Caute and Readwise.
Readwise is a reading app with a library behind it. Caute is a library with a reader in front of it. Which one you want depends on where you spend the hour.
In their words
“The first read-it-later app built for power readers.”
From readwise.io
Side by side
- Price
- Readwise: From $5.59 a month (Highlights Lite) to $9.99 a month (Full Readwise), billed yearly; a trial and no free plan
- Caute: Free; Pro $8 a month or $72 a year
- Assistants
- Readwise: An MCP server, API, command line and ChatGPT connector, on every plan but Highlights Lite
- Caute: Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants connect on every plan, Free included
Checked 2026-10-25.
What is the same
- Both keep your highlights and bring them back to look at again.
- Both follow feeds and newsletters.
- Both let an assistant read your library over MCP.
Stay with Readwise if
- You read mostly inside the app and want its reading view, Ghostreader and text to speech.
- You want highlights from your other reading apps gathered on their own, without exporting files.
Move to Caute if
- You want a free plan on which everything you caught stays readable and searchable.
- You keep more than reading: files, email, recordings and your own notes.
- You want to find the sentence later, by its words or by what it means.
- You want what your assistants remember kept beside the page it came from, where you can read it and make them forget it.
Moving from Readwise
- In Readwise, open the export page of your account and choose CSV.
- In Caute, open Settings, then Import a library, and choose Import from Readwise.
- Choose the file. Each book or article becomes a note of its highlights, with your notes and tags.
Questions
Do my highlights come across?
Yes. Each book or article becomes a note of its highlights, with the notes and tags you gave them.
Do the documents I saved in Reader come too?
Not with this file, which holds your highlights. A document you saved without highlighting is not in it.
Will importing the file twice make duplicates?
No. Importing the same file again adds nothing twice.
Who can see what I import?
Only you. Everything lands in your private inbox, and nothing is shared until you move it into a shared space.
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