Readability™ app for iPhone and iPad


4.5 ( 85 ratings )
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Developer: Readability, LLC
Free
Current version: 2.1.2, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 01 Mar 2012
App size: 7.82 Mb

The Webs best reading platform.

Readability turns any Web page into a clean, customizable view for reading now or later. You can catch up on articles youve saved or discover new content by following other readers.

READING LIST
Your entire library of saved, favorited, and archived articles – available on or offline.

RECOMMENDATIONS
Follow other folks on Readability and explore a list of their recommended articles. Recommendations are an easy way to uncover great new writing.

SPEED
Readability is fast and reliable so you always have a comfortable reading experience.

SHARE
Recommend articles on Readability, share your favorites to Twitter or Facebook, or send links to friends via email.

EXTEND
Save articles with our iOS 8 extension. Add to your reading list from any app that uses the iOS share sheet.

Latest reviews of Readability™ app for iPhone and iPad

Great except for bugs and crashes
First time I installed this app it worked fine for a few weeks then I started to see all kinds of UI bugs. It eventually became unusable so I reinstalled it. Now, after a another couple weeks of working fine, different UI bugs: all my saved articles appear only as blank screens.
Horrible in every way
No landscape mode!
Great design app revolution but fix landscape mode to reading.
Crashing
I cant load web pages I want to read anymore. The app just crashes. I used to really like Readability, then they changed everything (and removed the option of reading the source web page in-app) and I only tolerated it, and now its physically useless to me. Switching to something else so I dont waste any more time.
Too many hoops to jump through.
So this is an app that I cant use on its own? I cant follow certain websites or people (other than the twelve the app suggests,) I just browse the web as normal, and use a "bookmarklet" to add links to Readability AND THENNNN I switch to the app to read them? Why not just bookmark we pages as normal and use Reader view in Safari, if Im going to be using Safari anyway? The help website suggests I follow instructions to add a mobile bookmarklet, and includes "The instructions are complicated, but we dont have a way to make it any simpler. We hope youll stick it out and follow them exactly." Yeah, that sounds real promising. Whatever those instructions are, I never got to read them because the page just loads and loads and loads and yet... never loads. I can only follow other Readability users, wherever they might be. I dont want to read other individuals recommended articles, I want to read my own, from websites Im interested in. I also want to do all of this without a bunch of complicated preliminary steps. I have a feeling the developers of this service had one particular scenario in mind for their users - the kind of person who wakes up in the morning and has time to sit around and browse the web, but doesnt have time to actually read articles, so they add a few links to readability and then when theyre at "the office" they can read the articles at their leisure on their work computer or their iPad. I dont know how many people actually fit into that scenario, but Im not one of them. This is yet another garbage app that tries to reinvent the wheel, among the thousands of others that over saturate the App Store. Im sorry I ever gave it a chance.
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