What is Readwise?
Readwise makes it easy to access all of your highlights from places such as your Kindle, Instapaper, iBooks, and more. We then send you a daily email with some of those highlights, resurfacing the best parts of what you’ve read at the right time. This practice of easily reviewing your highlights consistently means that you'll actually remember and the things you've read, rather than having them disappear a couple weeks after finishing a book. In addition to all of the above, all of your reading notes will always be at your fingertips in our web app, where you can organize them with favoriting/tagging, search through them on the go, and use a variety of other features to get the most out of what you read.
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Readwise Reviews (2)
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Review Summary
Generated using AI from real user reviews
Readwise earns strong praise from users as an effective tool for retaining and revisiting information from books and articles.
Both reviewers highlight the core appeal: Readwise surfaces your highlights on a schedule that promotes long-term recall, helping users move past the common problem of highlighting passages and then forgetting them entirely. The Mastery feature and customizable frequency settings let you control how often specific highlights resurface. One user values this for exam prep; the other has integrated daily reviews into their morning routine and finds it beats checking email or social media.
Setup requires some attention, particularly with PDFs—one reviewer notes that copying and pasting highlights manually into Readwise's Freeform Input works more reliably than automatic syncing. The Mac iBooks integration appears smoother. Neither reviewer raises issues with cost, interface design, or ongoing bugs, and both rate the service highly after sustained use.
★★★★★
Thursday, April 7, 2022
“My Go-To App for Knowledge Retention I am currently studying…”
My Go-To App for Knowledge Retention I am currently studying for a major exam, and I must say that this app is awesome at bringing up the information based on your feedback/settings for each book and article that you import. Also, with the Mastery feature, that is definitely helping with the recall of information over time. I have found that it is best that you sync your information via their Readwise iBooks app that is installed on the Mac so that the highlights from your Books app, as well as any PDFs that you are reading (which I’m seeing works best with the latter if you simply a) highlight your PDFs while having the Readwise app active in your browser, then b) copy and paste those highlights, one by one, into Readwise’s Freeform Input area to ensure proper translation between the PDF and Readwise, but I digress…). If you are attempting to study for an exam, or even to recall what has been taught in a class from a book that you are reading, I highly recommend this app!
★★★★★
Thursday, April 7, 2022
“This app has changed my life This app and readwise…”
This app has changed my life This app and readwise in general has been an absolute game changer for me. I LOVE to read non-fiction but even though I often highlight, I very rarely go back and look at them. So I would read great books, take a lot of ideas from them, and then promptly forget everything I’ve read once I moved onto the next book. With readwise, I am reminded everyday of all these great ideas. I can star certain ones and adjust how frequently the highlights will appear from certain books and keep the info front of mind has helped a lot. I’ve used the service for a year now and it has become a treasured part of my morning routine. The app has made that even better bc now I don’t have to check my email and become distracted by something else. They even have a “feed” to endless scroll highlights which IMO is a much better way to spend my time than scrolling a FB feed. I highly recommend this service!!
