Clew is the fastest, easiest way to save passages, quotes, and notes from the things you read, watch, and listen to, so you can start discovering connections between everything you save.
Remember the last time you wrote in the margin of a novel, only to finish the book and never see that thought again? How many times have you clipped parts of articles, songs, and podcasts and saved them to a note somewhere, hidden and forgotten?
Clew is a single place for all your highlights, clips, and favorite lines—stored, organized, and searchable in one place. It's a commonplace book that you'll always have with you, easily searchable and synced between all your devices.
Clew helps you connect thoughts across sources, centuries, and media types through powerful tagging and intelligent recommendations.
Start discovering connections between everything you've saved from:
- Books and poems you read
- Movies and TV shows you watch
- Podcasts and audiobooks you listen to
- Songs you love
- Articles you read online or on paper
Simply copy-and-paste text into the app, use the Share extension, or scan book pages and documents with your device's camera to save a new highlight.
Clew makes it easy to sort and search your highlights by source (author, website, etc.), date saved, publication year, genre, keywords, and more.
Build your collection, and watch as you start finding connections and patterns across books, artists, decades, genres, languages, and more.
This is your new favorite place to store, sort, and share clippings from all your favorite media, whether it's a mind-blowing plot twist in a novel, a hilarious quote in a movie or play, a devastating song lyric, a grand discovery in an article, or simply a quirky adjective you can't wait to use in your own writing.
This is Clew.
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New Widgets! Undo/redo! Bulk highlight actions!
New and Expanded Widgets
- If there's one specific highlight you want to display permanently on your home screen, now you can use the Specific Highlight widget.
- Display a book’s cover image or album artwork from one of your saved sources.
- Add a list of up to 5 highlights in one widget along with their images.
- Explore more customization options in the app!
Undo/Redo
- If you accidentally deleted something, just shake to undo. No more needing to go into your backups to restore it. You can also tap the buttons that conveniently appear when you delete an item.
Other improvements:
- Batch operations: Select multiple highlights to share, delete, or tag at once.
- Added a search bar so that it’s easier to select tags, sources, and specific highlights in both new and old widget types.
- When you're sharing a highlight as rich text and the highlight contains Markdown, Clew will process the Markdown as rich text, too.
- Improved favicon image quality.
Bug fixes:
- Fixed widget sort bug that didn't actually show the latest highlights when configured in "latest" mode.
- Fixed highlight list sorting.
Version 1.4.2
The developer, Thomas Twardzik, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary based, for example, on the features you use or your age. Learn More
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Supported Features
VoiceOver
Voice Control
Dark Interface
Differentiate Without Colour Alone
Reduced Motion
Information
Provider
Thomas Twardzik
Size
26.8 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.