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

Horizontal Pagination — Tablets have an experimental new two-column reading mode. Horizontal pagination also allows you to highlight onto the next page going to the right or left, instead of up or down like continuous and paged scroll modes.

Sticky Tablet Sidebars — You can now keep sidebars open while using Reader on tablets. In documents, opening the table of contents or notebook sidebar shrinks the reading view, so you can still scroll and highlight text. In your Library and Feed, the sidebar stays open so you can browse documents with the same context you’d see on the web version of the app.

Better Offline Control — Choose which categories of documents to keep available offline from the offline documents section of the Account screen. A new status shows whether a location is currently downloading. Documents also now have more informative messages if they aren't available, which should be rare as long as you open the app for a few seconds to give everything time to download. Johannes also fixed a bug where the experimental offline caching feature could freeze interactive elements in the app.

Fixed Touch Navigation — Mati resolved an issue where navigation taps weren’t registering in the bottom third of the screen. Mati also fixed a glitch causing highlights to be created from taps when they shouldn't be. You should now be able to advance pages without accidentally creating highlights. Arek fixed a bug where tapping the top-right icons on iPad (like the appearance settings or highlights view) could cause the page to unexpectedly scroll to the top of the chapter.

Fixed Highlight Menus — Lior fixed a bug where the highlight menu sometimes continued showing up after turning a page in long-form reading mode. Mati improved the reliability of the highlight menu appearing when you select single words on iOS. You should now see the menu more consistently after making a selection.

Fixed Note Flashing — Arek fixed a visual glitch where text would briefly flash on the left side of the input box when you finished writing a note.

Fixed Article Layout — Arek fixed a bug where article text was extending too far to the right on some RSS feeds, making them difficult to read.

Fixed Delete Scroll — Arek fixed a bug where using "Delete All Above" in your Feed kept you at the same scroll position instead of returning you to the top of the list

Fixed PDF Highlights — Arek fixed a bug where PDF highlight overlays would sometimes duplicate, especially after switching between light and dark mode or returning to the document.

Previously:

Improved Action Sheets — Action sheets should now float nicely in the center of tablet screens, instead of at the bottom. Mati also got to the bottom of a glitch preventing highlight deletion and the action menu from working properly on PDFs. Artem fixed a glitch that caused some other action sheets not to show all their options. Arek fixed a bug where multiple bottom sheets could stay open at the same time. Using “find in document” and similar options should be easier now.

Fixed iOS Interface — Mati addressed an issue where new iOS window controls were overlapping with Reader buttons, making them difficult to tap. The interface now properly accommodates iOS26 system elements. Arek fixed a glitch where if you opened the app on iPhone in landscape mode, it could sometimes cause documents and lists to become misaligned and overflow the screen. Mati fixed a glitch caused by PDFs triggering landscape mode on regular phones.

Our full ePubs v2 feature includes 10x+ better performance on books, a dedicated long-form reading UI, and so much more. Our goal is to have Reader be the best app in the world for reading books (in addition to other formats), and this project is a big step towards that.