Clew: Highlights and Notes

Books, Web, Film, TV, Podcasts

Free · Designed for iPad

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 features: - Share Highlights: Quickly share your highlights as text or Markdown to friends and other apps. - Shortcuts Integration: Create highlights via the iOS Shortcuts app and Siri.   and images. Much more to come! - Huge performance improvements: Even with thousands of items in your collection, lists and detail views will load quickly, scroll smoothly, and respond instantly. Other improvements: - Fixed potential sync issue between devices. - Better grouped views for browsing your content by people, websites, and albums. - Scanner improvements, with better paragraph detection, margin handling, and smart hyphen removal. - Quick navigation menus in detail views so that you can jump from a detail view to another list view right from the top menu bar. - Smart image quality enhancement system. - Better author/artist management with auto-matching and creation. - Year published sort option for books. - Selectable ISBN on book details.

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 .

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    • Provider
      • Thomas Twardzik
    • Size
      • 10.2 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.
      • Apple Vision
        Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
    • Languages
      • English
    • Age Rating
      4+
    • Copyright
      • © 2025 Thomas Twardzik