Improved iPhone Duo Support — Reader now fits the iPhone Duo, folded or open. Hold the open Duo like a book and choose Horizontal pagination to read two columns with the gap on the fold.

Text Width on iPhone — The Text width setting in the Appearance sheet now shows up on phones too, so you can choose how wide your lines run.

Smoother Sheets — Tags, notes, search, document actions, and the rest of the reading view's sheets are now native iOS sheets, so they open, drag, and close more smoothly.

Better EPUB Images — Images in EPUBs now hold their space while they load and fit on the page, and small illustrations no longer render far too large.

New Ghostreader Models — If you bring your own OpenAI key, you can now choose GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra, or GPT-6 Astra. Ghostreader chat also no longer stalls when someone else's answer is slow.

Dozens and dozens of new bug fixes — italic text in EPUBs shows in italics again, YouTube videos no longer go black (audio only) after swiping to the next document, Lifelike voices keep an even volume and the German ones are now native speakers, podcast transcripts keep names and timestamps right, and literally dozens more: see https://docs.readwise.io/changelog for our full changelog.

Previously:

New Lifelike Text to Speech Voices — You can now listen to your documents with new, much more lifelike voices. You have 16 voice options for English documents (choose your favorite), and we just added support for Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish as well.

Reading Themes — You can now choose from a variety of different reading themes, including Sepia, Slate, Soft, Ink, and more.

Other Text to Speech Improvements — Precise Listening Speed: drag a slider to set any playback speed from 0.5x to 3x, or tap a preset. The voice picker also has a full "View all languages" list now. Controls now live in a floating player that shrinks into a small pill as you scroll, so play, pause, and skip are always one tap away without covering what you're reading. Listening now starts where you're reading instead of jumping to the top. Finally, footnote numbers should no longer be read aloud.

YouTube Chapters — Newly saved YouTube videos now show their chapters in the Contents panel, so you can jump straight to any section.

Cleaner, Faster YouTube Transcripts — Enhanced YouTube transcripts now arrive more than twice as fast, keep every word and timestamp, and leave out the "uh"s, "um"s, and stutters.

Mobile Chat — The long awaited “chat with document” feature is now available on mobile. Intuitively ask any question while reading and receive a fast, accurate answer that will link to the cited text in the document. Ghostreader is also aware of your position and context while reading -- it’s like a smart friend reading over your shoulder that you can ask questions. To try it, just trigger Ghostreader while reading.

Better Search (beta) — There is now a toggle on the Search screen to enable our new server-based search that runs both more quickly, accurately, consistently, and takes much less time to index all of your documents (compared with our old local-first search).

Readwise MCP & CLI — The (new, improved) Readwise MCP server gives Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI direct access to your Readwise highlights, and the full text of all your Reader documents.

Podcast Transcripts — share any podcast episode from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Overcast into Reader, and it will be saved as a permanent, highlightable transcript.