Readwise Reader

THIS☝🏼is what I’ve been jones’n for for a decade. A Universal Vault to quickly, in seconds, store, categorize, play to watch or listen. Being able to 👂🏼LISTEN👂🏼to an article, at 2 or 3x Speed keeps me up with individual content, of ANY kind, into the dozens each day. WELL WORTH THE PRICE to all the butthurt who want everything Free. The Time savings for Me, Pays for the Entire Month in ONE DAY! Get It! These guys thought of everything, are readily available the chat, answer questions and/or walk you thru on several Social Media Accounts. Speakin of the butthurt, the hours you spend complaining abt, l👀king for n jack’n on Paid Services is gone forever. Meanwhile those with Reader have lapped you in knowledge n productivity over n over n over while you 😭 30 Day Free Trial Is Rediculously Generous. Just hit the App Icon n you’re done. Stored n ready in ANY Format. A No Brainer …

I came upon this app as a refugee from the Great Pocket™️ Disaster of 2023, in which my formerly beloved reader app was completely and inexplicably stripped of all functionality. Not only could I transfer over all of my Pocket articles (well, at least a few hundred of the 10,000+ that Pocket didn’t delete, but that’s another story) to the Reader app but I quickly found that Reader does everything that Pocket used to do, only Reader does those things much better and has many other features that make it even more useful. On top of that, Reader has a great aesthetic and intuitive design. Since downloading Reader earlier in the year, I’ve already seen it improve so much. The devs really seem dedicated to continually making the app better. The AI text-to-speech that recently came out has been a welcome addition to the product and their latest update seems to have remedied my only big gripe with the app which was its relatively slow functionality. The only feature I’d really love to see implemented, and I’ll admit maybe I’m just not seeing it if it already exists, is a way to pick up where I left off in an article with text-to-speech. Currently, I seem to only be able to start back at the top of an article if I go back to it after not completing it and I’ll then have manually skip down to try to get back to where I had left off. It would be super useful if the text-to-speech function remembered where it had left off when it had last been reading an article. Other than this small suggestion, I am loving this app. Major props to the devs and a big thank you! Can’t wait to see how you all continue to improve things.

About a year ago, I tried Readwise, the parent app to Reader. I found Readwise to be a very good app — but, at the time, I passed on subscribing. Then Readwise introduced its Reader app. It’s a game-changer. I once required three apps (Reeder (different spelling), Pocket, and Speech Central) to do what Reader does. Reader’s RSS reader is top-notch. There’s no need to look elsewhere for an app to read it later since the app allows you to file articles in your inbox, later, and archives. Any highlights made to articles in Reader transfer to Readwise for future recall — and the built-in tagging system is to first-rate. To top it off, the built in text-to-speech voices are the best I’ve found. At the present time Reader is still in beta. I’m not sure why, because it’s a perfectly great app with no major bugs as far as I can see. At any rate, if you subscribe to Readwise at this time, you will have the forthcoming subscription to Reader included for life in the price for Readwise alone. It’s a no-brainer. I would only suggest a couple of things: 1) I’d like a way to select multiple items in the library to perform an action on. You can already do this in the Feeds section of the app. 2) I’d like to be able to move individual / multiple items in the library to a playlist for listening — one that would go on to the next article once the previous article is finished. Subscribe to Readwise / Reader. You won’t regret it.