highlights would be great.-The ability to randomly scroll through all my highlights would be cool. I rarely go back to look up the pictures of the highlights in my camera roll unless I’m looking for something specific, so I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of gems I’ve highlighted. A randomized feature would be an awesome way to look back at highlights I might have never otherwise revisited.-Lastly, many of the books I read have diagrams or images they reference to. It would be awesome to be able to attach some of these images to these highlights (just like you can add tags and notes). With these features it would really take this app to the next level. Thank you so much.
Developer Response 11/10/2020
Hi Danny! So great to hear you're enjoying Highlighted. 🤗Great suggestions! I'm happy to let you know that the ability to create highlights from photos is coming soon. The ability to attach images to highlights is planned for the near future as well. Stay tuned!Regarding the randomly resurfacing your highlights, I think the Highlighted iOS 14 widget can help you here. You can add the "random highlight" widget to your home screen, and it will display randomly selected highlights throughout the day. Feel free to contact me at damir.stuhec@gmail.com in case you need further help.Thanks a lot for your thoughtful review. It helps me understand your workflows and use-cases, which is very important in making Highlighted even better.Feel free to reach out with more feedback and ideas at any time. Enjoy! 😊
Actually FREE
09/22/2024

TheFoySauce
I love this app it’s simple, easy, and straightforward, but works great. I like that it automatically highlights the sentence. I also like that automatically finds the page number. I like that there is a note and tag function but that this app isn’t trying to be something that it isn’t. I love that it exports to markdown which is great for those obsidian note takers. Lastly and most importantly I love that it is actually free. Like this might me the only app on the App Store that is free and doesn’t have in-app purchases. Please keep it that way. If you want to add additional features that I have to pay for then great but thank you for keeping the rest of this free. Oh and also not having annoying ads… I literally recommended it to a friend right after saving my first quote.

Developer Response
Hey, I'm Damir, solo creator of Highlighted. Super happy to hear you're enjoying the app! What you see in the app today (and more to come) will remain completely FREE. I will add new "Pro" features in the near future, which will require a paid upgrade but the core will stay free forever.
Actually FREE
09/22/2024

TheFoySauce

I love this app it’s simple, easy, and straightforward, but works great. I like that it automatically highlights the sentence. I also like that automatically finds the page number. I like that there is a note and tag function but that this app isn’t trying to be something that it isn’t. I love that it exports to markdown which is great for those obsidian note takers. Lastly and most importantly I love that it is actually free. Like this might me the only app on the App Store that is free and doesn’t have in-app purchases. Please keep it that way. If you want to add additional features that I have to pay for then great but thank you for keeping the rest of this free. Oh and also not having annoying ads… I literally recommended it to a friend right after saving my first quote.
Developer Response 09/24/2024
Hey, I'm Damir, solo creator of Highlighted. Super happy to hear you're enjoying the app! What you see in the app today (and more to come) will remain completely FREE. I will add new "Pro" features in the near future, which will require a paid upgrade but the core will stay free forever.

• Liquid glass visual refresh • Book Statuses: mark books as Want to Read, Reading, or Finished • Smart Collections: auto-generated collections based on your book statuses • Manage collections: reorder, rename, delete, and see summaries at a glance • Sort your library: pick your preferred book order • Tags, elevated: tags and their management is now a first-class experience • Refresh book covers: app now periodically suggests latest covers • Long-press the Highlight button to reuse your last capture mode instantly • CMD+F keyboard shortcut to jump straight to search on macOS • Shared highlights now include book title and author • Favorites column added to CSV exports • Book details now show when you added the book • Highlight layout now flips correctly for RTL languages • Edge-to-edge camera and image views when creating highlights • Fixed landscape camera capture when portrait rotation lock is on • Share highlight images are now scrollable to support highlights of any length • Fixed widget showing “No highlights yet” for signed-out users

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