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24 alternatives to READTHIS
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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. READTHIS launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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 →
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Paperguide▲645Discover, read, write and manage research with ease using AI
2024 · paperguide.ai · its alternatives →
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Open Paper▲289Hi HN! Open Paper allows you to annotate and understand your research papers with an AI copilot. I wanted a paper-reading assistant that let met actually dig into papers in-place while benefiting from AI tooling. When it comes to studying, I'm not a fan of the typical chat interfaces that obfuscate uploaded files and turn them into black box 'content'. Hence, I've implemented a split-pane view. To mitigate the risk of hallucinations, all AI responses come with grounded citations that refer back to the source material in-flow. Some feature highlights: - Actually read your papers in one place…
2025 · openpaper.ai · its alternatives →
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Readwise Reader▲380The all-in-one reading app for power readers
2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →
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ReadHere▲146Lightweight PDF & EPUB reader in your browser
Jun 2026 · readhere.app · its alternatives →
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OpenScholarXIV is an open-source, aesthetic, minimal and AI powered app that allows users to search, read, bookmark, share, download and view summaries of academic papers from the arXiv repository. - ScholarXIV/OpenScholarXIV
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Readstats▲83Analyze your Goodreads and discover trends and patterns!
2023 · readstats.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · readstreamapp.com · its alternatives →
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Over the past year, we’ve been frustrated with how clunky it is to manage research papers. So we built Ontosyn, a modern research paper reader, with clean ui, better in paper navigation (bookmarks, jumping back up after clicking on a reference), an integrated ai chat with useful tools such as recommending relevant papers that you can directly add to your library, and, of course, library functionality to keep everything organized. We launched a closed alpha last week, and our first users are quite pleased with it. One user asked for author-based search for paper recommendations yesterday, and…
2025 · ontosyn.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · readthisthing.com · its alternatives →
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A new, progressive way to read a book online, read any wall of text paragraph by paragraph.
2021 · readwok.com · its alternatives →
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Readup▲118A social platform that incentivizes deep, focused reading
2020 · readup.org · its alternatives →
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Readwell▲153Find books you’ll love with AI-powered recommendations.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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BoredReading is a curation of the best articles from around the internet.
2023 · boredreading.com · its alternatives →
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Outread▲94Read digestible summaries of top research articles
2021 · out-read.com · its alternatives →
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RSS Brain▲139I wrote an RSS reader called RSS Brain recently. The motivate is the current RSS readers either don't sort articles by priority, which makes it hard to read posts from HackerNews and Reddit, or sort it with some "smart" algorithm which I don't trust. I also like the Google News feature that can show related story from different source, but the sources are not configurable and the algorithm is not transparent either. So with RSS Brain, I implemented these features: * Recommend related articles from the feeds of your choice. It's backed by ElasticSearch and the algorithm is described on RSS…
2022 · rssbrain.com · its alternatives →
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The Book Seer▲100Enter a recently read book & the seer gives recommendations
2015 · its alternatives →
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Scholaread▲66Mobile academics: diagrams, formulas and readability
2023 · scholaread.com · its alternatives →
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An experiment to algorithmically improve your GitHub README
2016 · its alternatives →
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Track, recommend, and discuss your books
2022 · bookwormreads.co · its alternatives →
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