Readwise

Name: Readwise
Rating: 4.25 (20 reviews)
Author: http://readwise.io/

Use the Readwise Chrome Extension to sync your Kindle highlights and then review them daily.

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Readwise Chrome Extension helps you sync your Kindle highlights seamlessly, allowing you to revisit the best parts of your reading material with ease. By syncing your highlights to Readwise, you can review them daily via email, web, or mobile interface, ensuring you retain and get the most out of your ebooks and articles.

This extension simplifies the process of managing your reading insights and provides an effective way to reinforce key takeaways. Whether you're a casual reader or a knowledge enthusiast, Readwise enables a smarter, more efficient way to remember and utilize your highlights from Kindle books.

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Version:

3.1.1 Last updated: 2025-02-26

Creation date:

2023-07-09

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Permissions:

notifications
cookies
storage
alarms
contextMenus

Host permissions:

*://read.amazon.com/*
*://*.readwise.io/*

Size:

184.32K

Email:

te*****@readwise.io

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 2,256 ▲ 15

Other platforms

Readwise (v2.11.5)

282,839 4.64

(1,115)

Readwise (v2.8.0)

4,777 5.00

(8)

Publisher Change History

2024-10-02: Email was changed from he*****@readwise.io to te*****@readwise.io

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User reviews

Users praise Readwise for effectively consolidating and helping retain highlights from various platforms including Kindle, YouTube, and Twitter. Its spaced repetition system and integration with apps like Evernote and Obsidian are highly valued for improving knowledge retention. However, some users report issues such as confusion with multiple extensions, lack of support for email-imported Kindle books, and usability challenges accessing saved highlights. Despite these concerns, Readwise is widely regarded as a game-changing and essential tool for managing and reviewing reading content.

Pros

Helps consolidate and revisit highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, Twitter, and other sources in one place.
Offers effective spaced repetition and review tools to remember and retain important information from readings.
User-friendly interface with useful features like highlighting on the main website and in Reader without distorting the page.
Integration with various platforms like Evernote, Obsidian, and middlewares for easy export and usage of highlights.
Unique functions such as YouTube highlight feature that supports long-term memory from lectures and tutorials.

Cons

Some confusion or redundancy with setting up automatic Kindle highlights and having multiple extensions (web highlighter vs. this extension).
Does not detect books imported to Kindle via e-mail, limiting import completeness.
Usability issues reported, such as difficulty accessing highlights after creating them, making the app frustrating to use for some.
Uncertainty about the necessity of the extension for importing bookmarks, with some users suggesting simpler alternatives exist.

Recent reviews

What's the point? If you set up kindle highlights to automatically get uploaded, what is the purpose of this? Even worse, the Readwise Highlighter import directs you here to get this extension whether you have this one and the actual web highlighter installed. Useless.

Je*****, 2023-12-30

Love Readwise and especially Reader. Readwise: - Amazing to revise some of the most important knowledge I have gathered over the years Reader: - Best tool to gather new knowledge. Nice and user friendly. - Really like the option to highlight both in main website and in Reader so that the website is not distorted. - Love the Youtube highlight function. Whoever thought of this, thanks so much!!! Now youtube can build longterm memory from some of the best lectures and tutorials.

Pa*****, 2023-12-20

basically, it's very good, but it doesn't see books imported to kindle via e-mail.

Se*****, 2023-04-07

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Readwise requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

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Risk likelihood

Readwise is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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