Overview
Summary
The useful answer before the supporting detail.
Readwise is a reading tool that helps users revisit and learn from their highlights and annotations S1. It is used by readers who want to retain more from books, articles, and other content, solving the problem of forgotten insights S1. Its practical value lies in features like Daily Review and AI integrations that make highlights searchable and actionable S1.
Product identity and positioning
Name, category, positioning, audience, and first-party claims.
- Identity: Readwise is a reading and highlight management tool, with Reader as its read-it-later app S1 S30.
- Core purpose: It helps users revisit and learn from highlights and annotations S1.
- Intended users: Readers who want to retain and use what they read S1.
- Product scope: Includes the Readwise app, Reader, and AI integrations S1 S30.
- Positioning: Positioned as a tool to get the most out of what you read S1.
- Claimed distinction: Claims to be the first read-it-later app built for power readers S30.
Use cases and audiences
Who the product serves and the jobs it is designed to handle.
| Audience | Practical use case |
|---|---|
| Avid readers | Revisit and retain highlights from books and articles S1. |
| Researchers | Search and organize highlights for research projects S1. |
| Writers | Draft content from highlights and notes S46. |
| AI users | Give AI assistants access to personal reading library for grounded answers S30. |
Traffic and search
SEO analysis
Collected Oct 22, 2026readwise.io: an estimated 768,632 total monthly visits and about 14,371 monthly organic visits across 1,589 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 15 pages and measured a technical health score of 88/100.
Search summary
The useful answer before the supporting detail.
Easily revisit and learn from your highlights and annotations. readwise.io: an estimated 768,632 total monthly visits and about 14,371 monthly organic visits across 1,589 ranking keywords. Scout crawled 15 pages and measured a technical health score of 88/100.
- Total traffic (modeled): 768,632 monthly visits across all channels.
- Organic search traffic (estimated): 14,371 monthly visits from search.
- Strongest sampled ranking: readwise at position 1.
- Leading page in the collected evidence: https://readwise.io/.
- Closest measured organic competitor: play.google.com, appearing 3 times in the sampled first-page SERPs.
- Technical crawl: 15 pages, health score 88/100.
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Company identity and positioning
| Page type | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|
| other | Easily revisit and learn from your highlights and annotations. | https://readwise.io/ |
| other | For a business to be truly customer-focused, it needs to ignore what people say. Instead it needs to concentrate on what people feel. | https://readwise.io/ |
| other | Save anything, your AI now knows it. Too much to read? Your AI can now help triage for you: your manual saves, newsletters and RSS feeds. | https://readwise.io/ |
| other | Get Started For Free | https://readwise.io/ |
| other | I’ve been reading most books on Kindle for 15 years. Now my digital assistant has access to all 11,328 highlights across 15 years and hundreds of books. This is what I mean when I talk about giving AI the right tools. "Give me everything I’ve highlighted about the church growth movement from David Wells." | https://readwise.io/ |
| other | This is great. NotebookLM + @readwise is the ultimate second brain platform. | https://readwise.io/ |
| other | "The quest for good explanations is, I believe, the basic regulating principle not only of science, but of the Enlightenment generally." via @readwise | https://readwise.io/ |
| other | I wish I could go back in time and highlight all the things I read prior to 2019 for @readwise | https://readwise.io/ |
| other | Pre-built workflows your agent can run. | https://readwise.io/ |
| other | The key to power, then, is the ability to judge who is best able to further your interests in all situations. Keep friends for friendship, but work with the skilled and competent. | https://readwise.io/ |
Domain performance
Modeled total traffic, six-month trend, engagement, countries, and domain identity.
Total website traffic
| Month | Modeled visits |
|---|---|
| 2026-04 | 862,442 |
| 2026-05 | 894,049 |
| 2026-06 | 929,174 |
| 2026-07 | 921,074 |
| 2026-08 | 858,497 |
| 2026-09 | 768,632 |
Top visitor countries
| Country | Name | Traffic share |
|---|---|---|
| US | United States | 55.4% |
| CA | Canada | 6.1% |
| CZ | Czech Republic | 3.5% |
| AU | Australia | 3.4% |
| GB | United Kingdom | 2.6% |
Domain identity
| Signal | Value |
|---|---|
| Registered | Aug 28, 2017 |
| Last changed | Aug 12, 2026 |
| Expires | Aug 28, 2029 |
| WHOIS server | whois.nic.io |
| DNSSEC | — |
| Nameservers | cory.ns.cloudflare.com, ines.ns.cloudflare.com |
Website capture

Organic keywords
Top keywords and an independent Google result page.
Top organic keywords
| Keyword | Volume | CPC | Estimated value |
|---|---|---|---|
| readwise | 36,460 | $0.52 | $55,240 |
| readwise reader | 13,760 | $2.40 | $23,060 |
| reader | 19,840 | $1.17 | $1,130 |
| reader readwise | 990 | $0.00 | $730 |
| rose horowitch | 12,060 | $0.00 | $510 |
Independent Google result page
Query: readwise
| Position | Title | URL | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Readwise: Get the most out of what you read | https://readwise.io/ | Readwise makes it easy to revisit and learn from your highlights and annotations. Get Started For Free. Import Highlights. Sync your highlights from Kindle, ... |
| 2 | Readwise - App Store - Apple | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/readwise/id1476885528 | Readwise helps you get the most out of what you read by making it fun & easy to revisit your highlights from all your favorite reading platforms in one ... |
| 3 | Readwise Highlights - Apps on Google Play | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.readwise&hl=en_US | Readwise helps you get the most out of what you read by making it fun & easy to revisit your highlights from all your favorite reading platforms in one ... |
| 4 | Readwise | https://www.youtube.com/@readwise-official | The Readwise channel is where you can find videos explaining how to use Readwise: software that helps you remember more of what you read. ...more |
| 5 | Readwise | A Comprehensive Review | by A Human Writing | https://medium.com/@ahumanwhoiswriting/readwise-a-comprehensive-review-d35d8ead3e28 | Readwise is a software that functions as a link between your highlights and your note taking app. You start by making a highlight, say on your ... |
| 6 | READWISE, INC. - Chrome Web Store | https://chromewebstore.google.com/publisher/readwise-inc/u45a1ddf0effff3f59f90291c484f3f5f | Save a page to Readwise Reader. This is the official Reader browser extension made by and maintained by the Readwise team. You use the Reader Highlighter ... |
| 7 | 10 Ways to Use ReadWise Reader That You Never knew Of | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nITfHTTYXOw | AI for Your Notes: Structure Ideas, Find What You Mean (Craft) · Readwise Reader - How I Process EVERYTHING I Read · Voice AIs Spill Their Secrets ... |
Important pages
Pages earning the most estimated search traffic in the sample.
| URL | Ranking keywords | Estimated traffic | Best position |
|---|---|---|---|
| https://readwise.io/ | 3 | 2,045.9 | 1 |
| https://readwise.io/read | 7 | 522.9 | 1 |
| https://docs.readwise.io/reader/guides/ghostreader/overview | 1 | 97.3 | 1 |
| https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01gzcs9hnxmvg91nfv77megy26/ | 2 | 66.9 | 1 |
| https://read.readwise.io/ | 2 | 21.3 | 1 |
| https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01hwneb6mnf2m2q47tcx9dvgeq/ | 1 | 15.2 | 1 |
| https://readwise.io/import_clippings | 1 | 12.2 | 1 |
| https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01kfygmm5rxed7tadatnd1we9g/ | 1 | 9.1 | 1 |
| https://readwise.io/reader/shared/01j91mx914mwxwh3g4hbgp2xqj/ | 1 | 9.1 | 1 |
| https://readwise.io/pricing | 1 | 6.1 | 1 |
Website intelligence — Collected evidence
Prioritized website intelligence pages
| Type | Page | Words | Change | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| other | Readwise: Get the most out of what you read | 1,339 | new | https://readwise.io/ |
| pricing | Pricing \ | static | 1,782 | new |
| integrations | Readwise API \ | static | 3,329 | new |
| integrations | Reader API \ | static | 2,723 | new |
| integrations | Changelog \ | static | 278 | new |
| integrations | Changelog \ | static | 322 | new |
| integrations | Changelog \ | static | 323 | new |
| integrations | Changelog \ | static | 296 | new |
| integrations | Changelog \ | static | 279 | new |
| integrations | Changelog \ | static | 281 | new |
| reviews | Readwise | 139 | new | https://readwise.io/accounts/login/?next=/themed_reviews |
| reviews | Changelog \ | static | 411 | new |
| reviews | Changelog \ | static | 388 | new |
Features
No supporting public-page evidence was collected for this category.
Pricing and plans
| Page type | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|
| pricing | [Start 30 day free trial](#) | https://readwise.io/pricing |
| pricing | GET STARTED FOR FREE | https://readwise.io/pricing |
| pricing | Can I use Readwise for free? | https://readwise.io/pricing |
| pricing | Readwise is free for first 30 days. After the free trial, Readwise costs a small monthly fee, or you can refer your friends for additional free months. | https://readwise.io/pricing |
| pricing | Readwise costs much less than a single book per month, but lets you get much more out of your time spent reading. | https://readwise.io/pricing |
| pricing | If you want the full power of the web app: tagging, note-taking, and all future reading technology that we build, we’d recommend the full Readwise. This plan also includes access to our own, all-in-one reading app: Reader. | https://readwise.io/pricing |
| pricing | What is Readwise Reader and which plan does it come with? | https://readwise.io/pricing |
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