Glasp is a free app that lets you quickly capture online content with colored highlighting options, which are then automatically curated to your Glasp homepage.
Hi Product Hunt 👋
We're so excited to share our latest update, the Glasp mobile app for Android!
You can capture necessary parts on the website directly with your Android devices and sync them with your desktop!
Hope it helps! And let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.
Let's learn together and leave it for future generations📚
Happy learning!
Kei
Hi Product Hunt 👋
Glasp cofounder here!
🚀 Today, we’re launching the Glasp for Android - a new way of highlighting and annotating the web on mobile 🙌
It's completely FREE ✅
🕰️ Story behind Glasp
10 years ago, I was diagnosed with a subdural hematoma that suddenly paralyzed the left side of my body, and my doctor told me that I could go into cardiopulmonary arrest at any moment. I managed to survive through emergency surgery, but when I was confronted with the reality that I might disappear from this world, I remember feeling an inexpressible sense of fear and frustration welling up from the bottom of my body.
At the same time, I was struck by the desire to prove that I existed in this world and that my life had meaning, and the urge to leave something useful behind for the world while I was still alive to feel a sense of contribution to humanity.
📚What is Glasp?
Glasp is a social web highlighter that people can use to highlight and organize quotes and thoughts from the web without having to switch back and forth between screens, and access other like-minded people’s learning at the same time.
Our mission is to democratize access to other people’s learning and experiences that they have collected throughout their lives as a utilitarian legacy. As Glasp stands for "Greatest Legacy Accumulated as Shared Proof", we want to visualize your contribution to human knowledge history.
Besides the Android app, you can do:
✅ Sync all your highlights and notes from Kindle eBooks: 📚
✅ Highlight text on the web: 🔴 🟡 🟢 🔵
✅ Highlight and summarize YouTube videos, web pages, and PDF files!
✅ Highlight & annotate PDF files hosted on the web ✍️
✅ Discover more useful content from other curators: 🤝
... and many more!
We’re excited for the Product Hunt community to check it out and would love to get any feedback to improve Glasp!
🧭 What's Coming Up Next:
- Highlight images like Pinterest
- Better personalization of content discovery & like-minded people search
- Improved UX = UI updates + bug fix
Let's highlight the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful together!
Happy learning,
Kazuki
Glasp is your go-to free app for swiftly capturing online content with the added flair of colored highlighting options. What sets it apart is the automatic curation of your highlights to your Glasp homepage, ensuring an organized and easily accessible repository of your curated content. It's the perfect tool for those who value efficiency and want a streamlined way to collect and revisit online gems.
About Glasp on Product Hunt
“Collect your favorite words with your Android devices”
Glasp launched on Product Hunt on October 5th, 2023 and earned 112 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #32 on the daily leaderboard. Glasp is a free app that lets you quickly capture online content with colored highlighting options, which are then automatically curated to your Glasp homepage.
Glasp was featured in Android (57.1k followers), Productivity (650.2k followers) and Tech (622k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 329k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Glasp?
Glasp was hunted by Kei Watanabe. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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