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Readwise

App Store·EducationFree + IAP4.81 (1,510)launched 6.3y agoapp updated 7d agocharts in 3 countries
Scout Score
13

Readwise generates an estimated $2k–$13k/month in revenue from 4k–15k downloads/month on the App Store, according to AppCurrents estimates (updated 2026-08-02).

Estimates updated 02.08.2026 · How we estimate · Ranges reflect model confidence, not exact figures.
Est. revenue / month$2k–$13k
Est. downloads / month4k–15k
Estimate confidencelow
PricingFree + IAP
Rating4.81 ★ (1,510 ratings)
CategoryEducation
Released18.04.2020
App last updated28.07.2026
PlatformiOS
Est. downloads / mo
4k–15k
Est. revenue / mo
$2k–$13k
Rating velocity / day
4 4
Chart velocity
Peak rank
Days tracked

Modeled monthly estimate · rating velocity · low confidence

About

Readwise helps you get the most out of what you read by making it fun & easy to revisit your highlights from all your favorite reading platforms in one place. Quickly synchronize your highlights from Kindle, Apple Books, Instapaper, Pocket, Medium, Goodreads, and even paper books. Then start building a daily review habit using the app and daily email. By reviewing your highlights every day, you'…

Trends & analysis

Chart rank trend

US · overall
Collecting rank historyno snapshots so far. Fills in twice daily.

Why it's surfacing

Scout 13
Momentum
6
Newness
3
Breakout
0

Ratings & velocity

★ 0 in window
Total ratings
2k1k
Jun 5Jul 24
New ratings / day
40
Jun 6Jul 24

Rating distribution

96% positive · 2k ratings
5
90%
4
6%
3
2%
2
0%
1
2%

Geographic reach

best rank · 3 storefronts
de
#89 category
tw
#90 category
in
#98 category

Revenue & downloads trend

ARPU $1
Est. revenue / mo · $6k
$8k$0
Jun 5Aug 2
Est. downloads / mo · 7k
7k246
Jun 5Aug 2

In-app purchases

8 tiers
Readwise Lite Monthly$5
Readwise Lite Monthly$7
Readwise Full Monthly Plan$9
Readwise Full Monthly$13
Readwise Lite Yearly$53
Readwise Lite Yearly$67
Readwise Full Yearly$95
Readwise Full Yearly$120

Update history

4 updates tracked
  • v3.4.07d ago

    (We've fixed many of the issues you all have reported in the new Readwise design: from Mastery cards to Share images to typography issues to frequency tuning and much much more. Please keep any feedback you have coming!) Welcome to Readwise 2.0! We've rebuilt the entire app from the ground up: completely refreshed design, smoother animations, and much much faster everywhere. • Daily Review: redesigned with swipeable cards and a new completion screen • Capturing highlights: snap a page with your camera, type one in, or just speak it out loud • Search: completely revamped and much faster • Ghostreader, Chat with Highlights, and Audio Reviews, all in new (easier to find) homes • Literally hundreds of bug fixes and small experience improvements Your account, highlights, streak, and settings carry over automatically. Previously: Themed Connections — We launched a new feature called Themed Connections. By default, you’ll receive a batch of highlights exploring a specific theme or idea each Saturday. This theme will be unique to your highlights and span multiple sources. Since starting Readwise, we’ve heard from thousands of you that one of the most delightful part of reviewing your highlights is the unexpected connections found across sources. This feature supercharges that process. You can now Chat with your Highlights! Ask any question about what you've read, find any highlight effortlessly (it's like superpowered search), and find connections across highlights. This is the biggest new feature to Readwise in over a year, though we still intend to extensively improve it and build even more AI-powered features on top of this base :) You can access Chat from the main Review screen in the app. You'll now also notice a "Find Similar Highlights" button on every highlight you see in Readwise. Hitting this button will quickly pull up semantically related highlights from other books/articles/papers you've highlighted, hopefully sparking unexpected connections. We've wanted to build this feature since we started Readwise 7+ years ago, so excited to share it's finally possible and here :) We also launched a Readwise MCP server, for chatting with your highlights directly from Claude and other apps. And of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app. You can see all of our latest weekly improvements to Readwise/Reader at our changelog at docs.readwise.io/changelog :)

  • v3.3.210d ago

    Welcome to Readwise 2.0! We've rebuilt the entire app from the ground up: completely refreshed design, smoother animations, and much much faster everywhere. • Daily Review: redesigned with swipeable cards and a new completion screen • Capturing highlights: snap a page with your camera, type one in, or just speak it out loud • Search: completely revamped and much faster • Ghostreader, Chat with Highlights, and Audio Reviews, all in new (easier to find) homes • Literally hundreds of bug fixes and small experience improvements Your account, highlights, streak, and settings carry over automatically. Previously: Themed Connections — We launched a new feature called Themed Connections. By default, you’ll receive a batch of highlights exploring a specific theme or idea each Saturday. This theme will be unique to your highlights and span multiple sources. Since starting Readwise, we’ve heard from thousands of you that one of the most delightful part of reviewing your highlights is the unexpected connections found across sources. This feature supercharges that process. You can now Chat with your Highlights! Ask any question about what you've read, find any highlight effortlessly (it's like superpowered search), and find connections across highlights. This is the biggest new feature to Readwise in over a year, though we still intend to extensively improve it and build even more AI-powered features on top of this base :) You can access Chat from the main Review screen in the app. You'll now also notice a "Find Similar Highlights" button on every highlight you see in Readwise. Hitting this button will quickly pull up semantically related highlights from other books/articles/papers you've highlighted, hopefully sparking unexpected connections. We've wanted to build this feature since we started Readwise 7+ years ago, so excited to share it's finally possible and here :) We also launched a Readwise MCP server, for chatting with your highlights directly from Claude and other apps. And of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app. You can see all of our latest weekly improvements to Readwise/Reader at our changelog at docs.readwise.io/changelog :)

  • v3.3.113d ago

    Welcome to Readwise 2.0! We've rebuilt the entire app from the ground up: completely refreshed design, smoother animations, and much much faster everywhere. • Daily Review: redesigned with swipeable cards and a new completion screen • Capturing highlights: snap a page with your camera, type one in, or just speak it out loud • Search: completely revamped and much faster • Ghostreader, Chat with Highlights, and Audio Reviews, all in new (easier to find) homes • Literally hundreds of bug fixes and small experience improvements Your account, highlights, streak, and settings carry over automatically. Previously: Themed Connections — We launched a new feature called Themed Connections. By default, you’ll receive a batch of highlights exploring a specific theme or idea each Saturday. This theme will be unique to your highlights and span multiple sources. Since starting Readwise, we’ve heard from thousands of you that one of the most delightful part of reviewing your highlights is the unexpected connections found across sources. This feature supercharges that process. You can now Chat with your Highlights! Ask any question about what you've read, find any highlight effortlessly (it's like superpowered search), and find connections across highlights. This is the biggest new feature to Readwise in over a year, though we still intend to extensively improve it and build even more AI-powered features on top of this base :) You can access Chat from the main Review screen in the app. You'll now also notice a "Find Similar Highlights" button on every highlight you see in Readwise. Hitting this button will quickly pull up semantically related highlights from other books/articles/papers you've highlighted, hopefully sparking unexpected connections. We've wanted to build this feature since we started Readwise 7+ years ago, so excited to share it's finally possible and here :) We also launched a Readwise MCP server, for chatting with your highlights directly from Claude and other apps. And of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app. You can see all of our latest weekly improvements to Readwise/Reader at our changelog at docs.readwise.io/changelog :)

  • v2.28.13mo ago

    We fixed a bug with the camera autofocusing when using the OCR feature. NEW! Themed Connections — We launched a new experimental feature called Themed Connections. By default, you’ll receive a batch of highlights exploring a specific theme or idea each Saturday. This theme will be unique to your highlights and span multiple sources. Since starting Readwise, we’ve heard from thousands of you that one of the most delightful part of reviewing your highlights is the unexpected connections found across sources. This feature supercharges that process. Previously: We fixed a glitch where Chat with Documents could throw a websocket error for some users, as well as a glitch with the manage subscription button. We launched an integration with Capacities, allowing you to sync all of your highlights to Capacities seamlessly. We also launched an Apple Notes integration: you can now export your Readwise highlights to Apple Notes (although only from a mac desktop/laptop device). We also launched new and improved (completely rebuilt) versions of our Notion and Roam exports, that should work a lot more reliably and better data. Many improvements to the Readwise API, that allows developers to build integrations on top of your Readwise highlights. We fixed a gnarly issue with the "save highlights via camera" feature where the camera wouldn't focus properly! We also fixed an issue where hitting the "find similar highlights" button, then returning to reviewing your highlights after, would stop saving your review progress. Finally, we've fixed a ton of bugs with the daily review, saving tweets/threads, and more. You can now Chat with your Highlights! Ask any question about what you've read, find any highlight effortlessly (it's like superpowered search), and find connections across highlights. This is the biggest new feature to Readwise in over a year, though we still intend to extensively improve it and build even more AI-powered features on top of this base :) You can access Chat from the main Review screen in the app. You'll now also notice a "Find Similar Highlights" button on every highlight you see in Readwise. Hitting this button will quickly pull up semantically related highlights from other books/articles/papers you've highlighted, hopefully sparking unexpected connections. We've wanted to build this feature since we started Readwise 7+ years ago, so excited to share it's finally possible and here :) We also launched a Readwise MCP server, for chatting with your highlights directly from Claude and other apps. We upgraded all of the core libraries underlying the Readwise app. This should mean a faster experience with fewer bugs, especially around push notifications. Readwise now supports exporting your highlights to NotebookLM (via google docs) -- generate an AI podcast from any subset of your highlights. Fixed a bug where the bottom tray was sitting too low on new iPhones. Fixed a bug where if you navigate out of the app while doing your Daily Review, you returned to the main screen. You'll now keep your position in the Daily Review. Shipped a big performance improvement to the backend, which should make most screens (like opening the daily review, loading your highlights, books, etc.) much faster! Added support for newer devices, such as iPhone 15, and fixed an issue with the Homescreen widget appearance. And of course, we continue to add many many new features to our Reader app. You can see all of our latest weekly improvements to Readwise/Reader at our changelog at docs.readwise.io/changelog :)

Readwise — FAQ

How much money does Readwise make?

According to AppCurrents estimates, Readwise generates approximately $2k–$13k per month (low confidence), modeled from its the App Store chart performance, rating velocity, and monetization signals.

How many downloads does Readwise get?

Readwise sees an estimated 4k–15k downloads per month on the App Store, per AppCurrents modeling.

Is Readwise free?

Readwise is free to download on the App Store, monetizing through in-app purchases.

What is Readwise's rating?

Readwise holds a 4.81-star average from 1,510 ratings on the App Store.

When was Readwise released?

Readwise launched on the App Store on 18.04.2020. Its latest version shipped 28.07.2026.

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