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Mark a passage in seven colours, write a note on it, and take it to ten other tools.

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Mark a passage

Select text in the reader. A small toolbar appears over the selection. On a desktop, the keyboard is faster once that toolbar is up: Auto-highlight is the Readwise habit: drag across a sentence and it is highlighted when you let go, with no toolbar step. Hold Option or Alt to drag without marking. It is off until you turn it on, it is remembered per browser, and it is desktop only. On a phone there are no hotkeys and no auto-highlight. A selection raises an action strip instead, and tapping Note marks the passage immediately, then opens a drawer for you to type in.

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Seven colours

yellow · green · blue · pink · orange · purple · teal The colour you used last is remembered in that browser, so a run of highlights in one sitting stays one colour without you choosing each time. A highlight can also carry a note, tags, a pin, and its own share link.

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Where they collect

Everything you have marked lands on your highlights page, which mixes three kinds of thing: quotes you highlighted, annotations, and standalone notes. Four layouts are available — headlines, list, cards and moodboard — and it opens in moodboard.

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What syncs, and the one thing that does not

Signed in, your highlights and your notes sync. They are stored with your account and pulled down on any device you sign in to.
Highlight tags are device-local. There is nowhere on the server to put them, and they are dropped on the way back down. Open the same highlight on a new device and the passage, the note and the colour are all there — the tags are not. If a tag matters to you long-term, give the highlight a colour as well.
Signed out, highlights live in that one browser, filed under a short hash of the article URL. Clearing site data clears them. Signing in is what moves them somewhere durable.

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Take them somewhere else

Export reaches ten destinations. Some copy to your clipboard in the shape the destination expects, some download a file.
Export is not a paid feature. Every destination above works on a free account, with no upgrade prompt anywhere in the path.
The export dialog asks for a scope: Shown or All. It opens on Shown, so a filtered view exports what you are looking at and never leaks the highlights you filtered out. There is also a separate quote-image export that puts a single passage on your clipboard as a PNG.

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Bring them in

Nine sources import: Kindle (My Clippings.txt), Snipd, Medium, Hypothesis, Weava, Diigo, Wallabag, Airtable, and plain CSV. Files cap at 25 MB. Two asymmetries are worth knowing before you plan a migration. Readwise is an export destination but not an import source. Kindle is an import source but not an export destination. And an import is read and written by your browser — it lands in the device you ran it on.

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Questions

No. All ten destinations, the per-article exports, and the full-account archive in Settings → Export are free.
They are kept. Deleting a library item does not delete the notes and highlights you made against it.
Yes. A highlight can become a short link of its own. Anyone holding that link can read the passage, so treat creating one as publishing it.
Yes. Highlights in an imported file remember their page, and highlights in a book remember their section, so they reattach where you made them.

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Next

Your library

Where the article itself goes, and how to file it.

Finding things again

Your highlights and notes are searchable text too.

Sharing what you read

Snippets, snapshots, and what a share link really means.

Ask your library

Put a question to everything you have marked.
Last modified on September 13, 2026