Readwise Reader 4+

Finally An All-In-One App

About a year ago, I tried Readwise, the parent app to Reader. I found Readwise to be a very good app — but, at the time, I passed on subscribing.

Then Readwise introduced its Reader app. It’s a game-changer. I once required three apps (Reeder (different spelling), Pocket, and Speech Central) to do what Reader does. Reader’s RSS reader is top-notch. There’s no need to look elsewhere for an app to read it later since the app allows you to file articles in your inbox, later, and archives. Any highlights made to articles in Reader transfer to Readwise for future recall — and the built-in tagging system is to first-rate. To top it off, the built in text-to-speech voices are the best I’ve found.

At the present time Reader is still in beta. I’m not sure why, because it’s a perfectly great app with no major bugs as far as I can see. At any rate, if you subscribe to Readwise at this time, you will have the forthcoming subscription to Reader included for life in the price for Readwise alone. It’s a no-brainer.

I would only suggest a couple of things:

1) I’d like a way to select multiple items in the library to perform an action on. You can already do this in the Feeds section of the app. 2) I’d like to be able to move individual / multiple items in the library to a playlist for listening — one that would go on to the next article once the previous article is finished.

Subscribe to Readwise / Reader. You won’t regret it.

Developer Response ,

Hey Robb, thanks so much for your thoughtful review and your kind words! We're glad you've been enjoying Reader so far :)

One of our engineers actually just shipped the first iteration of multiselect, starting with the feeds, tags, and Views management pages. This will enable you to delete, merge, rename, and add to Views to be performed en masse. Multiselect for documents is up next!

As for queuing up a docs to a TTS playlist, we're starting to get this request more often, and may consider adding it to our roadmap.

Again, thank you for your support and for taking the time to share your experience with. We're glad to have you as part of our community!

Killer App

I’m a big fan right now as this looks so promising. I did want to suggest RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual
Presentation) like Outread and Instapaper apps, which will get your reading speed a big boost. There’s also Bionic mode in Reeder 4 which bolds some letters and impacts how fast you comprehend a word. Can’t wait to see the next iteration/update! Keep up the good work! I love the layout options for sharing quotes on Ivory for Mastodon, Twitter, and IG. Aggregating has never been easier- and easily add every highlight from Kindle, and Apple books, Pocket, Instapaper, etc. into Obsidian or Notion. The number of integrations is insane and the iOS experience is great, but online is the best option I think. I'm only beginning to scratch the surface, so will update the review as things change. But can be the go-to; replacing feed readers, saving for later apps, and working seamlessly with the Readwise app.

Tony Escobar

Impressive reading experience

I know it’s still a work in progress but it deserves five stars for the thoughtful design elements that cater to text-centric users like me. That said, it does have great tools such as excellent narration and ghostreader (AI-like) features for those that don’t want to read full pieces. The ‘views’ are excellent allowing you to group pieces by long, short, highlighted and many other traits. As an avid Reeder (not ReAder) user for users I’m ready to make the switch once Reader is fully baked. Honestly it feels like it already is done but I’m just giving it some time.

One thing I’m waiting for: the ability to include a link to the source when sharing some text from an article.

Developer Response ,

Thanks so much for this kind and thoughtful feedback Pendolino! In regards to your feature request, we're actually working on something right now that will help you so exactly this! Stay tuned 😉