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Product Positioning & Context
Readr is an ebook reader you can talk to. You're reading Project Hail Mary and wonder: could Astrophage exist? Select the line and ask. The answer appears in the margin, drawn from the whole book, and says when it's pulling from real science instead. Lost the thread? Ask for a recap of what you've read so far, no spoilers. Press Listen and a natural voice reads from your page, on your device, no cap. Opens the EPUBs and PDFs you own. No account, no server. Free, open source. iPhone, iPad, Mac.
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What is Readr?
Readr is a digital product or tool described as: A free reader that answers your questions and reads aloud
Where did Readr originate?
Data for Readr was aggregated directly from the Product Hunt community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was Readr publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for Readr within our tracked developer communities was recorded on September 3, 2026.
How popular is Readr?
Readr has achieved measurable traction, logging over 105 traction score and facilitating 7 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define Readr?
Based on metadata extraction, Readr is categorized under topics such as: Open Source, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub.
What are some commercial alternatives to Readr?
Our semantic intelligence engine identifies potential commercial alternatives in the SaaS space, such as ReadHere, which offers overlapping value propositions.
How does the creator describe Readr?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "Readr is an ebook reader you can talk to. You're reading Project Hail Mary and wonder: could Astrophage exist? Select the line and ask. The answer appears in the margin, drawn from the whole book, ..."
Community Voice & Feedback
congrats on the launch. love that it cites the source passage instead of just making a confident answer up. curious how it keeps cost down on a full novel though - is it actually stuffing the whole book into context per question or does it chunk/retrieve just the relevant parts first? with your own API key that could get pricey on a long book otherwise
the DRM free caveat right there in the launch post instead of buried later. noticed that
this is awesome!! the best ones come out of hobby...
unfortunately I am an Android user.. will try out on Mac! great work on the launch! wish you the best @anusree_j
unfortunately I am an Android user.. will try out on Mac! great work on the launch! wish you the best @anusree_j
Congrats on the launch @anusree_j ! A great addition will be a browser extension (like most of the TTS readers out there) with these added functionalities.
Is there any way we can upload our own book and it will be read?
Hi everyone, I'm Anusree. I built Readr.
It came out of a habit I couldn't shake. I'd be reading, hit a paragraph I didn't quite follow, copy it, paste it into a chat window, type "in the book I'm reading, what does this mean," read the answer, then go back and hunt for my place. Every good reading session turned into tab management.
Readr puts the question where the book is. Open an EPUB, PDF or Markdown file you own, select a passage, ask. The answer arrives next to the passage, drawn from the whole book, with the source passages cited when it pulls them in. If you ask something the book doesn't cover, like what's changed in the field since it was written, it answers and tells you plainly which part came from outside the book. What it won't do is make up what the book says.
Press Listen and it reads to you from the page you're on, turning pages as it goes. The narrator is a neural voice (Kokoro, Apache-2.0) that runs on your device after a one-time 104 MB download. It starts speaking immediately with a system voice and switches over at the next sentence once the model is ready. Nothing about your book is sent anywhere to be read back to you. Readr Voice is for English books; other languages use Apple's voices.
Highlights and notes gather into an editable draft you can export as Markdown.
There's no account and no Readr server. For the AI, you use your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter, or sign in with OpenRouter, and on a Mac you can point it at Ollama and stay offline. Keys live in the Keychain. Without a key it's still a complete reader, with narration included.
It's free and MIT-licensed. The Mac download is signed and notarized. iPhone and iPad are on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id678...
One caveat: DRM-free files only. It won't open Kindle purchases.
If you've got a book you keep meaning to finish, I'd love to hear whether this helps.
It came out of a habit I couldn't shake. I'd be reading, hit a paragraph I didn't quite follow, copy it, paste it into a chat window, type "in the book I'm reading, what does this mean," read the answer, then go back and hunt for my place. Every good reading session turned into tab management.
Readr puts the question where the book is. Open an EPUB, PDF or Markdown file you own, select a passage, ask. The answer arrives next to the passage, drawn from the whole book, with the source passages cited when it pulls them in. If you ask something the book doesn't cover, like what's changed in the field since it was written, it answers and tells you plainly which part came from outside the book. What it won't do is make up what the book says.
Press Listen and it reads to you from the page you're on, turning pages as it goes. The narrator is a neural voice (Kokoro, Apache-2.0) that runs on your device after a one-time 104 MB download. It starts speaking immediately with a system voice and switches over at the next sentence once the model is ready. Nothing about your book is sent anywhere to be read back to you. Readr Voice is for English books; other languages use Apple's voices.
Highlights and notes gather into an editable draft you can export as Markdown.
There's no account and no Readr server. For the AI, you use your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI or OpenRouter, or sign in with OpenRouter, and on a Mac you can point it at Ollama and stay offline. Keys live in the Keychain. Without a key it's still a complete reader, with narration included.
It's free and MIT-licensed. The Mac download is signed and notarized. iPhone and iPad are on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id678...
One caveat: DRM-free files only. It won't open Kindle purchases.
If you've got a book you keep meaning to finish, I'd love to hear whether this helps.
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Tech Stack Dependencies
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