Readwise Release Notes

July 17, 2026

NEW! Clock While Reading

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

Fixed Books Not Opening

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

Fixed Search History

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

Fixed Sidebar Info

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

Fixed EPUB Loading

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

Improved Text-to-Speech Pacing

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

Fixed API Timeouts

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

Fixed Twitter Digests

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

Fixed Content Erasing

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

Improved Quick Lookup

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

Parsing Updates

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

July 10, 2026

🆕 NEW! Markdown Uploads

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

✅ NEW! Daily Review API

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

🌐 NEW! Article Language Control

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

🔊 Fixed Text-to-Speech Errors

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

🤖 Improved MCP Responses

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

⌨️ Fixed Chat Focus

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

🖥️ Fixed CLI Hangs

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

📅 Fixed Mobile Date Sorting

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

📱 Fixed App Crashes

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

July 3, 2026

📖 Fixed EPUB Chapters

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

🔊 Improved Text-to-Speech

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

📅 Fixed Publish-Date Sorting

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

📝 Fixed Notebook Lists

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

📡 Fixed Feed Digest

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

🌙 Fixed Dark Mode Toasts

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

🔎 Fixed Quick Lookup

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

🤖 Fixed MCP Document Lists

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

🔌 Fixed App Connections

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

🛜 Parsing Updates

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

June 26, 2026

🤖 Fixed MCP Connections

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

📒 Fixed OneNote Exports

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

📡 Fixed RSS Feed Items

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

🔍 Fixed Author Filtering

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

🛜 Parsing Updates

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

June 19, 2026

🆕 NEW! OneNote Export Metadata

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

💬 Improved Ghostreader Chat Links

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

🎨 Fixed Code Blocks in Light Mode

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

🎬 Fixed YouTube Highlight Links

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

📦 Fixed Export Filenames for Non-English Titles

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

📚 Fixed Kobo Highlight Order

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

💾 Fixed OneNote Exports on Full Storage

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

📂 Fixed Pinned View Ordering

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

🗃️ Fixed Document Type Filters

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

🛜 Parsing Updates

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

June 12, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

June 5, 2026

Improved Quick Lookup

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

Improved MCP & API Video Metadata

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

Fixed Subscription Activation

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

Parsing Updates

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

May 29, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

May 22, 2026

NEW! Lookup in Reader

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

Fixed Kobo Duplicate Highlights

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

Fixed Library Imports

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

Improved Export Reliability

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

Fixed Audio Daily Review Stalling

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

Faster Audio Daily Reviews

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

Fixed Re-Importing Deleted Articles

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

Fixed Daily Reviews Not Completing on Mobile

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

Fixed Highlight Webhooks

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

Parsing Updates

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

May 15, 2026

• 🤖 NEW! GPT-5.5 in BYOK Ghostreader — Thanks to Ibai, you can now select GPT-5.5 in the Bring-Your-Own-Key Ghostreader prompt model dropdown. If you've added your own OpenAI key in the integrations settings, you can now use 5.5 for your preset prompts.

• 📓 Improved OneNote Account Selection — Rasul updated the OneNote export so users with multiple Microsoft accounts that share a displayed username can pick and keep the right one. The settings page now uses Microsoft's stable account identifiers, disambiguates duplicate account labels in the dropdown, and stops resetting your choice to the first cached account on every load.

• 📨 Fixed Feed Email Attachments — Rasul fixed a bug where emailing a PDF or EPUB to your Reader email address discarded the email body. Attachments and the email body now arrive as separate Reader items, and they both land in your Feed or your Library (depending which address the email is sent to).

• 💎 Improved Obsidian Expired-Account Messaging — Rasul made the Obsidian sync API return an informative response when your Readwise account has expired instead of a plain 403 Forbidden error. The Obsidian plugin will now surface a clear renewal prompt with the right upgrade link instead of a confusing generic error.

• 📖 Fixed Kindle Email Formatting — Rasul fixed a bug where Reader Digest and other emails sent to Kindle were keeping the original email's complex HTML instead of the simplified clean view you see in Reader. Emails on your Kindle now match what you read in Reader.

• 📑 Fixed Mixed-Language Kindle Clippings — Rasul fixed a crash importing Kindle My Clippings.txt files with Russian metadata that used Roman-numeral page values like xvii. These imports now process all the way through instead of bailing partway.

• 🧩 Fixed Highlighter Extension Storage Errors — Adam fixed an error with the browser highlighter extension that was unnecessarily filling up the local storage and may have caused some performance issues, especially for Firefox users.

• ⚡ Improved Wisereads RSS Feed Performance — Tristan cached the wisereads.readwise.io RSS feed to prevent every request rebuilding the entire issue history from scratch and potentially causing outages during high traffic times. The feed now serves snappily and the site is much more resilient to traffic spikes.

• 🎬 Fixed Twitter Video on iOS — Krzys fixed an iOS bug where the first tap on a Twitter video in Reader did nothing, requiring a pause-then-play to unblock it. Videos now start on the first tap on iOS, matching the behavior on every other platform.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles posts from Medium and Substack. He also tidied up email rendering across sources: empty figures and buttons are stripped instead of leaving blank boxes, neighboring icons display inline, and the prev/next tag now sits in the right place.

May 8, 2026

Fixed EPUB Chapter Headings

📖 Tadek fixed an EPUB bug where only the first chapter heading after import was recognized as a heading in Readwise and every subsequent one was treated as a regular highlight. Chapter and section structure now carries through to your highlights and exports the way it's supposed to.

Fixed Superhuman Forwards into Gmail

📨 Tristan taught the Gmail parser how to read forwards that originated in Superhuman. If you forward a newsletter from Superhuman into Gmail and on to Reader, the original sender, subject, and body now come through cleanly instead of getting tangled in the Superhuman wrapper.

Fixed Daily Review Buttons on iPad

📱 Ibai restored the missing Daily Review buttons that had gone walkabout on iPad. You can now choose the Discard, Master, Feedback, and Keep options on iPad again.

Improved Latest-Highlights API

🏷️ Tadek tightened the /latest and /api/latest-highlight/ endpoints so they no longer surface section-title highlights as if they were normal highlights, and will now filter out discarded highlights. Integrations that pull your most recent highlight will now return intentional highlights, without pulling headings or things you already got rid of.

Smoother Reader Sidebar

🪟 Tristan smoothed out the appearance of Reader's left sidebar on initial page load, so the panel slides into place cleanly instead of popping in.

Improved Twitter Video Reliability

🐦 Krzys shored up Twitter video playback in Reader. Videos should now load reliably on iOS and Safari, and initial playback should feel snappier.

Fixed Desktop Dropdown Keyboard Nav

⌨️ Tristan shepherded a fix for the Reader desktop app's More Actions menu (M key). Items now show a clear highlight as you arrow through them, and stray arrow key presses no longer kick focus to unrelated parts of the page.

Zapier Export Tile

⚡ Thanks to Rasul, you can now find the official Zapier integration directly on the Readwise Export page. The new tile links straight to zapier.com/apps/readwise/integrations, so it's easier to wire your highlights into the rest of your stack.

Parsing Updates

🛜 Krzys improved how Reader handles posts from Substack publications hosted on custom domains. He also cleaned up several rough edges in how they display in-app: "Read More" cards on Notes posts are now clickable, action-button rows and "Read in app" get stripped instead of leaving empty boxes, forwarded-message preambles no longer italicize the body, inline color and font overrides are removed for consistent reading, and images with quirky computed heights are preserved instead of disappearing.

May 1, 2026

🌓 Fixed Mobile Dark Mode Highlights — Adam fixed a bug where highlight text appeared black in dark mode on mobile. Highlights are now readable in dark mode again.

⚡ Improved Document Chat Speed — A regression in the OpenAI model used by document chat was causing a slowdown in the replies. Adam switched the chat tool-call to use a different model, so replies should feel quicker again.

👆 Fixed Annotation Bar After Auto-Highlighting — Adam fixed a bug where the annotation bar popover didn't appear after a highlight was created via auto-highlighting. The popover now shows up the way it does for manual highlights.

📧 Fixed Feed Email Attachments — Thanks to Rasul, attachments forwarded to a Feed email address now reliably land in your Feed instead of occasionally bouncing into Library.

🐦 Improved Tweet Rendering — Tristan tightened how Reader renders saved tweets so they conform to Twitter's display rules and look closer to the original.

📨 Fixed Twitter List Digests — Tristan fixed an issue with Twitter list digests in Reader, caused by a change in the Twitter API. Twitter digests should now be working again.

📄 Fixed Kindle Highlight Parsing — Rasul fixed a parsing bug where Kindle Notebook HTML with no space before the color parentheses caused some highlights to be skipped during import. Your imports should be complete again, even when Kindle's HTML is squished.

✉️ Added Kindle Sender Aliases for Trailing-Dot Usernames — Rasul added a fallback Kindle sender address (rwkindle-<id>@send.readwise.io) for users whose Readwise username ends with a dot. Amazon rejects these types of sender addresses, so previously these users couldn't get sends to work. The Reader web Kindle setup instructions now show the correct alias to approve in Amazon.

🎙 Added Podcast Category Override — Mati added "Podcast" to the document category dropdown when manually editing a document's metadata in Reader.

⌨️ Fixed Custom Keyboard Shortcuts — Mati fixed a bug where pressing the × button on one shortcut for a command removed all shortcuts for that command. Each shortcut now removes individually, the way you'd expect.

✨ Reader Mobile Polish — Mati polished two small Reader mobile interactions: the Reader forwarding email copy button now copies properly, and tapping into a document while using the skim UI on iPad will correctly save your place instead of scrolling back to the top of the list when exiting the document.

🔗 Fixed Highlight Section Sync — Mitch fixed an error when an existing highlight had an invalid URL. Sync should now complete even on books with legacy invalid URLs.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys updated how Substack articles are parsed, including more reliably removing subscription CTAs and better embed rendering. He also improved parsing for howtogeek.com and thurrott.com.

April 24, 2026

NEW! OPML Import via Share Sheet

📥 Arek added direct OPML sharing to Reader on iOS. If you're moving from another RSS or podcast app, you can now export your subscriptions as OPML and share them straight to Reader without needing to swap to a computer for the upload.

NEW! Tagged Highlights List

🏷️ Mati added a new view in Reader mobile for browsing your highlights grouped by tag, making it easier to revisit everything you've marked with a specific label.

Fixed Duplicate Highlights

🟡 Artem fixed a bug where EPUB documents were generating duplicate highlights in some cases. Highlights should now only save once.

Fixed iOS Share Sheet Login

🔐 Tristan fixed a regression where the iOS share sheet told users to "Log in to Readwise Reader" even when they were already signed in. You can now share links into Reader from iOS without the false login prompt.

Fixed Feed Sidebar

📡 Tristan fixed two Reader iOS regressions caused by a recent upgrade: the RSS folder chevron was rotated wrong, and the Feed row in the sidebar wasn't rendering. Both are back in place.

Fixed Reader Onboarding

✨ Artem restored the share-onboarding image and fixed icon alignment on Reader's onboarding screen, both of which had regressed after a recent change. New users should see a clean onboarding flow again.

Fixed Highlight Tap

👆 Adam fixed a bug where tapping a highlight caused the annotation bar to flash on and off. Highlight taps should now feel steadier.

Parsing Updates

🛜 Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from thurrott.com and howtogeek.com, tightened custom-domain mapping to avoid false positives, and made Reader's parser more reliable on long-running sessions.

April 17, 2026

⚡ Faster Web Performance — Artem made a number of performance upgrades and improvements to the Reader web and desktop apps. They should now be noticeably smoother to use, especially when scrolling through your documents.

🤖 Improved Readwise MCP — Piotr made Claude more efficient when working with your Readwise highlights through MCP. You can ask Claude to find highlights from a specific book and get back the results in a single request rather than two, with the book's title, author, and tags included.

🔐 Updated OAuth App Verification — Piotr updated the MCP's OAuth flow to allow connections from any app, with a new Verified badge on the authorization screen so you can tell at a glance whether the app is trusted. Untrusted apps will now display a warning, instead of blocking the connection entirely.

🔀 Fixed Notion Reconnect — Rasul fixed the Notion export reconnect flow so the navigation lands in the right place. Reconnecting your Notion integration should work smoothly now.

📄 Fixed PDF Loading — Tristan fixed a cache issue that caused some users to be unable to open PDF files. Affected users should find PDFs loading normally again on their next page load.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from nytimes.com, antiochian.org, Steel.dev, and Twitter. He also fixed newsletters from Dan Koe, Liberty's Highlights, and Substack that were being incorrectly truncated due to a <script> tag.

April 10, 2026

📓 NEW! Wikiwise (experimental) — Tristan built a native Mac app for setting up, customizing, and managing your own local-first markdown wiki with an AI agent. Just point it at a folder and your markdown files become interlinked pages. Add sources and the LLM agent reads them, writes summary pages, cross-references everything, and keeps it all consistent. The wiki compounds with every source you add, with no need for a database, configs, or account. Wikis can compile to a clean, fast website you can share on the web. If you decide to try it out, feel free to send us any feedback!

🔀 NEW! Expanded MCP Access — Thanks to Piotr, our MCP can now be used with Notion and Perplexity.

💎 Fixed Obsidian Exports — Tristan fixed a backend process glitch that prevented exported documents and highlights from reaching Obsidian.

📝 Fixed Highlight Ordering — Mati fixed a bug where highlights created via keyboard shortcut appeared at the top of the notebook panel regardless of their position in the document. Highlights now sort by their actual location, so your notebook and exports reflect the correct reading order.

🎙️ Improved Podcast Exports — Full transcripts now export to Obsidian, and podcasts are correctly categorized as podcasts in Readwise instead of being saved as articles.

🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles Twitter/X content. Krzys also fixed a bug where email newsletters containing embedded script tags were getting cut off mid-content. Newsletters from Dan Koe, Liberty's Highlights, and various Substack authors were among those affected. Full newsletters should now come through intact.