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Book Journal • Reading Tracker
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad
3 times "App of the Day" - Apple, Inc.
Make powerful book highlights, and stop forgetting what you read. Highlighted makes it easy to capture, organize, revisit, and export the most important parts of your books.
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MAIN FEATURES
• Best-in-class text recognition
• Smart sentence & paragraph detection
• Book Collections & reading status
• First-class tags & notes
• Bulk Drag & Drop highlighting (iPad)
• Photo highlighting
• Page number detection
• Powerful search
• Highlight sharing
• Highlights export
• ISBN scanning
• Siri Shortcuts
• Dark Mode
• Home Widgets
• Offline mode
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ABOUT ME
I'm Damir, a creator from Europe who loves to read. Say hello at damir.stuhec@gmail.com
more • Liquid glass visual refresh
• Book Statuses: mark books as Want to Read, Reading, or Finished
• Smart Collections: auto-generated collections based on your book statuses
• Manage collections: reorder, rename, delete, and see summaries at a glance
• Sort your library: pick your preferred book order
• Tags, elevated: tags and their management is now a first-class experience
• Refresh book covers: app now periodically suggests latest covers
• Long-press the Highlight button to reuse your last capture mode instantly
• CMD+F keyboard shortcut to jump straight to search on macOS
• Shared highlights now include book title and author
• Favorites column added to CSV exports
• Book details now show when you added the book
• Highlight layout now flips correctly for RTL languages
• Edge-to-edge camera and image views when creating highlights
• Fixed landscape camera capture when portrait rotation lock is on
• Share highlight images are now scrollable to support highlights of any length
• Fixed widget showing “No highlights yet” for signed-out users
2026.1.1 3 days ago
• Liquid glass visual refresh
• Book Statuses: mark books as Want to Read, Reading, or Finished
• Smart Collections: auto-generated collections based on your book statuses
• Manage collections: reorder, rename, delete, and see summaries at a glance
• Sort your library: pick your preferred book order
• Tags, elevated: tags and their management is now a first-class experience
• Refresh book covers: app now periodically suggests latest covers
• Long-press the Highlight button to reuse your last capture mode instantly
• CMD+F keyboard shortcut to jump straight to search on macOS
• Shared highlights now include book title and author
• Favorites column added to CSV exports
• Book details now show when you added the book
• Highlight layout now flips correctly for RTL languages
• Edge-to-edge camera and image views when creating highlights
• Fixed landscape camera capture when portrait rotation lock is on
• Share highlight images are now scrollable to support highlights of any length
• Fixed widget showing “No highlights yet” for signed-out users
2026.1 27 Mar
• Flexible page numbers: use Roman numerals, page ranges, or any text as a highlight page.
• Quick actions: long-press books and highlights for a menu of common shortcuts.
• Haptics: feel subtle feedback when using the app.
• Streamlined book adding: a faster and more intuitive way to grow your library.
• General polish: this update includes many minor fixes and improvements for a smoother experience.
2025.4 22/08/2025
• Flexible page numbers: use Roman numerals, page ranges, or any text as a highlight page.
• Quick actions: long-press books and highlights for a menu of common shortcuts.
• Haptics: feel subtle feedback when using the app.
• Streamlined book adding: a faster and more intuitive way to grow your library.
• General polish: this update includes many minor fixes and improvements for a smoother experience.
2025.3 20/08/2025
• New book layouts — choose the one that suits you best.
• Much better text recognition for Asian languages.
• Share highlights with the book title and author included.
• New “prefer favorites” option in the widget.
• Smarter book search and faster ISBN scanning.
• More performant camera highlighting.
• Improved iPad experience.
• Fixed occasional data loading bug.
• General performance boosts.
Enjoy the update!
2025.2 15/07/2025
Highlighted 2.0 is here — rebuilt to be your ultimate book-highlighting companion.
It’s faster, smarter, and full of features you’ve asked for:
• Next-Level Text Recognition — Highlight with exceptional accuracy.
• Offline Mode — Capture and browse anytime, no connection needed.
• Supercharged Search — Find what you’re looking for in seconds.
• Fresh New Look — A clean, intuitive interface to help you focus.
Enjoy the update!
2025.1 26/06/2025
• A much-improved text recognition.
• Widgets fix.
2023.2 23/09/2023
This is a minor update with a few critical fixes:
• Fixed highlighting with photos from the library.
• Fixed custom book cover uploading.
• Fixed book adding in specific device languages.
A substantial update to Highlighted is coming soon, with a completely revamped highlighting experience and many new exciting features!
2023.1 09/07/2023
Fixes and performance improvements.
2022.2 12/11/2022
• Book collections are here! You can now create custom book collections and organize your books in them.
• Book appearance styles are now available, including grid!
Other changes:
• Modernized interface throughout the app.
• Improved book cover images display.
• Improved camera management when capturing highlights.
• Improved page number note-taking.
• Improved voice dictation for manual highlighted creation.
• Improved highlight editing ergonomics.
• Improved book highlights export.
• Fixed highlight image generation when sharing.
• Lots of other adjustments and stability improvements.
I love hearing from you, so please send feedback at any time.
Happy highlighting,
Damir (creator of Highlighted)
2022.1 04/03/2022
■ Lots of minor improvements.
I love hearing from you, so please send feedback at any time.
Happy highlighting,
Damir (creator of Highlighted)
2021.6 20/09/2021
■ The random highlight Widget now supports showing favorites only!
■ A chosen highlights sort order is now persisted.
■ The "Add Custom" book button bug is fixed.
■ You can now help translate Highlighted app.
I love hearing from you, so please send feedback at any time.
Happy highlighting,
Damir (creator of Highlighted)
2021.5 13/09/2021
■ Added .csv highlights export.
■ Improved highlighting experience.
■ Improved paragraph break detection.
■ Improved highlight sharing.
■ Fixed minor book language bug.
■ And a lot more!
I love hearing from you, so please send feedback at any time.
Happy highlighting,
Damir (creator of Highlighted)
2021.4 30/08/2021
■ Further improved text selections and paragraph detection.
■ Optimized book search, especially by ISBN.
■ Added .rtf highlights export.
■ Fixed book language picker sorting.
■ Improved sorting of highlights with the same page number.
■ And a lot more!
I love hearing from you, so please send feedback at any time.
Happy highlighting,
Damir (creator of Highlighted)
2021.3 21/07/2021
■ Highlighting experience has been reimagined from the ground up!
■ You can now create multiple highlights at once.
■ Reading and highlighting in other apps? No problem, you can now Drag & Drop text and images in bulk from other apps.
■ App performance has been greatly improved.
■ Page number recognition is now much more accurate.
■ Lots of other design and experience improvements across the app.
I love hearing from you, so please reach out at any time.
Happy highlighting,
Damir (creator of Highlighted)
2021.2 25/06/2021
■ You can now create highlights from photos/screenshots!
■ Reading in a dimmed room? No worries, there's a new flashlight to help you!
■ Lots of other improvements across the app.
I love hearing from you, so please reach out at any time.
Happy highlighting,
Damir
2021.1 04/02/2021
New Year, a new version of Highlighted:
■ Improved photo size when sharing a highlight.
■ Improved tag sorting.
■ Updated background color for dark widgets.
■ Lots of other minor improvements and cleaning in preparation for the New Year.
COMING SOON
■ Highlighting from photos, and a lot more.
I love hearing from you, so please reach out at any time.
Happy highlighting,
Damir
2020.19 02/01/2021
• E-book highlighting is here! Powered by our new Siri Shortcut, you can now highlight e-books anywhere you can copy or share selected text.
• You can now export search results for even easier reference when researching and studying.
• Want quick access to your highlights? You can now find your books using the iOS Spotlight search.
• Highlighting process is now more streamlined and faster.
• A lot of quality-of-life improvements across the app to make your experience even better.
COMING SOON
Highlighting from photos, and a lot more.
I love hearing from you, so please reach out at any time.
Happy highlighting,
Damir
2020.18 06/12/2020
• Translations are here! Enjoy Highlighted in Italian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian languages.
• Highlights search is now even better with the ability to search within notes and filter by tags.
• You can now return to the highlight preview when appending another part.
• Support for Drag & Drop has been moved into the book highlights to improve accessibility.
• Your tags are now sorted by name.
• A lot of other smaller performance improvements.
COMING SOON
Improved eBook highlighting, and a lot more.
I love hearing from you, so please reach out at any time.
Happy highlighting!
Damir
2020.17 01/11/2020
• Tag names now display in full.
• Tag editing is much simpler.
• Book covers now look like real ones.
• Custom book covers not showing up is fixed.
• And a lot of visual improvements across the app.
COMING SOON
Improved highlights search, improved eBook highlighting, and more.
I love hearing from you, so reach out at any time.
Happy highlighting!
Damir
2020.16 05/10/2020
• You can now configure highlight widget's text size and update frequency.
• Highlight widget now correctly updates after you create your very first highlight.
Stay tuned, lots of cool new features coming soon!
2020.15 27/09/2020
• Improves widget opening on iOS 14.
• Adds support for iOS 13.
Stay tuned, lots of cool new features coming soon!
2020.14 21/09/2020
Fixes and improvements. Much requested features coming soon! Stay tuned.
2020.13 18/09/2020
Fixes book search.
2020.12 18/09/2020
Excited to reveal the iOS 14 version of Highlighted, including:
• iOS 14 Home Widgets.
• On-device text recognition support for Spanish, German, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, and French languages.
• Drag & Drop now works by dropping on the "Highlight" button.
• A lot of iOS 14 related adjustments and improvements.
2020.11 16/09/2020
• Liquid glass visual refresh
• Book Statuses: mark books as Want to Read, Reading, or Finished
• Smart Collections: auto-generated collections based on your book statuses
• Manage collections: reorder, rename, delete, and see summaries at a glance
• Sort your library: pick your preferred book order
• Tags, elevated: tags and their management is now a first-class experience
• Refresh book covers: app now periodically suggests latest covers
• Long-press the Highlight button to reuse your last capture mode instantly
• CMD+F keyboard shortcut to jump straight to search on macOS
• Shared highlights now include book title and author
• Favorites column added to CSV exports
• Book details now show when you added the book
• Highlight layout now flips correctly for RTL languages
• Edge-to-edge camera and image views when creating highlights
• Fixed landscape camera capture when portrait rotation lock is on
• Share highlight images are now scrollable to support highlights of any length
• Fixed widget showing “No highlights yet” for signed-out users
more Version 2026.1.1 3 days ago
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