Basmo Tracks Your Reading. Screvi Remembers What You Read.
Basmo is a reading tracker built around habits: sessions, goals, and streaks. Screvi is a highlights manager built around knowledge. They solve different problems, and you might want both.
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What Is Basmo?
Basmo is a reading tracker app. You start a reading session, and it logs how long you read, how many pages you covered, and whether you hit your daily goal. Over time, it builds a picture of your reading habits: streaks, statistics, pace, and progress through your current book.
The app also added Kindle import and AI ChatBook features more recently, letting you pull in Kindle highlights and ask questions about books. There's a camera scanner for capturing text from physical pages, though it's a manual selection process rather than AI-assisted recognition.
Basmo is good at what it does. If you want to read more consistently and need accountability (daily goals, streak tracking, time logging), it's a solid choice. But it's a reading tracker first and a highlights tool second.
Tracking Reading vs. Managing Knowledge
There's an important distinction between tracking how much you read and organizing what you learned from reading. They're related but different problems.
Basmo answers questions like: "How many minutes did I read today?" and "Am I on pace to hit my 30-book goal this year?" That's valuable if your primary challenge is building a consistent reading habit.
Screvi answers different questions: "What did that author say about decision fatigue?" and "Where did I highlight that quote about compounding?" It's built for people who already read regularly and want to get more out of what they've read.
Your highlights from Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, web articles, YouTube videos, and physical books all live in one searchable library. AI semantic search means you can describe what you're looking for in your own words rather than remembering exact phrases. Spaced repetition brings back highlights before you forget them.
If you want to read more, Basmo helps with that. If you want to remember and use what you read, that's what Screvi is for.
Feature Comparison
Basmo focuses on reading habits. Screvi focuses on highlights and retention. Here's the full picture.
Screvi: 18/22 features · Basmo: 6/22 features
| Feature | Screvi | Basmo |
|---|---|---|
| Reading session timer | ||
| Reading goals & streaks | ||
| Reading statistics | ||
| Kindle highlight import | ||
| Kobo highlight import | ||
| Apple Books import | ||
| AI semantic search | ||
| Spaced repetition | ||
| Highlights feed | ||
| AI topic discovery | ||
| Physical book scanner (AI) | Manual selection | |
| AI ChatBook | ||
| Article reader | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Web app | ||
| YouTube transcript highlights | ||
| Newsletter inbox | ||
| Daily digest email | ||
| Tags with colors | ||
| iOS widget | ||
| Public API | ||
| Share highlights as images |
What Screvi Adds Beyond Reading Tracking
Every Source in One Library
Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, web articles, YouTube, newsletters, physical books. All your highlights live together and are searchable from one place.
Find Highlights by Meaning
Search for "productivity myths" and find highlights about deep work, multitasking, and time management, even if none of them use those exact words.
AI-Powered Book Scanner
Point your camera at a page with underlined or highlighted text. Screvi's AI identifies the marked passages and extracts them automatically. No manual text selection needed.
Spaced Repetition Built In
Your best highlights resurface at intervals designed to help you remember them. Combined with the highlights feed, you won't lose good ideas to time.
Web and Video Highlights Too
Screvi isn't limited to books. Save and highlight web articles, YouTube transcripts, PDFs, and newsletters, all in the same library as your book highlights.
Works on Every Platform
iOS and Android apps, a full web app, browser extensions for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. Basmo is mobile-only with no web version.
You Could Use Both
Basmo and Screvi aren't really competitors. They solve different problems. Use Basmo to track your reading sessions, goals, and streaks. Use Screvi to manage, search, and revisit the highlights you create during those sessions. Your Kindle highlights sync to both independently.
Frequently Asked Questions
Try it with your highlights
Create your account, add your highlights and see how Screvi can change the way you read.