All in one
Replace multiple apps
With one smart workspace: RSS, Read-it-Later, translator, TTS player, highlighter, and note-taking app
Full-text RSS reader
Ultra-clean reader
News without ads, distractions, or algorithms. Read complete articles without losing videos, embedded posts, images or graphics. Doesn't look perfect? Drop us a line — we'll tailor your source
AI text-to-speech
Turn anything into an audiobook — in one click
Natural AI voices sound just like a real narrator. Listen to articles, instant translations, or your own notes on Android — with no internet and no cloud uploads.
Highlights
Unlimited highlights
Keep what matters like a pro with spaced repetition and 1-tap jumps to the original
Read later
Read-it-later
With full offline access to every article
AUTOMATE YOUR READING
A feed that cleans itself
Tired of overdone topics and information noise? Set your muted words — and unwanted articles stop cluttering your feed. Leave the routine to built-in auto-filters.
No duplicates
Readbird automatically hides repeats of the same story.
No cut-off paywall articles
One toggle — and articles truncated by a paywall disappear from your feed.
YouTube without Shorts
Videos and posts from your favorite channels without distracting short clips.
SMART FOLDERS & AI SUMMARIES
Important news will find you on its own
Still sorting articles into folders by hand? Here, folders collect the articles themselves. Set words, companies, or trends — Readbird will gather matching stories into smart folders with push notifications or boost them right to the top of your main feed.
AI summary across dozens of sources
Instead of twenty open tabs, get a single digest of all recent articles in a folder in one tap.
Automated fact-checking
AI compares coverage across outlets, highlights contradictions, and gives direct links to every paragraph in the original source.
Flexible search rules and exclusions
Combine words with AND / OR, cut out irrelevant context with exclusions, and fine-tune search by title, text, and article language.
Notes
Advanced notes
Video, AI narration, dictation, drag-and-drop labeling, photo editor, rich formatting, collaboration and reminders
And more
Your reader — your rules
Deep customization with dozens of settings
YouTube you can read
A video transcript right in the reader — free with your own Gemini key. Timestamps are clickable and jump the video; highlights from the transcript go to your notes.
Full offline
On mobile — saved articles, feed previews, notes, and unlimited translation with no internet
One-tap read-aloud feature
Listen to headlines or your entire feed in one tap, with automatic language switching and optional background white noise
Fast sync
across devices plus a full-featured web app
Your sources as audiobooks
Pick neural voices you actually like — and articles, feeds and notes sound like audiobooks. Even offline.
Flow
Spontaneous notes with dictation, playback, and drag-and-drop onto the whiteboard
Privacy
No ads. No algorithms. No selling your data.
Readbird doesn’t trade in your attention. Your saved articles, highlights and notes are visible only to you — and you can take everything with you at any time.
One-button export
Notes as Markdown, highlights as CSV, subscriptions as OPML, a full copy as JSON. Free and unlimited.
Leaving is just as easy
Delete your account in Settings — instantly, with no emails to support.
Servers in Germany
Your data is stored in the EU. Readbird has no public side at all.
Fair to publishers
We don’t bypass paywalls and never send your cookies or passwords to other sites.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
1 What it does
How is Readbird different from Feedly, Inoreader, Pocket or Readwise?
Feedly and Inoreader are RSS readers, Pocket is read-it-later, Readwise is highlights and review. That usually means several subscriptions, with articles, quotes and notes scattered across services that know nothing about each other. Readbird replaces them with one space where everything is connected: an article from your feed is saved with full offline access, what you highlight goes to your notes and, if you like, into spaced repetition, and search with an AI summary runs across news, YouTube, your notes and your quotes at once — every point of the summary leads to the paragraph it came from. On top of that: neural voices and translation without internet, a YouTube player right inside a note with clickable timestamps, smart folders with fact-checking. No ads and no recommendation algorithms.
Can I follow YouTube channels in Readbird?
Yes. Paste a channel link or just its @handle and new videos arrive in the same feed as your articles, with their own “Video” section, watchable without leaving the app. Shorts can be hidden with one switch.
What can I do with highlights and notes?
Mark passages while reading, keep them in a separate section, reorder them freely, review them with spaced repetition and jump back to the original in one tap. Notes support photos, drawing, dictation, rich formatting, reminders and a whiteboard for spontaneous ideas.
Can Readbird read articles aloud?
Yes, with no limits. Any article, translation, note or highlight can be listened to — including whole headlines of a feed one after another, with auto-scroll. In the Android app you can choose natural neural voices that sound like a real narrator — they work offline, in 31 languages.
What can it translate?
Articles, headlines, notes and highlights, in one tap: online with cloud AI translation, and on Android also fully offline, right on the device. The interface itself is available in English, Russian and German.
2 Devices and switching
Which platforms does it run on?
Any modern browser — Readbird is a progressive web app, so it installs to your home screen or desktop without an app store. There is also an Android build, and the layout is tuned for E Ink readers, tablets and large screens.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Feeds, saved articles, notes and highlights stay readable without a connection. On Android, translation also works fully offline, on the device, with no limits.
Can I move my subscriptions from another reader?
Yes. Export an OPML file from Feedly, Inoreader or any other reader and upload it in the “Add feed” dialog — your feeds are recreated in seconds. Saved links from Pocket (if you still have its export file), Omnivore, Instapaper, Raindrop and others come over through the import window. Kindle notebooks can be imported by email. What comes across from each source is listed at readbird.app/import.
3 Pricing and data
How much does Readbird cost?
Right now Readbird is in active beta, so every feature is free and unlimited. A paid plan for advanced features will come later — but the core features will always stay free. There are no ads, and your reading data is never sold either way.
Where is my data stored?
On servers in the European Union. Your saved articles, notes and highlights are private to your account — Readbird has no public sharing surface. A few features you trigger yourself — translating an article, signing in with Google, playing an embedded video — pass data to that provider at that moment; the Privacy Policy lists each one.
Can I take my data out of Readbird?
Yes, in full and for free. One button in Settings builds a single archive with everything: notes as separate Markdown files, highlights as Markdown and CSV, your reading list as CSV, subscriptions as OPML, and a complete JSON copy that Readbird can import back. The archive is assembled on your own device, there is no paid tier in front of it and no limit on how often you export. Leaving should be as easy as arriving.
How do I delete my account and my data?
From the app settings, at any time and without contacting support. Deletion is immediate and irreversible; a public page explains exactly what gets removed.
Switching
Your feed in a minute
Paste the addresses of sites you love or upload the OPML file from your old reader — the first articles land in your feed right away
Switching? We bring over your articles, feeds, highlights and notes — pick your service:
All services and what comes across →Installs straight from the site, no app store: its own icon on your phone and computer, a separate window, works offline.
Android
Browser extension
Save articles in one click
One click on the icon or the context menu — and everything except ads and clutter instantly lands in the right section. With tags, if you like.
Comet, Edge, Brave and all Chromium browsersA robin is flying your way
Coming to Google Play
and the App Store
Readbird already works on your phone and computer in the browser. A little later it will fly into Google Play and the App Store. Leave your email — we’ll let you know.