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Readwise Reader
Readwise Reader saves, organizes, and helps you read articles, PDFs, ebooks, feeds, videos, and newsletters.
Readwise Reader is a cross-platform reading app for saving and reading web articles, PDFs, EPUBs, email newsletters, RSS feeds, YouTube videos, and X threads. It supports highlighting, annotations, full-text search, offline reading, text-to-speech, and Ghostreader AI features.
It is used by researchers, students, writers, and people managing large reading queues. Reader is bundled with a full Readwise subscription rather than sold as a separate plan; after the 30-day trial, the subscription starts at $9.99 per month billed annually.
Features
- Save and read articles, PDFs, EPUBs, newsletters, RSS feeds, YouTube videos, and X threads
- Highlight and annotate documents with keyboard-based reading tools
- Ask Ghostreader questions, define terms, and simplify difficult language
- Search the full text of your library, including offline content
- Convert articles, PDFs, and ebooks to audio with adjustable speed
- Import from Instapaper, Pocket exports, OPML feeds, CSV files, PDFs, and ebooks
- Sync highlights with Readwise and export them to apps such as Notion and Obsidian
- Use Reader on web, mobile, desktop, and supported browser extensions
Use cases
- Save articles and newsletters for later reading
- Highlight research papers and annotate PDFs or ebooks
- Listen to saved documents while commuting or exercising
- Search across a personal library of articles, books, and feeds
- Ask AI questions about documents and saved reading history
- Export reading notes and highlights to a knowledge-management app
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- 📱 NEW! iPhone Duo Support
The Reader app now fits the iPhone Duo, folded or open, with pages split into two columns in Horizontal pagination.
- 🗣️ Improved German Voices
Reader swapped in German speakers by the same names for text-to-speech.
- 🎧 Improved Podcast Transcripts
Reader moved podcasts onto the same cleanup that YouTube transcripts use; words stay as spoken, paragraphs keep their timestamps, and transcripts arrive faster.
- 💬 Improved Ghostreader Responsiveness
The chat server now works on several answers at once, so a long reply elsewhere shouldn't keep new conversations waiting.
- 📳 Fixed Shake to Undo Setting
Reader now respects iOS's Shake to Undo setting, so turning it off under Settings > Accessibility > Touch keeps the dialog away.
Capabilities
- Reads PDFs — “Upload yours to Reader to finally integrate PDFs into your reading workflow.” source
- Summaries — “Summarize, explain, and translate any document with Ghostreader AI” source
- Many languages — “Yes. Reader turns any article, PDF, or ebook into audio with natural AI voices, adjustable speed, and support for dozens of languages, on every platform.” source
- API — “Reader is built API-first: roll your own solutions and integrate your tools using our API.” source
Get it
Pricing
- Starting price
- $7.99/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-10-26
- Read
- by web search
Reader only
- $7.99 /mo billed yearly
- Read-it-later
- Powerful highlighting
- Web highlighting
- PDFs & EPUBs
- RSS & newsletters
- YouTube & Twitter threads