Readwise Release Notes

March 27, 2026

• 🔖 NEW! Modify Action Tags — You can now modify or remove header markers after creating them, and the associated sections and auto-generated tags update to match. As part of this change, Ibai also fixed an issue where .h1/.h2 header action tags and .c1/.c2 concatenation tags could interfere with exports.

• 🦞 NEW! Readwise for Claws — We just launched a ClawHub skill that connects your Readwise and Reader library directly to your claw. Anything you save (articles, PDFs, tweets, YouTube, podcasts, newsletters, books) is instantly searchable and readable by your agent in clean markdown. npx clawhub install readwise-official

• ⭐️ Fixed Shortlist Webhook — Mati extended the shortlist hook so moving items to shortlist triage status will now dispatch a webhook (i.e. for Zapier).

• 📧 Fixed Email Imports — Mati fixed a bug where emails forwarded by Gmail as attachments (.eml files) weren't working right. Reader now correctly processes these attachment types, so all forwarded emails should arrive as expected.

• 📚 Fixed Kindle Imports — Single-language Japanese, Chinese, and Russian Kindle clippings now parse correctly. Rasul also added a warning when sending Kindle books bigger than Kindle's 7MB email limit.

• 🦊 Fixed Firefox Login — Mati fixed a CSRF error that blocked login for Firefox users running strict privacy settings. Those users should be able to sign in without adjusting their browser configuration.

• 🐦 Fixed Twitter/X Saving — Tristan fixed a bug with saving tweets that had partial or malformed data from Twitter's API. Rasul also improved retry behavior when Twitter's connection drops during initial sync setup, so tweet saving should fail less often.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from google.com, hackernoon.com, sciencedirect.com, and smarthomecircle.com. He also improved page fetching more generally, which should make parsing work better across the board.

March 20, 2026

• 🤖 NEW! Readwise MCP — The (new, improved) Readwise MCP server gives Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI direct access to your Readwise highlights, and the full text of all your Reader documents. Once connected, you can ask your AI to search your notes, answer questions using your own reading history as context, or even make changes to your Reader library for you.

• 🚀 NEW! Readwise CLI — You can now search, read, and organize your Readwise and Reader data from the command line interface. The CLI lets you semantically search your library, save URLs to Reader, manage document locations, create highlights, and export your full library — all from the terminal. These work great with AI coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, and can access Reader in read-only mode if you prefer.

• 🎓 NEW! Readwise Skills — We pre-built AI workflows like inbox triage, feed catchup, a custom book review that is aware of related context in your vault, and a quiz mode for testing yourself on recent reads. You can also analyze your reading history and tell you something surprising you don't know about yourself. Works with the Readwise MCP or CLI.

• 👻 NEW! GPT-5.4 Support — If you bring your own OpenAI API key for custom Ghostreader prompts, you can now select GPT-5.4 as your model.

• 🦾 Improved MCP Reliability — Tristan fixed a bug where highlight colors were causing MCP server responses to break. Highlight data should now come through correctly when using the API or MCP tools. Piotr fixed an issue where bulk document updates via the MCP server could trigger rate limits, so operations should no longer fail silently. Piotr also added support for Mistral as an MCP client via OAuth.

• ⚡ Improved Search Indexing — Piotr fixed an issue where profiles with extremely large documents (like multi-volume epub collections at 50MB+) could cause issues with search indexing. Large document batches are now split by size, so even the biggest libraries should index smoothly.

• 🔀 Improved Google Docs Exports — Rasul improved how Reader detects certain Google account errors during export. Google recently started returning some revoked-token failures in a new format that Reader wasn't recognizing — these are now handled properly, so you should get a clean re-authentication prompt instead of silent export failures.

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Mati improved the reliability of our YouTube parsing and fixed a bug where YouTube channel URLs (like youtube.com/@channel) were being treated as individual videos. YouTube content should also parse faster. Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from sparknotes.com, wavelength.asana.com, samhenri.gold, grist.org, codely.com, deepwiki.com, factory.strongdm.ai, wericmartin.com, bitwarden.com, emcrit.org, justin.poehnelt.com, stopsloppypasta.ai, theverge.com, and theadhocracy.co.uk.

March 13, 2026

• Improved YouTube Parsing — YouTube started aggressively throttling our caption translation requests, but Ibai and Mitch found some ways to make YouTube videos parse significantly faster.
• Improved API Performance — Piotr improved compression to four high-bandwidth API endpoints (including the document list and export endpoints). Responses should be noticeably faster, especially on slower connections.
• Fixed Subscriptions — Google Play will now properly display subscription details and links to manage your subscription, thanks to Tristan.
• Fixed X/Twitter DM Sync — Ibai fixed an issue preventing some tweets DM'd to the Reader account from syncing properly to Readwise and Reader.
• Fixed Twitter List Emojis — Krzys fixed an issue where Twitter/X lists imported into Reader sometimes displayed oversized emojis that disrupted the layout. Emojis now render at the correct size.
• Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from bloomberg.com, sparknotes.com, wavelength.asana.com, and samhenri.gold. He also added support for wapo.st redirect links and fixed several RSS feed parsing issues.

March 6, 2026

• 🔖 Fixed Highlight Navigation — Tristan and Adam fixed a bug where tapping a highlight in the Notebook sidebar on mobile didn't scroll to that highlight in the document.
• ↔️ Fixed Highlight Resizing — Adam fixed a bug where highlights spanning multiple text elements (like bulleted lists) could lose their yellow background after resizing with the adjustment handles. This should also fix some cases where highlights appeared to vanish when switching documents or pages.
• 🎧 Fixed Podcast Transcriptions — Mati fixed an issue where some podcast platforms were failing to transcribe some episodes.
• 📖 Improved Reading Progress — Artem and Lior enhanced the reading progress modal for EPUBs to show more detail at a glance. You can now choose between percent, page number, time left in chapter, time left in book, or hidden and each option previews the current value right in the picker.
• 🔍 Fixed Exact Domain Filters — Arek fixed a bug where using __exact with domain filters in filtered views returned no results. If you had a view filtering for exactly github.com but not subdomains like docs.github.com, it should now work as expected.
• 📓 Fixed Notebook Duplicates — Adam fixed a bug where certain highlights on mobile could show duplicated text in the Notebook panel. This happened when a highlight contained an image and spanned nested HTML elements — the text would render twice on iOS and Android even though it displayed correctly on web.
• 🏷️ Fixed Tag Trimming — Adam improved server-side trimming for tag names, so tags created via the API or share extension can no longer end up with trailing spaces that cause issues.
• ☯️ Fixed Split View Shortcut — Mati fixed the < keyboard shortcut for toggling split view. It should now properly fire on filtered views.
• 🐦 Fixed Twitter Imports — Ibai fixed an issue with the Twitter integration, so now chats should come in properly again.
• 📋 Fixed Title Updates — Arek fixed a bug where editing a document's title through the metadata sheet on Android didn't update the title shown in the Library or the bottom sheet until you force-refreshed. Titles now update immediately.
• 👆 Fixed Tap Targets — Arek fixed a bug on Android where the + and ... buttons in the Library header had overlapping tap targets, so tapping near the boundary of one could trigger the other.
• 🦊 Fixed Firefox Kindle Sync — Ibai fixed a bug that was causing Firefox users to get an outdated version of the Kindle sync extension. Kindle sync should now work again for Firefox users.
• 📊 Fixed OneNote Export — Tristan fixed an issue where tags containing special characters like &, <<, or >> could break OneNote exports or produce corrupted rendering.
• 📸 Fixed Android Quoteshot Sharing — Mitch fixed a bug on Android where the quote share dropdown was hidden behind the card, so it's now possible to control how you share beautiful highlight images again.
• 🤖 Updated Ghostreader Models — If you bring your own OpenAI API key for Ghostreader prompts, you can now select GPT-5.2 as a model option.
• 🔀 Fixed Obsidian Export Crashes — Piotr fixed a memory issue that could cause Obsidian exports to crash for users with large libraries. Exports now process documents in efficient batches, so even the biggest collections should export smoothly.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from technologyreview.com, nvidia.com, extremetech.com, illwill.com, and animalcrossingworld.com.

February 27, 2026

• Fixed Keyboard Shortcuts — Mati overhauled our shortcut handling. The tilde key (~) no longer switches to the info tab when you're typing in a document note, Dvorak and Colemak keyboard layouts should no longer trigger two keypresses, and the Shift+D shortcut text now correctly says "Download PDF".

• Improved Google Docs Exports — Rasul fixed timeout errors in Google Docs exports by splitting large request payloads into smaller chunks. If you were seeing export failures for documents with lots of highlights, those should be resolved.

• Fixed Random Sort — Arek fixed an issue where pull-to-refresh wasn't re-shuffling documents when using Random sort in Library and filtered Views. Now pulling to refresh re-randomizes the order everywhere, instead of only in the Feed.

• Fixed Paged Titles — Arek fixed a bug where documents with very long titles could take up the entire first page in paged scroll mode, hiding the actual content. Titles are now truncated to three lines with improved support for scripts like Thai, Arabic, and Devanagari that need extra line height.

• Fixed Paged Sheet — Mati fixed a bug where tapping outside the Customize Appearance sheet in paged scroll mode didn't properly close it.

• Fixed File Uploads — Piotr fixed an issue where uploaded files with a UTF-8 Byte Order Mark weren't being processed correctly. Now, CSV uploads and OPML imports should properly import their documents.

• Fixed API Word Count — Tristan fixed a bug where documents saved via the Reader API with raw HTML always showed a word count of zero. The word count is now computed properly when the document is created.

• Fixed Notebook Styling — Mati fixed an issue where raw CSS style tags could leak into the notebook page view instead of being properly stripped.

• Fixed Double Listen — Mati fixed a bug where long documents like EPUBs showed "Listen" twice in the action menu when Ghostreader was turned off. They now offer "Appearance" and "Listen" as options.

• Fixed Tag Icon — Arek thickened the stroke width on tag icons so they no longer look pixelated on Android tablet displays.

• Fixed Extension Highlights — Piotr fixed an issue in the Safari and chromium browser extensions where the annotation popover wouldn't always appear after highlighting text on YouTube and Facebook.

• Fixed Highlight Chat — Piotr tracked down a bug where Chat with Highlights could stop working if it tried to reference highlights from a book you'd deleted. Broken conversations will now recover automatically the next time you send a message.

• Parsing Updates — Tristan, Mati, and Krzys improved how Reader handles posts from X/Twitter. Formatting, video embeds in list digests, private/subscription tweets, and several edge cases are now handled more reliably. Private tweets should no longer get "stuck" loading, for example. Mati and Tristan also improved parsing for podcasts and alignment.anthropic.com, respectively.

February 20, 2026

• 🔊 NEW! TTS EPUBs on Android — If you've been wanting to listen to your books on Android devices or with non-English languages, now you can :)
• 💥 Fixed Android Crashes — Tristan fixed a crash on Android that occurred when selecting large amounts of text in the document view. Arek tweaked things so that home screen data preloads immediately when opening a link in Reader. These changes also fixed a crash bug related to deeplinks, so reading something new should be faster and more robust.
• 👻 Improved Chat Context — Ghostreader now knows what document content is visible on your screen, so Document Chat can handle questions like "What does this mean? Please explain it to me like I'm 5 years old."
• 📝 Fixed Highlight Buttons — Mati fixed a web bug where the note and tag buttons wouldn't respond on the first click. Now, when auto-highlighting is turned off, you can create a new highlight by using the note and tag buttons in a more streamlined process.
• 🎙️ Fixed Podcast Routing — Mati fixed a bug where some Apple Podcasts URLs with extra query parameters (like ?l=) added via URL were being categorized as Articles instead of Podcasts.
• 🔀 Fixed Export Integrations — Rasul fixed a glitch with Google Docs exports caused by a folder handling error. Tristan fixed an error that could occur during Evernote exports when note titles hit Evernote's character limit.
• 📅 Fixed YouTube Dates — Mati fixed an issue where newly saved YouTube videos were missing their published date.
• 📂 Fixed Feed Sorting — Arek fixed the "sort by Folders" option in Manage Feeds, so it should now group feeds alphabetically by folder name.
• 👁️ Fixed Focus Mode — Focus mode should now gray out paragraphs that aren't currently focused.
• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Tristan, Rasul, and Krzys worked this week to account for a change in Twitter's API that briefly disrupted tweet and list imports. Krzys also improved how Reader displays tweets and X posts, as well as content from craft.do.

February 13, 2026

• ↔️ <strong>NEW! Resizable Sidebar</strong> — You can now resize the right sidebar in the Reader web app, thanks to Mati! This is especially useful for chatting with Ghostreader while reading, and for reading documents on bigger monitors.

• 🔖 <strong>NEW! Highlight Tag Management</strong> — Mati added a new <a href="https://read.readwise.io/highlights-tags" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">highlight tag manager</a> on Reader web where you can browse, filter, and export your highlights organized by tag. As part of this project, Mati shipped a performance improvement for document notebooks. If you had 300+ highlights, the Notebook view should load much more smoothly.

• 📊 <strong>Fixed CSV Exports</strong> — Tristan fixed an issue where users with large libraries were receiving incomplete CSV exports. Some exports were hitting a server timeout, which meant recent documents could get cut off.

• 🎬 <strong>Fixed YouTube Subtitles</strong> — Mati fixed an issue where YouTube videos weren't displaying subtitles in Reader due to a change on YouTube's end. Affected videos have been reparsed.

• 🐦 <strong>Fixed Twitter Disconnect</strong> — Rasul fixed a bug where the Remove Connection button for Twitter integrations wasn't working properly. The <a href="https://readwise.io/twitter_start" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Twitter Sync page</a> is no longer the only way to disconnect your account(s).

• 🏷️ <strong>Fixed RSS Autotagging</strong> — Ibai fixed a glitch with custom autotags on RSS items. Now, even if you don't have an API key configured, your custom tags will be properly applied when you move a document from the Feed to your Library.

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

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

• 📐 <strong>Expanded Horizontal Pages</strong> — Mati fixed an issue where 2-column reading mode on large tablets had excessive padding. The columns now use the full available screen width in horizontal pagination + the XL width setting.

February 6, 2026

• 📧 Updated Newsletter Preferences — To celebrate our 1-year anniversary, Mati added the WiseUp! Newsletter to the email preferences page in Reader. In WiseUp!, we share answers to common questions, video tutorials and guides, highlights of our latest improvements, and a couple of lighthearted extras we think you'll enjoy.
• ⚙️ Updated Roam Export — We've deprecated the old Roam export method in favor of the official Roam API integration. If you're exporting to Roam, make sure you've switched to the API-based export in your settings.
• 🔀 Improved Instapaper Sync — Tristan improved how Reader syncs with Instapaper by passing your existing bookmarks to the API, which should prevent duplicate imports and speed up the sync process.
• 🤝 Fixed Notion Connection — Mati fixed a re-authentication glitch that caused the app to display a loading spinner instead of the button to re-connect.
• 🐦 Fixed Twitter Bookmarks — Twitter Bookmarks should be syncing again after an outage due to a glitch with the Twitter API. Rasul also re-enabled syncing for folks who weren't able to last week.
• 🔊 Fixed TTS Auto-Scroll — Starting text-to-speech would sometimes cause an unexpected scroll that broke the word-by-word tracking. This has been resolved, so TTS should smoothly follow along with the audio again.
• 🪜 Fixed Desktop Updates — Mati fixed a race condition with version numbering that could cause issues with automatic updates to the desktop app.
• ⌛️ Fixed Document Frequency — Mati fixed a bug where your document surfacing preferences weren't being saved properly in Readwise. If you had configured how often certain tags should be applied, those settings should now persist as expected.

January 30, 2026

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

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

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

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

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys made improvements to how Reader handles content from nytimes.com, inc.com, thedankoe.com, lefilmfrancais.com, thurrott.com, and tweakers.net. Twitter/X articles, Substack notes, and Substack comments should now parse beautifully as well.

January 23, 2026

• 🏷️ NEW! Tags Webhook — Rasul added a new webhook trigger that fires when you add a tag to a highlight. If you're using webhooks to sync your highlights with other tools, you can now get notified the moment you tag something.

• 🔊 Fixed TTS Jump Button — Mati fixed an issue where the TTS "jump to current position" button would reset to the beginning of the chapter when using horizontal pagination mode. It now correctly jumps to where the audio is playing.

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

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

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

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

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

• 🦊 Fixed Highlight Extension — Highlights saved using "Save Highlight to Readwise" on Firefox pages weren't always capturing page titles correctly, causing them to be grouped incorrectly in your library. Ibai fixed it.

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

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

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

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

• 🛜 Parsing Updates — Krzys improved handling of Substack Notes and comments, so these now parse correctly when you save them to Reader. He also improved parsing for sahilbloom.com.