Readwise Reader 4+

This version adds a new file upload button directly inside of the app, for easily uploading your PDFs, ePUBs and more.

Fixed a bug where the app would freeze or crash when opening specific PDFs.

Fixed a bug where not all filtered views were showing up on the Home screen.

Fixed a bug where the Edit Metadata button wasn't working properly.

Fixed the formatting of code blocks inside documents in dark mode.

Plus, many more bug fixes and improvements :)


Previously:

iOS Custom Icons — Arek added new iOS 18 icons, enabling improved dark mode and tint mode variants for a gorgeous monochrome home screen. Navigate to Account → Change Icon to check out the options!

New Better TTS Voices — Try out the new (v8 beta) voices for Text to Speech which are the most lifelike yet! These voices should now be the default in Reader if you haven't selected your own preferred voice. We also fixed crackling/distortion in the new voices.

Core library update — We updated one of the core libraries that Reader is built on, which has made the app measurably faster!

New AI Models — Hannes added support for the o3-mini model in Ghostreader. He also upgraded chatgpt-4o to latest.

Fixed Sharing — Sharing from the ChatGPT app should now work properly, thanks to Arek.

Parsing Updates — Kryzs made improvements to how Reader handles posts from medium.com, substack.com, newyorker.com, chatgpt.com, and bonappetit.com, simonwillison.net, theverge.com, and spectrum.ieee.org.

Improved Performance — Johannes made some speed improvements to scrolling, so navigating your your document lists should feel much smoother now. Artem also removed some code thaat could prevent documents from loading in some rare cases.

Better Youtube Transcripts — We improved the transcript tracking/autoscrolling for youtube videos, an now automatically enhance (improve the punctuation, capitalization, etc) the transcripts for most videos so they're easily highlightable.

Resize Youtube Videos — You can now resize YouTube videos on the web, thanks to Mati. If you grab the small horizontal bar under the video and drag it up or down, the video will adapt to the new height. On mobile, you will see a much clearer error message when viewing YouTube videos while offline.'

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!

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.