Readwise Release Notes

August 28, 2026

🍎 Improved EPUB Uploads

Apple Books formats some EPUBs as a folder that looks like it's a single file, and dropping one of those books on Reader resulted in error messages instead of a book. Lior taught Reader to recognize those folders and pack them back into a proper EPUB right in your browser, so books dragged out of Apple Books now upload like any other.

🤖 Improved Ghostreader Skills

Running a skill like <code>/find-similar</code> on ten documents would leave you with ten identical chat titles, and asking Ghostreader to tag your documents could tag the wrong one entirely. Piotr fixed both: skill chats now name themselves after the document or selection they're about, and tagging targets the document you actually have open.

📊 Improved Chart Embeds

Articles with interactive Datawrapper or Flourish charts were showing a "some content could not be imported" notice where the chart belonged. Krzys made Reader swap in the chart's image, linked to the live interactive version, and cleaned up the notices already sitting in previously saved documents.

📺 Fixed YouTube Embeds

YouTube videos embedded in saved articles showed "Error 153 / Video player configuration error" in the Reader app. Krzys gave those embeds a real referrer, so they play again on both iOS and Android.

📐 Fixed Two-Column Pagination

The two-column Horizontal Pagination option had disappeared from the Appearance sheet on many Android tablets (Boox Note Air, Note Max, Galaxy Tab) because a pixel-density check decided they weren't tablets. Artem shipped a fix that asks the device what it is first, so the option is back where it belongs.

💭 Fixed Mobile Chat Sending

On iPhone and iPad, a Ghostreader question could appear in the thread and then nothing would happen. Ibai found that the app was waiting forever to read the visible page, and made sure the question goes out regardless.

🗨️ Fixed Hidden Chat Sheet

On Android, opening Ghostreader chat right after onboarding could leave the chat sheet stuck behind the reading view, so it looked like nothing happened. Adam fixed the layering, and the chat sheet now opens front and center.

📖 Improved EPUB Stability

Artem tracked down three things that could make a page shift under you while reading on mobile, especially on Boox devices: fonts loading late, images snapping to size after their bytes arrived, and highlight handles nudging the line height. Text now stays put once a page is laid out.

🌓 Fixed High Contrast Mode

Adam fixed the chat toolbar's top fade rendering as a solid black bar on Boox in light mode, and hid scroll-view shadows in high contrast mode.

📂 Fixed Feed Folder Deletion

Deleting a feed folder in the Reader app now takes you out of the folder screen instead of leaving you on an empty one, thanks to Adam.

💳 Fixed Billing Info

The account settings page could tell people subscribed through Apple that they were billed yearly even when they were on a monthly plan, which made for some confusing conversations with support. Tristan fixed the page to read the actual subscription, so what you see now matches what you pay.

📤 Fixed Messy Exports

Documents saved from certain sites (like WeChat articles) could arrive in Obsidian or in MCP Markdown exports stuffed with the page's CSS and JavaScript, sometimes ballooning a note to millions of characters. Rasul taught both exporters to strip scripts and styles, so exports now contain just the readable article.

📕 Fixed Apple Books Import

Importing your Apple Books library to Readwise could stop partway through if a single highlight carried a note containing only whitespace, leaving the rest of your books unprocessed. Rasul made the importer skip those empty notes, so the whole library comes through.

📬 Improved Send-to-Kindle Documents

Sending a Reader document with a Cyrillic or other non-Latin title to your Kindle was producing a blank cover, an empty email subject, and a file named <code>___.epub</code>. Rasul added proper font support, so those documents now arrive with their real title on the cover and in the filename.

🫥 Fixed Empty Highlights

Selecting text in Reader that contained only invisible characters (like a stray zero-width joiner in a page's markup) could create a highlight with nothing in it, which then synced to Readwise as a mystery blank. Thanks to David, those selections are now treated as empty, so invisible highlights don't get created in the first place.

🖼️ Fixed Quoteshot Downloads

Saving a quoteshot image from Safari on iOS could show the download prompt and then silently write no file. Ibai changed how the image is handed to the browser, so tapping Save now actually lands the image in your Files.

📈 Fixed Stats Scrolling

Scrolling the Statistics screen in the Readwise app felt sluggish and stopped short instead of gliding like every other screen. Ibai restored native scroll momentum there, and also gave the Themed Reviews screen a proper loading skeleton so it no longer flashes empty while your reviews load.

⚡ Faster Highlight Scanning

Using the Scan tool on dense pages of text in the Readwise app could hang for several extra seconds while the scanner matched your marked text to the page. Johannes streamlined that matching step, so scanned highlights should land noticeably quicker.

🛜 Parsing Updates

Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from <a href="https://www.3cat.cat" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">3cat.cat</a>, <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blogs.timesofisrael.com</a>, <a href="https://www.ft.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ft.com</a>, <a href="https://nyr.ruv.is" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">nyr.ruv.is</a>, <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">towardsdatascience.com</a>, <a href="https://www.stuff.co.nz" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">stuff.co.nz</a>, and <a href="https://randsinrepose.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">randsinrepose.com</a>, and got better at spotting the bot-check screens some sites serve instead of their articles.

August 21, 2026

🔊 Fixed Auto-Scroll Setting

Turning off auto-scroll during text-to-speech on web only lasted until you closed the player; the next document would start following the voice again. Mati made the choice stick, so once you disable auto-scrolling from the command palette it stays off across documents until you turn it back on.

📕 Fixed Kindle Disconnecting

Removing your Kindle connection from the Readwise sync page used to just tell you to uninstall the browser extension, and the card kept insisting Kindle was connected even after you did. Ibai wired up a proper Remove Connection button that clears the connection and sync state, leaves your books and highlights untouched, and stays disconnected even with the extension still installed. Reconnecting is one click whenever you want it back.

📥 Fixed Kindle Notebook Import

Importing a Kindle notebook export (the HTML file you email in or upload) had a few rough edges: Japanese exports failed outright, colored bookmarks turned into bogus highlights, and when several highlights shared a page their notes piled onto the first one. Rasul added Japanese support and Ibai fixed the bookmark and note handling, so every highlight now arrives with its own note attached.

🏷️ Fixed Bulk Tag Syncing

Tags applied to several Reader documents at once (multi-select or "add tag to all") weren't making it over to Readwise, which meant they were missing from exports to Notion, Obsidian, and the rest. Thanks to Ibai, bulk-applied tags now sync to Readwise just like single-document tags do.

📚 Fixed EPUB Uploads

Some EPUBs (including books bought from Thalia) failed to upload with a "Failed to read" placeholder, because their table of contents contained an entry with no link. Ibai made Reader tolerate that, so those books now open normally with their chapters intact.

🔗 Fixed Pocket Links

For highlights that came over from Pocket, the "View in Pocket" button on the highlight card still pointed at the now-defunct Pocket site. Ibai swapped it for the original article link, so you can open the source again.

💬 Fixed Ghostreader Timeouts

Asking Ghostreader chat something that takes a while on a long ebook (like "Pick up where I left off") could end with a "You're offline" error even on a perfectly good connection, because the chat connection gave up while the answer was still being prepared. Adam updated this to keep the connection alive until the reply comes through, so long answers arrive instead of getting lost.

🔍 Fixed Non-English Search

Searching your library for a term with accented or non-Latin characters (e.g. "grøn stær") could come back empty even when you had a document with that exact title. Piotr fixed how those terms were sent to the search index, which sharpens Ghostreader chat's library search, Quick Lookup in the Reader app, Readwise chat, and MCP search for anyone reading in languages beyond ASCII English.

📄 Fixed PDF Titles

Uploaded PDFs with Korean (and other non-Latin) titles could end up with a few wrong characters swapped in. Ibai fixed how PDF metadata is decoded, so titles now come through exactly as written in the file.

📑 Fixed Duplicate Highlights

Very long highlights (over about 8,000 characters) from Apple Books, O'Reilly, Libby, Twitter, and Diigo were being duplicated on every re-import. Rasul fixed the matching so those highlights are recognized as already saved and don't multiply.

🐦 Fixed Twitter Bookmark Setting

Reader's integrations page could show the "save Twitter/X bookmarks to Reader" toggle as on when bookmarks weren't actually being saved. Rasul made the toggle reflect what's really happening, so if it says that it's on, you can trust that your bookmarks are coming in.

📧 Fixed Custom Email Addresses

Personalizing your Reader email address could flash "already taken" for a name you'd only half typed, and if you hit Save quickly enough it could accept a taken name and then silently fail. Adam made the availability check keep up with your typing, so Save only lights up for a name that's actually available.

🎴 Fixed Review Mode Position

Opening Review Mode on a book in the Readwise app always started you back at the first highlight, even if you'd already worked through half of them. Ibai made it resume at the first highlight you haven't reviewed yet, and since that position is stored on your account, it also syncs across devices.

🕊️ Fixed Opening Tweets

Tapping "View source" on a saved tweet in the Readwise app opened an in-app browser instead of the Twitter/X app. Ibai routed source links through the system, so tweets (and YouTube, Medium, and anything else with a native app) open in the app that claims them, just like before.

🖼️ Improved Highlight Sharing

Johannes brought back the three-action share sheet in the Readwise app: a full-width Share image button with Save image and Share text side by side. Saving the generated card straight to your camera roll works again.

🔤 Improved Vietnamese Support

Titles in the Readwise app were rendering Vietnamese diacritics in a mismatched fallback font mid-word. Ibai swapped the title typeface for Plus Jakarta Sans, which covers Vietnamese natively, so titles render cleanly in one font.

📷 Improved Highlight Scanning

Scanned highlights in the Readwise app were dropping hyphens entirely. Johannes taught the scanner to tell a line-wrap hyphen from a real one, so hyphenated words survive the scan.

🧹 Fixed Small Annoyances

Ibai stopped the home screen wishing you "Good morning" at ten past midnight (it's evening until 5 AM now), and Johannes relabelled the "Page" field as "Page #" in the add-highlight flow.

📡 Fixed RSS Feeds

A housekeeping task could leave a feed subscription pointing at a deleted entry, after which that feed silently stopped delivering anything new. Krzys fixed the lookup so stuck subscriptions pick up where they left off on their next sync. He also stopped podcast feeds from dropping an entire episode just because its audio link was malformed; the episode and show notes now come through.

🛜 Parsing Updates

Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from washingtonpost.com, huggingface.co Spaces, the-tls.com, mv-voice.com, trouw.nl, scientificamerican.com, and news.zerkalo.io, and cleaned up stray empty bullet lists and "listen to this article" notices across all sites.

August 14, 2026

✍️ Improved Adding Manual Highlights

Johannes redesigned the flow for manually adding highlights in the Readwise app. Book search now sits right in the header next to your recent books, and after saving you can tap "Add another highlight" without redoing your setup: the app keeps your selected book and input method, whether you're typing, dictating, or scanning. A clear Done button wraps things up when you're finished.

📷 Improved Highlight Scanning

Thanks to Johannes, scanning highlights in the Readwise app now remembers your preferred highlighting mode instead of asking every time (and you can change it right from the camera screen), selecting a passage from a scan is more precise, the analyzing animation stays smooth from capture to result, and a crash when previewing scans on some Android phones is gone.

📑 Improved Highlight Details

Ibai brought back some per-highlight details that got lost in the Readwise redesign. Page and location numbers show on highlight cards again, chapter headings appear in full instead of being truncated or missing, and each highlight's sheet now shows when you last reviewed it. He also reordered the card's action buttons so the ones you reach for most come first.

🖼️ Fixed Highlight Sharing

Sharing a highlight from the Readwise app had a few issues: the share screen could go completely unresponsive on iOS, cover-art cards sometimes dropped words from the middle of a quote and replaced them with ellipses, and creating a share image after visiting a book's detail screen could fail outright. Johannes and Ibai worked through all three, so your quotes now export exactly as written.

🏷️ Fixed Tag Renaming

Renaming or deleting a tag could fail outright on Android, and renaming a tag used by a Themed Review filter could hit a backend error. Ibai and Tristan made some fixes, so tag housekeeping now goes through smoothly.

📕 Fixed Kindle Syncing

Ibai fixed a bug where a stale logged-out response could wipe your fresh Amazon login moments after you connected, and Johannes made sure manually added highlights can no longer be filed into your synced Kindle books. Your login sticks, and Kindle books stay exactly what Kindle sent.

🎴 Improved Daily Review

Ibai gave the Daily Review some attention: book covers now display at proper book proportions instead of getting cropped, and the reminder notification clears itself once you complete your review. Thanks to Adam, recommended books also only offer actions that actually work for them.

📝 Fixed Note Editing

The note-edit button in the Readwise app could stop responding after a single use on iOS. Ibai moved the editor controls out of the native sheet footer, and editing notes now works every time.

📟 Fixed Boox Displays

On Boox e-ink devices, text in the Readwise app could render unreadably small with no way to adjust it. Ibai made the app respect your per-app DPI settings, so your custom display setup renders exactly as you configured it.

🧹 Fixed Small Annoyances

A cleanup batch in the Readwise app: Johannes restored the keyboard popping up when you return to save highlights, and Ibai stopped the relevant-highlights list from jumping to the focused card when you favorite one, added a loading state to the tag detail screen, and fixed long review streaks getting cut off on the success screen.

🔗 Fixed Internal Links

Highlights that contain internal links to Reader documents were rendering them as raw markup on the Readwise website. Rasul made those internal links display as proper clickable links, so hopping between connected notes works the way you'd expect.

🐦 Improved Twitter Setup

Connecting Twitter/X for the first time now switches on bookmark syncing automatically, thanks to Rasul. No more connecting and wondering why your bookmarks haven't shown up. And if you'd deliberately turned bookmarks off, reconnecting won't override your choice.

💬 Fixed Ghostreader Chat

Two Ghostreader fixes in the Reader app from Adam: chat now opens reliably when you start it from a document list, and Lookup no longer returns an empty definition on iOS PDFs, so definitions come back with actual content.

📰 Fixed Daily Digest

Krzys fixed the Daily Digest skipping past articles when you swipe quickly on Android. Each swipe now advances exactly one article, no matter how fast you flick.

🕛 Fixed Published Dates

Articles published today were sometimes showing "12:00 AM" as their date in Reader, with no actual date information. Krzys fixed the formatting so fresh articles now show a sensible published date.

📖 Improved EPUB Display

Artem made sure chapter titles keep their proper heading style instead of collapsing into body text when reading styles are applied, and Krzys capped oversized publisher indentation on mobile so paragraphs no longer start halfway across the screen. Book chapters now look the way their designers intended.

👈 Fixed Swipe Navigation

In the Reader app, swiping back in the shortform toolbar jumped all the way to the first unread item instead of just to the previous one. Adam fixed it so a swipe back takes you exactly one step back.

🗑️ Improved Bulk Delete

Bulk deleting documents in Reader on web now warns you when your selection includes documents you've highlighted or annotated, thanks to Adam. It's now much harder to lose your notes by accident, matching the behavior of bulk deleting on mobile.

🛜 Parsing Updates

Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from fastcompany.com, deepwiki.com, 36kr.com, huggingface.co, and notashelf.dev, and article titles and bylines now display special characters properly instead of raw HTML codes. Thanks to Johannes, RSS feeds from theregister.com also load reliably again, even when the site puts up a bot challenge.

August 7, 2026

🤖 NEW! Global Ghostreader

On web and desktop, Ghostreader can now work across your entire library, not just the document you have open. Thanks to Piotr, Tristan, and Adam, you can ask questions that draw on everything you've saved. Ghostreader searches all of your documents, pulls in the relevant passages, and answers with citations that link straight to the source. It also comes with skills (reusable AI workflows, including predefined ones like Advanced Summary or the option to create your own) and tools that let it act on your library: tagging, taking notes, saving documents, and editing metadata. You stay in charge of when each tool can be used, with individual settings to always allow, ask first, or stay disabled in Ghostreader's preferences.

💬 NEW! Ghostreader Chat on Mobile

Adam brought Ghostreader's single-document chat to the Reader app. You can now chat with the document you're reading right on your phone by starting a conversation from the document toolbar, the annotation bar, or a highlight.

🎛️ NEW! Modern Mobile Toolbar

Alongside mobile chat, Adam and Tristan gave the Reader app's reading toolbars a modern redesign. New accounts start on the modern layout, and everyone else will see a one-time introduction the next time they open a document. Try it from there, or switch between modern and classic anytime from the toolbar layout option in Settings.

🐦 NEW! Twitter Bookmark Backfill

Until now, Reader could only sync Twitter/X bookmarks made after the integration was configured. Rasul changed that with the latest version of the Readwise browser extension (Chrome and Firefox). You can now backfill your existing bookmarks from readwise.io/twitter_start, and each one keeps its original bookmark date.

🔗 Improved Ghostreader Citations

Tristan spent the week making Ghostreader's citations trustworthy: highlighted passages now always come from the cited source, previews show the right summary, and follow-up answers keep their links instead of going bare. Adam also fixed chat occasionally skipping a search of your content, and upgraded the models under the hood so answers should come back faster and land on the right passages. On web, Ghostreader prompts that focus on a highlight or selection in PDFs should behave much better in the new chat, too.

📏 Improved Chat Summaries

Previously, asking Ghostreader's document chat for a quick recap or an in-depth summary got you the same standard length either way. Thanks to Krzys, chat now follows your instructions: ask for two sentences or a thorough breakdown, and that's what you'll get.

🔍 Fixed Highlight Search

Ibai fixed a bug where highlights you add by hand with the freeform tool didn't show up when you searched on mobile. Every highlight should now be findable moments after you create it. Mati also tuned how highlight search ranks results, so partial words and word stems now surface the matches you're actually looking for.

📷 Fixed Highlight Scanning

Johannes shipped a batch of camera improvements to highlight scanning in the Readwise app: the camera focuses properly at close range again, starts with framing suited to book pages, no longer plays a shutter sound, and shows its analyzing state the moment you capture so scanning a page feels quick and quiet.

📚 Improved Adding Books

Ibai added an entry point right in the Readwise app's Library for adding Supplemental Books, and after adding one you now land on the Supplemental Books screen with your newest additions sorted to the top.

🎚️ Improved Review Tuning

Podcasts now have their own frequency dial in Daily Review tuning, thanks to Ibai, so you can decide exactly how often podcast highlights show up alongside your books and articles.

🛒 Improved Recommended Highlights

When a recommended highlight catches your eye in your Daily Review, Ibai added a "View on Amazon" button that takes you straight to the book. And when a Themed Review ends, you can now keep the streak going with a "Review more highlights" option on the done screen.

🏠 Improved Home Screen

If you'd rather keep the Readwise app's Home focused on your Daily and Themed Reviews without the temptation to start scrolling, Johannes added a setting to hide the Feed section entirely.

🎬 Fixed YouTube Fullscreen

Lior fixed rotating out of a fullscreen YouTube video leaving the Reader app stuck sideways. The screen now follows you back to portrait the moment you leave fullscreen.

🖼️ Fixed Share Card Accents

Krzys shipped an updated font for highlight share cards, so accented characters (Polish diacritics included) now render beautifully instead of falling back to a mismatched typeface. Ibai also brought back the classic highlight color in the Clean share card style.

📖 Improved EPUB Handling

A trio of EPUB fixes from Krzys: code blocks keep their line breaks instead of collapsing into one long line, chapters stored in an unusual format now parse completely, and on web, books with oversized publisher margins no longer squeeze the text into a sliver. EPUBs should simply look right more often.

⌨️ Fixed Shortcuts Reference

The keyboard shortcuts reference panel in Reader is wider now, thanks to Krzys, so shortcut labels display cleanly without wrapping.

🧩 Fixed Extension Tagging

Adam fixed the tag dropdown in the Reader extension not focusing its search box the first time you open it. You can now start typing to filter your tags right away.

⚡ Improved Export Reliability

Krzys reworked how "Full Files and Articles" exports are assembled so the zip streams together instead of building up on disk. Even the biggest collections should now export smoothly.

🔁 Fixed Review Resuming

Ibai fixed unfinished reviews losing your place. Reopening an older review now picks up right where you left off.

🛜 Parsing Updates

Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from reuters.com, sandiegouniontribune.com, and nytimes.com, and quoted tweets in saved threads now embed once instead of repeating.

July 31, 2026

🧠 Fixed Mastery Cards on Mobile — Ibai and Tristan rebuilt Mastery card creation natively in the Readwise app, fixing reports of cards that showed a "created" toast but never actually saved. You can now create Mastery cards and review them right on your phone.

🗂️ Fixed Library Discards — Ibai brought back the Discards section in the Library, which went missing in the move to the new Readwise app. Every highlight you've discarded lives in one place again, so if you swipe one away by mistake or change your mind about it later, it's easy to rescue.

📷 Fixed Multilingual Scanning — Johannes moved the Readwise app's photo highlight scanning to a new OCR engine, so scanning book pages in languages other than English should work smoothly again. And if automatic detection can't find your marks, the app now falls back to manual selection so you can grab the passages yourself.

🖼️ Fixed Highlight Share Images — Johannes restored text sharing and dark mode in the highlight share sheet, brought back highlighted words in Classic share images, and made long highlights stay readable when exported as an image. Sharing beautiful highlight images should feel polished again.

🎚️ Fixed Review Frequency Controls — Ibai squashed a batch of frequency bugs in the Readwise app: the book review page no longer claims "Never" when it shouldn't, the review frequency slider responds properly on Android again, Themed Review frequency and schedule changes now save, and the recency slider on mobile now offers the same fine-grained steps as the web tuning slider. He also shipped a fix so Daily Review keeps working smoothly for anyone who dials recency weighting all the way down to zero.

📆 Improved Daily Review — Thanks to Ibai, highlights being reviewed for the very first time now show a small indicator (with a tooltip explaining it), so you can tell fresh material from cards you've seen before, and the frequency feedback buttons now stay visible as you move through your review. Johannes also tidied up the action icons and fixed tag navigation, so tapping a tag mid-review now takes you where you'd expect instead of looping back on itself.

🔊 Fixed Audio Highlighting — Artem fixed word-by-word highlighting drifting out of sync during text-to-speech playback on documents with custom pronunciations, so the karaoke-style following now stays aligned with what you hear. As part of this fix, ampersands are now appropriately pronounced as "and".

🧩 Improved Extension Highlighting — Adam made highlighting in the Reader browser extension more resilient: highlights now survive on sites that rewrite or wipe the page after it loads, and pages with long embedded scripts no longer stall the highlighter.

📝 Fixed Note Popovers — David fixed the note popover drifting out of position in narrow Reader windows, so your notes now open right where you expect, even in a slim side-by-side setup.

🤏 Fixed Image Zoom on Android — David rebuilt image pinch-to-zoom in the Reader app on modern native gestures, so zooming into images works smoothly on Android again.

⚡ Faster Loading — Tristan overhauled how the web app serves its assets, with content-based caching and a CDN, so pages like the Daily Review should load noticeably faster, especially on slower connections.

🔗 Fixed MCP Streaming — Tristan fixed the Readwise MCP server dropping its connection when a document contained unusual Unicode characters, so AI tools connected to your library should stay connected.

➗ Fixed Math Formulas — Krzys fixed inline math formulas getting mangled during document cleanup, so articles with mathematical notation now render their equations properly in Reader.

🐦 Improved Twitter Import Settings — Rasul made every import destination option visible when configuring how your Twitter/X bookmarks are saved, so you can see all the choices in one place instead of a partial list.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from mp.weixin.qq.com, reddit.com, Bluesky, hbr.org, fastcompany.com, outsideonline.com, postimees.ee, the-american-interest.com, dynamed.com, reuters.com, science.org, bain.com, g1.globo.com, and linkedin.com. Tristan also fixed saving pages from github.com.

July 24, 2026

🎉 NEW! Readwise 2.0 — The Readwise iOS app has been rebuilt from the ground up, and it's live now. Your library, your streak, your workflows, and your Daily Review are all exactly where you left them — the app just finally looks and feels as good as it deserves: fresh design, smoother animations, and much faster everywhere. You'll also find better, more accurate search, a smoother Daily Review, a beautiful new Stats screen, and new ways to capture — scan your paper book annotations, add highlights by voice, and chat with your highlights via AI. Update the app to try it all.

🎚️ Fixed Daily Review Tuning — Ibai restored precise frequency tuning in the new app: you can once again dial in exactly how often each book shows up in your Daily Review, rather than just more/less, and adjusting it no longer crashes on large highlight libraries.

📚 Fixed Adding Supplemental Books — Ibai brought back the option to add supplemental books, so you can search for any book and pull its popular highlights into your library right from the Add & Sync screen.

⌨️ Fixed Hidden Next Button — Ibai fixed a bug where the keyboard could cover the Next button while typing out a highlight on smaller phones with larger text sizes. The button now stays visible above the keyboard the whole time.

📱 Fixed Boox Display Cutoff — Ibai fixed the intro flow being cut off on Boox e-ink devices like the Go 7, where pages rendered too low to read — or even log in. The app now fits itself to the screen properly on those devices.

🔗 Improved Kobo Syncing — Ibai kept the Kobo sync flow inside the app instead of ejecting you out to Safari partway through, so connecting your Kobo is one smooth trip.

🖼️ Fixed Image Export Buttons — Johannes fixed the highlight image export controls getting pushed off-screen on smaller devices, so the share buttons stay visible while you're crafting a beautiful highlight image.

🏷️ Fixed Tag Lists — Ibai fixed a bug where action tags from long chains of concatenated highlights (like c5, c6, or c12) could show up in your Tags section with a count but nothing behind them. Your tag list now stays clean no matter how many highlights you chain together.

📈 Fixed Stats Calendar — Piotr fixed the Readwise stats page claiming "Your account was not active" on the last day or two for people with perfectly active subscriptions. The Daily Review calendar now refreshes the moment a new review is created instead of serving a stale snapshot.

📄 Improved Kindle Exports for Code-Heavy Articles — Rasul improved how Send to Kindle handles articles packed with code. Inline code keeps its monospace styling, long lines wrap cleanly inside code blocks, and stray SVG tooltip metadata no longer leaks into the body, so articles like Rewriting Bun in Rust now render properly on your Kindle.

🔀 Fixed Missing Raindrop Highlights — Thanks to Rasul, a Raindrop import that fails midway no longer records a false-successful checkpoint. Later syncs will now pick up the highlights they would have silently skipped, so your Raindrop library should stay complete.

🎙️ Fixed Apple Podcasts Saves — Since mid-July, every Apple Podcasts episode saved to Reader was coming in as "Unnamed podcast" by "Unknown", because Apple's episode pages had started returning errors instead of the page itself. Tristan added a fallback that looks the episode up directly through Apple's catalog, so podcasts save with the right title and show again.

🎬 Improved Video Highlight Banner — Adam polished the banner Reader shows when highlights can't be rendered on a video document, so it explains itself and points you at what to do next instead of leaving you guessing.

📖 Improved YouTube Transcript Tooltip — Adam clarified the tooltip copy on the YouTube transcript control in the Reader web app, so the button explains what it does before you press it.

📝 Fixed Notes in the Margin — Adam fixed highlight notes not appearing automatically in the margin even when there was plenty of room for them, across the Reader web and desktop apps as well as the browser highlighter extension.

🧩 Fixed Highlighter Extension Rough Edges — Adam cleared out a couple of annoyances in the browser highlighter extension: the note and tag popover was unreachable on highlights taller than your screen, and highlights could render invisible on shared documents if you had the extension installed.

🤖 NEW! GPT-5.6 in BYOK Ghostreader — If you bring your own OpenAI key, the new GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, and Luna) is now selectable in the Ghostreader prompt model dropdown, alongside GPT-5 mini, GPT-5 nano, and GPT-5.4 mini. Thanks to Piotr, the list is also consistent everywhere now: the classic prompts page had drifted out of sync with the new skills editor, and expanding "See more" there no longer crashes.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from WeChat (carousel images on image-share posts), ruanyifeng.com, techno-science.net, and academialatin.com, and expanded the archive.today paywall-bypass to recognize more mirror shells.

July 17, 2026

NEW! Clock While Reading

🕰️ NEW! Clock While Reading — You can now keep an eye on the time without leaving your book: turn on "Show clock" in the Reader mobile app's settings and the current time stays visible while you read. Thanks to Piotr for getting this out the door.

Fixed Books Not Opening

📚 Fixed Books Not Opening — Artem tracked down a crash where tapping a book on the iOS app could bounce you back to the home screen or leave you on a black screen. Books now open right up again.

Fixed Search History

🔍 Fixed Search History — Piotr fixed the ✕ button next to recent searches in the mobile app, so you can properly tidy up your search history with a single tap again.

Fixed Sidebar Info

ℹ️ Fixed Sidebar Info — Ibai shipped a fix for the Info sidebar on web sometimes showing details from a document you'd viewed earlier. The sidebar now always matches the document in front of you.

Fixed EPUB Loading

📖 Fixed EPUB Loading — Tristan resolved a bug where opening certain EPUBs on web could leave you staring at an endless loading spinner. Books now load reliably.

Improved Text-to-Speech Pacing

🔊 Improved Text-to-Speech Pacing — Thanks to Tristan, text-to-speech now tracks your position more accurately in languages with regional variants, like Chinese. The moving highlight should keep pace with the narration instead of drifting ahead or behind.

Fixed API Timeouts

⚡ Fixed API Timeouts — If you build on the Reader API or browse your library through the MCP server, listing your inbox no longer times out on large accounts. Tristan added a database index (plus a follow-up query tweak) so those requests come back quickly.

Fixed Twitter Digests

🐦 Fixed Twitter Digests — Piotr shipped a fix for Twitter List digests getting tripped up by tweets that quote themselves, which could also slow down other feed updates while the digests churned. Digests now arrive reliably and the rest of your feed stays snappy.

Fixed Content Erasing

🧹 Fixed Content Erasing — Tristan moved the "erase my Reader content" option to a background job, so even the largest libraries now clear out completely instead of stopping partway through.

Improved Quick Lookup

👆 Improved Quick Lookup — Quick Lookup now warms up ahead of time on mobile, so it opens noticeably faster, even right after you switch back to the app. Thanks to Tristan for shipping this fix.

Parsing Updates

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from wsj.com, the New York Times, huxiu.com, seattletimes.com, and sciencedirect.com, and RSS items that arrive without article content now fall back to the feed's own text instead of coming in empty.

July 10, 2026

🆕 NEW! Markdown Uploads

Thanks to Tristan, you can now upload Markdown files to Reader the same way as EPUBs and PDFs: drag and drop them in or use the file picker on web, or send them to the mobile app through your device's share menu. The document's title comes straight from the file, and the first image in the file becomes its cover.

✅ NEW! Daily Review API

You can now mark your Daily Review as complete through the public API, thanks to Rasul. This is a useful endpoint for anyone building personal dashboards or homepages on top of the Readwise service. It can also be used to complete reviews from the past several days, just like in the app.

🌐 NEW! Article Language Control

Rasul added a language parameter to the Reader API and MCP server, so you can specify a document's language when saving it and that choice sticks so that automatic detection no longer overrides it. If you read in multiple languages, your saves should now end up labeled the way you intended.

🔊 Fixed Text-to-Speech Errors

Artem tracked down a bug where pressing play on text-to-speech could fail with a server error while audio for other listeners was being generated at the same time. Narration now starts reliably, even at peak listening hours.

🤖 Improved MCP Responses

Rasul shipped a fix so the MCP server's document list tool no longer returns entire document bodies by default, since they could sometimes be 100,000+ characters and clog up your AI's context window. AI assistants browsing your Reader library now get fast, lightweight responses, and your agents burn far fewer tokens doing it.

⌨️ Fixed Chat Focus

Thanks to Ibai, pressing esc in the Ghostreader chat panel on web now returns focus to the document, so you can quickly switch back to other reading shortcuts without needing to reach for the mouse.

🖥️ Fixed CLI Hangs

Rasul released v0.5.9 of the Readwise CLI, fixing an issue where commands could hang indefinitely on newer versions of Node. Commands respond promptly again.

📅 Fixed Mobile Date Sorting

Rasul's publish-date sorting fix from last week has made its way to the mobile apps: when you edit a document's published date in its metadata, lists sorted by published date now respect the change on your phone, just like on web.

📱 Fixed App Crashes

Artem upgraded the mobile app's animation library, fixing a crash that could unexpectedly close the app. Reading on your phone should feel more stable all around.

July 3, 2026

📖 Fixed EPUB Chapters

Artem fixed the EPUB table of contents so tapping the expand arrow next to a Part now reveals the chapters inside it. You can jump straight to the exact chapter you're looking for.

🔊 Improved Text-to-Speech

Artem reworked how text-to-speech audio is generated, so pressing play on a document that hasn't been narrated before should start reading aloud faster, especially on longer documents. He also smoothed out auto-scroll in paginated mode: gestures on the current page no longer knock the player off track, and the view re-locks to the spoken text when you return.

📅 Fixed Publish-Date Sorting

Rasul fixed a bug where editing a document's published date in its metadata wasn't picked up by sorting, so lists sorted by date published ignored user corrections. Metadata edits now take effect in the sort order right away on web, with mobile following in the next app update.

📝 Fixed Notebook Lists

Adam fixed how highlight content renders in the notebook, so bullet points and numbered lists inside of highlights now display as proper lists instead of collapsing into plain text.

📡 Fixed Feed Digest

Thanks to Johannes, opening the swipeable digest view on an empty feed now shows the "All caught up" card with a Done button instead of leaving you on a blank screen. There's always a way back out.

🌙 Fixed Dark Mode Toasts

Johannes cleaned up the layout of toast notifications in Reader mobile's dark mode, so quick confirmations now look right in both themes.

🔎 Fixed Quick Lookup

Artem hardened the Quick Lookup sheet against a rare glitch when closing it, so lookups open and dismiss smoothly.

🤖 Fixed MCP Document Lists

Johannes shipped a fix for the document list API, which could error out on documents without a reading position and was tripping up MCP clients and integrations sweeping through an inbox. Full-inbox sweeps from your AI tools now run clean end to end.

🔌 Fixed App Connections

Rasul shipped a fix to the OAuth flow so third-party apps connecting to your Readwise account no longer hit occasional errors partway through authorization. Connections should now go through smoothly on the first try.

🛜 Parsing Updates

Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from the New York Times (full article text, plus embedded tweets, pull quotes, and YouTube videos), archive.today and its mirror domains, every.to, the Telegraph, openai.com, epsilontheory.com, academialatin.com, and shared craft.do documents. He also added a safeguard that protects real article images from being mistakenly stripped out during automated cleanup.

June 26, 2026

🤖 Fixed MCP Connections

Thanks to Rasul, the Readwise MCP server now accepts connections from clients like Raycast and Warp that previously failed to authenticate, so you can wire Readwise and Reader up to more of your AI tools.

📒 Fixed OneNote Exports

Rasul shored up OneNote exports on two fronts: they now recover cleanly when reconnecting OneNote returns a mismatched sign-in callback, and they stop early with a clear message when your OneNote library is too large to export in one pass. Your highlights make it to OneNote more reliably.

📡 Fixed RSS Feed Items

Rasul fixed a bug where RSS items that didn't include a <code><link></code> were silently dropped, leaving gaps in some feeds. Reader now falls back to the item's <code>guid</code>, so those posts show up in your feed again.

🔍 Fixed Author Filtering

Ibai fixed a bug where filtering by author cut long author names off at 20 characters, so filters built on longer names didn't match. Author filters now work no matter how long the name is.

🛜 Parsing Updates

Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from businessinsider.com, platform.openai.com, WeChat, huxiu.com, goodnotes.com, wired.com, newyorker.com, the New York Times, and archive.is. He also made article fetching more resilient when a page is slow to load or throws a captcha.

June 19, 2026

🆕 NEW! OneNote Export Metadata

Thanks to Rasul, you can now include a metadata block (author, title, URL, summary, and tags) with your highlights when exporting to OneNote. The new toggle on the OneNote export settings page is on by default for new users, and existing users can switch it on whenever they like.

💬 Improved Ghostreader Chat Links

Adam tuned Ghostreader chat so its answers now point you back to the source more often, with cleaner link formatting. It's easier to jump from an answer straight to the document or passage it came from.

🎨 Fixed Code Blocks in Light Mode

Krzys fixed a bug where code snippets rendered as dark text on a dark background in light theme, making them impossible to read. Code blocks are now legible in light mode whether you're reading an EPUB or a web article.

🎬 Fixed YouTube Highlight Links

Rasul resolved a bug where the "view highlight" deep link for YouTube documents dropped you at the top of the transcript instead of the highlighted moment. Those links now jump to the right spot.

📦 Fixed Export Filenames for Non-English Titles

Rasul fixed garbled characters in full-content exports, so documents with Chinese (and other non-Latin) titles now keep their filenames intact.

📚 Fixed Kobo Highlight Order

Rasul corrected the annotation location calculation for Kobo imports, so your Kobo highlights now come in sorted in the order they appear in the book.

💾 Fixed OneNote Exports on Full Storage

Rasul made OneNote exports stop cleanly and report back when your OneDrive runs out of space, instead of failing silently partway through.

📂 Fixed Pinned View Ordering

Ibai implemented a fix to make pinned domains and custom views hold the manual order you set, instead of snapping back after a reorder.

🗃️ Fixed Document Type Filters

Thanks to Mati, when you change a document's type, filtered views built on a type: query now reflect the edit right away and properly match the functionality of category: queries.

🛜 Parsing Updates

Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from zeit.de, elmundo.es, repubblica.it, editorialedomani.it, qz.com, gatesnotes.com, fortelabs.com, and the New York Times. He also fixed a rendering bug where inline bold and italic emphasis was getting lost inside italic blockquotes.

June 12, 2026

🔁 Fixed Sidebar Loading — Thanks to Krzys, the "Could not load component" error that sometimes appeared in the sidebar is now fixed. If you kept a Reader tab open across one of our updates, the sidebar could get stuck on that error until you refreshed the page yourself. Reader now notices the stale tab and refreshes itself once automatically, so everything keeps loading smoothly.

🐦 Fixed Twitter Connections — Krzys tracked down a bug where healthy X/Twitter bookmark connections were occasionally disconnected in bulk, complete with an unwanted "reconnect your Twitter" email. If you got one of those emails despite an active connection, this was why. Connections now stay connected, and those emails should only arrive when something is actually wrong.

🐤 Fixed Tweet Saving — After a change on Twitter's end, saving tweets and articles to Reader started failing, and a Twitter article could fail to save entirely if it had a tweet embedded inside it. Tristan restored the way Reader fetches tweets and made embedded tweets fail gracefully, so tweets and articles save reliably again.

📧 Unified Email Opt-Outs — Krzys made automated Themed Connections emails respect your Daily Review email opt-out. If you've turned off Daily Review emails, Readwise will no longer start sending you Themed Connections emails either. Themed Reviews you set up yourself are unaffected.

🔊 Fixed TTS Controls — Thanks to Krzys, tapping the bottom bar during text-to-speech playback now properly brings up the voice and speed controls in both standard and long-form reading view, instead of only appearing in long-form mode.

🎬 Fixed YouTube Resizing on Android — Mati fixed the resize handle on embedded YouTube videos on Android, which had stopped responding to drags. You can now drag the handle to resize a YouTube video again.

👆 Fixed Skim Swiping on Android — Krzys fixed a bug on Android where a single swipe in the Skim feed mode could jump past several articles at once. Swiping now advances one article at a time as expected.

📖 Fixed iOS Back Button — Krzys fixed a bug where leaving an article using the back button on iOS could leave the screen mostly blank until you tapped a few more times. Going back to your feed now loads reliably the first time.

🔀 Fixed Diigo Imports — Diigo moved their API to a new address, which quietly broke authentication and left valid credentials looking incorrect. Mati shipped a fix pointing the integration at the new host, so connecting your Diigo account works again.

📥 Fixed OPML Sharing — Krzys fixed a bug that kept Reader from showing up in the iOS share sheet for .opml files. You can now share an .opml file into Reader from another app to import your feed subscriptions.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from inc.com, japanistry.com, and dw.com.

June 5, 2026

Improved Quick Lookup

Tristan taught Quick Lookup to read the surrounding sentence when you select a word or phrase, so it more reliably picks the right response: defining a word, looking something up, or translating it. Artem also rebuilt the lookup panel to make it faster, fixed a case on Android where selecting a word wouldn't open it, and stopped the page behind the panel from reacting to taps so you won't accidentally flip the page while a lookup is open.

Improved MCP & API Video Metadata

The Readwise MCP and the list API now report the length of videos and podcasts (their listening_time_seconds). Thanks to Krzys, your tools can now see how long a video or podcast actually runs.

Fixed Subscription Activation

Tristan fixed a bug where some Reader subscriptions purchased through Apple weren't activating and the account could still show as expired even though the purchase went through. Apple purchases now activate reliably, and affected accounts have been restored.

Parsing Updates

Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from bain.com, theinitium.com, psychotherapynetworker.org, and emcrit.org.

May 29, 2026

• 🆕 NEW! Better Search — Thanks to Mati, Reader's search can now look across your entire library and not just the documents synced to the device you're on, so it surfaces more of what you're looking for and puts the strongest matches up top. This search should also be faster and more accurate. Turn on the Better Search (beta) toggle on the Search page to try it. (Note that if you're offline, Reader automatically falls back to the original on-device search.)

• 🔍 Improved Quick Lookup — Tristan fixed a bug where the first time you used Quick Lookup on a document, it could come back empty. Tristan and Adam also added some polish this week: you can now turn off Quick Lookup from within the lookup sheet itself, the icon got a fresh look, and the setting was renamed to better match what it does.

• 💬 Fixed Ghostreader Citations — Piotr fixed a bug where clicking a citation in a Ghostreader answer could jump to the wrong spot on the first click. Citations now land in the right place, and the cited passage is highlighted more precisely.

• 🔄 Fixed Ghostreader Auto-Features — Ghostreader no longer switches off your auto-features (summaries and tagging) when it hits a temporary rate limit, so they keep running as expected. Shipped by Tristan.

• 🔀 Updated Kindle Sync Page — Amazon retired the old read.amazon.com/kp/notebook page, so users were seeing a 404 page when trying to sync their Kindle highlights to Readwise. Tristan shipped a fix that points the Kindle sync to the correct notebook URL.

• 📥 Fixed Library Imports — Rasul handled a change in how the Library app exports highlights, so imports keep working smoothly.

• 📕 Fixed EPUB Uploads — Tadek fixed a crash that could hit EPUBs whose files sit inside a nested root folder, so more of your books upload on the first try.

• 🧩 Fixed ChatGPT CoPilot — Krzys resolved an issue with the Readwise CoPilot extension triggering 429 ("too many requests") errors on ChatGPT.

• 🌓 Fixed Dark Mode Menus — A selector pill in the highlight and note menus was invisible in dark mode. It shows up clearly again, thanks to Krzys.

• 📖 Fixed E-Ink Labels — Navigation labels were getting clipped on e-ink devices like the Onyx Boox. Krzys shipped a fix so they now display in full.

• ⌨️ Improved Command Palette — Thanks to Krzys, you can now get to help options faster in the app: the Cmd+K palette recognizes "support" and "help" as search tags that will bring up options for submitting a ticket to our team.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles posts from The Register, Substack, and Medium. He also fixed archive.is security-check pages that were sometimes replacing WSJ article content in RSS feeds.

May 22, 2026

NEW! Lookup in Reader

Reader now has a dedicated way to look things up without leaving the page. Previously, defining a word, translating text, or getting a bit of context on an unfamiliar name meant reaching for a Ghostreader preset prompt: selecting the text, opening Ghostreader, and running the right prompt. It also added the response as a highlight note, which could clutter up the notebook when you just wanted a quick definition. Lookup turns that into a single step. Select any word or phrase and Reader explains it right away in a dedicated lookup panel. Props to Adam for spearheading this feature!

Fixed Kobo Duplicate Highlights

Rasul fixed a bug where importing from Kobo could pile up thousands of duplicate copies of the same highlight. Kobo imports now recognize highlights you already have using Kobo's own stable annotation ID, so your library stays clean.

Fixed Library Imports

Rasul fixed an issue where Readwise was treating the notes field as required in Library exports, causing note-less highlights to halt the entire import. Highlights without notes now import normally, so all your Library highlights sync through reliably again.

Improved Export Reliability

Rasul shored up three export integrations. A Google Docs export no longer fails outright when a single image can't be embedded, allowing the rest of the document to still come through. Notion exports now stop cleanly when a database is misconfigured, instead of generating hundreds of broken pages. And when your Microsoft connection has expired, OneNote exports now send you a clear prompt to reconnect rather than failing quietly.

Fixed Audio Daily Review Stalling

Mati fixed a bug where an audio Daily Review could stall mid-playback when the next segment was still being generated. The player now waits and resumes from where it left off, so audio reviews play smoothly from start to finish.

Faster Audio Daily Reviews

Piotr removed an unnecessary ten-second pause baked into audio Daily Review generation. Your audio review should now be ready noticeably sooner.

Fixed Re-Importing Deleted Articles

Previously, if you imported articles by CSV, deleted some, then tried to import them again, the importer skipped them as duplicates. Thanks to Tristan's fix, CSV imports (Instapaper, Matter, and custom) now ignore deleted documents, so you can re-import an article after deleting it.

Fixed Daily Reviews Not Completing on Mobile

Tristan tracked down why a Daily Review finished in the mobile app would sometimes not register as done, causing progress and streak credit to quietly go missing. Completed Daily Reviews on mobile now reliably register as finished.

Fixed Highlight Webhooks

Rasul fixed a bug where some highlight webhooks silently stopped firing, so new highlights synced in from Reader weren't triggering the readwise.highlight.created event that powers Zapier and custom automations. Affected webhooks now repair themselves, so your automations receive new highlights reliably again.

Parsing Updates

Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from The Verge, Reuters, Substack, and Medium, and now routes X.com /article/ links through the Twitter parser so long-form X posts come through cleanly.