Readwise Release Notes

October 16, 2026

• 🔢 Fixed Clipped List Numbers in EPUBs — In some EPUBs opened in the Reader app, the book’s own styling pulled numbered and bulleted lists flush with the paragraph text, which pushed the numbers out into the page margin where a phone screen cuts them off. Mati restored Reader’s list indent so the numbers stay on the page next to their text.
• ▶️ Fixed Listen Starting Point — Tapping Listen partway through a document you hadn’t listened to before could jump the Reader app to the top and start reading from the first sentence, then leap back down to your spot a few seconds later. Tristan made Reader wait for the right starting point before it begins playing, so listening starts where you were reading.
• 🖼️ Fixed Blank Pages for Articles With Clickable Graphics — Saved pages that contain clickable graphics (links drawn as SVG), some blog posts among them, never rendered in the Reader app on iPhone or iPad and the article just sat on a blank screen. Tristan fixed the link check that tripped over those graphics, so these articles open and read normally on mobile.
• 🔽 Fixed Collapsible Sections on Mobile — Articles with collapsible sections (the HTML details element) expanded fine in Reader on web, but on iPhone and iPad tapping a section’s label did nothing. Thanks to Tristan, tapping the label in the Reader app now expands and collapses the section, without toggling the reader menu or turning the page along the way.
• 👉 Fixed iPad Toolbar Swiping — Swiping the modern toolbar in the Reader app to move to the next or previous document didn’t register on iPad, where the wider toolbar quietly demanded a much longer drag than on a phone. Tristan matched the swipe threshold to the iPad layout, so a swipe on the toolbar should carry you to the next document again.
• 👆 Fixed Tapping Away From Highlight Menus — With the toolbars tucked away in the Reader app, tapping blank text to close a highlight menu also counted as a regular reader tap, so the top and bottom bars sprang back into view every time. Artem made that tap do one thing only: the menu closes and the bars stay hidden, so you can keep reading without the chrome popping up.
• ⏳ Fixed Jumpy Loading in the Lookup Sheet — Opening Define or Lookup on a word in the Reader app showed a “Generating” spinner that visibly hopped upward a moment later, once the sheet’s footer row appeared beneath it. Artem reserved that footer’s space from the first frame, so the sheet now holds still while the definition loads.
• 📧 Fixed Repeat ChatGPT Emails — After saving your first ChatGPT insights to Readwise, the welcome email celebrating that first save kept arriving again every time another highlight landed in the same conversation. Tristan fixed the check so Readwise sends that email once, when the conversation is first saved, and then leaves your inbox alone.
• 💳 Fixed Checkout for 3D Secure Cards — Upgrading on readwise.io with a card whose bank requires an extra confirmation step (3D Secure, the “approve this payment in your banking app” check) failed every time with a cryptic Stripe error, no matter which card or browser you tried. Ibai added support for that step, so checkout now shows your bank’s approval screen and finishes the upgrade once you confirm. Cards that don’t need the check work exactly as before.
• 🐦 Fixed Embedded Tweets in RSS — Twitter list digests and other RSS documents with embedded tweets in Reader lost their card formatting, with the name, handle, and footer of each tweet breaking out of place. Tristan taught Reader’s paragraph cleanup for RSS articles to leave tweet cards alone, so embedded tweets look right again.
• 📰 Improved Economist Articles — Articles from economist.com saved to Reader arrived with extra clutter at the end, the subtitle under the headline went missing, pullquotes showed up as stray duplicate paragraphs, and some photo essays came through with captions but none of the photos. Krzys rebuilt the parsing rules for the Economist’s current article pages, so articles come through clean with their subtitle and pullquotes in place, and photo essays keep every picture. A save made while logged out of the Economist now shows the “couldn’t fetch full content” banner, so you can tell the rest is behind the paywall rather than missing.
• 🎧 Fixed Podcast Episode Mix-ups — Some podcast feeds, The Tim Ferriss Show’s blog feed among them, publish a new episode post carrying the previous episode’s audio file and quietly correct it later. Reader kept whatever it saw first, so the episode showed the wrong title and played the wrong show. Krzys taught Reader to pick up the publisher’s correction and move the episode onto the right audio, so these episodes now carry the right title and play the right show.
• 🇵🇹 Offsite #10 — Most of our team gathered in Portugal this week to meet new faces, hang out, and hack on projects together. We’ll catch up on replies soon!
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from derstandard.at, community.openai.com, GoodNotes, sspai.com, El Mundo, cen.acs.org, zeit.de, and newsletters from Kill the Newsletter, and Tristan fixed article titles from Colossus.

October 9, 2026

• 🎙️ Improved Lifelike Pacing — Listening with a Lifelike voice in Reader could clip the start of the first word, drag out short lines like a single line of dialogue, and speed up or slow down from one paragraph to the next. Artem retuned how each passage is timed and where the pauses go, so the voices keep a steady, natural pace and every first word comes through whole.
• ⏯️ Fixed Text-to-Speech Stalls — Text-to-speech in Reader could stop partway through an article that used stylized letters (the kind some sites use for math or fancy headings), and some RSS articles took 20 seconds or more to start because Reader read the whole article as one giant paragraph. Tristan fixed both, so these articles start promptly and play through to the end.
• 👆 Improved Reading Menus — In the Reader app on mobile, a small scroll back up while reading could pop the menus open, and some taps meant to show them did nothing. Artem made revealing the menus take a deliberate pull, stopped the end of a scroll from counting as a tap, and let a tap with a tiny wobble still count, so the menus stay out of the way until you actually want them.
• 📄 Improved Paginated Mode — In the Reader app's paginated mode, the bottom of the previous page could peek in at the top of the screen, and switching a document from scrolling to pages could leave the last line of each page hidden under the footer. Artem fixed both and tightened how page breaks are measured, so each page starts and ends cleanly.
• 🔉 Fixed Volume Button Page Turns — On Android, the Reader app's option to turn pages with the volume buttons did nothing in the two-column Horizontal Pagination mode. Thanks to Artem, the volume buttons now turn pages in every paginated mode.
• 🖍️ Fixed Highlighting on iOS 27 — On iOS 27 with auto-highlighting turned off, dragging a selection handle in the Reader app to extend your selection and then tapping Highlight only saved the first word. Adam pointed the button at your current selection, so the whole passage gets highlighted.
• 🌙 Fixed Dark Mode PDFs — In the Reader app on iOS, a PDF you'd opened in dark mode could turn light after you locked your phone or pulled down Notification Center. Ibai made Reader reapply the dark theme when you come back, so PDFs stay dark.
• ✍️ Fixed Document Note Typing — Typing a document note in the Reader app on iOS made the newest word flash onto a second line with each keystroke, which looked like a duplicate line of text. Ibai fixed the note field's width, so your words stay put while you type.
• 📨 Fixed Newsletter Fonts — Substack and other newsletters opened in the original layout in the Reader app on iPhone and iPad showed their text in an old-fashioned Times font instead of the clean sans-serif you'd see in your inbox. Rasul gave those emails Reader's sans-serif as a fallback, and newly saved emails now keep their own body styles, so newsletters look the way their senders intended.
• 🪟 Fixed Right Panel on Narrow Windows — In Reader on the web, a window narrower than 1080px reopened the right panel over your document list every time you came back from a document, even after you'd closed it. Ibai made Reader remember your choice, so the panel stays closed.
• ✉️ Fixed Spark Mail Links — Saving a Spark Mail share link to Reader produced an empty document after Spark rebuilt its share pages. Ibai taught Reader to fetch the email itself, so shared Spark threads come through in full.
• 🧩 Improved Article Extraction — When Reader's usual parser came back with only a few words of an article, that's all you got, even when the full text was on the page. Krzys added a fallback, so Reader now tries its own extraction and keeps it whenever it finds substantially more of the article.
• 🍏 Fixed Sign in with Apple — Signing in with Apple could land you on a "page not found" error when you were signing in to connect something else, like the Reader desktop app, an AI assistant through the Readwise MCP connector, or a plugin. Ibai fixed how sign-in passes you along, so you end up where you were headed.
• 📚 Improved Apple Books Import — On macOS 27, the Readwise Mac tool for importing Apple Books highlights often couldn't read your Books library, then sat on the syncing page forever with Resync greyed out. Rasul updated the tool so it checks for access before anything else and, if it's missing, shows an alert with a button to the right Settings page. Big libraries also upload more reliably, and from this version on the tool keeps itself up to date. You can download the latest version here.
• 📤 Fixed Large Reflect Exports — A book with lots of highlights never made it to Reflect, because Reflect turns away any single request over 1 MB and Readwise sent each book's highlights all at once. Rasul split big books into smaller batches, so even your most-highlighted books export to Reflect.
• 🖼️ Fixed Quoteshot Titles — When you shared a short highlight as an image from Readwise using the Pretty theme, a long book title could run underneath the book cover. Tristan made the image widen to fit the title and author, so they stay clear of the cover.
• 📧 Improved Email Unsubscribe — The unsubscribe link in Readwise emails only let you change your Daily Review frequency, and unsubscribing from a Themed Review email asked you to log in first. Ibai rebuilt that page so it lists every email we send you (Daily Review, each Themed Review, Themed Connections, product updates and tips, and reminders) along with an option to unsubscribe from everything. Each choice saves right away, no login needed.
• 🔧 Improved API Docs — The Readwise API could already change a book's title, author, category, and cover, but the API docs didn’t mention it. Rasul added a Book UPDATE section with examples, including how to set or remove a custom cover.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from xkcd, LessWrong, Lifehacker, SparkNotes, Real Python, 9to5Google, Reuters, Financial Times, HackerNoon, wallstreetcn.com, ruanyifeng.com, blognot.co, docs.readwise.io, and newsletters from Kill the Newsletter.

October 2, 2026

🎨 NEW! Reading Themes in Reader

Reading in the Reader app on iOS and Android used to mean a choice between light and dark. Thanks to Adam, you can now pick a reading theme from the Appearance sheet: Crisp, Sepia, Soft, Slate, Ink, Night, or a seasonal PSL 🍂.

🔊 NEW! Lifelike Voices (beta)

Reader's text-to-speech now offers 16 new and (we think) much-improved voices on web and in the mobile app, in American and British English. There’s now a play button next to each one so you can hear a sample before you pick, and on mobile, your last few voices also show up under Recent for quick switching. Props to Artem for spearheading this update.

🎧 Improved Text-to-Speech Controls

While listening in the Reader app on mobile, the playback controls lived inside the bottom menu, so they either disappeared when the menu hid or covered the text. Artem moved them into a floating player that shrinks into a small pill as you scroll, keeping play, pause and skip one tap away. The Return and Jump arrows also point the right way again, and auto-scroll picks back up when you return to the spoken text.

🚀 Improved Reader Launch

Opening the Reader app could flick through several screens: the splash, a waiting view, a blank library, a placeholder list, and finally your documents with their covers swapping in. Signing in had its own shuffle between the login and loading screens. Artem replaced all of that with a single launch screen and trimmed the work the app does on startup, so your library appears sooner and without the flashes.

🧾 Fixed Upgrade Confirmation

If your Reader plan had expired and you upgraded from inside the app, the success screen's buttons did nothing and the app had to be force-quit. Mati fixed the navigation behind it, so tapping Return or the X closes the screen and drops you back into your library.

📱 Improved Android Navigation Bar

In the Reader app on Android, the reading view stopped short of the system navigation bar, which made the toolbar look like it was floating and turned the translucent bar solid. Andrew extended the reading view and bottom sheets all the way down, so the page runs edge to edge.

🌓 Improved High Contrast Mode

With high contrast turned on in the Reader app, secondary labels such as dates, counts, and captions kept their usual muted gray. Johannes made them full black or white along with everything else, so the whole screen is easy to read.

📂 Fixed OPML Imports on Android

The Reader app's Add Feed sheet suggests sharing an OPML file to import your feeds, but on Android, Reader never showed up in the share sheet for those files. Mati taught the app to accept them, so you can import an OPML file from your Files app on Android just like on iOS.

📰 Fixed Stale RSS Feeds

Some RSS feeds in Reader could go weeks without new articles even though the publisher kept posting, and unsubscribing and resubscribing didn't help. A few sites tell readers to cache their feed for a month or even a year, and Reader was taking them at their word. Rasul changed the regular check so those feeds are polled like any other, and new posts arrive on schedule.

🔢 Fixed Citation Numbers Read Aloud

Listening to a Wikipedia article or any document with footnote markers in Reader meant hearing "one", "two", "twelve" after almost every sentence. Artem made text-to-speech skip those markers while keeping the word highlighting in sync, so articles read smoothly.

🎙️ Fixed Pocket Casts Episodes

Saving a Pocket Casts episode to Reader produced an "Unnamed podcast" after Pocket Casts started blocking our requests for episode pages. Rasul switched to Pocket Casts' podcast directory to look the episode up, so shared episodes come through with their title and audio again.

⌨️ Fixed Space Bar Skipping Paragraphs

In Reader on the web, pressing space to move one paragraph at a time could jump two if you'd nudged the page with your mouse or trackpad in between, because the focus moved to the next paragraph while you were still reading the current one. Rasul fixed how focus follows your scroll, so space advances exactly one paragraph.

📝 Fixed Note Box Position

In Reader on the web, the note box for a highlight that spans more than one paragraph could end up half off the screen after you scrolled away and back. Adam fixed its positioning, so the note box stays next to your highlight.

🗂️ Improved Manage Feeds Layout

At split-screen widths, the Manage Feeds page in Reader on the web squeezed the search box down to its icon and pushed the Delete and Subscribe buttons off screen, and the Suggested tab carried a "New" badge that never went away. Mati let the header wrap onto a second row and retired the badge, so everything fits in a narrow window.

🤖 Improved BYOK Models

If you bring your own OpenAI key to Ghostreader in Reader, the model list stopped at GPT-5.6. Tristan added GPT-6 Luna to the model pickers in chat and the skill editor.

📅 Improved Themed Review Schedules

The Readwise app only let you set a Themed Review to Daily, Weekly or Never, while the web offered more, and a review set to Monthly on the web showed up in the app as a raw "monthly" label. Ibai added Weekdays, Weekends, Custom and Monthly to the app, with a day-of-month picker for Monthly and a weekday checklist for Custom, so you can schedule reviews the same way everywhere.

🚫 Fixed "Never" Books in Themed Reviews

Books you'd set to Never could still turn up in Readwise Themed Reviews that pick their own sources, and in the theme preview. Ibai made Themed Reviews respect that setting, and also fixed the background job that keeps their highlight pools fresh, so new highlights find their way into your themes again.

🧠 Fixed Mastery Cards

Mastery review in the Readwise app cut every fill-in card to 60 characters, so a card whose keyphrase came later couldn't be answered. The card's menu also showed "Delete Mastery flashcard" for a moment before switching to "Master highlight". Ibai fixed both: cards show the full quote, and deleting a card turns it back into a plain highlight right away.

🔤 Fixed Review Keyboard Shortcuts

With a hardware keyboard connected to an iPad or other tablet, Daily Review shortcuts in the Readwise app opened the web versions of menus, so pressing <code>t</code> dropped a web tag list over your highlight. Ibai pointed <code>t</code>, <code>n</code>, <code>e</code>, <code>s</code> and <code>f</code> at the app's own sheets, so tagging, notes, edits, sharing and favorites work from the keyboard.

🌑 Fixed Black Screen After Saving

Picking a source to save a highlight to in the Readwise app on Android could leave you on an empty dark screen after a successful save. Johannes changed when the source list refreshes, so you land back where you expect.

📷 Fixed Sideways Scans

Photos taken with the Scan tool in the Readwise app on Android came out sideways when the phone was held flat. Johannes rebuilt the camera module so it reads the display rotation, and scans come out the right way up.

🖍️ Fixed Hyperhighlights on Android

In the Readwise app on Android, the yellow hyperhighlight markers on feed and book cards could land on the wrong words, especially at larger text sizes. Ibai switched Android to drawing them as a highlight behind the text, so they always cover the right words.

↩️ Improved Return Key in Chat

In the Readwise app's chat, the keyboard's return key sent your message, so there was no way to put a quote and your question on separate lines. Ibai made return add a new line, and the Send button sends, like other chat apps.

📻 Fixed Audio Reviews

Some audio versions of the Readwise Daily Review stopped partway through because the script behind them was cut off mid-sentence. Tristan moved that step back to a model that finishes the script, so audio reviews play to the end.

💵 Fixed Google Play Billing Details

If you subscribe to Readwise through Google Play on an annual plan, your account settings on the web said you were billed monthly, with a blank renewal date. Tristan taught that page to read your Google Play plan, so it's now accurate to your actual subscription.

🔀 Improved Roam Export Upgrade

Readwise's original Roam export, the one that logged in to Roam on your behalf, no longer runs, but its old links still led to a login form or a settings page that did nothing. Rasul now sends every old Roam link to the right place: the in-place upgrade to the Roam API export if you were on the old version (keeping your templates, excluded books and export history), or the Roam API setup if you're new.

📤 Fixed Reflect Exports

If you deleted or lost access to the Reflect graph Readwise was exporting to, every automatic export failed without a word. Rasul made Readwise treat that like a lost connection: exports pause and you get an email, and reconnecting lets you pick a graph.

🛜 Parsing Updates

Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from afr.com, Medium, The Atlantic, Le Monde, Courrier international, inc.com, Handelsblatt, Axios, golem.de, twreporter.org, telegra.ph, examine.com, Baymard Institute, docs.delta.io, asquaredozen.com, boydrinksink.com, and blogs hosted on Ghost.

September 25, 2026

👻 NEW! GPT-6 Luna For Ghostreader Summaries Default — Tristan and Ibai upgraded Ghostreader’s default model for preset prompts, including the automatic summary and document tagging, so they’re now powered by GPT-6 Luna. As with previous default models, this is included with your Reader subscription.

🏠 NEW! Redesigned Homepage — Ibai and Christina gave readwise.io a new front page to match the app’s own glow-up.

📄 Fixed PDF Dark Mode on Android — When reading a PDF in dark mode with inverted colors in the Reader app on Android, the inversion would vanish as soon as you opened a sidebar. Tadek shipped a fix that reapplies your color setting whenever the viewer rebuilds, so PDFs stay inverted on Boox devices and other Android tablets.

🔲 Fixed Two-Column Mode on Tablets — With the two-column Horizontal Pagination option turned on, the Reader app on Android tablets such as Boox devices and Samsung Galaxy Tabs showed a single full-width column instead. A rounding difference of less than a pixel meant the second column never fit. Mati gave the layout the tolerance it needed, so both columns appear as expected.

⚡ Improved Opening Heavily Highlighted Books — An EPUB with a lot of highlights could take half a minute to open in the Reader app on iOS, with the phone warming up while it waited. Cam found that drawing each highlight briefly took over the system text selection, and changed the renderer to skip that step, so those books open in a few seconds.

📦 Fixed Large PDFs on Android — Opening a very large PDF in the Reader app on Android (an 80 MB magazine, for example) could spin forever, even though the same file opened fine on iOS and the web. Tadek fixed the download so the server no longer gives up partway through, and big PDFs open on Android too.

🕰️ Fixed Clock Over Emails — With “Show clock” turned on in the Reader app, opening a newsletter in its original view while the app was in dark mode painted the clock in white over a light page, so you couldn't read the time. Thanks to Mati, the status bar now switches to dark text over those emails.

🔠 Fixed Daily Review at Larger Text Sizes — With a larger accessibility text size set on iOS, parts of the Daily Review in the Readwise app were clipped and the streak counter wrapped onto two lines. Johannes reworked the layout so everything fits at any text size.

📲 Improved Daily Review Email Links — Tapping a link in a Daily Review email on your iPhone or iPad always opened the browser, even with the Readwise app installed, so there was no way to reach the app's share sheet for a quoteshot from the email. Ibai made the app claim those links, so highlights, stats, and chat open directly in the Readwise app.

🧭 Fixed iOS 26 Tab Bar — On iOS 26, the Readwise app's bottom tab bar could lose the labels on unselected tabs until you tapped each one, and for anyone running iOS in dark mode with Readwise in light mode it flipped between light and dark glass. Ibai fixed both, so the tab bar keeps its labels and matches your Readwise theme.

⌨️ Fixed Tablet Keyboard Shortcuts — Pressing E to edit a highlight on an iPad with an external keyboard did nothing in the Readwise app, because the native lists had no keyboard handling. Ibai brought the highlight shortcuts back on iPad and Android tablets, so you can move through and act on highlights from the keyboard again.

🃏 Fixed Focused Highlights on iPad — Tapping a highlight on an iPad in landscape showed the focused highlight card much wider than the actions sheet beneath it, and a short highlight opened from a book page had its text cut off. Ibai matched the card to the sheet and sized it for its chapter line, so focused highlights look right on iPad.

🔁 Fixed "Review More Highlights" — When a Themed Review was waiting for you, the Daily Review done screen in the Readwise app swapped "Review more highlights" for "Continue to" that theme, which read like a daily cap. Ibai kept both options on the screen, so you can carry on reviewing either way.

🔑 Improved Login Errors — Every failed email login in the Readwise app said Network error. Please try again., whatever the cause. Ibai made the app say what actually went wrong and report the failure to us, so a stuck login is quicker to sort out.

💾 Fixed "Save to" Crashes — Saving a highlight in the Readwise app on iOS could crash on the "Save to" screen if you had a lot of manual books. Johannes made the list render only what's on screen, so the picker stays responsive with any library size.

💌 Improved Redesigned Emails — Following up on last week's redesigned Readwise emails, Ibai made the new design the default for new accounts, added a "Prefer a new look for this email?" link at the bottom of the original emails so you can switch without logging in, and made the "Mark review as finished" button appear for everyone, not only readers with an active streak. Covers that aren't book-shaped no longer look squished in the new header, and the same design switch now lives in the Readwise app's Email Preferences screen too.

💬 Fixed Chat Reading Position Mentions — Asking Ghostreader a question about a document in the Reader app could get an answer that tacked on how far you had scrolled, whether or not you asked. Tadek shipped a fix so chat only brings up your reading position when the question is about it.

🔄 Improved Re-Saving Documents — Saving a page you had already saved to Reader showed a tick but did nothing, so there was no way to recapture an article after a bad parse. Krzys changed that: saving again now re-parses the document from the page in front of you, keeps the existing version if the new parse turns out worse, and refreshes any open copies.

📑 Fixed Kindle Digest Outline — In the Kindle digest EPUB from Reader, headings from inside an article showed up in the outline as if they were separate articles. Tadek fixed the digest so sub-headings nest under their article, and the outline reads cleanly on your Kindle.

🎙️ Fixed Podcast Episode Links — After last week's fix for podcast feeds whose episodes all pointed at the show's homepage, opening one of those episodes from Reader landed on the raw feed instead of anything playable. Mati made those episodes link to their audio, so Open takes you to the episode itself.

🎬 Improved YouTube Chapters — Reader now shows a YouTube video's chapters in the Contents panel, but videos parsed before that feature arrived had none, even when someone new saved them. Piotr backfilled chapters from the descriptions Reader already stores, so saving a popular older video brings its chapters along, and existing copies pick them up too.

🍎 Fixed Sign in with Apple — Signing in to Readwise with Apple could fail with an error page, once because Apple's key server was returning empty responses, and for some longtime users because Apple stops sending an email address after the first authorization. Tristan fixed both, so Apple sign-in works whether or not Apple includes an email.

🔊 Improved Feed Text-to-Speech — Some RSS items in Reader still had no Play button (Paul Graham's essays, for one, arrive as a single block separated by line breaks), and others were read aloud in the wrong language. Tadek gave those items proper paragraphs and Krzys fixed the language detection, so new feed items get the Play button and the right voice.

📤 Fixed Export Interruptions — Three Readwise exports could stall for their own reasons: one highlight with oddly formatted Markdown quietly cut a Notion export short, a Markdown export spun forever if any book's tags were still processing after a Kindle sync, and reconnecting OneNote dropped you back on a page that still said "Reconnect". Rasul fixed all three.

🔀 Fixed Import Interruptions — An Instapaper bookmark with an empty address stopped a Reader import, a Raindrop sync to Readwise could halt on a stale rate-limit timestamp, and a Twitter list digest failed to generate when a tweet's link was missing its full address. Rasul fixed these as well, so imports and digests run through to the end.

📚 Fixed Japanese Kindle Clippings — A My Clippings.txt file that included highlights made while the Kindle was set to Japanese failed to import into Readwise. Rasul taught the importer the newer Japanese layout, so mixed-language clippings files upload cleanly.

📬 Fixed Kindle Archive Links — The "archive all documents" link in a Reader Kindle digest relied on a bit of JavaScript to close the window, which the Kindle browser doesn't run, so nothing seemed to happen. Rasul replaced it with a plain confirmation page that shows how many documents were archived, and it works on the Kindle itself.

🧷 Fixed Extension Toast — In the Reader browser extension, the "Saved to Reader" toast covered the first options of the location menu for a few seconds, so moving a page to Later or Shortlist right after saving meant waiting it out. Mati made the toast disappear as soon as the menu opens, and Adam shipped it in the latest extension update.

🧩 Improved Reader API Highlights — Previously, the Reader API had no support for editing or deleting highlights, and listing highlights always returned an empty note. Thanks to Piotr, PATCH /api/v3/update/ and DELETE /api/v3/delete/ now work on highlights, the list endpoint includes each highlight's note and tags, and deleting an article through the API removes its highlights with it. The API docs have the details.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from Substack (posts, feeds, and newsletter emails), afr.com, Bloomberg, BBC News, Medium, wsj.com, and our own docs.readwise.io.

September 18, 2026

💌 NEW! Redesigned Readwise Emails — To match the recent Readwise app redesign, your Daily Review and Themed Review emails have a fresh design built by Ibai and Christina, with cleaner highlight cards and links that take you straight to editing, tagging, or sharing a highlight. To try it, head to your email preferences on the Readwise website and turn off "Use the original email design". You can switch back the same way whenever you like.

🧩 NEW! Reader API Highlights — You can now create highlights through the Reader API. Send a POST to /api/v3/save/ with the document's parent_id and the passage as content (plus optional notes and tags), and the highlight is anchored to that document. Previously the same request quietly created a stray article instead. Thanks to Piotr, mismatched requests now return a clear error too. See the API docs for an example.

📥 Improved OPML Imports — Importing an OPML file to Reader used to subscribe you to a blank "No name" feed for every address it couldn't fetch, and never told you which ones failed. Piotr shipped a fix that skips those feeds, keeps the feed names from your file, and emails you a summary when the import finishes, listing any feeds that were left out so you can re-add them.

🤖 Improved Ghostreader Indexing Progress — The first time you open Ghostreader's library chat in Reader on web or desktop, it indexes your whole library in the background, but the header showed a partial count as if that were everything. Piotr made it say "Indexing your library..." with a running tally, then switch to the final total once it's done.

🪄 Fixed Mobile Ghostreader Prompts — Ghostreader's "Tag the document" and "Highlight the document" prompts in the Reader app could confirm the tags in chat without ever applying them to the document. Adam fixed how the app reads the result, so the tags and highlights land on the document again.

🧠 Improved Mobile Model Memory — New Ghostreader chats in the Reader app always started on the Fast model, even if you prefer Thinking. Following last week's change on web, Piotr made the mobile app remember your pick too, so a new chat starts on whichever model you used last.

👆 Fixed Android Reading Taps — After jumping to a chapter from the table of contents in the Reader app on Android, the reading view could stop responding to taps entirely. Tadek shipped a fix for the invisible overlay that was catching those taps, so the page responds normally after a jump.

🔊 Fixed Feed Text-to-Speech — Some RSS feeds deliver each post as one long run of plain text, and Reader found nothing in those documents to read aloud, so the Play button never appeared. Thanks to Tadek, new items from these feeds now arrive with proper paragraphs, so text-to-speech works on them like any other article.

🎙️ Fixed Missing Podcast Episodes — Some podcast feeds point every episode's link at the show's homepage, which made Reader treat the whole feed as a single item and stop delivering new episodes. Tadek taught Reader to tell those episodes apart, and Krzys fixed a related case where two posts sharing one audio file were merged under the wrong title. Affected feeds should now catch up and keep delivering new episodes.

📊 Improved Sync Reliability — In rare cases, a single change the server couldn't process would block everything queued behind it, so a device could stop syncing with Reader: new uploads never arrived and books sat on their loading cover. Tristan fixed the two causes we found, so one bad update no longer holds up the rest and syncing carries on.

🖥️ Fixed Half-Blank Documents — Reader on web and desktop could occasionally open a document squeezed into the bottom half of the window with an empty space above it. Tristan shipped a fix for the hidden list that was taking up that room, so documents fill the window again.

📤 Fixed Large CSV Exports — Exporting your highlights from Readwise as a CSV could fail with an error page if your library was very large. Thanks to Tristan, libraries over 50,000 highlights now get their CSV prepared in the background and emailed as a download link, so even the biggest collections should export smoothly.

🔠 Fixed Section Labels — If you edited the text of a heading highlight in Readwise, review cards for that book kept showing the old section name (or a placeholder like "page_89") until the book's next sync. Ibai made the section name update along with the highlight, so your review cards match what you see on the book's page.

📷 Improved Scan Reliability — Photos taken with the Readwise app's Scan tool would sometimes fail to turn into text for no obvious reason, because the text recognition service couldn't always fetch the uploaded image. Johannes changed how the image is handed over, so scans should come back with their text far more consistently.

🔀 Fixed Instapaper Imports — A single bookmark with a malformed URL, or a Google share link that wouldn't resolve, could stop an entire Instapaper import to Reader partway through. Rasul made the importer set that one bookmark aside and carry on, so the rest of your Instapaper library comes across.

📚 Fixed Hypothesis and Raindrop Syncs — One Hypothesis annotation with a blank tag, or one Raindrop bookmark with no title, was enough to halt the whole sync to Readwise. Rasul fixed both: blank tags are ignored, and untitled Raindrop bookmarks come in as "Highlights from" followed by the site's name, so the rest of your highlights sync as usual.

🐦 Fixed Twitter Imports — Turning on Twitter bookmark imports in Readwise for an account whose Twitter/X connection had lapsed showed an error page, and the same tweet could occasionally be saved twice when it arrived through more than one route. Rasul fixed both, so you now get a Reconnect option for the affected account and each tweet is imported once. Twitter list digests that include a quote of a deleted tweet also generate properly again.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from macstories.net, reuters.com, dpreview.com, howtogeek.com, wsj.com, entwickler.de, olickel.com, Reddit share links, and Substack newsletters.

September 11, 2026

🎬 NEW! YouTube Chapters — When you save a YouTube video to Reader on web, the video's own chapter markers now show up in the Contents panel, so you can jump between sections the way you would with an article's headings. Click a chapter and the player seeks straight to it, with the transcript following along. Thanks to Piotr, this works for every video saved from now on.

🫥 NEW! Hide Focus Indicator — Reader on web marks the paragraph you're on with a colored bar beside it. Some readers found this distracting, so Piotr added a "Hide focus indicator" toggle in Preferences. With it hidden, the arrow keys and space bar scroll the page the way they do on any other site, though a few keyboard shortcuts that rely on the indicator will no longer work.

🔎 NEW! Scan Loupe — Selecting text in a scanned page with the Readwise app's Scan tool now shows a magnifying loupe above your finger, and the selection handle sits offset from your fingertip so it no longer hides the exact boundary you're choosing. Johannes added this for both manual selection and automatic scan review on iOS and Android.

🔊 Improved TTS Speed Controls — The playback speed sheet in the Reader app used to be a fixed list of twelve rates. Artem replaced it with a native sheet where you can drag a slider anywhere from 0.5x to 3x in 0.05 steps, or tap a preset for 1x, 1.25x, 1.5x, 1.75x, or 2x. The voice picker also got an upgrade: "View all languages" now opens a full list with a back button to return.

🧠 Improved Ghostreader Model Memory — Every new Ghostreader chat in Reader on web and desktop reset the model picker to Fast, so anyone who prefers Thinking had to pick it again each time. Piotr made the choice sticky, so a new chat now starts on whichever model you picked last.

📚 Improved Ghostreader Long Documents — Asking Ghostreader in Reader to work through a long book a section at a time could make it lose the thread after a few turns, because pulling in the whole document pushed your earlier conversation out of its memory. Piotr gave Ghostreader a tool that reads a document in order, one page of chunks at a time, so it can keep going through a long text and remember what you asked for.

🗨️ Fixed Ghostreader Raw Output — When a Ghostreader chat in Reader used up its research steps before answering a question about your library, it could reply with the raw search results and its own internal instructions instead of an answer. Piotr fixed the final pass, so Ghostreader now writes a proper answer from what it found.

📍 Fixed Ghostreader Position Prompts — Prompts like "Pick up where I left off" or "What have I read so far" in Reader could answer with material from past your reading position. Adam shipped a fix to the guidance Ghostreader uses to locate where you are in the document, so those prompts now stick to what you've actually read.

📝 Fixed Chat Note Formatting — Adding a Ghostreader chat answer in Reader to a document note or highlight note carried the Markdown symbols along with it. Adam fixed that, so answers now land in your notes as plain, readable text with their lists intact.

💬 Fixed Chat Prompt Dialog — In the Reader app, running a Ghostreader prompt that asks you for input first showed its dialog behind the chat sheet, where you couldn't reach it. Adam moved the dialog in front, so those prompts can be answered again on iPhone and Android.

♻️ Fixed Reparsed Documents — When the parsing team fixed a document and emailed you a link to the corrected version, opening it in Reader could still show the old text until you hard-refreshed. Mati made Reader drop its cached copy the moment the server reports a reparse, and Krzys made sure every document in a fix notification is marked for refresh, so the link now opens the corrected article on web and mobile.

📡 Fixed Stuck RSS Feeds — If a feed published an item stamped with a date in the future, Reader could stop pulling in anything new from that feed, since every sync only looked for items newer than that one. Piotr shipped a fix that ignores a future-dated marker, so affected feeds catch up on their backlog and keep delivering new posts.

⏱️ Fixed Chapter Time Remaining — Opening an EPUB in the Reader app could show "1 min left in chapter" until you turned a page, when the real figure was much larger. Johannes made the footer read your restored position as soon as the book loads, so the chapter time is right from the first page.

📑 Fixed EPUB Table of Contents — Books that arrived in Reader through a bundle subscription lost their table of contents, and in the Reader app, opening an EPUB with no table of contents right after one that had one could show the previous book's chapters. Cam fixed both, so bundled books keep their chapters and every book shows its own.

🖼️ Fixed Image Highlights — Highlighting an image in a Substack post could show up in the Readwise app, on the Readwise website, and in Reader's Notebook as a raw Markdown link instead of the picture. Johannes taught the renderers to accept those image URLs, so image highlights now display as images everywhere.

🏷️ Fixed Bulk Tag Palette — Using "Tag all as…" from Reader’s command palette in a view with lots of tags filled the palette with tag chips and pushed the actual commands off screen. Piotr capped the chip list and made it scroll, so the palette stays usable no matter how many tags you have.

🔃 Improved Sort Labels — Sorting by Length or Progress in Reader offered "0 → 100" and "100 → 0", which didn't mean much for either. Piotr relabeled them "Shortest → Longest" and "0% → 100%" on web and mobile, and the sort menu on web now opens to the left so it no longer runs under the Info panel.

📱 Fixed Feed Swiping on Android — Swiping through the Feed's Skim view in the Reader app on Android could settle on one article and then swap it out for a different one a moment later. Krzys shipped a fix that keeps every article in its slot while it loads, so a swipe lands on the article you expect.

⭐ Fixed Shortlist Icon Size — The shortlist star in the Reader app's reading toolbar was drawn noticeably larger than the icons beside it. Adam had it redrawn to match, so the toolbar lines up.

🐦 Renamed Twitter Articles Setting — The Twitter/X import setting in Reader labeled "Save articles linked in tweets" actually controls whether X Articles (Twitter's long-form posts) are saved, not links inside tweets. Rasul renamed it "Twitter Articles" on the settings page and in Reader so it says what it does.

📤 Fixed Android Share Sheet — Tapping Done twice in the Reader share sheet's tag view on Android could crash the app a couple of seconds later. Cam fixed the double-tap handling, so saving from the share sheet completes cleanly.

🔍 Improved Quick Lookup — Opening Quick Lookup in the Reader app scrolled the page much further than the sheet needed, sometimes causing it to lose your place. Krzys shipped a fix that scrolls only as far as the sheet requires, and usually not at all.

📐 Fixed Boox Text Scaling — Raising the per-app DPI on Boox devices pushed the Readwise app past the panel edges, and the home header's settings gear and streak counter were hidden behind a stray system bar. Ibai aligned the app's render density with the device setting and removed the bar, so text scales with your Boox DPI and the header controls are back.

📷 Improved Scan Uploads — Photos taken with the Readwise app's Scan tool are now sent straight from the device at a smaller size instead of being encoded in memory first. Johannes made the change for both manual selection and automatic scan review, so scanning dense pages on Android should no longer stall or run out of memory.

📋 Fixed Oversized Pastes — Pasting a very long block of text into the Readwise app's Add Highlight field on Android could freeze the app. Johannes added a length limit that trims the paste and tells you, so the editor stays responsive.

🔔 Fixed Notification Taps — Tapping a Daily Review notification while the Readwise app was closed could open the app without taking you to the review. Johannes made the app hold on to the tap until it's ready to navigate, so notifications land on the right screen from a cold start.

🔠 Fixed Chapter Labels — Long chapter names on review cards in the Readwise app could run on for several lines and crowd out the highlight. Ibai capped them at two lines, so the card stays about the highlight.

🦶 Fixed Footnote Editing — Editing a highlight that contained a footnote in the Readwise app hid the bold, italic, and highlight formatting bar. Johannes made footnote embeds behave as single units in the editor, so the formatting controls now appear for every highlight.

⚖️ Fixed Daily Review Buttons — On the Lite plan, the Daily Review's action row in the Readwise app and on mobile web showed its three buttons bunched in the middle of the card instead of spread across it. Ibai gave the middle slot the same width the missing button left behind, so the row reaches the card edges again.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from wsj.com and ft.com, and articles from both sites saved by URL are now far more likely to come through in full instead of as a paywall preview.

September 4, 2026

• 🎯 Fixed Focus Mode — Focus mode in Reader on web and desktop was only dimming the paragraphs around you on articles and podcast transcripts. On emails, EPUBs, text-view PDFs, and Twitter threads nothing dimmed at all, and on YouTube transcripts everything did. Krzys fixed the dimming rules, so focus mode now properly spotlights the paragraph you're on across every document type.

• 📄 Fixed PDF Page Shortcut — In Reader on web, the shift+J shortcut for jumping to a page in a PDF did nothing if the window was too narrow to show the page-number box in the header. Krzys made the shortcut reveal that box on demand, so you can jump to a page no matter how small your window is.

• 🔑 Fixed Custom OpenAI Keys — Adding your own OpenAI key to Reader on the Integrations page could fail with an "Invalid key" error even when the key was valid and funded, because the check insisted on access to one particular model. Tristan relaxed that check so any key that can run Ghostreader's models is accepted, and Piotr closed a gap where a blank entry could quietly wipe a saved key.

• 🔗 Fixed Ghostreader Citations — When a Ghostreader answer in Reader cited a passage containing code or bracketed notation, the citation could come out as a run of plain monospace text instead of a link. Tristan taught the citation parser to handle those anchors, so citations stay clickable.

• ✍️ Fixed Ghostreader Highlights — Asking Ghostreader in Reader to highlight a passage could report success while nothing appeared in the document, especially when the quote crossed a link, an emphasized word, or a paragraph break. Krzys fixed how the requested text is matched against the page, so those highlights now land where you asked for them.

• 🔥 Fixed Streak Counts — The review streak shown in the Readwise app and on the web could lag behind reality, sometimes holding onto a stale number for more than a day after you finished a review. Ibai and Tristan reworked how the streak and the review calendar are calculated, so your streak should update as soon as you complete your review.

• 📰 Fixed Newsletter Layout — Email newsletters like the New York Times' The Morning could render in Reader's original view with squeezed text and stretched images, and on iPhone and iPad the layout could run wider than the screen with no way to pan across. Cam and Krzys fixed the width rules, so newsletters now lay out the way they do in your inbox.

• 🐦 Fixed Twitter Digest Text — In Twitter List digests in Reader, the "retweeted" label was showing at full reading size and bulleted tweets came out larger than the text around them. Artem tidied up those styles, so the digest's labels and lists now sit at their proper sizes.

• 🏷️ Fixed Tag Crash — Tags added through the Readwise MCP or the API were skipping the name checks the Reader app applies when you create a tag by hand, so names containing illegal bracket characters (e.g. [ai]) could slip through. Tapping one of those tags in the Reader app crashed it on iPhone and iPad, and the tags never appeared in the sidebar. Cam taught the app to handle those names, so bracketed tags now open normally and show up in the sidebar alongside the rest.

• 🗞️ Fixed Daily Digest Position — Opening an article from the Daily Digest in the Reader app and tapping back could throw the list all the way to the top when a freshly built digest synced down mid-session. Cam made the app hold onto the digest you started with, so you land right back where you left off.

• 💬 Improved Mobile Chat Context — Ghostreader chat in the Reader app wasn't passing along the passage you had selected or were reading, so questions about "this paragraph" could miss the mark. Adam fixed that, so chat on iPhone and Android now knows where you are in the document.

• ⏳ Fixed Stuck Loading Screen — The Reader app could get permanently stuck on its loading screen at launch if onboarding had been interrupted partway through. Lior shipped a fix that finishes that state on the next launch, so the app opens straight to your library.

• 💻 Fixed Code Hyphenation — On iOS, inline code and code blocks in Reader were being auto-hyphenated when they wrapped, which mangled file paths and variable names. Lior shipped a fix that turns hyphenation off for code, so it wraps cleanly.

• 🔠 Fixed Clipped Tags — With a larger system text size, highlight tags in the Reader app's notebook were getting cut off at the top and bottom. Cam made the tag pills grow with your font setting, so tags stay fully readable at any size.

• 🦊 Fixed Firefox Extensions — The Reader highlighter extension for Firefox could stop OpenRouter pages from loading and lose its right-click menu items, and the Readwise sync extension's "Save highlight" menu item disappeared whenever both extensions were installed. Adam fixed all three and released updates to both extensions, so right-click saving works again in Firefox.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from entwickler.de, and articles saved from ft.com by URL alone now show the "couldn't fetch full content" notice instead of an empty page.

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.