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What is Skyreader?

Skyreader is a reading app. It brings what you want to read into one calm place: blogs and news sites, newsletters, writing published on the Atmosphere, the links people you follow share on Bluesky, articles you find around the web, even PDFs, books, and YouTube videos. Then it gives you a quiet surface to read them, highlight what matters, and come back to it.

If you’ve used a feed reader like Feedly or NetNewsWire, or a read-later app like Pocket or Readwise Reader, Skyreader does both jobs in one place.

Skyreader's Feeds view: a sidebar of sources and channels beside one chronological stream of articles

How it works

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  • Follow. Add the sites and newsletters you read, and group them into channels. Adding sources
  • Read. One chronological stream, with a clean reader that works offline. Reading
  • Keep. Save articles from anywhere, highlight passages, write notes in the margin, and let old highlights resurface. Saving and highlights
  • Find. Search everything you’ve read, saved, and highlighted, or keep a search as a channel that fills on its own (with the Supporter plan). Search
  • Share. Post links with what you thought of them to your linkblog, a public page anyone can read or subscribe to. Sharing and your linkblog
  • Read together. Join a reading room and see who else is reading along. Reading rooms

Where to start

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  • Just looking? Open skyreader.app and choose Start Reading. You get a set of feeds to read, save from and highlight in, with no account, all kept on your device. Getting started
  • Moving from another feed reader? Bring your subscriptions with an OPML file. Import and export
  • Moving from Pocket, Instapaper, Readwise Reader, Omnivore, Matter or Wallabag? Bring your saves and highlights. Importing your library
  • Happy with your RSS app? Keep it, and use Skyreader to sync it. Other reader apps
  • Want to know what’s public? Your reading is private unless you choose otherwise. Your data lists exactly what lives where.

Built on the Atmosphere

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Skyreader runs on the Atmosphere, the open network behind Bluesky. You sign in with an account you own, often your Bluesky account, rather than a Skyreader password. The parts of your reading you choose to make portable work in any Atmospheric app, not just this one. New to these words? See Words you’ll see.

Skyreader is independent software, built and run by one person, free while in beta, with a Supporter plan that raises the limits and keeps it running.