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Stay informed without staying online.

Readspace brings the publications, writers, and newsletters you choose into one calm feed — then turns each day into a five-minute briefing.

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The Readspace web app showing Your feed, with the sidebar, article list, and an open article in the reader pane
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The Readspace web app showing the Daily Digest, with sidebar, developments, and worth-reading sidebar
The Readspace iOS app showing the Daily Digest
The problem

Following the internet shouldn’t be a full-time job.

Newsletters pile up. Interesting articles disappear into bookmarks and open tabs. And there’s always another one waiting.

Readspace brings it all together, so you can catch up without keeping up with everything.

Gmail47 YouTube23 Instagram12 TikTok99+ Threads8 X99+ Bluesky14 Reddit99+ LinkedIn31 Substack18 The New York Times64 Google News128 Medium5 Hacker News41 Chrome tabs9
Before

Check, switch, save for later, repeat.

After

Everything you follow, in one place. Catch up in five minutes.

Daily Digest

What mattered across your sources. Five minutes.

Hundreds of articles become a handful of stories — every source’s take on the same news, folded into one. Read it over coffee, go deeper when you want.

Five separate articles from different sources, all covering the same Blizzard news
The same story condensed into a single card in your Daily Digest, linking back to every source

Nothing enters your feed unless you follow it.

Your favorite publications, independent blogs, and newsletters, together in one chronological feed. No engagement ranking. No suggested posts mixed in. Just the latest from the sources you chose.

Discovery

All your favorite sources. And thousands more.

From the biggest news outlets to your favorite magazines, newsletters, and independent blogs. Explore over 120,000 sources and follow everything you care about in one place.

BBC News
WSJ
The Guardian
NPR
CNBC
ESPN
TechCrunch
The Verge
Ars Technica
The Economist
WIRED
Fortune
Financial Times
CBS
The Atlantic
Vogue
Nature
Hacker News
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Smart search

Find your next favorite corner of the internet.

Discover writers, blogs, and publications you didn’t know existed. Search by name, topic, or simply describe what you’re looking for, then follow in a click.

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Readspace Discover with Smart search turned on: the query “writers who think deeply about technology & society” returns 119 newsletters, each with a description and a Follow button
Other ways in
Browse by category

Not sure what you’re looking for? Explore 20 categories — open one and see the best sources in it.

News Software Tech Business Science Sports Gaming Entertainment Society Culture Travel Food Health Style Hobbies Family Identity Industry Automotive Regional
Follow from the page you’re on

Found a writer worth hearing from again? The browser extension finds the feed for you — no hunting for an RSS link.

The Readspace browser extension’s Subscribe to Feed popup open in Chrome, with the feed detected automatically from the current page
Already use RSS?

Drop in an OPML file and every subscription comes across, folders and all — and you can export yours the same way, any time.

feedly-export.opml 214 feeds
Drop your OPML file here
.opml or .xml, straight out of Feedly, Inoreader, or NetNewsWire
Read later

Save articles from anywhere. Read them when you actually have time.

Available in the Chrome Web Store Get the Firefox add-on

A long essay, a newsletter, something you stumbled on halfway through the day. Save it to Readspace instead of another bookmark folder.

Saving an article to Readspace from the browser extension, with a reading priority and a note
Saved articles in the Readspace iOS app, shown on an iPhone
Reader

When you do read, just read.

Open articles in a clean reading view inside Readspace, without the usual page clutter getting in the way.

An article open in the Readspace reader view, shown on a MacBook
An article open in the Readspace iOS reader view, shown on an iPhone

Read the whole thing. Or just the gist.

Get the gist
Understand the important points without reading the whole article.
Summary · 3 points
Independent publishing is cheaper and more durable than it was a decade ago.
The feed is the only part of the old web that never stopped working.
Platform exits are now taking audiences with them, not losing them.
Highlight the important parts
Surface the key parts without digging through the entire piece.

The mechanics are unglamorous: a domain, a static site, and a feed. The feed is the only piece of the old web that never stopped working.

Independent publishing is cheaper and more durable than it was, and the tools finally assume you own the output.

Read it in your language
Translate articles without leaving readspace.
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The mechanics are unglamorous: a domain, a static site, and a feed.
La mecánica no tiene nada de glamuroso: un dominio, un sitio estático y un feed.
Newsletters

Your newsletters finally have a home.

No more hunting through Gmail for the issue you meant to read — newsletters show up in your feed, right alongside everything else you follow.

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Philosophy

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Keeping up had turned into checking the same apps throughout the day and hoping the important things would surface. We wanted one dependable place for the sources we had intentionally chosen — and a way to catch up without processing every article.

Readspace is built around a different measure of success: not how long you stay, but whether you can understand what changed and confidently move on.

— Readspace Read the full manifesto
Open source

Your subscriptions aren’t trapped here.

Import and export your source list using an open format, any time. Readspace is open source, and technical users can run the whole platform on their own server.

Self-hosting instructions
Pricing

Start free. Pay when Readspace saves you more time.

Three ways to run Readspace — pick the one that matches how you read.

Basic
$0
For trying it out.
✓10 feeds
✓Save up to 50 articles at a time
✓5 summaries, translations, or highlights a day
✓5 clean article views a day
✓3 Daily Digests a month
✓Search the full source catalog
✓Web, iOS, Android & browser extensions
Self-hosted
$0forever
For complete control.
✓No usage limits
✓Bring your own API key
✓Use your own server
✓Extension and mobile apps supported
✓Fully open source
No hosted catalog — import your own via OPML. AI billed by your provider.
FAQ

Questions, answered plainly.

Why use Readspace if social media already keeps me informed?
Social media is good at showing you what everyone is reacting to. It is much worse at helping you reliably follow the specific publications, blogs, and writers you care about: their work gets buried, original reporting becomes screenshots and reactions, and the feed never really ends. Readspace gives those sources a dependable home. Every new piece arrives in one clean feed, while the Daily Digest connects the day's developments and surfaces articles worth reading. You still get the convenience — except you choose the inputs and can actually finish.
Is Readspace for people who want to quit social media?
No. Readspace is for anyone who wants news, analysis, and good writing to have their own place instead of being mixed into entertainment and conversation. Keep social media for what you enjoy; use Readspace for the sources you do not want to miss.
What if I don't have time to scroll through my feed?
Open the Daily Digest instead. It summarizes the main developments across your sources and picks out a few "Worth reading" articles for later. When you have time, the complete feed is there. When you don't, you can catch up in about five minutes.
Who decides what goes into my Daily Digest?
The Digest works only with what your chosen sources published during that period. It finds the main developments and standout articles, then links everything back to the original sources. It does not pull stories from publications you never followed.
Why not use Google News, Perplexity, or another AI news app?
Those services build a news universe for you. Readspace lets you build your own — and keep it. Follow any mix of major publications, independent writers, blogs, and niche sources, then get a complete chronological feed and a Digest built only from them. Readspace is also open source, privacy-focused, exportable, and self-hostable if you want complete control.
Do I have to use the AI features?
No. You can use the chronological feed, saved library, newsletters, and clean reader without asking AI to summarize anything. On a self-hosted instance, you can disable the AI features completely.
What is RSS, and how does Readspace use it?
RSS is an open way for websites to publish their latest posts for other apps to follow. When you visit a site, the Readspace browser extension looks for its RSS feed and lets you follow it directly. If the site does not publish one, Readspace may not be able to follow it.
How does Readspace protect my privacy?
Privacy is a core part of Readspace, not an extra feature. There are no ads or trackers on your reading, and we do not sell your reading activity or use it to target you. Readspace is also open source, and you can self-host it if you want your data under your own control.
Why does Readspace have a paid plan?
Readspace is built and maintained by one independent developer. Running it still costs real money: hosting, storage, updating feeds, AI tokens. Pro helps cover those costs and funds the time it takes to keep improving Readspace.
Still wondering something? Ask in the GitHub discussions.