Avid: Reading Companion Apple

Avid: Reading Companion

Book journal, notes & chat.

Overview

Rating:
4.80 +1
(6)
Version:
1.3
Last updated: 2026-08-04
Ranking
#407,365 37,366
Overall

Features & Capabilities

Reading should leave more than a finished page. Avid keeps your highlights, asks the next question, and connects the ideas running through your library.

You read serious books. You think while you read them. And then, a few weeks later, the thinking is gone. The argument you found convincing, the objection you had at page 200, the connection to something you read last year: all of it fades. The highlights are still there. The thinking isn't. That is what Avid is for. Avid is an AI reading companion for people who read to think, not to finish. It turns reading into conversation, conversation into insight, and insight into an archive that gets more useful the longer you keep it. HOW IT WORKS Tell Avid what you're reading. Scan a cover, search by title, or bring in highlights you already have. Avid works from the whole book, not a handful of isolated passages. Then have a real conversation about it. Not a summary, not a quiz. A discussion that presses on assumptions, names the tension you were circling, and asks what a well-read friend would ask. Type, or talk out loud. Over time it compounds. Avid remembers what you have discussed and surfaces connections between books you read months apart: the memoir and the philosophy text arriving at the same conclusion about identity, the history and the business book sharing a model of power you never noticed. WHAT MAKES AVID DIFFERENT Cross-book synthesis. Avid finds the thread between books you never thought to compare, because it holds your whole reading life at once. Depth instead of answers. Avid does not summarize and stop. It goes further with each exchange. Memory that carries. A thought from three weeks ago comes back when today's book needs it. A letter every Monday. A short piece of writing about your own week of reading, drawn from what you actually thought. From the Margins. Books recommended from your highlights and your arguments, not from a bestseller list. BUILT FOR SERIOUS READERS

  • Import highlights from Kindle, Apple Books, Readwise, and Kobo
  • Scan a cover to begin in seconds
  • Voice conversations for thinking out loud
  • Insight cards that keep your strongest thoughts
  • Wrap-ups that capture where a conversation landed
  • The Reading Year: what you read, and what it did to you Avid is for the reader who closes a book wanting to go further into it, not straight on to the next one. Avid is a subscription. Current pricing and terms appear on this page and in the app before anything is charged

Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:
Pascal Okafor
Rating:
4.80
(6)
1 new ratings
Version:
1.3 Last updated: 2026-08-04
Version code:
889177684
Creation date:
2026-01-25
Compatible devices:
Size:
150.80MB
URLs:
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Full description:
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Source:
Apple Apps Store
Data ingested on:
2026-08-06
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Contact the developer

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Developed by:
Pascal Okafor
Apple Apps Store
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/avid-reading-companion/id6757624905
Website:
https://www.avid.chat

User Reviews

For better or worse, AI Chatbots do not have access to books and are therefore unable to actually discuss them.
by Ye*****, 2026-07-11

This app has become my vade mecum! I totally love this app and use it daily
by To*****, 2026-07-04
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