readwise.io
Readwise
Who runs Readwise, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest reading highlights software alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Instapaper
Measured from Readwise’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Readwise01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Readwise
Readwise readwise.io
Easily revisit and learn from your highlights and annotations.
Wikidata: poductivity app for collecting highlights and notes
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Readwise tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
7 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Readwise
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Readwise, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to Readwise match.
- 01
Instapaper
A simple tool for saving web pages to read later on iOS, Android, computer, or eReaders.
Close - 02
Omnivore
Omnivore
Very close - 03
Pocket
service for saving web pages and other online media for later consumption
Close - 04
Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager
For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff
Close - 05
Archbee — The First Knowledge Portal Platform
Build beautiful knowledge portals that are easy to navigate, search, share and contribute to: user guides, API docs, knowledge bases and SOPs in one platform.
Very close - 06
Client Challenge
digital library
Very close - 07
Goodnotes | Notes Reimagined | Note-Taking App
Bring your thinking to life, collaborate in real time, and turn brainstorming into action with shared notes, whiteboards and text documents.
Very close - 08
The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion
Build Custom Agents, search across all your apps, and automate busywork. The AI workspace where teams get more done, faster.
Very close - 09
Elsevier | A global leader for advanced information and decision support in science and healthcare
Elsevier provides advanced information and decision support to accelerate progress in science and healthcare worldwide.
Very close - 10
Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences
The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.
Very close - 11
Pendo | Product Context for Your Apps and AI Agents
Pendo feeds product context to the apps and AI agents you build or buy, so you can understand your users, act where it counts, and drive adoption and revenue.
Very close - 12
Trustindex.io - Skyrocket Your Sales with Customer Reviews
Keywords
Close - 13
InShot - Video Editor & Maker
InShot Video Editor: Empowering Creators with Advanced Video and Photo Editing. Unlock effortless editing with easy-to-use features and powerful AI tools, elevating your video and photo editing experience to new heights.
Close - 14
Best academic reference management software with AI | Citavi
Elevate research with Citavi, the academic reference management software featuring AI insights. Simplify citation management and literature management today.
Close - 15
Hemingway Editor
Hemingway Editor makes your writing bold and clear.
Close - 16
ReadMe · Developer-friendly API documentation
ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.
Close - 17
GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
Very close - 18
Buffer: Social media management for everyone
Use Buffer to manage your social media so that you can create and share your content everywhere, consistently. Try our forever free plan or upgrade for more.
Close - 19
Audible | Listen to Audiobooks, Podcasts, & Originals
Try Audible free for 30 days. Discover best-selling audiobooks, free podcasts, and exclusive Audible Originals. Listen offline with the Audible app.
Close - 20
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
Close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Readwise’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Readwise uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Readwise adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,208
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 43 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Readwise’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- Security
- Cloudflare Turnstile page source: challenges.cloudflare.com/turnstile
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577ad466a2152d8-HAM
- Hosting
- Render header rndr-id: 30dbff46-38a8-46ac
- Languages & backends
- Django page source: name="csrfmiddlewaretoken"
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS cory.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: -x4eF0jo4aOOcIjVA-7MlpnN5gI45JKXUNNL4pkJ1nM
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 12/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on readwise.io 12/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Next.js · not on readwise.io 10/20
- React · not on readwise.io 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- Apple Business · not on readwise.io 7/20
- Atlassian · not on readwise.io 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on readwise.io 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on readwise.io 5/20
- DocuSign · not on readwise.io 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on readwise.io 5/20
- Stripe · not on readwise.io 5/20
- Zendesk · not on readwise.io 5/20