Acorny

Capture web highlights and sync them to the cloud for spaced repetition review.

Acorny — Highlight, Remember, Master What You Read Acorny helps you highlight text on any webpage, sync your highlights to your account, and turn saved passages into review cards with spaced repetition and AI-generated active recall. Most highlights are easy to save but easy to forget. Acorny is built for people who read articles, essays, newsletters, documentation, and books online, then want a lightweight way to actually revisit and remember what mattered. Key Features • Highlight text on any webpage with Ctrl+Shift+H, or Cmd+Shift+H on Mac • Save highlights directly to your Acorny account • Revisit a page and see your saved highlights restored in place • Review highlights with spaced repetition to improve long-term retention • Generate active recall questions from your highlights with AI • Practice with cloze deletion cards and fill-in-the-blank recall • Add notes and tags to organize your knowledge • Access your saved highlights from the Acorny web app How It Works 1. Select text on any webpage and press the shortcut 2. Acorny saves the highlight to your account 3. When you return to the page, your highlights are restored automatically 4. Acorny can help turn saved passages into active recall questions 5. Review your highlights on a spaced repetition schedule based on the SM-2 algorithm Why Acorny? Traditional highlighting helps you collect useful passages. Acorny helps you remember them. Instead of letting highlights disappear into a forgotten archive, Acorny gives you a simple workflow: highlight while reading, organize what matters, generate recall practice, and review over time. Privacy & Permissions Acorny requests access to websites so it can capture the text you choose to highlight and restore your saved highlights when you revisit a page. Acorny does not collect your browsing history, cookies, passwords, form inputs, or page content unrelated to your saved highlights. It only saves the data needed to provide the service: your email for authentication, highlighted text, page URL, page title, notes, tags, and review data. AI-generated active recall is based on the highlights you choose to save. Acorny does not use unrelated page content for AI generation. Your data is transmitted over HTTPS. See the full privacy policy at https://acorny.io/privacy.