Readwise Reader, an all-in-one reading app
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…
Readwise Reader, an all-in-one reading app launched on December 15, 2022 with 326 votes, #48 of 3,688 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Readwise Reader is a cross-platform reading app that consolidates web pages, emails, PDFs, ePubs, Twitter threads, YouTube videos, and RSS feeds into one place. It offers highlighting, organization features, text-to-speech, AI-powered summaries and questions, advanced search with custom query language, and mobile triage capabilities. The app is designed for people who save and read diverse content types and want to manage them all in a single interface.
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Save everything to one place to overcome content overload, search instantly, and highlight like a pro.
Save everything to one place, highlight like a pro, and replace several apps with Reader. Sometimes you need to highlight on the spot. Freely highlight and annotate the open web using the Reader browser extension. RSS is in a renaissance. Easily subscribe to the RSS feeds of your favorite websites in Reader to never miss a post. Everyone has a forgotten folder of PDFs. Upload yours to Reader to finally integrate PDFs into your reading workflow. YouTube has become one of the best learning platforms out there. Watch YouTube videos and highlight the transcript in Reader. Twitter threads are the new blog posts. Compile hard-to-read threads into proper long-form articles inside Reader. Most…from readwise.io
In the maker’s words, at launch
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 *…
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