Readwise Reader 4+

Sticky Tablet Sidebars — You can now keep sidebars open while using Reader on tablets. In documents, opening the table of contents or notebook sidebar shrinks the reading view, so you can still scroll and highlight text. In your Library and Feed, the sidebar stays open so you can browse documents with the same context you’d see on the web version of the app.

Further Tablet Improvements — Mati fixed a bug where modal sheets weren't properly centered in landscape mode on tablets. Folks who prefer to use Safari on their iPad instead of the mobile app should no longer see a banner nudge to suggest installing the mobile app. Mati also got rid of some unnecessary black margins at the top of YouTube videos on iPad, and fixed a glitch where taps with the Apple Pencil wouldn’t register on links.

Improved Action Sheets — Action sheets should now float nicely in the center of tablet screens, instead of at the bottom. Mati also got to the bottom of a glitch preventing highlight deletion and the action menu from working properly on PDFs. Artem fixed a glitch that caused some other action sheets not to show all their options. Arek fixed a bug where multiple bottom sheets could stay open at the same time. Using “find in document” and similar options should be easier now.

Fixed iOS Interface — Mati addressed an issue where new iOS window controls were overlapping with Reader buttons, making them difficult to tap. The interface now properly accommodates iOS26 system elements.

Fixed Touch Navigation — Mati resolved an issue where navigation taps weren’t registering in the bottom third of the screen. You can now swipe to open sidebars and tap to close modals from anywhere on your screen.

Fixed Screen Rotation — Mati fixed a glitch caused by PDFs triggering landscape mode on regular phones.

Fixed Auto-Tagging — Tristan fixed an issue where manually asking Ghostreader to tag a document using custom prompt wasn’t working.

Fixed Lock Screen — Tristan fixed an intermittent glitch with that was preventing the text to speech controls from working properly on iOS lock screens.

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This build has our full ePubs v2 feature — 10x+ better performance on books, a dedicated long-form reading UI, and so much more. Our goal is to have Reader be the best app in the world for reading books (in addition to other formats), and this project is a big step towards that.

We completely rewrote the PDF Clean View feature, which allows you to read, highlight, and listen to PDFs as if they’re any other responsive document. A much cleaner and nicer way to read your PDFs, on any screen size.

More Offline Control — Choose which categories of documents to keep available offline. Individual documents will still download automatically when you open them or view them in a list. You can control these options from the offline documents section of the Account screen.

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!

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.

Summaries in List View — We now display the summary and document title/favicon in the mobile actions sheet: just long press any document in a list to get a quick peak at a document's summary without having to open it.

Improved Youtube viewing — We improved the transcript tracking/autoscrolling for youtube videos, and now automatically enhance the transcripts for most videos so they're easily highlightable.