Readwise Release Notes

February 13, 2026

• ↔️ NEW! Resizable Sidebar — 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.

• 🔊 NEW! TTS EPUBs on Android — If you've been wanting to listen to your books on Android devices or with non-English languages, now you can :)

• 🔖 NEW! Highlight Tag Management — Mati added a new highlight tag manager 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.

• 📊 Fixed CSV Exports — 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.

• 🎬 Fixed YouTube Subtitles — 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.

• 🐦 Fixed Twitter Disconnect — Rasul fixed a bug where the Remove Connection button for Twitter integrations wasn't working properly. The Twitter Sync page is no longer the only way to disconnect your account(s).

• 🏷️ Fixed RSS Autotagging — 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.

• 📱 Fixed Fullscreen Images — Arek fixed a bug where the comment and tag buttons would flash but not respond when viewing images in fullscreen mode, particularly in EPUBs.

• 🔍 Fixed Shortcut Search — Mati fixed a glitch that could sometimes cause the search icon to overlap the "Find shortcuts" text on the keyboard shortcuts preferences page.

• 📐 Expanded Horizontal Pages — 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.

February 6, 2026

• 📧 Updated Newsletter Preferences — 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.
• ⚙️ Updated Roam Export — 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.
• 🔀 Improved Instapaper Sync — 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.
• 🤝 Fixed Notion Connection — Mati fixed a re-authentication glitch that caused the app to display a loading spinner instead of the button to re-connect.
• 🐦 Fixed Twitter Bookmarks — 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.
• 🔊 Fixed TTS Auto-Scroll — 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.
• 🪜 Fixed Desktop Updates — Mati fixed a race condition with version numbering that could cause issues with automatic updates to the desktop app.
• ⌛️ Fixed Document Frequency — 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.

January 30, 2026

• 🖼️ Fixed Image Taps — Ibai fixed a bug where highlighting an image could sometimes create duplicate highlights.

• 🔐 Fixed Login — Tristan fixed a bug where quickly double-tapping the signup or login button could trigger an error page, instead of ignoring the duplicated tap.

• 🏷️ Fixed Tag Dates — Clearing your browser cache will no longer reset the "last used" dates on the tags page, thanks to Mati.

• ⌨️ Fixed Keyboard Shortcut Conflict — Tristan fixed a conflict where Shift+Enter was mapped to both "toggle auto-scroll" and "view highlight in notebook" on YouTube videos. The notebook view shortcut is now Shift+I.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — 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.

January 23, 2026

• 🏷️ NEW! Tags Webhook — 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.

• 🔊 Fixed TTS Jump Button — 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.

• 📚 Fixed Kobo Encoding — Rasul resolved a character encoding issue that was causing missing apostrophes in highlights synced from Kobo devices.

• 👆 Fixed Tap-to-Scroll — You can once again tap the status bar to scroll to the top of document lists on iPhones, thanks to Mati.

• 💬 Improved Chat Availability — Ibai improved Chat with Document so it works even before document enhancement is complete, using the original transcript.

• 🤖 Fixed Themed Reviews — Ibai fixed an issue where some users were getting errors when generating Themed Reviews.

• 📖 Fixed Document Loading — Mitch fixed a race condition that could cause errors when loading some chunked documents (like EPUBs and long articles).

• 🦊 Fixed Highlight Extension — 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.

• 🐦 Improved Twitter Settings — The settings for saving Twitter bookmarks are now separate between Readwise 1.0 and Reader, so you can control them independently.

• 🖼️ Fixed Image Loading — Arek fixed an issue on iOS where certain article images (specifically .svgz compressed SVG files) weren't loading properly in full-size mode.

• 📄 Fixed PDF Toolbar — Mati fixed an issue where tapping icons in the PDF toolbar on iPad would cause the document to scroll back to the top.

• 🎬 Fixed YouTube Transcripts — Mati improved the reliability of YouTube transcript fetching. Some users were incorrectly seeing "YouTube has blocked access to transcripts" even when transcripts were available.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — 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.

January 16, 2026

• Fixed Large Libraries — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — A "Welcome to your free trial" header was incorrectly appearing on Themed Connection emails for some existing subscribers. Rasul removed it.
• Fixed Android Subscriptions — Arek fixed a race condition that could cause subscription status to get out of sync on Android.
• Improved Webhooks — 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 — ChatGPT users can log in to the MCP server again, thanks to Piotr.
• Parsing Updates — Krzys made improvements to how Reader handles posts from Substack RSS feeds.

January 9, 2026

• 💬 Fixed Chat with Highlights — 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.
• 📦 Fixed Bulk Updates — Tristan fixed a bulk update glitch that could cause the app to stop updating properly.
• 🔊 Improved TTS Autoscroll — 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.
• 🤖 Improved Ghostreader Reliability — Mati improved how Ghostreader handles YouTube and podcast transcripts; it should now have more context when answering questions.
• 🕺 Fixed Animation Settings — Modals, menus, and horizontal pagination now properly respect your "reduced animation" preferences.
• 🎙️ Fixed Podcast Transcripts — Mati fixed several issues where incorrect podcast episodes were being saved from Spotify and Pocket Casts links.
• 📧 Fixed Review Warnings — Ibai fixed a bug where Themed Reviews were incorrectly showing a warning message that was only meant for Daily Review emails.
• 📸 Fixed Broken Images — Tristan fixed an issue where some images weren't displaying correctly due to a quirk in our URL encoding.
• 🐦 Fixed Twitter DMs — 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.
• 🔗 Fixed API — Tristan fixed an API glitch causing some requests (like updatedAfter) to throw errors.
• 👛 Fixed Changelog Updates — 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.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys fixed saving articles from Dense Discovery newsletters. He also made improvements to how Reader handles Substack RSS feeds and documents from outsideonline.com.

December 26, 2025

• 👀 NEW! Mark Seen API — Rasul added an option to mark documents as seen via the API, giving you more programmatic control over your library.

• 📄 Fixed Firefox PDFs — PDFs weren’t 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.

• 🐦 Fixed Twitter Bookmarks — 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.

• 💾 Improved CSV Export — Rasul updated the library export to use streaming responses, which should improve reliability when exporting large libraries.

• ⚙️ Fixed Account Preferences — Tristan fixed a glitch where users trying to access their Account Preferences to manage subscriptions ran into an error.

• ↕️ Fixed iPad Scrolling — 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!

December 19, 2025

• 🐦 Improved Twitter Integration — If you have Save Single Tweets toggled on in your Reader settings, bookmarks will now save to Reader. Rasul also fixed an edge case preventing reconnection with Twitter accounts after deactivating and reactivating with the same handle.
• 👻 Improved Ghostreader Navigation — Ibai improved the behavior of hyperlinks in Ghostreader chats, so they should be less likely to switch between enhanced and regular views.
• 🦢 Fixed White Screens — Adam fixed a bug where documents could get stuck on a white screen. Piotr fixed a bug where the ChatGPT Copilot extension would fail to load when using the System default or Light theme.
• 🕺 Fixed Move API — Rasul fixed a bug where the last_moved_at field wasn't updating when documents moved between locations via the API.
• 🔀 Fixed Medium Import — Ibai fixed an issue where Medium highlights weren't syncing to Readwise when highlight batches were too large. We now handle Medium’s rate limits more smoothly.
• 💾 Improved CSV Import — Rasul improved the CSV import feature so you now get clearer instructions if the file format needs adjustment.
• 🔤 Improved Kindle Formatting — Rasul fixed an issue where some email newsletters had enlarged fonts when sent to Kindle. He also fixed a rare bug where certain Kindle highlights files would run into parsing issues when being imported to Readwise.
• 🍻 Fixed Extra Toasts — Ibai fixed a glitch with Chat with Highlights where selecting a chat message or the header of a reply caused a toast notification to be shown.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys made improvements to how Reader handles posts from nytimes.com, medium.com, lesswrong.com, and arstechnica.com.

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.