Readbird

Your hub for reading, listening, and knowledge management

  • Free to start
  • No ads, no algorithms
  • Web and Android
  • Data in the EU
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Readbird — Pinboard view on desktop
Readbird — Pinboard view on a phone

All in one

Replace multiple apps

With one smart workspace: RSS, Read-it-Later, translator, TTS player, highlighter, and note-taking app

Reader

Ultra-clean reader

News without ads, distractions, or algorithms. Doesn't look perfect? Drop us a line — we'll tailor your source

Full-text RSS reader. Read complete articles without losing videos, embedded posts, images or graphics

Readbird — an article in the reader on desktop
Readbird — an article in the reader on an E Ink device

Read later

Read-it-later

With full offline access to every article

Highlights

Unlimited highlights

Keep what matters like a pro with spaced repetition and 1-tap jumps to the original

Listen

Unlimited Text-to-Speech

Listen to any article, hear translations instantly, or play back your notes

Smart feed

Smart filtering

Tired of specific topics? Set your keywords and those articles leave your feed

Smart deduplication. Hides repeats and merges multi-language versions from the same source — your language up front, with links to the rest

Track what matters. Set keywords — matching articles will rise across your feeds and land in your smart folders

Notes

Advanced notes

Drag-and-drop labeling, dictation, playback, image editor, rich formatting, real-time co-editing, and reminders

Readbird — notes with photos, checklists and videos — Grid

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, with auto-scroll, drag-and-drop labelling, and dozens more power features

  • Fast sync

    across devices plus a full-featured web app

  • Translate Offline & Unlimited

    on your phone, and use cloud AI translation when you’re online

  • 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.

  • Servers in the EU

    Your data is stored in the EU. Readbird has no public side at all.

  • One-button export

    Notes as Markdown, highlights as CSV, subscriptions as OPML, a full copy as JSON. Free and unlimited.

  • Fair to publishers

    We don’t bypass paywalls and never send your cookies or passwords to other sites.

  • Leaving is just as easy

    Delete your account in Settings — instantly, with no emails to support.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

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.

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 is Readbird different from Feedly, Inoreader, Pocket or Readwise?

Those are four separate products: two feed readers, a read-it-later service and a highlights vault. Readbird is all four in one account — RSS and YouTube subscriptions, saving articles for later with full offline access, unlimited highlights with spaced repetition, notes with photos and dictation, unlimited text-to-speech and translation. There is no ad layer, no recommendation algorithm and no gate in front of the basics.

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.

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 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.

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.

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 I move my subscriptions from another reader?

Yes. Export an OPML file from Feedly, Inoreader, Pocket or any other reader and upload it in the “Add feed” dialog — your feeds are recreated in seconds. Kindle notebooks can be imported by email.

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.

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

Create an account, upload the OPML file from your old reader or simply paste the address of a site you like — the first articles arrive right away.

Install

Readbird as an app

Installs straight from the site, no app store: its own icon on your phone and computer, a separate window, works offline.

How to install