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Inkive
Read. Snap. Sync. Local AI for physical book highlights.
Inkive turns your physical book highlights into structured digital assets, instantly. Read naturally with your favorite physical highlighters or pencils, then flip and scan. Inkive’s local-first AI automatically detects your physical marks, leverages Apple Vision to extract text with high precision, and organizes them by book. Add your own reflections and export as Markdown. No accounts, no internet required, and zero data leaves your iPhone. The ultimate tool for your digital second brain.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
Thank you so much for checking out Inkive today!
As a heavy reader who loves both the tactile feel of physical books and the organization of digital notes, I built Inkive to solve my own daily frustration. I wanted a bridge that let me keep my physical reading habits—using real pens, highlighters, and paper—without the friction of manual transcription or clunky scanning apps.
By keeping everything 100% local on-device (powered by Core ML and Apple Vision), Inkive ensures your reading notes and thoughts remain entirely private to you, with the added benefit of being lightning-fast and working completely offline.
Since this is our very first launch, I’d love to get the discussion started and hear from you:
- What does your current reading workflow look like? How do you currently bridge the gap between your physical books and your digital second brain?
- What features would you love to see next? (We are already planning more organization tools!)
I’ll be active in the comments all day to answer your questions, chat about local-first tech, or just talk about books. Can't wait to hear your thoughts! 🚀
Does it handle handwritten notes in the margins, or just the physical highlights themselves? Most of my annotations are actually pen notes next to the text.
About Inkive on Product Hunt
“Read. Snap. Sync. Local AI for physical book highlights.”
Inkive was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #39 on the daily leaderboard. Inkive turns your physical book highlights into structured digital assets, instantly. Read naturally with your favorite physical highlighters or pencils, then flip and scan. Inkive’s local-first AI automatically detects your physical marks, leverages Apple Vision to extract text with high precision, and organizes them by book. Add your own reflections and export as Markdown. No accounts, no internet required, and zero data leaves your iPhone. The ultimate tool for your digital second brain.
Inkive was featured in Productivity (658.2k followers), Artificial Intelligence (475.9k followers) and Books (122.6k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 278.4k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Inkive?
Inkive was hunted by Jiyee Sheng. 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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