For readers of physical books
BookSnippet turns the lines you love into a library you'll actually revisit. Point your camera at the page, highlight the words, and they're yours — typed, organized, and searchable.
Open BookSnippet, point your camera at the spread, and shoot. Skewed angle, curled spine, dim lamp — the page gets straightened and cleaned up automatically.
On-device text recognition finds every word on the page. Tap the passage you want, exactly like marking a line in the margin.
Scan the barcode once and the title, author, and cover fill themselves in. Every snippet lands in the right book, in your library, forever.
The passages you meant to keep should not disappear into your camera roll.
Recognition runs entirely on your iPhone — fast, private, and offline. No photos of pages rotting in your camera roll; just clean, selectable text.
Perspective correction and de-skewing flatten the page before recognition, so a one-handed shot on the train reads as well as a scan.
One barcode scan attaches the real book — cover, title, author. Browse your snippets the way you browse your shelves: by book.
Turn any snippet into a typeset quote card with the book and author credited — ready for messages, notes apps, or your feed.
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
Every snippet can become a quote card: the passage, the book, the author — set in type that does the words justice.
Share one to a friend mid-conversation, or keep them for yourself as a commonplace book that fits in your pocket.
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BookSnippet Pro
$4.99 once, forever
One-time lifetime unlock — not a subscription.
Free on the App Store. Your first 20 snippets are on us.
Download BookSnippet for iPhone