Your Paper Highlights, Digitized Beautifully

Photograph marked pages, review the extracted passage, and keep the lines that matter in a searchable personal library.

BookQuotes library showing saved books and quotes

The Reading Dilemma

You underline sentences. You draw margin lines. You scribble notes. But what happens to those insights?

The Problem

  • -Your highlights are trapped in physical books
  • -Margin notes fade and become illegible
  • -Can't search across your reading history
  • -Manual transcription takes forever

The Solution

  • +Snap a photo of your marked page
  • +AI extracts your underlines and notes instantly
  • +Full-text search across your entire library
  • +Export to Obsidian, Notion, or Markdown
From trapped to liberated

How It Works

Three simple steps from physical page to digital library

1

Capture

Photograph your marked book pages. Our quality check ensures clear images before processing.

2

Extract

AI identifies your underlines, highlights, and margin notes. Review and edit with confidence scores.

3

Organize

Build your searchable quote library. Tag, search, and export your reading insights anytime.

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Powerful Features for Serious Readers

Everything you need to capture, organize, and rediscover your reading insights

Batch Capture Mode

Photograph 20 pages in a session. AI processes them all in the background while you make tea.

Batch Capture
12
pages captured
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Instant Smart Search

Full-text search across all your quotes. Find that passage about "atomic habits" in milliseconds.

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Custom Marking Definitions

Define your own annotation vocabulary. Single underline, double underline, margin brackets - you decide what they mean.

Your Markings
Single underline
Double underline
Margin line
Highlight

Offline Capture

Capture quotes anywhere - on a plane, at the beach, in the mountains. Process when you are back online.

Offline Mode
5
pages queued
Ready to process when online

Rich Export Options

Export to Markdown, Obsidian, or Notion. Your quotes, your way, wherever you work.

Export to
Markdown
Obsidian
Notion
Plain Text

Confidence Scoring

See how confident the AI is about each extraction. Edit with full context of what might need review.

Extraction Review
Quote 198%
Quote 285%
Quote 372%
The BookQuotes Journal

Read, Mark, Remember

Practical ideas for getting more value from paper-book annotations.

Browse the journal

Choose Your Plan

Start with a 7-day trial, then continue on a monthly or yearly auto-renewable plan.

Monthly

Flexible access for regular readers

Monthlylocal App Store pricing
  • 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers
  • AI-assisted quote extraction
  • Batch capture, search, tags, and collections
  • Markdown, plain text, JSON, Notion, and Obsidian export
Best Value

Yearly

Best value for committed readers

Yearlylocal App Store pricing
  • 7-day free trial for eligible new subscribers
  • Everything in Monthly
  • Lower effective monthly cost
  • Save 33% compared with monthly billing
Privacy-first. Your library stays on your device in this release.