Select any text while reading and pick one of seven highlight colours. A quick tap cycles the colours, so there are no menus to dig through.
Attach a note to any highlight to capture your thought while it is fresh. The note travels with the highlight everywhere it goes.
Send every highlight to Readwise with one tap, or export to Markdown or PDF. Your notes leave the app the moment you want them to.
Select any passage and highlight it in one of seven colours. A quick tap cycles through them, so colour-coding by theme, character, or importance takes no time at all.
Every highlight lands in one searchable browser. Search across all of them, open the note attached to each, jump back to its exact spot in the book, or delete it. The note travels with its highlight everywhere it goes, so your highlights stay organised instead of scattered across the pages.
Connect Readwise once, then send every highlight from a book with a single tap. Each highlight arrives with its title, author, chapter, page, and your own notes, ready for review and spaced repetition.
Want to show off your reading instead? Share a book card with your cover, star rating, and reading stats straight to the iOS share sheet.
Bookmarks are for the spots you want to return to, separate from the passages you highlight. Drop a bookmark anywhere with one tap, and the bookmarks list shows each saved spot with its chapter title, progress percentage, and the time you added it, so a bookmark is never a mystery.
Tap any bookmark to jump straight back to the moment that mattered. No scrolling and no guessing where you left that important passage.
Everything you highlight and export works the same on iPad, and iCloud keeps your highlights, notes, and bookmarks in sync between your iPhone and iPad. The larger screen gives the highlights browser and your notes more room to breathe.
Read in two columns in landscape or a single column in portrait, with the full highlight, note, and export toolkit always a tap away.
Capture, organise, and own your highlights the way other readers do not allow
Most readers give you one highlight colour and nowhere to write down why a passage mattered.
justRead offers seven highlight colours and a note on any highlight, so every passage carries your thinking with it.
Highlights you cannot search are highlights you will never read again.
justRead collects every highlight in one searchable browser. Filter, open, or jump back to the source in seconds.
Highlights locked inside an app are useless the day you switch readers.
justRead exports to Readwise in one tap, plus Markdown and PDF, and shares individual highlights through the iOS share sheet. Your notes are always yours to take.
Why justRead is the EPUB reader for serious note-takers
| Feature | justRead | Other Apps |
|---|---|---|
| Highlight Colours | Seven, with quick colour cycling | One or two, if any |
| Note on Any Highlight | Yes, on every highlight | Rarely supported |
| Search All Highlights | Searchable highlights browser | Scattered or none |
| One-Tap Readwise Export | Yes, one tap | Not available |
| Markdown & PDF Export | Both, formatted | PDF only or none |
| Shareable Stat Cards | Book and stat cards | Not available |
| Bookmarks with Progress | Chapter, progress, and date | Basic bookmarks |
In justRead, your highlights are never trapped in the app. Your books live in folders you control, and the notes and highlights you make on top of them are yours to export whenever you want. Switch readers or devices and your thinking comes with you instead of being held hostage.
Each export path exists for a real job. One-tap Readwise export sends every highlight with its title, author, chapter, page, and your own notes, ready for spaced-repetition review. Markdown export drops your highlights straight into Obsidian, Notion, or any knowledge base, formatted and ready to link.
Export to PDF when you want to print a set of highlights or keep a clean archive of a book. And when you just need to pass along one passage, share a single highlight through the iOS share sheet into Messages, Notes, or anywhere else.
The same applies to the PDFs you read in justRead. Highlights and notes you make in a PDF travel through the very same export paths, so a quote from a research paper reaches Readwise or Markdown exactly like one from an EPUB.
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Everything you need to know about highlights and export in justRead
Seven. You can highlight any passage in one of seven colours, and a quick tap cycles through them so you can colour-code by theme, character, or importance as you read.
Yes. You can attach a note to any highlight to capture your thought in the moment. The note stays with the highlight in the browser and travels with it when you export.
Yes. Every highlight from a book appears in a single browser with a search bar. You can search across all of them, open the attached note, jump back to the exact spot in the book, or delete a highlight.
Yes. Connect Readwise once, then send every highlight from a book to Readwise with a single tap. Each highlight arrives with its title, author, chapter, page, and your notes. Read more on the blog
Besides Readwise, you can export your highlights and notes to Markdown or PDF, so they fit straight into your note-taking app, knowledge base, or archive.
Yes. Any individual highlight can go through the iOS share sheet, so you can drop a single quote into Messages, Notes, or any app that accepts text.
Yes. Each bookmark lists its chapter title, progress percentage, and the time you added it, and tapping it jumps you straight back to that spot.
Yes. justRead is built for iPhone and iPad. Highlighting, notes, the highlights browser, and every export option work the same on both, with iPad-optimised two-column reading.
No. justRead reads books from folders you control, and your highlights are never trapped in the app. You can export them to Readwise, Markdown, or PDF at any time, so your notes stay yours even if you switch readers or devices.
Yes. One "Export all highlights" button sends every highlight from a book in a single step, complete with its title, author, chapter, page, and your notes. There is no copying them out one by one.
Yes. justRead reads PDFs as well as EPUBs, and the highlights and notes you make in a PDF go through the same export paths to Readwise, Markdown, and PDF.
Yes. justRead uses iCloud to keep your highlights, notes, and bookmarks in sync, so a highlight you make on your iPhone is waiting for you on your iPad.