At a glance
| Best for | What a saved post becomes | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|
| scrollandlearn | Posts you saved to learn from, on 15+ platforms | A lesson in a topic, with a transcript for videos and a question for Today's quiz | 10 lessons free, no card; Starter $19.99 a month for 100 saves |
| mymind | A private, visual pile of images, articles, links and notes | A card sorted by AI tags; AI summaries on Mastermind | Student of Life $7.99 a month or $79 a year; Mastermind $12.99 a month or $129 a year |
| Dewey | An archive of the bookmarks you already made on social networks | The post itself, with its text and media, in your folders and tags | Free plan with one connected account; Pro $10 a month, or $7.50 billed yearly; Lifetime $225 |
| Readwise | Highlights from books, articles and newsletters | Highlights you pick, brought back in a daily review | Lite $5.59 a month billed yearly or $6.99 monthly; Full $9.99 billed yearly or $12.99 monthly |
| Glasp | Highlighting web pages, YouTube and Kindle books in public | Highlights and notes you add, public by default | Free plan; Pro $12.50 a month billed yearly, or $15 monthly |
| Notion | A workspace you design, for documents, databases and teams | Whatever you build: a database row, an embed or a page you write | Free plan; Plus $10 per seat a month billed yearly, or $12 monthly |
| Obsidian | Notes you write and link, kept as Markdown files on your device | A note, once you watch the post again and write one | Free without limits; Sync $4 a month billed yearly or $5 monthly |
| Apple Notes | Quick notes on iPhone, iPad and Mac | A link inside a note | Comes with the device |
scrollandlearn: for posts you saved to learn from
scrollandlearn is a private web app for one kind of save: the post you kept because it taught you something. Paste the link, or send it from your phone, and the app reads the post for you. Speech in a TikTok, Reel or Facebook video is transcribed, and a YouTube video is read from its captions. Posts on X, Threads, Reddit, Bluesky and LinkedIn are written up from their text, and on Instagram, TikTok, X, Threads and LinkedIn the words printed on slides count as well. Photos are never described, so a picture with no printed words gives no lesson.
Below is an example of the lesson a cooking Reel turns into, usually within a minute of pasting it.
Salt the pasta water
The cooking water is the only chance to season the pasta itself, so salt it well.
Key points
- Add the salt once the water boils, then wait for it to dissolve before the pasta goes in.
- Save a cup of the starchy water before draining, it binds the sauce.
- Finish the pasta in the pan with the sauce rather than pouring sauce on top.
- Undercook slightly in the water because it keeps cooking in the pan.
Try this
Taste the water next time you cook pasta. It should taste clearly salty.
Remember this
If you can't taste the salt in the water, it is not enough.
In the quiz
Why salt pasta water so heavily?
Filed under Cooking
Each lesson lands in a topic named after what you keep saving, and Today's quiz brings it back on a spaced schedule. Forgot brings a lesson back tomorrow and starts it over, Kind of in 4 days, Knew it in 14 days, then 35, 88 and 219 days, then a year. Export lessons downloads the whole library as Markdown, CSV or JSON. On iPhone a Shortcut puts scrollandlearn in the share sheet, and on Android it shows up there once you install the web app from Chrome.
What it does not do: there is no native app, no import of the saves you made before, no web articles apart from LinkedIn ones, and no teams or shared library. Notes go in through Add as note cards or, from 300 characters, as lessons, but they are not linked to each other or kept in folders.
mymind: for a visual pile that sorts itself
mymind keeps images, links, articles, notes, quotes and highlights in one private place and sorts them with AI tags and Smart Spaces, so there are no folders to make. You find things again by keyword, color, brand, date or the text inside an image, and Serendipity resurfaces forgotten saves for you to keep or let go. Mastermind adds AI summaries of images, articles and websites, and video uploads of up to 500 MB. It has apps for iPhone, Android and Mac and extensions for Chrome, Edge and Safari. A saved video becomes a card you can find again; what the video taught is still inside it, and nothing asks you about it later.
Dewey: for the bookmarks you already have
Dewey is a bookmark manager for saves you have already made. Its Chrome extension pulls in bookmarks and saved posts from X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Threads, Truth Social, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit and Substack, and your Instagram and TikTok collections arrive as folders. You sort them with folders, nested folders and tags, Dewey AI can propose tags in bulk, and the library goes out as CSV, Markdown, a Google Sheet or a Notion database. It keeps each post with its caption and media rather than reading it for you, and its guides set it up in a desktop browser. On the Free plan syncing is manual, and export, folders and tags are paid features.
Readwise: for highlights from books and articles
Readwise is built for reading rather than scrolling. It syncs highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, Apple Books and more and brings them back in a daily review, by email and in the app, on spaced repetition. Its Reader app, part of the Full plan, saves articles, newsletters, RSS feeds and ebooks and lets you highlight the transcript of a YouTube video. As of 14 October 2026, its pages name books, articles, newsletters, RSS feeds, X threads and YouTube as its sources, so TikToks and Reels sit outside it. A 30-day trial comes before you pay.
Glasp: for highlighting the web in public
Glasp is a web highlighter with a social side. You mark passages on web pages, YouTube transcripts and Kindle books, attach notes, and by default your highlights sit on a public profile that others can follow; private highlights come with Pro. Downloads as Markdown, HTML, CSV or JSON and a Notion sync are on every plan, and the free plan has no time limit. It suits learning from what you read in a browser. Its pages describe web pages, YouTube and Kindle books as what it works with, not Reels or TikToks.
Notion: for a workspace you build yourself
Notion is a workspace of pages, databases and wikis, with teamspaces and guests for a group. A saved post becomes whatever you make of it: a row in a database of links, an embedded video, or a page you write after watching the post a second time. The Web Clipper saves any page on the web, and a page or the whole workspace exports as HTML, Markdown or CSV. Of the eight it is the strongest for teams and long writing, and the one that needs the most building before a pile of saved posts is any use.
Obsidian: for notes you write and link
Obsidian keeps notes as plain text Markdown files on your device, readable offline and in any editor, with links between notes, a graph view, Canvas and thousands of community plugins and themes. The free Web Clipper saves web pages into your vault, and there are apps for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. The app costs nothing, but a saved post turns into a note only after you go back to it and write one, so it rewards people who think by writing more than people with a backlog of videos.
Apple Notes: for the notes already on your iPhone
Apple Notes comes with iPhone, iPad and Mac and syncs through iCloud. It holds typed notes, checklists, sketches, scanned documents, photos, videos and audio recordings, and on iPhone 12 and later it transcribes audio recorded in a note, in supported languages. Folders, pins, tags and Smart Folders are yours to set up. A TikTok or YouTube link pasted into a note stays a link, so a note of saved posts works while it is short and turns into a list of things to rewatch as it grows.
What to look for
Feature lists hide the choice that matters. These questions sort the eight quickly.
- What should a saved post turn into? A card to find again (mymind), an archive to export (Dewey), a note you write (Notion, Obsidian, Apple Notes), highlights (Readwise, Glasp) or a lesson written for you (scrollandlearn).
- Does it read the post? scrollandlearn transcribes speech in TikToks, Reels and Facebook videos and reads YouTube captions. Readwise Reader and Glasp show a YouTube transcript for you to highlight. For a TikTok or a Reel, the others keep a link, a card or the post as it was.
- Old saves or new ones? Dewey pulls in what you saved on each network before. scrollandlearn imports nothing and starts from the next post you send it.
- Who keeps it in order? mymind and scrollandlearn sort for you. Dewey, Notion, Obsidian and Apple Notes leave the system to you.
- Will it bring things back? Readwise and scrollandlearn use spaced review, Glasp emails a daily pick of Kindle highlights, mymind has Serendipity, and the rest wait for you to search.
- Private or public? Glasp highlights are public unless you pay for Pro. mymind and scrollandlearn keep what you save to yourself, and Obsidian keeps it in files on your device.
- Phone or computer? Dewey's guides set it up in Chrome on a desktop. scrollandlearn takes posts from the iPhone share sheet through a Shortcut, and from the Android one once you install the web app from Chrome.
Using more than one
Most of these do different jobs, so pairs are common. Dewey can hold the archive of everything you ever bookmarked while the posts with advice you mean to use go to scrollandlearn as well. mymind can keep images and products, and Obsidian the notes you write, with Export lessons handing your lessons over as Markdown files a vault can read. Nothing syncs between scrollandlearn and any of the others, so each keeps its own copy.
Frequently asked questions
- What is the best app to save Instagram and TikTok posts?
- For the saves you have already made, Dewey: its Chrome extension pulls in your Instagram and TikTok collections as folders you can search and export. For learning from them, scrollandlearn: share a Reel or TikTok to it and the lesson is written from what is said in the video, or from the text printed on carousel slides. A Reel or TikTok with music and no talking gives no lesson, or only one about its lyrics.
- What is the best free app to organize saved posts?
- For notes you write, Obsidian: as of 22 October 2026 the app is free without limits. Apple Notes comes with an iPhone, iPad or Mac. For the saves you already have, Dewey's Free plan offers manual syncing, basic search and one connected account, with folders, tags and export on paid plans. Glasp's free plan has no time limit if you highlight web pages and YouTube. On scrollandlearn your first 10 lessons are free with no card, then Starter is $19.99 a month for 100 saves.
- Which app reads what a video says?
- scrollandlearn, for the platforms it supports: speech in TikTok, Reel and Facebook videos is transcribed, and a YouTube video is read from its captions, without timestamps. A YouTube video without captions gives no lesson from its link, and you can upload the file instead, up to 50 MB. Readwise Reader and Glasp show a YouTube transcript you can highlight. Apple Notes transcribes audio recorded in a note, but a link pasted into Notes stays a link.
- Which apps keep saves private?
- mymind says nobody can see what you save and that it does not track or sell your data. In scrollandlearn nobody sees your library but you, and there are no teams. Obsidian keeps notes as files on your device and says its apps collect no telemetry. Glasp highlights are public by default, with private ones on Pro, and a Dewey folder stays private until you open it to anyone with the link.
- Can scrollandlearn import my old saved posts?
- No. There is no import from Instagram, TikTok, Dewey or a file. Posts go in as links, one at a time, or on Creator and Power a whole public playlist or profile at once; your saved lists can't be read. Of the apps here, Dewey is the one built to pull in a backlog.
- How much do these apps cost?
- As of 22 October 2026, Obsidian is free without limits and mymind's Student of Life plan is $7.99 a month. As of 14 October 2026, Dewey and Glasp have free plans, Readwise Lite is $5.59 a month billed yearly, Notion Plus is $10 per seat a month billed yearly, and Apple Notes comes with the device. On scrollandlearn your first 10 lessons are free with no card, then Starter is $19.99 a month for 100 saves. You can cancel any time.