Second Reading

Now with optional iCloud sync

You read something great on your Kindle and highlighted it. Now what?

Second Reading imports the highlights you saved on your Kindle and gives them somewhere to live: a customizable Home Screen widget, a searchable library, and a quiet daily page worth returning to.

No account is needed. No analytics collected. Your library stays on your device — and on your other devices too, through your own iCloud, if you turn that on.

HOME SCREEN WIDGET Small, medium, or large. Rotates hourly or daily, in your choice of four typefaces. Tap a highlight to open it in the app. Show only your favorites if you would rather keep the rotation tight.

TODAY One highlight, full page, nothing competing for attention. Pull another whenever you like, mark a favorite, or share it.

YOUR LIBRARY Every book you have highlighted, sorted by title, author, or most recently read. Turn a book off to keep it out of the rotation without deleting anything — or turn off a single highlight and leave the rest of the book showing.

SEARCH Full-text search across everything you have imported, including books you have switched off.

RE-IMPORTING IS SAFE Import your clippings file as often as you like. Second Reading works out what is genuinely new, leaves the edits you have made alone, and asks which version to keep only in the rare case where it cannot tell.

QUOTES OF YOUR OWN Type in a line from a paper book and keep it alongside the rest.

BUILT FOR IPHONE AND IPAD One app, both devices, with a layout that uses the space it is given.

CROSS-DEVICE SYNC Off until you switch it on. Turn it on and your highlights, notes and favorites stay in step across your iPhone and iPad, through your own iCloud account — no server of ours in the middle.

PRIVACY Second Reading is privacy focused. There is no server, no account, no tracking, and no third-party SDK collecting anything. Nothing you import ever leaves your device unless you choose to sync with your iCloud account.

Free. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no advertising.

Second Reading is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Amazon. "Kindle" is used only to describe the highlights file the app reads.