New in version 1.0.19
Collapsible pinned folders and smaller Home headers. Fixed theme switching, reset/import, PIN setup and theme editing. EPUB keeps reading positions and improves vertical Japanese bookmarks, search and read-aloud. PDF and image viewers improve zoom gestures, page loading and position controls. TXT search and reloads are more reliable. Backup, file operations and archive extraction handle errors more consistently, with added 7z ARM64/RISC-V filter support.
Readwide is a local-first Android reader and file browser for TXT, Markdown, PDF, EPUB, Word-family documents, HWP/HWPX, images, comic archives, and common archive workflows.
It supports local reading, recent files with reading-history search, bookmarks, folder shortcuts, file search and type filtering, in-document text search (including find inside PDFs), archive browsing, archive-backed image viewing, multi-select file operations, local copy/move/delete/extract/compress queues, and text-to-speech with a sleep timer, pause/resume, and a floating on-screen control.
TXT keeps an exact source-page reader model; Markdown uses a rendered WebView visual-page model. PDF in-document find works on digital (text-based) PDFs; scanned or image-only PDFs are not searched, and OCR is not included. HWP/HWPX is text-first and read-only through Apache-2.0 Java libraries, not Hancom-compatible layout rendering or editing. RAR/CBR is read-only and limited: some archives may not open, and full RAR compatibility is not guaranteed.
The default build does not request INTERNET permission and does not include ads, analytics, telemetry SDKs, Firebase, Google Play Services, an account system, cloud sync, an in-app update checker, or a developer-operated upload backend. Android Auto Backup is disabled. Broad file access is used for local file browsing and management of user-selected folders and files. Files opened into Readwide from other apps are copied into an app-private cache with filename sanitization, a path check, and a 2 GB per-file limit, and JSON backup import is capped at 256 MB.
Readwide uses the Android applicationId com.readwide.manager; older TextView Reader builds used com.textview.reader and install as a separate app. The F-Droid build is signed by F-Droid and does not update in place over Readwide APKs from GitHub, which use a different signing key. To switch builds, export a JSON backup from the old one, install the new one, then import the backup to restore bookmarks, reading positions, themes, and settings.
Versions
Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.
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arm64-v8a
armeabi-v7a
This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
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run foreground service
Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
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run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
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android.permission.MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
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show notifications
Allows the app to show notifications
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read the contents of your shared storage
Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
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modify or delete the contents of your shared storage
Allows the app to write the contents of your shared storage.
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com.readwide.manager.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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New in version 1.0.18
Archive timeout and folder-aware comics; thumbnail, EPUB, PDF, search and file-operation fixes. Scoped plain single-volume RAR LZ/PPMd and solid fallback; streaming output and disk-backed RAR5/RAR7 history; broader special 7z coder chains. Fixed extraction/viewer ceilings removed; storage and decoder-memory guards remain. Encrypted/split mixed RAR and custom VM remain excluded. No new permissions.
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arm64-v8a
armeabi-v7a
This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
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run foreground service
Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
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run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
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android.permission.MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
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show notifications
Allows the app to show notifications
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read the contents of your shared storage
Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
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modify or delete the contents of your shared storage
Allows the app to write the contents of your shared storage.
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com.readwide.manager.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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New in version 1.0.17
Added List/Tiles browsing and large-screen two-page EPUB. Notes/highlights open from the toolbar, and archive viewers restore the same page after app switching. WinZip-AES ZIPX adds Deflate64, BZip2, LZMA, XZ, PPMd, Zstandard, JPEG, and WavPack. CAB/LHA/LZH add read-only extraction. RAR6 and bounded RAR7 decoding are improved. No new permissions.
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arm64-v8a
armeabi-v7a
This version requires Android 7.0 or newer.
It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.
Permissions
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run foreground service
Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
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run foreground service with the type "mediaPlayback"
Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "mediaPlayback"
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android.permission.MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
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show notifications
Allows the app to show notifications
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read the contents of your shared storage
Allows the app to read the contents of your shared storage.
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modify or delete the contents of your shared storage
Allows the app to write the contents of your shared storage.
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com.readwide.manager.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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14 MiB
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