scrollandlearn vs Readwise: which one should you use?

Readwise starts from what you highlighted. scrollandlearn starts from a link, and nothing needs highlighting. The lesson below is an example of what a podcast episode on YouTube with captions becomes. For an episode that runs an hour, a lesson like this is written from the whole episode, in three sections, one for every part of about 20 minutes.

The line under In the quiz is the question Today's quiz asks when the lesson comes due. You answer in your head, tap Show answer and grade yourself, and the grade sets the next date:

Readwise's daily review works from your highlights on a spaced repetition schedule. scrollandlearn asks for recall first: you try to answer before you see the lesson again. Each topic then shows a knowledge score: of its lessons that have come up for a quiz, graded or left waiting on their day, the share you remembered.

• Social posts. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, X, Threads, Reddit, Bluesky, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitch, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, Snapchat, Rumble and Telegram: 15+ platforms in all. As of 14 October 2026, Readwise's pages describe books, articles, newsletters, RSS feeds, X threads and YouTube as its sources.
• Nothing to highlight. A short video gives you nothing to mark while you watch. scrollandlearn writes the core idea, key points and Remember this from the transcript or the post text, and adds Try this when the post suggests something to do.
• Whole podcast episodes. A Spotify or Apple Podcasts episode link from most shows is transcribed from start to end, up to 6 hours within your plan's transcription minutes, and comes back as one lesson; past half an hour it is split into sections of about 20 minutes each.
• Playlists and profiles. On Creator and Power, one link to a public playlist or profile brings in up to 25 posts on Creator and 100 on Power; on Power that includes a podcast show.
• Questions to answer. Today's quiz asks a question written from each lesson, and you grade your own answer. Quiz this topic runs the same quiz on one topic whenever you want it.
• Topics on their own. Each lesson is filed into a topic named after what you keep saving, and each topic keeps a big picture across its lessons, rewritten as it grows.
• Things to do. When a post suggests an action, Try this turns it into one step, and Things to try keeps the ones you pick, with a done check.
• Your words. My takeaway adds up to 500 characters of your own to any lesson, and search finds them. The lesson itself stays editable: Edit lesson changes its title, core idea, key points, Try this, Remember this and quiz question.

• Books. It syncs highlights from Kindle, Instapaper, Apple Books and more. scrollandlearn has no Kindle or book highlights.
• Long reading. Reader saves articles, newsletters, RSS feeds and ebooks, turns X threads into articles, and has a browser extension for highlighting the web.
• YouTube transcripts you can mark up. Reader lets you highlight the transcript of a YouTube video.
• Reading tools. Reader can read documents aloud, and Ghostreader answers questions and defines terms while you read.
• Exports. On the Full plan, highlights go out to Notion, Obsidian and other tools. scrollandlearn downloads your lessons as Markdown, CSV or JSON, and sends them nowhere on its own.
• Apps and offline. Reader runs on the web, iOS and Android, and works offline. scrollandlearn is a web app with no native app.
• Price and trial. Lite starts at $5.59 a month billed yearly, and its trial lasts 30 days.

• No Kindle, Apple Books or any other book highlights.
• No newsletters or RSS feeds. Websites go in through the browser extension, in Firefox today and soon in other browsers; from a pasted link it reads LinkedIn articles only.
• No highlighting inside a lesson or a transcript, and no timestamps in transcripts.
• No sync to Notion, Obsidian or anything else; the export is a download of Markdown, CSV or JSON.
• Search covers lesson text, your takeaway, topic and creator handle, and the exact words of a transcript, without timestamps to jump to.
• No native app, no teams and no shared library.

Pick scrollandlearn if most of what you learn comes from scrolling. Short videos, Reels, podcast episodes and quick posts are hard to highlight and easy to forget, and they are exactly what it turns into lessons.

Pick Readwise if most of what you learn comes from reading. If you finish books on a Kindle, keep a backlog of articles and newsletters, and want all those highlights in one review, it covers that well and scrollandlearn covers none of it.

If you do both, use both. Outside YouTube and X the sources barely overlap, so neither tool ends up holding the same thing twice.

Yes, and this pair overlaps less than most. Nothing syncs between them, so each keeps its own library: books, articles and newsletters in Readwise, posts from TikTok, Instagram and the other platforms in scrollandlearn. YouTube and X are where they meet. Send a video to Reader if you want to highlight its transcript yourself, and to scrollandlearn if you want the lesson written for you and quizzed later; a YouTube video needs captions for that, while a video on X is transcribed from its sound when the post's text is under 300 characters.