Refrain: Reread What Matters

You marked those passages because they mattered. Refrain brings a few back each day — imported seamlessly, read beautifully, entirely on your own devices.

Your Kindle highlights, back in your life.

You marked those passages because they mattered. Refrain brings a few of them back each day — seamlessly imported, beautifully set, and read entirely on your own devices.

THE DAILY RETURN

A few passages come back each day. Not a backlog. Not a reading assignment. A short deck, waiting for you when you have a minute: one you dog-eared opens it, and a rediscovery from a book you haven't visited in months closes it.

AND THEN YOU START TO NOTICE THE CONNECTIONS

Your passages aren't random. They're a record of what caught your attention — across books, years, authors, and ideas. Refrain reads your library on your device and finds what runs through it.

THREADS — the lines of thought running through your books. You may have been thinking about something longer than you realized.

RHYMES — passages that resonate by meaning, not by matching words. Somewhere in your library, you already said this.

SEARCH BY MEANING — search finds your words. Rhymes find your meaning. Search for "paying attention" and Refrain can find passages about attention that never use those words.

ECHOES — the deck closes with a line from the wider canon that resonates with what you've been reading. If there's no good Echo, there is no Echo. A quiet day is better than a false connection.

INSIGHTS — your thoughts belong here, too. Keep them with the passage or Thread that sparked them.

GO DEEPER — some passages deserve more than a highlight. Refrain gathers the passage, your note, its Rhymes, and its Thread into a research brief. You decide who reads it.

Every count in the free app is real. You'll see what Refrain found before you pay a cent.

IMPORT IS PLUMBING. IT JUST WORKS.

Sign in to Amazon inside Refrain and your Kindle highlights come across with their books, notes, and real covers. Every book gets a cover, even the ones that never had one. Older Kindle, or sideloaded books? Bring over your My Clippings.txt file. No duplicate passages. No fiddling.

A LITTLE REFRAIN, RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE.

One passage a day on your Home Screen. Your library on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. Your passages and Insights stay in sync through your own iCloud. And once your library is imported, everything important works offline.

YOUR READING LIFE BELONGS TO YOU.

There is no Refrain account and no Refrain server. Your library lives on your devices and syncs through your own private iCloud. Every feature that reads your passages runs on your device. No tracking. No analytics. That's not a privacy policy — it's the architecture.

ONE PURCHASE. YOURS.

Refrain is complete for free: Kindle import, My Clippings import, your whole library, exact-text search, the daily return, iCloud sync, the widget, and Apple Watch. The $4.99 unlock adds the discovery layer — Threads, Rhymes, Search by meaning, Echoes, Insights, and Go Deeper — with future discovery features included. Never a subscription.

You already did the hard part. You found the passages worth keeping. Refrain gives them a way to come back — and a way to show you what you couldn't see the first time.