Bright Passages

App description

Kindle readers have built-in highlight sync. Physical book readers have a highlighter and a problem. Bright Passages solves it. Point your camera at a highlighted passage in a real book. Bright Passages reads the page, transcribes the text, and detects what color highlighter you used — automatically categorizing the passage before you even tap save. Your highlights go from ink on paper to a searchable, shareable library in seconds. Finally, an app built for people who read physical books. Bright Passages is a digital commonplace book — the tradition of collecting passages from real pages that move, challenge, or clarify your thinking. Ebook readers have had this for years. Now physical book readers do too. Highlight detection that thinks with you. Bright Passages' camera detects six highlighter colors — orange, yellow, pink, blue, green, and purple — and maps them to your personal categories. Rename them anything you want. "Key idea." "Disagree." "Send to someone." "Come back to this." Answer one quick question when you first open the app — student, book club, fiction, nonfiction, or religious study — and your categories are already set up to match how you actually read. Chang…