Readwise

Resurfacing your best highlights from Kindle, iBooks & more

4.8•20 reviews•

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4.8•20 reviews•

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Readwise Launches

Readwise ReaderThe all-in-one reading app for power readers

Launched on December 16th, 2022

ReadwiseThe best way to remember your ebooks & articles

Launched on August 30th, 2018

Readwise BetaEffortlessly rediscover and organize your Kindle highlights

Launched on September 25th, 2017

4.8

Based on 20 reviews

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Reviewers largely see Readwise as a practical reading and knowledge tool that helps them revisit highlights, remember what they read, and turn scattered notes into a usable system. People repeatedly praise its spaced-repetition rhythm, broad syncing across reading sources, and Reader app for saving, reading, and even listening to articles. Some also value downstream integrations like Notion and its API. Complaints are limited but specific: a forced-feeling onboarding flow, gaps between Reader and core highlight workflows, and weak support for Chinese note-taking.

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Pros

knowledge management (5)

reading experience improvement (4)

highlight management (3)

integration with multiple sources (3)

user-friendly (3)

AI features (2)

daily reminders (2)

spaced repetition (2)

unified reading experience (2)

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•4 reviews

I'm a student and product manager in Taiwan. I've been using Readwise Reader for last couple months, and it's 200% improved my reading experience. The entire product puts efforts on solving people's info-consuming-related pain points, such as info overload, distraction, etc, and its first-class UX tackle them in such an elegant manner. However, it'll be great if Reader app can be fully integrated with the highlight feature in original Readwise application, so that I don't have to switch between two platform and prevent from such distraction as a reader. Also, note-taking in Chinese is essential for me but it isn't will supported in the current version. Overall it's a great product, and a bold move as a tech company in current era. Can't wait for future updates!

What's great

user-friendly (3)reading experience improvement (4)info overload management (1)

What needs improvement

lack of full integration between apps (1)limited support for non-English note-taking (1)

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•7 reviews

Readwise is an integration tool for content consumption first and foremost. It allows consuming content from the best app we like to and is able to bring in our highlights and annotations to a unified interface that can be consumed from their apps (Readwise and Reader) but also relayed downstream to note taking tools and deeper introspection. It suits diverse set of learning workflows and comes a solid API. Though the main job appears to be a flashcards app like anki using spaced repetition and interleaving with the twist of being able to make your notes around your highlights on content consumed from a host of popular services, I find it as a core architecture piece of modern knowledge work and learning. Books can be read on Kindle, Apple Books, Libby and a host of other sources and their highlights can surface up in Readwise. Tweets can be saved and preserved for later consumption or referncing. Audio podcasts can be saved via apps like Snipd, and newsletters can be consumed via email feeds and RSS all in one fluid interface. Their reading app, Reader is new in the market but is becoming tightly integrated with Readwise and i am exciting about their future development. It is one of those services that is hard to switch off once you get it rolling, simply because it becomes a critical infrastructure piece in personal knowledge management.

What's great

integration with multiple sources (3)knowledge management (5)highlight management (3)spaced repetition (2)

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51 views3yr ago

•1 review

I’ve started my morning reviewing my Readwise highlights every day for the past (checks app) 1,764 days. According to my phone, I spend an average of 2.5 hours a day (!) in Readwise Reader, where I send everything I’m remotely serious about reading. As a writer by trade and a scholar by training, I’m telling you without exaggeration that Readwise is the single most beneficial tool I have ever encountered for thinking with, period.

What's great

knowledge management (5)highlight management (3)reading experience improvement (4)

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36 views2yr ago

•4 reviews

What's great

user-friendly (3)reading experience improvement (4)info overload management (1)

What needs improvement

lack of full integration between apps (1)limited support for non-English note-taking (1)

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57 views3yr ago

•7 reviews

What's great

integration with multiple sources (3)knowledge management (5)highlight management (3)spaced repetition (2)

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•1 review

What's great

knowledge management (5)highlight management (3)reading experience improvement (4)

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