Readwise Release Notes
Last updated: Apr 14, 2026
- Apr 10, 2026
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April 10, 2026
Readwise adds an experimental Wikiwise Mac app for building local-first markdown wikis with an AI agent, expands MCP access to Notion and Perplexity, and improves exports, highlight ordering, podcast handling, and content parsing.
April 10, 2026
π NEW! Wikiwise (experimental) β Tristan built a native Mac app for setting up, customizing, and managing your own local-first markdown wiki with an AI agent. Just point it at a folder and your markdown files become interlinked pages. Add sources and the LLM agent reads them, writes summary pages, cross-references everything, and keeps it all consistent. The wiki compounds with every source you add, with no need for a database, configs, or account. Wikis can compile to a clean, fast website you can share on the web. If you decide to try it out, feel free to send us any feedback!
π NEW! Expanded MCP Access β Thanks to Piotr, our MCP can now be used with Notion and Perplexity.
π Fixed Obsidian Exports β Tristan fixed a backend process glitch that prevented exported documents and highlights from reaching Obsidian.
π Fixed Highlight Ordering β Mati fixed a bug where highlights created via keyboard shortcut appeared at the top of the notebook panel regardless of their position in the document. Highlights now sort by their actual location, so your notebook and exports reflect the correct reading order.
ποΈ Improved Podcast Exports β Full transcripts now export to Obsidian, and podcasts are correctly categorized as podcasts in Readwise instead of being saved as articles.
π Parsing Updates β Krzys improved how Reader handles Twitter/X content. Krzys also fixed a bug where email newsletters containing embedded script tags were getting cut off mid-content. Newsletters from Dan Koe, Liberty's Highlights, and various Substack authors were among those affected. Full newsletters should now come through intact.
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April 3, 2026
Readwise adds Restore All from Trash on web and mobile, plus fixes for MCP highlights, email display, chat keyboard shortcuts, Kindle imports, RSS feeds, Twitter/X rendering, note editing, and article parsing for better cleanup of saved content.
April 3, 2026
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ποΈ <strong>NEW! Restore All from Trash</strong> β Mati added a "Restore All" button to the trash view on both web and mobile. If you accidentally bulk delete documents, you can now bring everything back in one tap instead of restoring items one by one.
π‘ <strong>Fixed MCP Highlights</strong> β Piotr fixed a bug where creating highlights via MCP (for AI agent integrations) could fail on text containing parentheses, brackets, or other special characters. Highlight creation through MCP tools should now handle any text reliably.
π§ <strong>Fixed Email Display</strong> β Mati fixed an issue where internal marker text was appearing at the bottom of emails in original view mode. Emails should render cleanly now.
π¬ <strong>Fixed Chat Keyboard Shortcut</strong> β Mati fixed a bug where pressing <code>D</code> to delete a document while the Chat sidebar was open would incorrectly focus the chat input, blocking further keyboard shortcuts.
π <strong>Fixed Kindle Imports</strong> β Piotr updated our handling of Russian Kindle clippings. Newer firmware uses different wording for "highlight" and "page," and both old and new formats are now supported.
π <strong>Fixed Note Textarea</strong> β Mati fixed a sizing issue with the note editing textarea on web. It now renders at the correct width.
π‘ <strong>Fixed RSS Feeds</strong> β Piotr fixed an issue where RSS feeds from certain sites were saving broken content instead of the actual feed.
π¦ <strong>Fixed Twitter/X Display</strong> β Krzys shipped several Twitter fixes: missing media in longer tweets, truncated tweets in threaded conversations, and broken formatting for Chinese-language tweets are all resolved. Images also no longer appear misplaced in tweet documents.
π <strong>Parsing Updates</strong> β Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from <a href="https://reuters.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reuters.com</a>, <a href="https://psychotherapynetworker.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">psychotherapynetworker.org</a>, <a href="https://blog.allegro.tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blog.allegro.tech</a>, <a href="https://integralguide.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">integralguide.com</a>, <a href="https://jamoe.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">jamoe.org</a>, <a href="https://faridsaid.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">faridsaid.com</a>, <a href="https://lyz-code.github.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lyz-code.github.io</a>, <a href="https://blog.markwhen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blog.markwhen.com</a>, and <a href="https://xda-developers.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">xda-developers.com</a>. He also created a new system that better strips navigation, comments, and sidebar clutter from saved articles. All of your release notes in one feed
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- Mar 27, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Mar 27, 2026
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March 27, 2026
Readwise releases new action tag editing, letting users modify or remove header markers and keep sections and auto-tags in sync. It also adds a Readwise for Claws skill, improves webhook and import handling, fixes login and tweet-saving issues, and broadens parsing support.
March 27, 2026
π NEW! Modify Action Tags β You can now modify or remove header markers after creating them, and the associated sections and auto-generated tags update to match. As part of this change, Ibai also fixed an issue where
.h1/.h2header action tags and.c1/.c2concatenation tags could interfere with exports.π¦ NEW! Readwise for Claws β We just launched a ClawHub skill that connects your Readwise and Reader library directly to your claw. Anything you save (articles, PDFs, tweets, YouTube, podcasts, newsletters, books) is instantly searchable and readable by your agent in clean markdown.
npx clawhub install readwise-officialβοΈ Fixed Shortlist Webhook β Mati extended the shortlist hook so moving items to shortlist triage status will now dispatch a webhook (i.e. for Zapier).
π§ Fixed Email Imports β Mati fixed a bug where emails forwarded by Gmail as attachments (
.emlfiles) weren't working right. Reader now correctly processes these attachment types, so all forwarded emails should arrive as expected.π Fixed Kindle Imports β Single-language Japanese, Chinese, and Russian Kindle clippings now parse correctly. Rasul also added a warning when sending Kindle books bigger than Kindle's 7MB email limit.
π¦ Fixed Firefox Login β Mati fixed a CSRF error that blocked login for Firefox users running strict privacy settings. Those users should be able to sign in without adjusting their browser configuration.
π¦ Fixed Twitter/X Saving β Tristan fixed a bug with saving tweets that had partial or malformed data from Twitter's API. Rasul also improved retry behavior when Twitter's connection drops during initial sync setup, so tweet saving should fail less often.
π Parsing Updates β Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from google.com, hackernoon.com, sciencedirect.com, and smarthomecircle.com. He also improved page fetching more generally, which should make parsing work better across the board.
- Mar 20, 2026
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March 20, 2026
Readwise launches MCP and CLI tools that give AI apps and the terminal direct access to highlights, Reader documents, and library management, and adds Readwise Skills plus GPT-5.4 support. It also improves MCP reliability, search indexing, exports, and parsing.
March 20, 2026
π€ NEW! Readwise MCP β The (new, improved) Readwise MCP server gives Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI direct access to your Readwise highlights, and the full text of all your Reader documents. Once connected, you can ask your AI to search your notes, answer questions using your own reading history as context, or even make changes to your Reader library for you.
π NEW! Readwise CLI β You can now search, read, and organize your Readwise and Reader data from the command line interface. The CLI lets you semantically search your library, save URLs to Reader, manage document locations, create highlights, and export your full library β all from the terminal. These work great with AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, and can access Reader in read-only mode if you prefer.
π NEW! Readwise Skills β We pre-built AI workflows like inbox triage, feed catchup, a custom book review that is aware of related context in your vault, and a quiz mode for testing yourself on recent reads. You can also analyze your reading history and tell you something surprising you don't know about yourself. Works with the Readwise MCP or CLI.
π» NEW! GPT-5.4 Support β If you bring your own OpenAI API key for custom Ghostreader prompts, you can now select GPT-5.4 as your model.
π¦Ύ Improved MCP Reliability β Tristan fixed a bug where highlight colors were causing MCP server responses to break. Highlight data should now come through correctly when using the API or MCP tools. Piotr fixed an issue where bulk document updates via the MCP server could trigger rate limits, so operations should no longer fail silently. Piotr also added support for Mistral as an MCP client via OAuth.
β‘ Improved Search Indexing β Piotr fixed an issue where profiles with extremely large documents (like multi-volume epub collections at 50MB+) could cause issues with search indexing. Large document batches are now split by size, so even the biggest libraries should index smoothly.
π Improved Google Docs Exports β Rasul improved how Reader detects certain Google account errors during export. Google recently started returning some revoked-token failures in a new format that Reader wasn't recognizing β these are now handled properly, so you should get a clean re-authentication prompt instead of silent export failures.
π Parsing Updates β Mati improved the reliability of our YouTube parsing and fixed a bug where YouTube channel URLs (like
youtube.com/@channel) were being treated as individual videos. YouTube content should also parse faster. Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from sparknotes.com, wavelength.asana.com, samhenri.gold, grist.org, codely.com, deepwiki.com, factory.strongdm.ai, wericmartin.com, bitwarden.com, emcrit.org, justin.poehnelt.com, stopsloppypasta.ai, theverge.com, and theadhocracy.co.uk.
- Mar 13, 2026
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March 13, 2026
Readwise releases a March 13, 2026 update with faster YouTube caption parsing, improved API performance for key endpoints, and fixes for Google Play subscriptions, X/Twitter DM sync, and Twitter list emoji rendering. Parsing updates cover bloomberg, sparknotes, wavelength, samhenri, wapo.st redirects, and RSS feeds.
March 13, 2026
- Improved YouTube Parsing β YouTube started aggressively throttling our caption translation requests, but Ibai and Mitch found some ways to make YouTube videos parse significantly faster.
- Improved API Performance β Piotr improved compression to four high-bandwidth API endpoints (including the document list and export endpoints). Responses should be noticeably faster, especially on slower connections.
- Fixed Subscriptions β Google Play will now properly display subscription details and links to manage your subscription, thanks to Tristan.
- Fixed X/Twitter DM Sync β Ibai fixed an issue preventing some tweets DM'd to the Reader account from syncing properly to Readwise and Reader.
- Fixed Twitter List Emojis β Krzys fixed an issue where Twitter/X lists imported into Reader sometimes displayed oversized emojis that disrupted the layout. Emojis now render at the correct size.
- Parsing Updates β Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from bloomberg.com, sparknotes.com, wavelength.asana.com, and samhenri.gold. He also added support for wapo.st redirect links and fixed several RSS feed parsing issues.
- Mar 6, 2026
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March 6, 2026
Readwise releases a March 2026 update fixing highlight navigation and resizing, podcast transcriptions, enhanced reading progress options, exact domain filters, notebook duplicates, tag trimming, split view shortcut, Twitter imports, title updates, tap targets, Firefox Kindle sync, OneNote exports, Android quoteshot sharing, Ghostreader model options, Obsidian export stability, and parsing improvements.
March 6, 2026
- π Fixed Highlight Navigation β Tristan and Adam fixed a bug where tapping a highlight in the Notebook sidebar on mobile didn't scroll to that highlight in the document.
- βοΈ Fixed Highlight Resizing β Adam fixed a bug where highlights spanning multiple text elements (like bulleted lists) could lose their yellow background after resizing with the adjustment handles. This should also fix some cases where highlights appeared to vanish when switching documents or pages.
- π§ Fixed Podcast Transcriptions β Mati fixed an issue where some podcast platforms were failing to transcribe some episodes.
- π Improved Reading Progress β Artem and Lior enhanced the reading progress modal for EPUBs to show more detail at a glance. You can now choose between percent, page number, time left in chapter, time left in book, or hidden and each option previews the current value right in the picker.
- π Fixed Exact Domain Filters β Arek fixed a bug where using
__exactwith domain filters in filtered views returned no results. If you had a view filtering for exactlygithub.combut not subdomains likedocs.github.com, it should now work as expected. - π Fixed Notebook Duplicates β Adam fixed a bug where certain highlights on mobile could show duplicated text in the Notebook panel. This happened when a highlight contained an image and spanned nested HTML elements β the text would render twice on iOS and Android even though it displayed correctly on web.
- π·οΈ Fixed Tag Trimming β Adam improved server-side trimming for tag names, so tags created via the API or share extension can no longer end up with trailing spaces that cause issues.
- β―οΈ Fixed Split View Shortcut β Mati fixed the
<keyboard shortcut for toggling split view. It should now properly fire on filtered views. - π¦ Fixed Twitter Imports β Ibai fixed an issue with the Twitter integration, so now chats should come in properly again.
- π Fixed Title Updates β Arek fixed a bug where editing a document's title through the metadata sheet on Android didn't update the title shown in the Library or the bottom sheet until you force-refreshed. Titles now update immediately.
- π Fixed Tap Targets β Arek fixed a bug on Android where the
+and...buttons in the Library header had overlapping tap targets, so tapping near the boundary of one could trigger the other. - π¦ Fixed Firefox Kindle Sync β Ibai fixed a bug that was causing Firefox users to get an outdated version of the Kindle sync extension. Kindle sync should now work again for Firefox users.
- π Fixed OneNote Export β Tristan fixed an issue where tags containing special characters like
&,<<, or>>could break OneNote exports or produce corrupted rendering. - πΈ Fixed Android Quoteshot Sharing β Mitch fixed a bug on Android where the quote share dropdown was hidden behind the card, so it's now possible to control how you share beautiful highlight images again.
- π€ Updated Ghostreader Models β If you bring your own OpenAI API key for Ghostreader prompts, you can now select GPT-5.2 as a model option.
- π Fixed Obsidian Export Crashes β Piotr fixed a memory issue that could cause Obsidian exports to crash for users with large libraries. Exports now process documents in efficient batches, so even the biggest collections should export smoothly.
- π Parsing Updates β Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from technologyreview.com, nvidia.com, extremetech.com, illwill.com, and animalcrossingworld.com.
- Feb 27, 2026
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February 27, 2026
February 27, 2026 delivers a broad bug fix and stability pass. Keyboard shortcuts, Google Docs exports, random sort, and long title handling are improved, plus numerous UI, upload, and parsing fixes for a smoother, more reliable experience.
February 27, 2026
Fixed Keyboard Shortcuts β Mati overhauled our shortcut handling. The tilde key (
~) no longer switches to the info tab when you're typing in a document note, Dvorak and Colemak keyboard layouts should no longer trigger two keypresses, and theShift+Dshortcut text now correctly says "Download PDF".Improved Google Docs Exports β Rasul fixed timeout errors in Google Docs exports by splitting large request payloads into smaller chunks. If you were seeing export failures for documents with lots of highlights, those should be resolved.
Fixed Random Sort β Arek fixed an issue where pull-to-refresh wasn't re-shuffling documents when using Random sort in Library and filtered Views. Now pulling to refresh re-randomizes the order everywhere, instead of only in the Feed.
Fixed Paged Titles β Arek fixed a bug where documents with very long titles could take up the entire first page in paged scroll mode, hiding the actual content. Titles are now truncated to three lines with improved support for scripts like Thai, Arabic, and Devanagari that need extra line height.
Fixed Paged Sheet β Mati fixed a bug where tapping outside the Customize Appearance sheet in paged scroll mode didn't properly close it.
Fixed File Uploads β Piotr fixed an issue where uploaded files with a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark weren't being processed correctly. Now, CSV uploads and OPML imports should properly import their documents.
Fixed API Word Count β Tristan fixed a bug where documents saved via the Reader API with raw HTML always showed a word count of zero. The word count is now computed properly when the document is created.
Fixed Notebook Styling β Mati fixed an issue where raw CSS style tags could leak into the notebook page view instead of being properly stripped.
Fixed Double Listen β Mati fixed a bug where long documents like EPUBs showed "Listen" twice in the action menu when Ghostreader was turned off. They now offer "Appearance" and "Listen" as options.
Fixed Tag Icon β Arek thickened the stroke width on tag icons so they no longer look pixelated on Android tablet displays.
Fixed Extension Highlights β Piotr fixed an issue in the Safari and chromium browser extensions where the annotation popover wouldn't always appear after highlighting text on YouTube and Facebook.
Fixed Highlight Chat β Piotr tracked down a bug where Chat with Highlights could stop working if it tried to reference highlights from a book you'd deleted. Broken conversations will now recover automatically the next time you send a message.
Parsing Updates β Tristan, Mati, and Krzys improved how Reader handles posts from X/Twitter. Formatting, video embeds in list digests, private/subscription tweets, and several edge cases are now handled more reliably. Private tweets should no longer get "stuck" loading, for example. Mati and Tristan also improved parsing for podcasts and alignment.anthropic.com, respectively.
- Feb 20, 2026
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February 20, 2026
New TTS EPUBs on Android let you listen to books and non English titles. This release also fixes crashes, improves chat context, and refines exports, feeds, and parsing for faster, smoother reading. A solid mix of stability and usability upgrades.
February 20, 2026
- π NEW! TTS EPUBs on Android β If you've been wanting to listen to your books on Android devices or with non-English languages, now you can :)
- π₯ Fixed Android Crashes β Tristan fixed a crash on Android that occurred when selecting large amounts of text in the document view. Arek tweaked things so that home screen data preloads immediately when opening a link in Reader. These changes also fixed a crash bug related to deeplinks, so reading something new should be faster and more robust.
- π» Improved Chat Context β Ghostreader now knows what document content is visible on your screen, so Document Chat can handle questions like "What does this mean? Please explain it to me like I'm 5 years old."
- π Fixed Highlight Buttons β Mati fixed a web bug where the note and tag buttons wouldn't respond on the first click. Now, when auto-highlighting is turned off, you can create a new highlight by using the note and tag buttons in a more streamlined process.
- ποΈ Fixed Podcast Routing β Mati fixed a bug where some Apple Podcasts URLs with extra query parameters (like
?l=) added via URL were being categorized as Articles instead of Podcasts. - π Fixed Export Integrations β Rasul fixed a glitch with Google Docs exports caused by a folder handling error. Tristan fixed an error that could occur during Evernote exports when note titles hit Evernote's character limit.
- π Fixed YouTube Dates β Mati fixed an issue where newly saved YouTube videos were missing their published date.
- π Fixed Feed Sorting β Arek fixed the "sort by Folders" option in Manage Feeds, so it should now group feeds alphabetically by folder name.
- ποΈ Fixed Focus Mode β Focus mode should now gray out paragraphs that aren't currently focused.
- π Parsing Updates β Tristan, Rasul, and Krzys worked this week to account for a change in Twitter's API that briefly disrupted tweet and list imports. Krzys also improved how Reader displays tweets and X posts, as well as content from craft.do.
- Feb 13, 2026
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February 13, 2026
February 13 2026 adds a resizable right sidebar and a highlight tag manager in Reader web, plus a notebook performance boost. It also fixes CSV exports, YouTube subtitles, Twitter disconnect, RSS autotagging, fullscreen images, shortcut search, and horizontal page widths.
February 13, 2026
βοΈ <strong>NEW! Resizable Sidebar</strong> β You can now resize the right sidebar in the Reader web app, thanks to Mati! This is especially useful for chatting with Ghostreader while reading, and for reading documents on bigger monitors.
π <strong>NEW! Highlight Tag Management</strong> β Mati added a new <a href="https://read.readwise.io/highlights-tags" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">highlight tag manager</a> on Reader web where you can browse, filter, and export your highlights organized by tag. As part of this project, Mati shipped a performance improvement for document notebooks. If you had 300+ highlights, the Notebook view should load much more smoothly.
π <strong>Fixed CSV Exports</strong> β Tristan fixed an issue where users with large libraries were receiving incomplete CSV exports. Some exports were hitting a server timeout, which meant recent documents could get cut off.
π¬ <strong>Fixed YouTube Subtitles</strong> β Mati fixed an issue where YouTube videos weren't displaying subtitles in Reader due to a change on YouTube's end. Affected videos have been reparsed.
π¦ <strong>Fixed Twitter Disconnect</strong> β Rasul fixed a bug where the Remove Connection button for Twitter integrations wasn't working properly. The <a href="https://readwise.io/twitter_start" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter Sync page</a> is no longer the only way to disconnect your account(s).
π·οΈ <strong>Fixed RSS Autotagging</strong> β Ibai fixed a glitch with custom autotags on RSS items. Now, even if you don't have an API key configured, your custom tags will be properly applied when you move a document from the Feed to your Library.
π± <strong>Fixed Fullscreen Images</strong> β Arek fixed a bug where the comment and tag buttons would flash but not respond when viewing images in fullscreen mode, particularly in EPUBs.
π <strong>Fixed Shortcut Search</strong> β Mati fixed a glitch that could sometimes cause the search icon to overlap the "Find shortcuts" text on the keyboard shortcuts preferences page.
π <strong>Expanded Horizontal Pages</strong> β Mati fixed an issue where 2-column reading mode on large tablets had excessive padding. The columns now use the full available screen width in horizontal pagination + the XL width setting.
- Feb 6, 2026
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February 6, 2026
To celebrate 1 year, this release adds the WiseUp newsletter and shifts Roam export to the official API. It also speeds up Instapaper sync and fixes Notion, Twitter Bookmarks, TTS auto-scroll, desktop updates, and document frequency persistence.
February 6, 2026
- π§ Updated Newsletter Preferences β To celebrate our 1-year anniversary, Mati added the WiseUp! Newsletter to the email preferences page in Reader. In WiseUp!, we share answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you'll enjoy.
- βοΈ Updated Roam Export β We've deprecated the old Roam export method in favor of the official Roam API integration. If you're exporting to Roam, make sure you've switched to the API-based export in your settings.
- π Improved Instapaper Sync β Tristan improved how Reader syncs with Instapaper by passing your existing bookmarks to the API, which should prevent duplicate imports and speed up the sync process.
- π€ Fixed Notion Connection β Mati fixed a re-authentication glitch that caused the app to display a loading spinner instead of the button to re-connect.
- π¦ Fixed Twitter Bookmarks β Twitter Bookmarks should be syncing again after an outage due to a glitch with the Twitter API. Rasul also re-enabled syncing for folks who weren't able to last week.
- π Fixed TTS Auto-Scroll β Starting text-to-speech would sometimes cause an unexpected scroll that broke the word-by-word tracking. This has been resolved, so TTS should smoothly follow along with the audio again.
- πͺ Fixed Desktop Updates β Mati fixed a race condition with version numbering that could cause issues with automatic updates to the desktop app.
- βοΈ Fixed Document Frequency β Mati fixed a bug where your document surfacing preferences weren't being saved properly in Readwise. If you had configured how often certain tags should be applied, those settings should now persist as expected.
- Jan 30, 2026
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January 30, 2026
A user facing update rolls out fixes that smooth interactions and parsing. It covers image tap fixes, login double-tap protection, tag date persistence after cache clears, and a keyboard shortcut conflict fix, plus improved parsing for major sites and social content.
January 30, 2026
πΌοΈ Fixed Image Taps β Ibai fixed a bug where highlighting an image could sometimes create duplicate highlights.
π Fixed Login β Tristan fixed a bug where quickly double-tapping the signup or login button could trigger an error page, instead of ignoring the duplicated tap.
π·οΈ Fixed Tag Dates β Clearing your browser cache will no longer reset the "last used" dates on the tags page, thanks to Mati.
β¨οΈ Fixed Keyboard Shortcut Conflict β Tristan fixed a conflict where
Shift+Enterwas mapped to both "toggle auto-scroll" and "view highlight in notebook" on YouTube videos. The notebook view shortcut is nowShift+I.π Parsing Updates β Krzys made improvements to how Reader handles content from nytimes.com, inc.com, thedankoe.com, lefilmfrancais.com, thurrott.com, and tweakers.net. Twitter/X articles, Substack notes, and Substack comments should now parse beautifully as well.
- Jan 23, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Jan 23, 2026
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January 23, 2026
New Tags Webhook goes live letting you trigger notifications when you tag a highlight. The update also fixes TTS jump behavior, Kobo encoding, tap-to-scroll, and more, improving chat, loading, and media handling across devices. A solid release with stability boosts and cleaner parsing.
January 23, 2026
π·οΈ NEW! Tags Webhook β Rasul added a new webhook trigger that fires when you add a tag to a highlight. If you're using webhooks to sync your highlights with other tools, you can now get notified the moment you tag something.
π Fixed TTS Jump Button β Mati fixed an issue where the TTS "jump to current position" button would reset to the beginning of the chapter when using horizontal pagination mode. It now correctly jumps to where the audio is playing.
π Fixed Kobo Encoding β Rasul resolved a character encoding issue that was causing missing apostrophes in highlights synced from Kobo devices.
π Fixed Tap-to-Scroll β You can once again tap the status bar to scroll to the top of document lists on iPhones, thanks to Mati.
π¬ Improved Chat Availability β Ibai improved Chat with Document so it works even before document enhancement is complete, using the original transcript.
π€ Fixed Themed Reviews β Ibai fixed an issue where some users were getting errors when generating Themed Reviews.
π Fixed Document Loading β Mitch fixed a race condition that could cause errors when loading some chunked documents (like EPUBs and long articles).
π¦ Fixed Highlight Extension β Highlights saved using "Save Highlight to Readwise" on Firefox pages weren't always capturing page titles correctly, causing them to be grouped incorrectly in your library. Ibai fixed it.
π¦ Improved Twitter Settings β The settings for saving Twitter bookmarks are now separate between Readwise 1.0 and Reader, so you can control them independently.
πΌοΈ Fixed Image Loading β Arek fixed an issue on iOS where certain article images (specifically
.svgzcompressed SVG files) weren't loading properly in full-size mode.π Fixed PDF Toolbar β Mati fixed an issue where tapping icons in the PDF toolbar on iPad would cause the document to scroll back to the top.
π¬ Fixed YouTube Transcripts β Mati improved the reliability of YouTube transcript fetching. Some users were incorrectly seeing "YouTube has blocked access to transcripts" even when transcripts were available.
π Parsing Updates β Krzys improved handling of Substack Notes and comments, so these now parse correctly when you save them to Reader. He also improved parsing for sahilbloom.com.
- Jan 16, 2026
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January 16, 2026
This update fixes mobile loading with very large libraries, corrects feed routing and Gmail autoforwarding, and fixes a welcome header. It also improves PDF fallback messaging, Android subscription sync, webhook creation, MCP login, and Substack RSS parsing.
January 16, 2026
- Fixed Large Libraries β Mitch fixed an issue where users with very large libraries (200,000+ documents) could hit a database error that prevented the app from loading properly on mobile.
- Fixed Feed Routing β If your Reader email address started with "feed" (like
[email protected]or[email protected]), emails were landing in the wrong place. Rasul fixed this, and documents should be where they belong now. - Fixed Gmail Autoforwarding β Gmail autoforwarding confirmation emails were sometimes failing when your Gmail address differed from your Readwise account email (like if you use Apple's private relay). Rasul fixed the confirmation flow to properly match you by your Reader email address.
- Improved PDF Enhancement β Johannes tweaked what happens when a PDF's text enhancement fails. You'll now see a clear message with a "View as PDF" button to fall back to the original, rather than a loading animation.
- Fixed Welcome Email Header β A "Welcome to your free trial" header was incorrectly appearing on Themed Connection emails for some existing subscribers. Rasul removed it.
- Fixed Android Subscriptions β Arek fixed a race condition that could cause subscription status to get out of sync on Android.
- Improved Webhooks β Rasul made it easier to update webhooks, and fixed an issue where some users were getting errors when trying to create new webhooks.
- Fixed MCP Server Login β ChatGPT users can log in to the MCP server again, thanks to Piotr.
- Parsing Updates β Krzys made improvements to how Reader handles posts from Substack RSS feeds.
- Jan 9, 2026
- Date parsed from source:Jan 9, 2026
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January 9, 2026
January's stability update fixes Android chat errors, bulk update glitches, and podcast transcript accuracy while preserving autoscroll and animation preferences. It boosts Ghostreader reliability, image rendering, and RSS/Substack parsing for a smoother reading experience.
January 9, 2026
- π¬ Fixed Chat with Highlights β Ibai fixed a glitch that could cause Chat with Highlights to give an unexpected error on Android devices where the local time was slightly inaccurate.
- π¦ Fixed Bulk Updates β Tristan fixed a bulk update glitch that could cause the app to stop updating properly.
- π Improved TTS Autoscroll β Mati made text-to-speech autoscroll preferences persist between articles. Your autoscroll setting will now stay the way you set it as you move between documents.
- π€ Improved Ghostreader Reliability β Mati improved how Ghostreader handles YouTube and podcast transcripts; it should now have more context when answering questions.
- πΊ Fixed Animation Settings β Modals, menus, and horizontal pagination now properly respect your "reduced animation" preferences.
- ποΈ Fixed Podcast Transcripts β Mati fixed several issues where incorrect podcast episodes were being saved from Spotify and Pocket Casts links.
- π§ Fixed Review Warnings β Ibai fixed a bug where Themed Reviews were incorrectly showing a warning message that was only meant for Daily Review emails.
- πΈ Fixed Broken Images β Tristan fixed an issue where some images weren't displaying correctly due to a quirk in our URL encoding.
- π¦ Fixed Twitter DMs β Ibai fixed an issue where posts and threads sent to Readwise via encrypted DM weren't properly saving due an update with how Twitter handles usernames. They should all have come over now.
- π Fixed API β Tristan fixed an API glitch causing some requests (like
updatedAfter) to throw errors. - π Fixed Changelog Updates β Tristan fixed a glitch that led to this RSS feed in Reader fetching content from the website instead of the RSS feed the way it is supposed to.
- π Parsing Updates β Krzys fixed saving articles from Dense Discovery newsletters. He also made improvements to how Reader handles Substack RSS feeds and documents from outsideonline.com.
- Dec 26, 2025
- Date parsed from source:Dec 26, 2025
- First seen by Releasebot:Dec 30, 2025
December 26, 2025
December 26 update adds Mark Seen API for programmatic control and fixes for PDFs, Twitter Bookmarks, CSV exports, account preferences, and iPad scrolling. PDFs now work across browsers, bookmarks behave correctly, and large library exports stream for reliability.
December 26, 2025
π NEW! Mark Seen API β Rasul added an option to mark documents as seen via the API, giving you more programmatic control over your library.
π Fixed Firefox PDFs β PDFs werenβt opening for users due to an API change in the latest Firefox update (146). Tristan fixed the recursion glitch, and PDFs should now work properly in all browsers.
π¦ Fixed Twitter Bookmarks β Rasul fixed an issue where bookmarks would be added to Reader if Save Twitter threads was enabled, instead of if Save single tweets was enabled.
πΎ Improved CSV Export β Rasul updated the library export to use streaming responses, which should improve reliability when exporting large libraries.
βοΈ Fixed Account Preferences β Tristan fixed a glitch where users trying to access their Account Preferences to manage subscriptions ran into an error.
βοΈ Fixed iPad Scrolling β When you tap into an article from your feed and return, you'll now stay at your place in the list instead of jumping to the top. Tapping the top-right toolbar icons also no longer causes unwanted scrolling. Thanks Mati!