Readwise Reader is the first read-it-later app built specifically for power readers. If you’ve ever used Instapaper or Pocket, Reader is like those except it’s built for 2024 and brings all your reading into one place including: web articles, email newsletters, RSS feeds, Twitter threads, PDFs, EPUBs and more.
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“Reader has completely redesigned the read-it-later app. It’s gorgeous and blazingly fast. In many ways, it’s the Superhuman of reading — you won’t want to read anywhere else.”
Rahul Vohra (Founder of Superhuman)
“I spend my entire day reading, researching, & writing and Readwise is the reading tool I’ve been waiting for. The perfect complement to my writing workflow. Absolute game changer.”
Packy Mccormick (Author of Not Boring)
“The Readwise reading app is the first read-it-later app that enables a true workflow for serious readers. As an ex-Pocket /Instapaper power user, it's hard to imagine ever going back.”
Fitz Maro (Creative Technology Lead at Pinterest)
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ALL YOUR READING IN ONE PLACE
Stop juggling half a dozen reading apps. Reader brings all your content into one place including:
• Web articles
• Email newsletters
• RSS feeds
• Twitter threads
• PDFs
• EPUBs
You can even import your existing library from Pocket and Instapaper and RSS feeds from Feedly, Inoreader, Feedbin, etc.
POWERFUL HIGHLIGHTING FOR POWER READERS
We believe that annotations are the key to getting more out of what you read. So we’ve developed highlighting as a first-class feature inside Reader. Highlight images, links, rich text, and more. On any device.
READER WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU READ
We’ve reinvented the digital reading experience to apply the power of software to the printed word. This includes TEXT-TO-SPEECH (listen to any document narrated with the lifelike voice of a real human), GHOSTREADER (your integrated copilot of reading enabling you to ask questions, define terms, simplify complex language, and more), and FULL-TEXT SEARCH (find whatever you’re looking for, even if you only remember a single word).
FLEXIBLE SOFTWARE TO FIT YOUR UNIQUE NEEDS
Your personal interests, your professional projects, your way of doing things — they’re unique. Reader is your home base for the varied documents in your life, customizable to match the way your brain works.
PDFs for work, articles for your newsletter, and ebooks for pleasure all live comfortably side-by-side. No more juggling dozens of apps.
INTEGRATED WITH YOUR FAVORITE TOOLS
Your annotations should flow effortlessly from your reading app into your writing tool of choice. Instead you waste hours reformatting, reorganizing, and repeating. Reader eliminates this hassle. Reader seamlessly connects to Readwise which exports to Obsidian, Notion, Roam Research, Evernote, Logseq, and more
READ ANYWHERE, ANYTIME
Access all of your content from any of your devices with everything in sync. Even offline. Reader syncs across all platforms, including a powerful, local-first web app and iOS. You can even highlight the open web with the Reader browser extensions.
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If you’re not already a Readwise subscriber, you can get a free 30-day trial with no credit card upfront. At the end of the trial, you will not be charged unless you choose to subscribe.
Support: Check out readwise.io/faq or email us at hello@readwise.io
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What's New in Readwise Reader
6.14
December 15, 2024
New Summaries in List View — We now display the summary and document title/favicon in the mobile actions sheet: just long press any document from a list view (like “Later” or your Feed) to get a quick peak at a document's summary without having to open it.
So many bug fixes — Fixes to tags, the Omnivore import, Youtube AI transcript enhancement, ghostreader summaries, loading states (no more flickering when new documents are imported), progress bars, text-to-speech (TTS), parsing (for Bluesky and unherd.com), and much much more!
Previously:
UI Improvements — The front matter (top header, buttons, etc) in the document view got a big redesign courtesy of Kris and Johannes, with the summary showing in a toggle view above the document content. It’s now easier to start TTS from anywhere within the document — check out the new play button in the top right. The option to change appearance is now in the bottom sheet. Excessively long metadata is now truncated, Ghostreader summaries can be about twice as long, and emails look a lot nicer in the Daily Digest.
Discover Documents — Mati built an easy way to bulk add some of Reader’s most popular documents directly to your account, hand-curated by our Wisereads editor Abi.
Export Everything — Thanks to Piotr, Reader's "Export PDFs and EPUBs" feature has been reworked to "Export full files and articles" which not only exports your uploaded files but also all of your Reader document HTMLs. Reader's public document list API now has a new html_content response data field enabled via the withHtmlContent query param. The Reader API also properly returns updated metadata instead of the original metadata.
* Reader now has a Trash Bin, where you can find all recently deleted documents and easily restore them
* New better "Return to reading position" feature while skimming any document :) Return to where you were reading, or jump to where you are now without any annoyance or confusion.
* We've updated the core local database for Reader, which will require a one time migration, but fix many bugs and improve performance.
* Tags should now load in the share sheet (when saving documents from another app) 10-100x faster!
* You can now view Enhanced Transcripts for youtube videos -- they'll be capitalized correctly with punctuation, paragraph breaks, etc. Perfect for highlighting your favorite moments from any video :)
* Highlighting Upgrades – You should now notice several subtle upgrades to the highlighting experience including better grabbing of leading and trailing punctuation, smoother cross-page highlighting in Paged Scroll mode on mobile, and, most importantly, the ability to resize existing highlights!
* Ghostreader v2 – You can now customize the default Ghostreader prompts as well as craft your own creating the potential for all kinds of clever AI use cases while you read. As part of this, Ghostreader is now much easier to access on mobile and we've refreshed the default prompts.
* You can now export your highlights for any document to your clipboard or share sheet on mobile.
* Many fixes to PDFs, including their progress tracking and showing their cover images
* Highlighting should now be a lot more smooth/natural in this version :) No longer struggle to include punctuation or make the selection work just right.
* Many Text to Speech improvements:
* You can now read any document in the Paged Scroll mode! This is especially useful for books, where you can now simply tap the left or right edges of the screen to jump to the last/next page of content, rather than constantly scrolling. This should be familiar to reading in apps like Kindle, except it has our own innovation that allows you to highlight across pages effortlessly.
Since all the old RSS readers died and every site has been adding paywalls it’s been harder and harder to be efficient with my reading. Enter Readwise Reader. It lets me funnel nearly all the content I want to read - emails, articles, even PDFs - into one experience. I churn through everything on my iPad in the morning and save content for work to access from the desktop app. They have a great Discord community too and are super responsive to feedback. Love this team!
