# Excerpt - The Book Highlighter

> Scan books and compile notes

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1447907126](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1447907126)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1447907126`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ryan Maksymic
- **Category:** Productivity
- **Rating:** 4.80 / 5 (36 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.2.1
- **Last updated:** 2022-07-02
- **First published:** 2019-01-31
- **Size:** 46 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/excerpt-the-book-highlighter/id1447907126)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.ryanmaksymic.com/excerpt-privacy-policy](https://www.ryanmaksymic.com/excerpt-privacy-policy)

## Description

Beautiful, clean, and simple – Excerpt is the ideal note-taking app for students, researchers, and book lovers alike.

Scan your highlights, add notes, share, and export.

– FEATURES –
• Use your device's camera to instantly grab meaningful quotes and important images from the pages of your favourites books
• Add notes to your excerpts, and organize them by page number and chapter
• Save unlimited excerpts from unlimited books
• Share important excerpts with friends and colleagues
• Export all of a book's excerpts into a convenient PDF file
• Customize your highlighter color – yellow, blue, green, or pink
• Excerpt will always be free to download and will never show you ads

## Rankings

- #194,897 — Overall
- #7 — highlighter

## Review summary

Users praise Excerpt for its easy, minimalist design and strong OCR that makes capturing and organizing book excerpts, notes, images, and page references straightforward. Reviews emphasize solid book-level organization and usefulness for researchers, along with positive developer responsiveness. A common improvement request is adding customizable, topic-based sections within a book to better organize highlights. Some note navigation could be improved in long books. Overall, the app is highly regarded for highlighting and researching from physical and digital sources.

### Pros

- Easy to use with a minimalist design that is quick to learn.
- Powerful OCR/text capture for excerpts from print and digital sources.
- Excellent organization by book, with the ability to add notes, images, page numbers, and sections; highlights are grouped by book.
- Very helpful for researchers and notes workflow; supports cross-book review and organization.
- Responsive and supportive developer who follows up on suggestions.

### Cons

- Desire for customizable, topic-based sections within each book (currently limited to dropdown-style categories).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1447907126)