Readwise is an education app developed by Readwise.
Download Statistics
Readwise has been downloaded 340 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 2.9 thousand times.
User Ratings
Readwise is rated 4.52 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 1.1 thousand ratings.
App Information
Readwise is FREE to download. The APK download size is 36.62 MB. The latest version available is 2.26.1. The last update was on November 26, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Readwise requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play June 2021.
Description
Readwise helps you get the most out of what you read by making it fun & easy to revisit your highlights from all your favorite reading platforms in one place.
Quickly synchronize your highlights from Kindle, Apple Books, Instapaper, Pocket, Medium, Goodreads, and even paper books. Then start building a daily review habit using the app and daily email. By reviewing your highlights every day, you'll retain dramatically more and you'll finally stop forgetting all the details from books you just finished!
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“Readwise is my favorite new service this year. Save highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, and now tweets... one of the best long-term personal learning tools I’ve come across.” — Caleb Hicks
“Besides my Kindle, Readwise has been the most influential tech for improving my reading process.” — Blake Reichmann
“If you use Kindle or Instapaper or just enjoy keeping and reading highlights, please sign up to Readwise. It will become one of your cherished services.” — Christopher Galtenberg
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ACTUALLY USE YOUR HIGHLIGHTS
Highlighting is great, but why bother if you're never going to see any of your highlights again? Readwise makes it easy to quickly liberate all your highlights into one place, ensuring that you'll actually see and use them, including highlights from:
• Amazon Kindle
• Apple iBooks
• Instapaper
• Pocket
• Medium
• Goodreads
• Twitter
• Physical Books (using your phone camera)
• Manual Input
• CSV Upload
STOP FORGETTING WHAT YOU READ
How often do you finish a book, only to forget the key ideas two weeks later? We don't remember things by just reading them once.
Readwise solves this problem using scientifically proven learning techniques called Spaced Repetition and Active Recall. Readwise resurfaces the right highlights at the right times using a daily email and an app. Readwise even makes it possible to convert your best highlights into flashcards for added retention.
TAG, NOTE, SEARCH, AND ORGANIZE
With your highlights all in one place, Readwise enables you to organize and connect these ideas in new ways. Use search to find a highlight instantly; use tag to organize highlights within your library; use notes to add your own annotations.
HIGHLIGHT PAPER BOOKS
Readwise also makes it possible to take highlights from your physical books and papers using your phone’s camera. Just snap a pic, highlight with your finger, and have your favorite highlights saved forever.
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If you are not already a Readwise subscriber, you can get started immediately with a 30-day free trial with no credit card upfront. At the end of the trial, you will not be charged unless you choose to subscribe to Readwise Full or Readwise Lite. Price may vary by location. Manage your subscription from your dashboard.
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Support: Check out readwise.io/faq or email us at hello@readwise.io
Privacy Policy: https://readwise.io/privacy
Terms of Service: https://readwise.io/tos
Recent changes: You can now listen to your Daily Review!
Chat with your Highlights! — Ask any question about what you've read, find any highlight effortlessly (it's like superpowered search).
Also: • Readwise MCP server for use with Claude, etc • “Find Similar Highlights” button • New Craft Docs & Apple Notes exports • Rebuilt Notion & Roam exports • Bug fixes: daily review, highlight adding, tweet saves, and more.
For much much more, check out our weekly changelog: docs.readwise.io/changelog
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Incredible app, well worth the price. Finally, I can retain all the highlights from everything I read.
★★★★☆Gal Benzur· May 8, 2025
Got it for the highlight backup... wow daily review and web highlight/reader... just so much functionality that always works. Dunno if I'd pay with the non-legacy pricing though :/ twice the money for being able to take notes is wild
★★★★★K. L.· Sep 19, 2025
I love the quote photo feature, but after I save it it gets added to a random folder in my phone. Can you please add the ability to choose where those photos get saved? Or add a readwise folder? I would like to be able to open up a folder and see all of my saved quote photos. Constant updates and features added. Great price for the subscription. A valuable service.
★★★★★Linda Taggart· Jun 26, 2025
I adore this app! I actually recommended it to my book group. The thing I love most is how it keeps me engaging with what I read in the past. This way the books don't just disappear from my memory.
★★☆☆☆Nikita Ostrovsky· Sep 5, 2025
The most annoying onboarding flow I've seen in a while. Where is the Google account integration that Read wise has in the Web version? Why do I have to specify books for supplemental highlights? Just let me use the damn app!
★★☆☆☆pink green· Jul 10, 2024
I really wanted to love this app (and Reader) but good luck reading even basic Wikipedia articles in Reader. It'll display a couple paragraphs and no images. Forget about more complex pages. Even if you report parsing issues for a page they still don't fix it weeks later. College CS students could fix these in a day. Every web page you try to read in Reader you need to consistently check the original page to know if you're missing anything. I really wanted to love this, but it's unusable.
★★☆☆☆R L· Apr 15, 2024
Still only showing highlights from the same few books, no matter the frequency configuration... It's been a couple of months now....
★☆☆☆☆JT· Aug 12, 2024
Very annoying sign up experience - forcing me to add books with no explanation, and none of the books I wanted to add were even available?
★☆☆☆☆Richard A· Aug 15, 2025
Be aware with exports. I like the app as a point product. However if you sync to a third party: if you pause your subscription, on reactivation all pages are reset 🤦♀️ this reset causes duplicates in your destination 😳 Clearly sync is stopped if the account is paused, however page IDs should persist. After months of explaining its clear they don't understand the issue they are causing
Google Play Rankings for Readwise
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Technologies used by Readwise
Readwise is requesting 51 permissions and is using 1 libraries.
Permissions
Development tools
test access to protected storage
Your personal information
read calendar events plus confidential information,
read your contacts,
add or modify calendar events and send email to guests without owners' knowledge
view network connections,
view Wi-Fi connections,
download files without notification,
full network access,
Google Play billing service,
Google Play license check,
receive data from Internet
Storage
modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Phone calls
read phone status and identity
Hardware controls
take pictures and videos,
change your audio settings,
record audio,
control vibration
System tools
run at startup,
draw over other apps,
prevent phone from sleeping
Each subscription will automatically renew 3 days before the expiration date for
the same time period. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time before the renewal.
