Readwise Release Notes

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.

April 3, 2026
🗑️ <strong>NEW! Restore All from Trash</strong> — Mati added a "Restore All" button to the trash view on both web and mobile. If you accidentally bulk delete documents, you can now bring everything back in one tap instead of restoring items one by one.
🟡 <strong>Fixed MCP Highlights</strong> — Piotr fixed a bug where creating highlights via MCP (for AI agent integrations) could fail on text containing parentheses, brackets, or other special characters. Highlight creation through MCP tools should now handle any text reliably.
📧 <strong>Fixed Email Display</strong> — Mati fixed an issue where internal marker text was appearing at the bottom of emails in original view mode. Emails should render cleanly now.
💬 <strong>Fixed Chat Keyboard Shortcut</strong> — Mati fixed a bug where pressing <code>D</code> to delete a document while the Chat sidebar was open would incorrectly focus the chat input, blocking further keyboard shortcuts.
📚 <strong>Fixed Kindle Imports</strong> — Piotr updated our handling of Russian Kindle clippings. Newer firmware uses different wording for "highlight" and "page," and both old and new formats are now supported.
📝 <strong>Fixed Note Textarea</strong> — Mati fixed a sizing issue with the note editing textarea on web. It now renders at the correct width.
📡 <strong>Fixed RSS Feeds</strong> — Piotr fixed an issue where RSS feeds from certain sites were saving broken content instead of the actual feed.
🐦 <strong>Fixed Twitter/X Display</strong> — Krzys shipped several Twitter fixes: missing media in longer tweets, truncated tweets in threaded conversations, and broken formatting for Chinese-language tweets are all resolved. Images also no longer appear misplaced in tweet documents.
🛜 <strong>Parsing Updates</strong> — Krzys improved how Reader handles documents from <a href="https://reuters.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reuters.com</a>, <a href="https://psychotherapynetworker.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">psychotherapynetworker.org</a>, <a href="https://blog.allegro.tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blog.allegro.tech</a>, <a href="https://integralguide.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">integralguide.com</a>, <a href="https://jamoe.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">jamoe.org</a>, <a href="https://faridsaid.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">faridsaid.com</a>, <a href="https://lyz-code.github.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lyz-code.github.io</a>, <a href="https://blog.markwhen.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blog.markwhen.com</a>, and <a href="https://xda-developers.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">xda-developers.com</a>. He also created a new system that better strips navigation, comments, and sidebar clutter from saved articles.

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.