Readwise Reader

Preliminary iPhone Duo Support — A bunch of improvements to make the app feel more native on the new iPhone Duo devices: two column reading view when expanded, no more weird intersections of UI with the right status bar, menus where Apple suggests them to be, etc. We're not finished here yet, and intend to make a lot more improvements to how Reader feels on Duo, but wanted to at least get the app feeling natural! New Lifelike Text to Speech Voices — You can now listen to your documents with new, much more lifelike voices. You have 16 voice options for English documents (choose your favorite), and we just added support for Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish as well. Reading Themes — You can now choose from a variety of different reading themes, including Sepia, Slate, Soft, Ink, and more. Other Text to Speech Improvements — Precise Listening Speed: drag a slider to set any playback speed from 0.5x to 3x, or tap a preset. The voice picker also has a full "View all languages" list now. Controls now live in a floating player that shrinks into a small pill as you scroll, so play, pause, and skip are always one tap away without covering what you're reading. Listening now starts where you're reading instead of jumping to the top. Finally, footnote numbers should no longer be read aloud. YouTube Chapters — Newly saved YouTube videos now show their chapters in the Contents panel, so you can jump straight to any section. Cleaner, Faster YouTube Transcripts — Enhanced YouTube transcripts now arrive more than twice as fast, keep every word and timestamp, and leave out the "uh"s, "um"s, and stutters. Better Article Extraction — When Reader's usual parser only captures part of an article, it now falls back to its own extraction to get you the full text. We've also fixed parsing for dozens more domains. Dozens and dozens of new bug fixes — articles with clickable graphics no longer open to a blank page on iPhone and iPad, a single bad change no longer blocks syncing, pages no longer get stuck turning into a new chapter in paginated mode, older articles that were cut off after an image have their full text back, collapsible sections now expand on mobile, swiping the modern toolbar to the next document works on iPad, the Lookup sheet no longer jumps while it loads, and literally dozens more: see https://docs.readwise.io/changelog for our full changelog. Previously: GPT-6 Luna For Ghostreader Summaries — Upgraded Ghostreader’s default model for preset prompts, including the automatic summary and document tagging, so they’re now powered by GPT-6 Luna. As with previous default models, this is included with your Reader subscription. Faster Heavily Highlighted Books — Books with lots of highlights now open much faster. Mobile Chat — The long awaited “chat with document” feature is now available on mobile. Intuitively ask any question while reading and receive a fast, accurate answer that will link to the cited text in the document. Ghostreader is also aware of your position and context while reading -- it’s like a smart friend reading over your shoulder that you can ask questions. To try it, just trigger Ghostreader while reading. Upload Markdown — You can now upload markdown documents to Reader. Better Search (beta) — There is now a toggle on the Search screen to enable our new server-based search that runs both more quickly, accurately, consistently, and takes much less time to index all of your documents (compared with our old local-first search). Readwise MCP & CLI — The (new, improved) Readwise MCP server gives Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI direct access to your Readwise highlights, and the full text of all your Reader documents. Podcast Transcripts — share any podcast episode from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Overcast into Reader, and it will be saved as a permanent, highlightable transcript.