Readwise vs Titan

Readwise helps you remember what you read. It automatically collects your highlights from Kindle, Apple Books, web articles, PDFs, podcasts and other sources into one place, then resurfaces them through a daily review using spaced repetition, so ideas stick.

Readwise also includes Reader, a powerful read-it-later app for articles, newsletters, PDFs, ebooks and YouTube transcripts. Reader's built-in AI, Ghostreader, can summarise documents, define terms, answer questions and generate flashcards as you read. Highlights can be exported automatically to note apps such as Notion, Obsidian, Roam and Evernote.

Good fit if you: read a lot and want your highlights organised, reviewed and connected …

Titan is an AI assistant that runs as a real Mac app rather than in a browser tab. You talk to it, it sees the screen you are looking at, and it can act inside the apps you already use, such as Notion, Mail, Calendar, Spotify, Chrome, Terminal, Slack, Linear and GitHub. It can also remember what you tell it, so conversations don't start from nothing every time.

Because Titan sees your live screen, you can ask things like "what does this error mean" without uploading a screenshot. It can open things, fill things in and send things, and it can point at what it means by drawing on the screen you are already looking at.

Pricing: Titan is free to download and free to start, with a small mon…