Remember more of what you read.
Turn the passages that matter into a personal library you can search, revisit, and share. Point your camera at a book page, select the text, and save it with your notes, tags, and page number.
Keep your books organized, return to favorite ideas with reminders and widgets, and recap a book’s core ideas from your own highlights with Apple Intelligence.
CAPTURE
• Capture text with your camera or from photos in your library
• Select sentences and paragraphs with smart text recognition
• Automatically select text you’ve highlighted or underlined in a book
• Save multiple highlights from a page at once
• Detect page numbers and scan ISBN barcodes to add books
• Import highlights from Kindle or CSV files
• Import your book library from Goodreads or other CSV files
• Drag and drop images to capture highlights on iPad
ORGANIZE
• Build your personal bookshelf with collections and reading status
• Group highlights into chapters and browse them in reading order
• Add notes, tags, page numbers, and favorites
• Add emphasis with bold, italics, underline, and strikethrough
• Find relevant tags faster with smart suggestions
• Search your highlights and filter by book, collection, or tag
REVISIT
• Recap a book’s core ideas from your highlights with Apple Intelligence
• Rediscover saved passages with recurring highlight reminders
• Keep highlights on your Home Screen with widgets
• Start highlighting with Siri Shortcuts
• Capture and browse your highlights offline
SHARE & EXPORT
• Share highlights as beautiful quote cards
• Publish a book’s highlights as a web page anyone can read
• Export one book or your whole library
• Choose PDF, Markdown, CSV, RTF, or plain text
• Include notes, tags, and page numbers in your exports
FREE TO START
Capture and organize unlimited books and highlights for free. Highlighted+ adds automatic selection of marked text, Apple Intelligence recaps, Kindle and CSV highlight import, whole-library export, custom reminders, and more.
Apple Intelligence features depend on device, language, and system availability.
Selected as Apple’s App of the Day 6 times. Trusted by 160,000+ readers.
ABOUT ME
I'm Damir, an independent creator from Europe who loves to read. Say hello at damir.stuhec@gmail.com
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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.
Easily my favorite app on my iPhone now
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!
Great app!
Angel D A
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! 😊
Actually FREE
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.
• Recap a book’s core ideas from your highlights with Apple Intelligence.
• Fixed Home Screen widget not showing highlights in some cases.
• Voting for and submitting feature requests is now publicly available.
• General improvements and refinements.
Version 2026.9
The developer, Damir Stuhec, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
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Supported Features
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Larger Text
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Color Alone
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Information
Seller
Damir Stuhec
Size
75.3 MB
Category
Books
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.4 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Apple Vision Requires visionOS 2.4 or later.
Languages
English and 15 more
English, Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Traditional Chinese
