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24 alternatives to Readme

A purposefully feature-lite Twitter reader app

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Readme launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1

    A minimal Twitter reader w/ no ads. Take back your timeline.

    2018 · its alternatives →

  2. 2
    ReadMe▲601

    Beautiful Documentation Made Easy

    2014 · readme.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3RI

    ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.

    2014 · readme.io · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    Hey HN, cofounder of Readwise here. We've been working on this cross-platform reader app for about 2 years, excited to finally share it in public beta. Probably the most notable thing that makes Reader unique is that it supports almost any content type you could want to save/read/highlight: * web pages * emails/newsletters * PDFs * ePubs * twitter threads * youtube videos (with transcripts) * RSS feeds With all of your knowledge content in one place, we built powerful reading and highlighting, as well as a bunch of novel triage/organization features, so you can actually…

    2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Listen to twitter threads

    2023 · readthis2me.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    The all-in-one reading app for power readers

    2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    Loads quickly, takes up less space, and is data-friendly.

    2017 · blog.x.com · its alternatives →

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    Omnivore▲238

    Read it later app with an outstanding reading experience

    2023 · omnivore.app · its alternatives →

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    Never again run out of Tweet ideas.

    2020 · tweethunter.io · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    A great GitHub profile description is just copy-paste away

    2023 · readme-dev.vercel.app · its alternatives →

  11. 11

    Build, deploy and share APIs & microservices easily 🚀

    2017 · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    Seamlessly integrate your tweets to readme

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    An experimental interactive README experience! Contribute to veggiedefender/typing development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14
    Reader▲113

    Sign up today and find your next great read on Reader

    2023 · its alternatives →

  15. 15
    Papyr▲93

    Twitter for reading

    2022 · its alternatives →

  16. 16
    ReadMark▲118

    An RSS reader that is markable.

    2021 · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    An easy way to read and copy Twitter threads

    2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  18. 18

    A customisable Twitter app for Android

    2017 · readrr.com · its alternatives →

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    Make your GitHub README profile look cool

    2021 · pimp-my-readme.webapp.io · its alternatives →

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    Readit▲100

    Organize your content. Save, read and share articles

    2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    threads▲83

    Read the best of twitter threads without the noise

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22
    Totem▲141

    Repo: https://github.com/nnnkit/totem Bookmarking a tweet/article/thread on X is one click, but actually reading it later is like five clicks — open X, dig into history, bookmarks, find the post, and dodge the distraction of new feeds and notifications on the way there. So I had hundreds of genuinely great tweets saved and basically never read any of them. Totem puts that queue on the browser new tab, so reading them is just one click away. No feed distraction, no algorithm, no AI, no server, no account — it's all local. In one sentence "It's like the reading…

    Jul 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23WP

    2011 · readstreamapp.com · its alternatives →

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