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.

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01 · 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.
- Google Tag ManagerUS

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Readwise

Fewer trackers than Readwise No ad trackers Registered in the EU Free plan Only in English

None of the 60 sites closest to Readwise match these filters. We read imprints and pricing pages once a week, so more sites qualify as we get to them.

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 and search numbers · 9 technologies

Neighbours: k = 60
Sites searched: 9,221
Vector: 384-d
Query: 32 ms

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.