How it works
Remember everything you read
Most reading apps help you collect highlights. Avid helps you think. Turn reading into a conversation and build a personal archive of ideas that grows smarter over time.
Tell Avid what you're reading
Add a book by scanning the cover, searching by title, or importing your highlights from Kindle, Readwise, Kobo, or Apple Books. Avid learns the full text so it can think with you — not just about isolated passages.
Have a conversation about the ideas
Ask questions, challenge assumptions, explore themes. Avid doesn't summarize — it thinks alongside you, asking the kind of questions a thoughtful reading partner would. Every conversation deepens your understanding.
Discover what your books have in common
Over time, Avid remembers everything you've discussed. It surfaces connections between books you read months apart — the novel and the psychology textbook saying the same thing about self-deception, the history and the memoir illuminating the same pattern.
The problem
Why reading doesn't stick
You read 15 books a year. You remember fragments. Each book exists alone in your mind — the ideas never meet. That gap between how much you read and how much stays with you? That's the problem Avid solves.
Ideas fade within weeks
Research shows we forget 70% of what we read within days. Highlights don't help — they're storage, not understanding.
Books stay isolated
The best insights come from connections across books. But your brain doesn't automatically link ideas read months apart.
Passive reading is shallow
Reading is only half the work. The other half is thinking about what you read — questioning, connecting, integrating.