For anyone who has to stay on top of a field
Tell Readster the topics, people, organizations and companies you follow, and news coverage comes with them. It reads that alongside your newsletters, feeds, podcasts and YouTube, then sends one brief each morning: duplicates merged, every entry cited, and a definite end.
No credit card. Start with a few topics — no feeds needed.
What it reads
On your watchlist
Draft guidance for general-purpose models: what changed, compared across outlets
7 sources
Two pilot-line announcements, merged into one entry
5 sources
From podcasts & video
A 90-minute interview on grid storage, reduced to the three claims that matter
1 episode
That's everything today — 14 items from 52 sources.
Use cases
Add what you track: a topic, a person, an organization, a company. Each entry brings its own news coverage from the first night, so your brief works before you add a single feed.
A researcher, a bill, a competitor, a product. Add a note on why you follow it, and the ranking follows from that.
How it works
You already know where the good material is: the newsletters, the podcasts, the channels, the journals, the people worth following. Reading all of it is the problem. The same story arrives nine times, and the detail that matters is forty minutes into an episode you never got to.
Topics, people, organizations, companies — each with a note on why (“new battery chemistries”, “anything on the EU AI Act”, “our three biggest competitors”). Every entry brings its own news coverage from the first night.
Optional, any time: pick a starter pack for your field, forward newsletters to a private address, follow podcasts and YouTube channels, or bring your feeds. Follow a US-listed company and its SEC filings come along.
Every morning, by email and on the web, at the time and in the language you choose. Ten minutes and you're current — then it ends.
What it reads
Readster reads across every kind of source you follow, then writes one brief from all of it.
Podcasts & YouTube
New episodes from the shows you follow are transcribed in full, and videos are read from their captions. The point made forty minutes in reaches your brief, cited to the episode — no queue to catch up on.
An example morning
News coverage
Add a topic, person, organization or company and Readster starts following the news on it that night. No feeds to hunt down.
Newsletters
Forward your subscriptions to a private @in.readster.ai address, paid ones included. Readster reads what you already have access to.
Feeds
Import an OPML file in one click, paste any RSS or Atom feed, or follow Bluesky accounts. Starting from zero? Each field has a starter pack.
Papers & filings
Journal tables of contents and preprint feeds, such as arXiv categories, are read alongside the news. Follow a US-listed company and its SEC filings come with it.
Sample brief
One brief a day. What you follow comes first, one entry per story, every entry traceable to its sources — and a definite end.
On your watchlist
Interim results from a base-editing trial, read across four write-ups: where they agree, and where they don't
4 sources
A new open-weight release, benchmarked independently by three labs
8 sources
From podcasts & video
Two shows you follow disagree on how to regulate open-weight models — both arguments, cited to the episodes
2 episodes
From your fields
Economists split on the next rate move after the latest inflation print
6 sources
That's everything today — 11 items from 46 sources.
The brief opens with the topics, people and companies you declared, ranked ahead of everything else.
Coverage from every source is clustered before it reaches you, so you read each story once, with all its sources attached.
Every entry links to the sources it came from. Citations are checked before the brief is sent: a sentence whose citation doesn't resolve is removed, and an entry left without a source is dropped.
A closing line tells you you're done. No infinite scroll, no fear of missing the rest.
Every brief and source stays in a private, searchable archive you can ask questions of. Briefs come in English, 中文, 日本語, Deutsch, Français, Español or 한국어.
Alternatives
Plenty of tools cover one piece of this. Readster does the whole job: one brief across everything you follow.
Follows a topic, person or company without you finding sources first
Reads the newsletters you subscribe to
Transcribes the podcasts and YouTube channels you follow
Writes one brief a day, the same story merged across sources
| Readster | Google Alerts | Feedly Pro+ | Readwise Reader | ChatGPT tasks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Follows a topic, person or company without you finding sources first | |||||
| Reads the newsletters you subscribe to | |||||
| Transcribes the podcasts and YouTube channels you follow | Partial | ||||
| Writes one brief a day, the same story merged across sources | Partial |
Based on each product's public information as of September 2026: Google Alerts (free), Feedly Pro+, Readwise Reader, and ChatGPT scheduled tasks (also on the free plan). “Partial” means the capability exists in a narrower form. All product names and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Pricing
Your first 30 days are Readster Pro — free, no card. Then keep Pro, move up to Max, or stay on Readster Free: a weekly brief on up to 5 topics.
A smaller Readster that keeps working — nothing deleted.
Where your trial lands
Nothing to buy — and nothing to cancel.
What Readster Free includes
Where every trial and every cancelled subscription lands, instead of a locked account: a smaller Readster that keeps working, with nothing deleted. Pro subscriptions pay for it — they are still our only revenue. No ads, no selling data.
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One cited brief every morning on everything you follow.
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No credit card. When the trial ends, you move to Readster Free unless you subscribe.
Everything in Readster Pro
For full-time research
Pro at the volume full-time research needs.
or $470/yearsave 20%
No credit card. When the trial ends, you move to Readster Free unless you subscribe.
Everything in Readster Pro, plus
Students & academics: 50% off with an academic email address (.edu, .ac.*, or equivalent — contact us if yours isn't recognized). We may review discounted accounts and ask for proof of affiliation.
Your data is yours: one-click export of sources, archive and briefs, on every plan. Cancel Pro and your account moves to Readster Free — nothing is deleted.
Fair use on Readster Pro: Ask and item actions are metered at 50 a day on our key; on your own OpenRouter or Anthropic key there's no daily limit. We'll always tell you before anything is limited — never a silent degrade.
FAQ
Tell it what you follow tonight. Your first brief arrives tomorrow morning.
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