Readwise Reader 4+

New Better TTS Voices — Try out the new (v8 beta) voices for Text to Speech which are the most lifelike yet! These voices should now be the default in Reader if you haven't selected your own preferred voice.

Core library update — We updated one of the core libraries that Reader is built on, which has made the app measurably faster!

New AI Models — Hannes added support for the o3-mini model in Ghostreader. He also upgraded chatgpt-4o to latest.

Fixed Misaligned Captions — Tristan fixed a bug where captions could overlap the bottom of their images.

Fixed Sharing — Sharing from the ChatGPT app should now work properly, thanks to Arek.

Improved Performance — Johannes made some speed improvements to scrolling, so navigating your your document lists should feel much smoother now. Artem also removed some code that could prevent documents from loading in some rare cases.

Improved Paged Images — Artem fixed a bug where Reader could fail to store your reading position if only images were on the screen. This change should also improve how images appear in paged scroll mode more generally.

Improved Location Positioning — Reading position is now even more reliable. Documents should be less likely to open at the beginning of the document instead of their correct location.

Parsing Updates — Kryzs made improvements to how Reader handles posts from medium.com, substack.com, newyorker.com, chatgpt.com, and bonappetit.com.



Previously:

Better Youtube Transcripts — We improved the transcript tracking/autoscrolling for youtube videos, an now automatically enhance (improve the punctuation, capitalization, etc) the transcripts for most videos so they're easily highlightable.

Resize Youtube Videos — You can now resize YouTube videos on the web, thanks to Mati. If you grab the small horizontal bar under the video and drag it up or down, the video will adapt to the new height. On mobile, you will see a much clearer error message when viewing YouTube videos while offline.'

New Summaries in List View — We now display the summary and document title/favicon in the mobile actions sheet: just long press any document from a list view (like “Later” or your Feed) to get a quick peak at a document's summary without having to open it.

So many bug fixes — Fixes to tags, the Omnivore import, Youtube AI transcript enhancement, ghostreader summaries, loading states (no more flickering when new documents are imported), progress bars, text-to-speech (TTS), parsing (for Bluesky and unherd.com), and much much more!

UI Improvements — The front matter (top header, buttons, etc) in the document view got a big redesign courtesy of Kris and Johannes, with the summary showing in a toggle view above the document content. It’s now easier to start TTS from anywhere within the document — check out the new play button in the top right. The option to change appearance is now in the bottom sheet. Excessively long metadata is now truncated, Ghostreader summaries can be about twice as long, and emails look a lot nicer in the Daily Digest.

Discover Documents — Mati built an easy way to bulk add some of Reader’s most popular documents directly to your account, hand-curated by our Wisereads editor Abi.

Export Everything — Thanks to Piotr, Reader's "Export PDFs and EPUBs" feature has been reworked to "Export full files and articles" which not only exports your uploaded files but also all of your Reader document HTMLs. Reader's public document list API now has a new html_content response data field enabled via the withHtmlContent query param. The Reader API also properly returns updated metadata instead of the original metadata.

Reader now has a Trash Bin, where you can find all recently deleted documents and easily restore them

Tags should now load in the share sheet (when saving documents from another app) 10-100x faster!