Looking for a Literal Alternative?
Literal is great for tracking books you've read. Screvi is built for the next step: managing your highlights and actually remembering the best ideas from your reading.
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What is Literal?
Literal is a social book tracking platform, a modern Goodreads alternative. It lets you track books you're reading, want to read, and have read. You can share book recommendations, join clubs, and discover new reads. Literal supports creating highlights and notes, and has a camera scanner for capturing text from physical books. However, its primary focus is social book discovery and tracking, not highlight management or retention.
Why readers look for Literal alternatives
- Literal focuses on book tracking and social features, not highlight management and retention
- No automatic Kindle, Kobo, or Apple Books highlight import: highlights must be created manually or scanned
- No spaced repetition or review system for remembering what you read
- No AI-powered semantic search across highlights
- No article reader or web content support: books only
- No daily email digests or highlights feed for content rediscovery
- No AI topic discovery to find connections across your reading
Screvi vs Literal: Feature Comparison
Screvi: 20/23 features · Literal: 5/23 features
| Feature | Screvi | Literal |
|---|---|---|
| Book tracking (want to read, reading, read) | ||
| Social book discovery | ||
| Book clubs | ||
| Book highlights & notes | ||
| Auto-import Kindle highlights | ||
| Auto-import Kobo highlights | ||
| Auto-import Apple Books highlights | ||
| Import PDF annotations | ||
| Import Twitter/X bookmarks | ||
| Save YouTube transcripts | ||
| Camera text scanner | ||
| Article reader (read-it-later) | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| AI semantic search | ||
| Spaced repetition review | ||
| Daily email digest | ||
| Highlights feed | ||
| AI topic discovery | ||
| AI highlight cleanup | ||
| Personal newsletter inbox | ||
| iOS home screen widget | ||
| Tags with colors | ||
| Public API | API available |
Why choose Screvi over Literal
Highlights management, not just storage
Literal lets you create highlights and scan text. Screvi goes further with auto-import from Kindle/Kobo/Apple Books, AI-powered search, spaced repetition review, and a highlights feed to help you remember.
Auto-import from everywhere
Import highlights from Kindle, Kobo, Apple Books, PDFs, and physical books automatically. No manual entry required.
AI-powered search
Find any highlight by meaning. Ask questions across your entire library and get relevant results from any source.
Remember what you read
Spaced repetition, daily emails, and a highlights feed ensure your best ideas come back to you at the right time.
More than books
Screvi handles articles, tweets, YouTube transcripts, PDFs, and newsletters, not just books. All your reading in one place.
Complete reading workflow
Save articles, read them in a distraction-free reader, highlight while reading, review your highlights, and search across everything. One tool for the full cycle.
Switching from Literal?
Screvi and Literal work well together. Use Literal for book discovery and tracking, and Screvi for highlight management, review, and search.
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Try it with your highlights
Create your account, add your highlights and see how Screvi can change the way you read.