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Bright Passages

Real Book Highlight Detection

Nathan Perry
Download on theApp Store
App Store rating5.0★4 ratings
Price$4.99Listed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size6 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperNathan Perry

What we found

Full report

Too little checked to say Store information only. We haven’t analysed this app or read its reviews yet.

Money

  • $4.99 to download.

Not yet tested.

The store currently lists version 1.1.1, updated 2026-08-10.

Preview

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About this app

Kindle readers have built-in highlight sync. Physical book readers have a highlighter and a problem. Bright Passages solves it.

Point your camera at a highlighted passage in a real book. Bright Passages reads the page, transcribes it, and detects what color highlighter you used — automatically categorizing the passage before you tap save. Didn't highlight it? Just select the text by hand instead — perfect for library books, textbooks, or any page you didn't mark up. Your highlights become a searchable, shareable library in seconds.

Finally, an app built for people who read physical books.

Bright Passages is a digital commonplace book — the tradition of collecting passages from real pages that move, challenge, or clarify your thinking.

Highlight detection that thinks with you.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

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Findings and evidence

Not yet tested
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.

What reviewers report

No review coverage

No review analysis published for this app.

Measurements

3 measured · 5 not assessed

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From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
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Cancelling, in the store description
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Themes reported by reviewers
Not assessed
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Five-star share of ratings
90% or more five-star
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In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
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Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
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Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
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How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Not yet tested

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Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 1.1.1 · 2026-08-10
This update focuses on polish, accuracy, and a more organized Settings experience: • Reorganized Settings — sorting and filtering now live right in your Library, and the rest of Settings is easier to navigate. • Chapter numbers remember their titles — enter a chapter number you've used before in a book, and its name fills in automatically. • New: a dedicated setting for combined transcriptions — choose "Only Highlighted Text" or "All Text" once, and every page in a multi-photo capture uses it automatically, no more prompts. • Fixed: multi-photo captures no longer drop text or add stray paragraph breaks at the seam between pages. • Fixed: library-imported photos now get the same color…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Assessment record

Status
Not yet tested
App identifier
bright-passages
Sources used
None recorded
Reviews read
None recorded
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed
How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

Store facts

App Store

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App Store

Store rating
5.00 ★ · 4 ratings
Version
1.1.1
Updated
10 Aug 2026
Price
$4.99
Age rating
4+
Size
6 MB
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Developer
Nathan Perry
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
$4.99

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Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

What a missing label means

Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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