
Clew: Highlights and Notes 4+
Books, Web, Film, TV, Podcasts
Thomas Twardzik
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Clew is the fastest, easiest way to save passages, quotes, and notes from the things you read and watch, 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.
Even better, 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 physical 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 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.
What’s New
Version 1.0.6
- WIDGET CUSTOMIZATION: Personalize your home screen and lock screen widgets with font styles, text color, background color, and more. With widget themes, each of your widgets can have a different style.
- BACKUP AND RESTORE get new features: Your complete database is already backed up automatically once per day. You can also manually back up at any time. Now, it's easier than ever to completely restore from a backup. Or, choose Compare with Backup to compare your current data with any backup so that you can easily restore specific items if you accidentally deleted something.
- BETTER SCANNER: The scanner continues to improve, with better handling of paragraph breaks and punctuation.
- ACCESSIBILITY: The app's UI components are now more accessible with VoiceOver.
More improvements:
- The add highlight button is now conveniently visible on all views.
- Widgets are more interactive—you can tap a book title or author name to quickly open that page.
- You can filter highlights by untagged or tagged only, in addition to showing all.
- The web search for autofilling new book information has better, more comprehensive results from multiple sources. It also now uses a work's original publication year instead of the specific edition's publication year.
- When editing a highlight, tapping Add Note will automatically focus the note text editor, and tapping Add Tags will automatically show the select tags sheet.
- The plus (+) button on widgets is optional now. You can add/remove it by tapping and holding on a widget and choosing Edit Widget.
- There's a new, convenient Add Source button when you're viewing a highlight that doesn't have one yet.
Ratings and Reviews
App Privacy
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.
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Information
- Seller
- Thomas Twardzik
- Size
- 7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.6 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.6 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.6 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.3 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2025 Thomas Twardzik
- Price
- Free