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Readwise Reader 4+
All your reading in one place
Readwise, Inc
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
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
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://readwise.io/privacy
What’s New
Version 5.21
* 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.
* Fixed many bugs with document navigation, and using the Table of Contents
* Documents should now open faster and more smoothly :)
* We fixed some new bugs with the bottom menu position and TTS.
* Highlighting across pages in Paged Scroll mode should now be much smoother/faster
* We've upgraded the Feed section of the app! Now access all of your folders and individual feeds in a left sidebar, and various other improvements.
* We've dramatically improved the formatting of ePubs, and they should preserve much more of the underlying books style.
* Many many other bug fixes
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Previously:
* 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
* We've reverted the default behavior in the reading view where you need to tap the bottom to open the action menu. You can still re-enable this behavior in your reading settings though.
* 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.
* An improved style sheet for customizing every detail of how you want you want to read.
* You can now toggle "original styles" on your ePub books, which should improve their formatting quite a bit.
* We've completely revamped the search feature to be a lot more fast & accurate. Find any document in your library, instantly.
* Lots of Text to Speech improvements in this build(!):
* TTS will now save your position in the background while listening
* TTS will not longer mistakenly change your speed
* TTS indicator will fail less frequently when wrapping words at the end of paragraph
* TTS is a lot faster and more accurate on long documents (eg books)
* TTS player bar now takes less space, with new (more intuitive) buttons when you scroll away from the tracked word
* Nicer loading state (showing the cover) when opening books
* High contrast highlights for eink devices (can be enabled in settings)
* Subtle improvements to how taps and swipes open the UI while reading to make the experience feel more sturdy
* Improved reading position saving between sessions when paginated
* You can now read any document in the (beta) 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.
* You can now customize your Reader import email address, from both mobile and web! No more copy pasting the email you need to forward your newsletters too, you can have any email alias you want :)
Ratings and Reviews
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 😉
App Privacy
The developer, Readwise, Inc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
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- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Readwise, Inc
- Size
- 134.8 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Readwise, Inc.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Reader Monthly Plan $8.99
- Reader Monthly $12.99
- Reader Annual Plan $95.90
- Reader Yearly $119.99