Nous: Reading Tracker & Notes
Book Journal, Log & Highlights
Free · In‑App Purchases
TRACK READING THOUGHTS IN REAL TIME
• Read actively by taking notes and thoughts during a session
• Type or dictate your session book notes, and capture mid-session thoughts without breaking flow
• Add highlights and book quotes by typing or scanning the book with OCR
• Struggle to remember what you read? Actively recall previous reading sessions to enhance memory
YOUR LIBRARY
• Organize your books: includes TBR, Next, Reading, Finished, Paused, and Did Not Finish (DNF)
• Search by title or author, scan an ISBN, or library import from other apps
• Track print by pages, ebooks by percentage location, audiobooks by listening time
• Categorize books with personal tags
• Sync your library on iCloud — access on all your devices
• Connect to Kindle for seamless highlight capture
DON'T JUST RECORD — REFLECT
• Each book has a session history so you can see progress over time
• Finishing a book opens a reflection: rate it, write a summary or book review, and see your reading pace charted over time
• Half-star ratings supported
• Weekly, monthly, and yearly views show what you've actually read
• Search highlights and session notes to look back on your thinking
ENHANCE MOTIVATION AND REACH YOUR READING GOALS
• Keep your daily streak going — or don't — streaks are optional
• Set daily or yearly reading goals: build a consistent habit and hit yearly book challenges
• Track your focus and energy levels over time
• Homescreen widgets: streaks, yearly reading, and reading goal
INTEGRATE AND EXPORT YOUR NOTES
• Sync with Obsidian to upload book notes, session summaries, and highlights to your vault
• Export sessions immediately after they occur
• Save all your sessions and export as a whole book, all your notes and reflections
• Backup and restore: make sure your notes are always safe. Includes optional iCloud backup
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Ratings & Reviews
What's New in Nous: Reading Tracker & Notes
- Garden Tab: every highlight, thought, note and reflection you have written, gathered in one place. Filter by book, tag or colour.
- Full search across notes: one search across all notes and highlights. Find an idea, a thought or a passage without remembering which book it was in. Optionally review past sessions, highlights, and notes.
- Minor visual fixes and improvements across the app.
If you're enjoying the app or have an improvement to suggest, please let us know! Message support or add feedback in-app via settings.
The developer, Caelan Mitchell, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Caelan Mitchell
- Size
- 32.2 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Horror/Fear Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Sexual Content or Nudity
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Nous Plus — Yearly $29.99
- Nous Plus — Monthly $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Caelan Mitchell
