Readwide

about

description

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.

publisher

78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d

first seen

2026-09-20T05:57:07.390159+00:00

last event

2026-10-14 02:38 UTC

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

topics

#ebook reader

source & build

repository

not published

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a android-armeabi-v7a

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

2 releases indexed; latest 1.0.20.

version	channel	released	event
1.0.20	main	2026-10-14 02:38 UTC	907802bd…
1.0.19	main	2026-09-21 19:45 UTC	72f124a7…

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

1.0.20 — com.readwide.manager_10020.apk

sha256

55f1a991708efcdf97ed62cd6520b9da8b3b1b434504710a2abf1b7abe9f7852

size

15.4 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a

version code

10020

apk cert sha256

29e8124070897ae4b43c4228a0081065f3065d24c2d491a4278deebd6a8b89e7

download

com.readwide.manager_10020.apk

1.0.19 — com.readwide.manager_10019.apk

sha256

07061a60ba4ffdde7ab7a2f44a44a6657e320a61ea8b9e42fa644bc7c9b9d3ff

size

14.4 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a

version code

10019

apk cert sha256

29e8124070897ae4b43c4228a0081065f3065d24c2d491a4278deebd6a8b89e7

download

com.readwide.manager_10019.apk

1.0.19 — Readwide_1.0.19.apk

sha256

c9788c923b28e98214cf6ad0f8b661933aecd1788c2b016dc7657c5e2e1bb25f

size

14.3 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a, android-armeabi-v7a

version code

10019

apk cert sha256

ffb818efe168c0ceb1c2bd12087c1a57aa948b15808083814ea75d64fec7be4b

download

Readwide_1.0.19.apk

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