Readwise Reader

Reader app for articles, PDFs and newsletters with highlights and AI summaries

Readwise Reader collects articles, PDFs, newsletters and videos with transcripts in one place, lets you highlight the essentials and resurfaces your highlights as reminders. Its AI assistant gives a summary, explains a term and answers questions about the document. It helps lawyers, analysts and managers who read a lot of professional material.

Free plan

A trial

Paid plans

Readwise Reader pricing

Tasks it handles well

• Work through a batch of professional articles and keep the essentials
• Summarize changes in legislation for colleagues
• Summarize a long PDF

Most useful for

• Accountant
• Lawyer
• HR manager
• Finance manager
• Manager
• Marketer
• Sales manager
• Data analyst
• Teacher
• Executive assistant
• Logistics manager
• Procurement manager

Pitfalls to watch at work

• Documents are stored in the service's cloud: keep confidential client PDFs out
• A summary of a long PDF skips tables and footnotes: take numbers from the document
• Newsletters sent to the special address are forwarded automatically, and work emails can end up among them

Billing

Card payment on the website.

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