3 Apps That Help You Save Quotes and Sort Your Favorites

Updated: October 16, 2023

How many times have you wanted to save quotes from your favorite books? How many times have you highlighted some inspiring lines but never got a chance to access them again? 

If you’re struggling to save quotes and you’re looking for a solution that will help you give up on multiple notes, Google Docs, or even pieces of paper, we have one for you. 

To make this list, we’ve taken the following into consideration:

• Whether the apps are still up and running
• If they are being updated regularly with constant improvement and development
• Whether their UX and interface actually work well
• If they have an image-to-text function
• How smoothly the app ultimately runs

No frustration, no wasted time, just technology making your life easier. So here’s our top 3!

Most solid mobile apps that you can use today to save quotes and organize bookmarks

1. Bookly

Call us biased, but Bookly is definitely the best option out there. It’s great to organize all your reading-related tasks in one single app, and the quotes feature is absolutely amazing.

You can add your quotes manually by writing them down, you can take pictures straight from the paper book you’re currently reading, or you can capture images to text from digital materials that you’re saving daily. 

The image-to-text feature definitely works magic. It’s simple to navigate through, and, most important, it’s fast. You don’t have to wait for minutes for processing, and it even works with slightly blurry pictures.

No wonder it’s got its fair number of 5-star reviews on AppStore & Google Play. 

Here’s a short demo on how to save quotes with Bookly and have your favorite lines or thoughts always at hand. 

2. Postepic

Postepic is a mobile app for those who fancy some nice designs to go along with their saved quotes.

With Postepic, you can save your quotes and stylize them a little bit. You can, for example, add a background image to give it that extra special spark. Plus, you can share the image you create on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. 

You can find a step-by-step guide on how to use Postepic to collect and share all of your favorite quotes. Or you can check out the GIF right here to get a more accurate overview of the process.

The app allows you to take pictures of text or convert images to text in a very easy and intuitive way. The processing works quickly, and it’s cool that you can choose the style of the quote, and your favourite quotes list looks a little bit fancy too. The flow is simple, the design looks clean, and the app seems pretty stable.

3. QOTD

QOTD is another great app that simplifies the way you capture and save your favorite book quotes.

It also lets you share your quotes with other people. The process is similar to how Bookly works: use your device’s camera to scan interesting ideas you read in books and convert them to digital text.

The quotes you save are added to your collection and can easily be shared on social media platforms.

To get a full overview of how this works, check out the GIF.

These are our go-to apps when it comes to saving all your quotes, inspiration, and thoughts in one single app and accessing them from anywhere, anytime. If you have any other suggestions, please email us at support@getbookly.com  or write them in the comments section below, and we’ll update the list. If you’re looking for a free solution, we’ve got some more options for you:

How to save quotes with Google Keep

Google Keep is a free note-taking solution that lets you transform text from images into fully editable and searchable digital text. But the text recognition feature is finicky, and I’ve found it much easier to simply save images with Keep and go back to reading. Definitely not an efficient way of doing it.

However, if you’re looking for a place where you can keep all your quotes, this is a potential solution. The application is available for free on both iOS and Android devices, as well as being accessible from the web, which is its biggest advantage.

How to save quotes with Evernote

Evernote is a note-taking app that allows you to collect your notes, your favorite quotes, and images/photos in the same place. It’s similar to Google Keep or to the note-taking app that comes with your native suite of apps, depending on what smartphone you’re using. 

To be able to use Evernote, you’ll need to be on a paid plan.

The main benefit of this app is that you can use it to save other things like articles, papers, and documents as well. It can be a great library for all your resources if this is what you’re looking for. 

However, when it comes to quotes, you’ll still need to add them manually or take photos. But don’t expect to be able to capture text from images. 

A workaround to be able to use the OCR feature would be to upload the scanned image / PDF to Google Drive, then right-click and select “Open With > Google Docs”. It’ll then open with each page as both the original scanned image and editable text.

Why PRO readers choose Bookly

Now that we’ve listed the most stable mobile apps to save your quotes, allow us a final thought on why power readers choose Bookly as their go-to app for saving quotes.

Bookly is a mobile app that helps readers all over the world track and improve their reading performance. It’s like a fitness tracker but for reading. This means that you can track every reading session and get statistics on how many pages you’ve read and how much you have progressed compared with the last session. And the stats go on and on, and deeper and deeper the more you read. It’s great to create a reading routine, set goals, and eventually read those books that have been on your TBR forever. 

Since Bookly has been created as the all-in-one reading companion for readers across the globe, the add quotes feature has been added just for that: to help users organize all their reading needs in one single place. Add quotes, add thoughts, add or create definitions, use a countdown, or enjoy ambiental reading sounds.

With that in mind, we hope this article will help you one way or another to save your quotes and get inspired whenever you need it.