Readwise Release Notes

December 12, 2025

• 🔊 Fixed EPUB TTS — Johannes fixed a bug where text-to-speech and chapter breaks stopped working on some EPUBs.

• 🎙️ Fixed Podcast Transcripts — Mati fixed issues where some Spotify and Pocket Casts podcasts were saving incorrect transcripts, particularly for non-English content.

• 🎴 Fixed Mastery Cards — Ibai fixed a bug showing blank cards after completing a Mastery review session.

• 🔗 Fixed Markdown Links — Ghostreader chat handles markdown link URLs containing parentheses better now, thanks to Ibai.

• ↕️ Fixed iPad Settings Scroll — Ibai fixed a bug where the main settings list would scroll back to the top when returning from a sub-page.

• 🖼️ Fixed Discover Layout — Arek fixed a race condition that could cause layout issues on the Discover Documents screen.

• 🍫 Fixed Android Status Bar — Arek fixed a bug where the Android status bar had black icons instead of white ones in dark mode.

• 📧 Improved Email Controls — Arek improved how paged scroll controls work with emails in original mode. The appearance menu now shows pagination options for emails.

• 🪝 Improved Webhook Reliability — Rasul tweaked webhook creation so that if you try to create a webhook with a URL that already exists, Reader will now return the existing webhook instead of failing.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys made improvements to how Reader handles posts from community.openai.com, arstechnica.com and theverge.com.

December 5, 2025

• 🎙️ NEW! Podcast Transcripts — Thanks to Scott and Mati, you can now use Reader as a podcast companion! Save episode links from Spotify, Pocket Casts, Apple, and Overcast to get a permanent, highlightable transcript. Subscribe to a podcast's RSS feed in Reader and generate the podcast's transcript with a tap of a button.

• 🤖 NEW! ChatGPT Copilot — With Readwise’s new ChatGPT Import option, you can now effortlessly capture the important takeaways from your ChatGPT conversations as highlights, right from the ChatGPT site. Thanks Piotr!

• ➡️ Fixed Content Shift — Mati fixed a glitch that was causing the mobile layout to shift left or right past the edge of the screen.

• 📧 What’s To Come — Tristan rounded up the last few months of updates into Public Beta Update #13. Check it out for a peek behind the curtain of what we’re working on now, and some behind-the-scenes commentary on what we’ve built lately.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys made improvements to how Reader handles posts from smbc-comics.com/, washingtonpost.com, and substack.com.

November 28, 2025

• NEW! Webhooks — Webhooks allow you to receive real-time notifications when certain events occur in your Readwise account. This enables you to integrate Readwise with external services and automate workflows based on your reading activity. Thanks to Rasul, we now support two types of webhook integrations: Zapier Webhooks, which are automatically managed through Zapier's platform, and Custom Webhooks, which are manually configured endpoints for direct integrations.

• NEW! Ghostreader Prompts — The chat sidebar on web is now a first-class feature, works much better, and has subsumed all of our existing Ghostreader functionality. All your Ghostreader prompts (summarize, define, explain, custom, etc.) now live directly inside the chat sidebar. All the same keyboard shortcuts will still work to activate them. This unifies Ghostreader's logic with the new chat interface so that AI in Reader all feels like one coherent tool :)

• Fixed Twitter DMs — Tweets sent via Twitter’s new encrypted chat will now make their way to Readwise, thanks to Tristan and Ibai.

• Fixed Medium Import — If you previously had trouble connecting your Medium account, it should work now. Big thanks to the Medium team for fixing the regression in their API.

• Updated O'Reilly Import — Rasul updated the import flow for O’Reilly Learning. You can now upload a .csv file of all your highlights and annotations to import them to Readwise.

• Improved Logout — Artem fixed a logout-related bug that was interfering with switching accounts.

• Fixed Tablet Modal — Arek fixed a bug where the image highlight action modal was sometimes too tall on tablets.

• Fixed Enhanced Highlights — Adam fixed a bug where highlights weren't reappearing when toggling between enhanced and original transcripts in video documents, or original view and text view emails.

• Parsing Updates — Krzys made improvements to how Reader handles posts from the-american-interest.com, lavanguardia.com, substack.com, and medium.com.

November 21, 2025

• NEW! Themed Connections — We launched a new experimental feature called Themed Connections. By default, you’ll receive a batch of highlights exploring a specific theme or idea each Saturday. This theme will be unique to your highlights and span multiple sources. Since starting Readwise, we’ve heard from thousands of you that one of the most delightful part of reviewing your highlights is the unexpected connections found across sources. This feature supercharges that process.

• NEW! Horizontal Pagination — Tablets have an experimental new two-column reading mode. Horizontal pagination also allows you to highlight onto the next page going to the right or left, instead of up or down like continuous and paged scroll modes.

• NEW! Chat Document Links — Ghostreader chat responses now include links to relevant parts of the document, thanks to Ibai, Adam, and Tristan.

• Faster EPUB Loading — Artem dug into EPUB performance and made some improvements to how we do certain safety checks. Most EPUBs should now open much faster.

• Fixed PDF Loading — Tristan fixed a glitch preventing one of our Discover Document PDFs (the Berkshire, Inc. annual shareholder letter from Warren Buffet) from loading.

• Fixed PDF Exports — Arek fixed an issue with exporting PDFs with annotations on iOS. You can now download your highlighted PDFs.

• Fixed Highlight Sensitivity — Mati fixed a bug where double-tapping to highlight text didn’t always trigger.

• Fixed Chat with Highlights — Piotr fixed a websocket connection glitch that prevented some users from chatting with their highlights using the desktop app or iPad Safari.

• Fixed Database Queries — Johannes fixed a bug that could cause crashes for users with (very) large libraries.

• Fixed Video Speed — Mati fixed a bug where Reader wasn't remembering mobile video playback speed settings.

• Fixed Subscription Management — Ibai fixed a bug with Readwise’s manage subscription button on the account page. It should now properly launch the Stripe customer portal, without any overflowing text.

• Fixed Keyboard Flickers — Arek fixed a bug in Readwise where highlights in list view would flicker after previewing the highlight and opening the keyboard on mobile.

November 14, 2025

• 🔀 NEW! Capacities Integration — You can now export your highlights to Capacities. There are two ways to move content from Readwise to Capacities: by adding a tag in Readwise, or by manually searching for the document in Capacities. You can read their blog post about why they opted for a more manual method.

• ☁️ Improved Offline Experience — Johannes added a new status message that shows whether a location is currently downloading. Documents also now have more informative messages if they aren't available, which should be rare as long as you open the app for a few seconds to give everything time to download. Johannes also fixed a bug where the experimental offline caching feature could freeze interactive elements in the app.

• 🎥 Fixed YouTube Videos — YouTube recently started returning "Error 153" in some cases, which prevented videos from playing, which Mati previously fixed on mobile. Piotr has now fixed the issue for the desktop app as well.

• 🟡 Fixed Highlight Menus — Lior fixed a bug where the highlight menu sometimes continued showing up after turning a page in long-form reading mode. Mati improved the reliability of the highlight menu appearing when you select single words on iOS. You should now see the menu more consistently after making a selection.

• 🎙️ Fixed Chat with Highlights — Ibai fixed a websocket connection glitch that prevented some users from chatting with their highlights using the Readwise app.

• 👈 Fixed Article Layout — Arek fixed a bug where article text was extending too far to the right on some RSS feeds, making them difficult to read.

• 🔆 Improved Button Contrast — Arek made the "copy note" button more visible on e-ink devices.

• 🔍 Fixed RSS Search — Arek fixed a bug where searching for RSS feeds would reset to default results after typing a complete match.

• 🗞️ Fixed iPad Scrolling — Arek fixed a bug where tapping the top-right icons on iPad (like the appearance settings or highlights view) could cause the page to unexpectedly scroll to the top of the chapter.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys made parsing faster for 70+ domains, and fixed a bug where images were duplicating in Buttondown newsletters.

November 7, 2025

• Fixed Note Flashing — Arek fixed a visual glitch where text would briefly flash on the left side of the input box when you finished writing a note.
• Fixed Title Metadata — Tristan fixed a bug where edited book metadata wasn't showing up correctly in the title bar. If you changed a title in your library, it now displays your custom title everywhere, not just in search results.
• Fixed Delete Scroll — Arek fixed a bug where using "Delete All Above" in your Feed kept you at the same scroll position instead of returning you to the top of the list, making feed triage much smoother.
• Fixed Erroneous Highlights — Mati fixed a glitch causing highlights to be created from taps when they shouldn't be. You should now be able to advance pages without accidentally creating highlights.
• Fixed PDF Highlights — Arek fixed a bug where PDF highlight overlays would sometimes duplicate, especially after switching between light and dark mode or returning to the document. Your highlights now display cleanly without any color layering.
• Fixed Android Exports — Arek fixed an issue with exporting PDFs with annotations on Android. You can now save your highlighted PDFs with notes and highlights included.

Offsite #9

Most of our team gathered in Montana, USA this week to meet new faces, hang out, and hack on projects together. We’ll catch up on replies soon! (If you’re curious, here’s how we plan offsites and why they’re so important to our team.)

Parsing Updates

Krzys improved how Reader handles posts from couriermail.com.au, dailypress.com, adweek.com, afr.com, barrons.com, bizjournals.com, brittanica.com, caixinglobal.com, centralwesterndaily.com.au, and denverpost.com.

October 31, 2025

• Fixed Email Forwards — Tristan fixed an issue where some auto-forwarded emails sent to your Reader Feed were being returned as undeliverable due to overactive spam filters.
• Fixed YouTube Videos — YouTube recently started returning "Error 153" in some cases, which prevented videos from playing. Mati fixed the issue for the mobile app. The fix for desktop is in progress.
• Improved Tag Performance — Piotr optimized how tags work on desktop. Tags now refresh periodically to stay in sync, and the underlying database queries have been improved to reduce slowdowns when browsing your tag collections.
• Fixed Locked TTS — Artem fixed an issue where listening progress wasn't properly saved during text-to-speech sessions with the iOS lock screen enabled.
• Fixed Landscape Sharing — Arek improved the Android share sheet so all options are now visible when sharing content from YouTube in landscape mode. You can now access "Save for Later" and other options regardless of screen orientation.
• Fixed Layout Overflows — Arek fixed a glitch where if you opened the app on iPhone in landscape mode, it could sometimes cause documents and lists to become misaligned and overflow the screen.
• Fixed Crash Bug — Mitch fixed a database glitch that could cause the app to crash in very rare cases.
• Fixed Link Menu — Mati fixed an issue where tapping links in articles would cause the action menu to appear and immediately disappear. Links now open properly on both mobile and tablet devices.
• Parsing Updates — Krzys made improvements to how Reader handles posts from bain.com, nyr.ruv.is, and mailchi.mp.

October 24, 2025

• 🖊️ NEW! Android Stylus Support — Mati built first class support for device-specific Android styluses, so you can now highlight naturally while reading. You no longer need to tap and hold to make a highlight, and you can scroll using the pencil in the margins as long as you have a supported (i.e. non-universal) stylus.

• 🔁 Improved Highlight Syncing — Tristan synchronized highlight character limits between Reader and Readwise to prevent sync issues. The limit is now consistent at 8,191 characters across both platforms.

• 🏷️ Fixed Tag Filtering — Tristan resolved an issue where tags containing forward slashes ( / ) wouldn't work properly when clicked for filtering. You can now filter by tags without running into blank pages.

• 🔧 Improved Pocket Imports — Piotr fixed a bug that blocked importing from Pocket if an author's name was listed as “None.”

• 🦾 Fixed ChatGPT Tagging — Piotr fixed a glitch where typing a tag into our extension overwrote each character when on https://chat.openai.com. It should now be much easier to tag your saved conversations with ChatGPT.

• 🔀 Fixed Notion Connections — Rasul worked with the folks at Notion to fix a glitch that was preventing some people from connecting with Notion. The ‘Use the template provided by the developer’ option should no longer be greyed out.

• 🎙️ Fixed Chat with Highlights — Ibai fixed a websocket connection glitch that prevented some users from chatting with their highlights using the Readwise app.

• 🤖 Fixed Ghostreader Keys — When you run custom Ghostreader prompts, they'll now properly use your API key and preferred models, thanks to Ibai.

• 🗞️ Fixed Offline Caching — Johannes fixed a glitch that could cause the app’s buttons to lock up while experimental caching of offline documents was turned on. Performance should be a lot better now.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys fixed a bug where embedded Substack notes weren't pulling in images when imported to Reader. He also fixed an issue where The New Yorker’s feed was showing outdated information.

October 17, 2025

• 🎥 Fixed Starting Videos — Mati fixed a bug where videos would skip to the middle when using enhanced transcript mode, instead of starting from the beginning.

• 📊 Fixed Sidebar Behavior — Sidebars no longer pop out when reading articles in continuous scroll mode, thanks to Mati.

• ↕️ Fixed iPad Resizing — Mati fixed issues where resizing windows on iPadOS 26 was slow and glitchy. Content should now adjust to the new dimensions much more smoothly.

• ✨ Fixed Highlight Navigation — Arek fixed a glitch preventing Reader from jumping to the correct highlight location when following a "view highlight" link from Readwise or exported notes.

• 🎨 Fixed Discovery Display — Some extra code was making the text difficult to read in dark mode of the Discover Documents section. Tristan removed that code and the summaries now all match.

• 🔧 Fixed Android Login — Arek cleaned up the empty space on the Android login screen.

• 🗑️ Fixed Trash Button — Arek fixed the "Empty Trash" button color in dark mode so it now has proper contrast.

• 🧱 Fixed Code Blocks — Krzys fixed a bug where line-breaking hyphens were incorrectly inserted into code blocks, which could interfere with copying and using code snippets.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles posts from espn.com, epsilontheory.com, linikedin.com, theinitium.com, spectrum.iee.org, techcrunch.com, bloomberg.com, royalroad.com, newyorker.com, reddit.com, chrzaszcz.dev, maggieappleton.com, france24.com, huxiu.com, science.org, and heise.de. Reading times and word counts for the New York Times should also be more accurate now.

October 10, 2025

• 🫟 NEW! 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.

• 🏷️ Fixed Auto-Tagging — Tristan fixed an issue where manually asking Ghostreader to tag a document wasn't working.

• 📁 Improved Pocket Imports — Hannes updated the Pocket CSV import process to handle files that are nested inside folders. This prevents issues when exported files are un-zipped and re-zipped.

• 📐 Fixed Tablet Centering — Mati fixed a bug where modal sheets weren't properly centered in landscape mode on tablets. Dialog boxes and action sheets now appear in the right place regardless of how you're holding your device.

• 👆 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 Sync Display — Arek fixed a layout bug causing sync instructions for Twitter threads and other web connections to get cut off. Readwise's sync setup screens now have proper spacing so you can read the full instructions.

• 🛜 Improved Parsing — Krzys made improvements to how Reader handles posts from todayintabs.com, towardsdatascience.com, timesofindia.indatimes.com, transformer-circuits.com, zed.dev, wikipedia.org, unherd.com, uber.com, theparisreview.org, nypost.com, canarymedia.com, theatlantic.com, washingtonpost.com, bbc.com, bbc.co.uk, and stackoverflow.com.