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.
18 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
Client Challenge
digital library
Very close - 06
Hemingway Editor
Hemingway Editor makes your writing bold and clear.
Close - 07
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 - 08
Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking
The free and flexible app for your private thoughts.
Close - 09
Glitch Blog
The official blog for glitch.com
Close - 10
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close - 11
Devin Desktop | Devin
Manage any agent, locally or in the cloud, from one command center. Plan, review, and ship with a team of agents.
Close - 12
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close - 13
Podimo: Listen to Podcasts and Thousands of Audiobooks
Podimo offers podcast only available in our app, thousands of audiobooks and a lively community of creators and listeners.
Close - 14
HYVOR® - Independent Software Foundry
Privacy-first website tools, crafted with care. Trusted by millions, from indie makers to enterprises.
Close - 15
Shodan Search Engine
Search Engine for the Internet of Things
Close - 16
CamScanner: AI PDF Scanner, OCR & Online PDF Tools
CamScanner is a free AI-powered PDF scanner app with OCR and online PDF tools. Scan documents, extract text, convert files, edit PDFs, and sync across devices.
Close - 17
AI for Travel Organisers and Tour Operators in India | Thrivia
Thrivia answers every Instagram and WhatsApp enquiry in seconds, saves the lead, follows up and collects the advance. Built for travel organisers in India.
Close - 18
Substack
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
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
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 62 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