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Last updated 28 October 2026

Excerpta is a book tracker that doubles as a reading journal, for iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad. Every book gets its own timeline: the quotes you kept, the notes you wrote, the pages you read each day, and how it all felt.

Download the Press Kit

A 22 MB zip: the App Store screenshots for iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad, eighteen framed screens in light and dark, the icon, the wordmark and the fact sheet.

Excerpta on iPhone: a book's timeline of quotes, notes and reading.

Excerpta on iPhone: a photographed page with the highlighter across a passage.

Excerpta on iPhone: the Calendar, each day a cover.

Excerpta on iPhone: Stats, books read by month.

Excerpta on iPhone: the library by author.

Excerpta on iPhone: one character's quotes across a book.

Excerpta on iPhone: Discovery, the NYT Bestsellers lists.

Excerpta on iPhone: a quote, the current book and the reading calendar as widgets.

The Basics

Name: Excerpta: Reading Journal
Developer: Trevor Tarakjian (trevware), independent
Released: 20 October 2026
Latest version: 1.1, 26 October 2026, with the EPUB reader
Devices: iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad
Requires: iOS 26.2 or iPadOS 26.2 or later
Price: Free to download. Excerpta Unbound opens the full app for US$1.99 a month, US$14.99 a year (first seven days free) or US$49.99 once. Every plan works with Family Sharing.
App Store: apps.apple.com/app/id6762711085
Contact: hello@excerpta.ink

What It Does

Point the camera at a page to keep a quote. Tap a paragraph to keep it whole, or drag the highlighter across just the words you want. The text is read on the phone.
Quotes, notes, reading sessions, photos and moods land on each book's own timeline, day by day.
Print, e-book and audiobook share the same shelves, by book, author, character or series. EPUBs open in the app, and a highlight becomes a quote.
The Calendar shows each day you read as a cover, ringed by your mood. Stats shows how the year is going, and Reading Nooks maps the places you read.
Imports from Goodreads, StoryGraph, Kindle highlights, Kobo and Apple Books, and syncs both ways with Hardcover and KOReader.
No account. The library lives on your device and in your own iCloud, and export to Markdown is always free.

Who Makes It

Excerpta is made by one person and one corgi, with no investors behind it. trevware also makes Fitera and the Obsidian plugins Sidebar Highlights and Oriko.

Codes and Questions

Writing about Excerpta? Email hello@excerpta.ink for a code that opens the full app, or with any question.

The book covers, author photos and place photos in the screenshots belong to their publishers and photographers.