For researchers & academics
Your field publishes faster than you can read.Read one brief.
Tell Readster the topics, methods, people and institutions you follow. It reads the journals' tables of contents, the science desks, the newsletters and the podcasts and YouTube channels in your field — then sends one cited brief each morning that actually ends.
No credit card. The academic discount applies automatically when you subscribe with a recognized academic email address.
Topics, people and institutions — not just keywords
Add a method, an open question, a lab, an author or an agency. Each entry brings its own news coverage from the first night and carries a note on why you track it, so ranking follows your reasons rather than an engagement score.
Start from a pack, then add your own
Follow the Science & research or Health & biotech starter pack in one click, then paste any RSS feed you rely on — a journal's table of contents, a lab blog, a society's news page — and subscribe your private @in.readster.ai address to the newsletters in your field.
Talks and podcasts, read for you
New episodes from the podcasts you follow are transcribed in full, and YouTube talks are read from their captions, so the one result mentioned forty minutes in reaches your brief — cited to the episode.
One entry per result, however many places it appears
When a finding turns up in a journal, two newsletters and a podcast, you get one entry with every source cited. Everything lands in a private archive you can search, or ask a question of, later.
An example watchlist
Each entry is a topic, company, person or organization, with a note on why it matters to you. Coverage comes with it.
- Base editingTopicoff-target results and new trial registrations
- Protein language modelsTopicanything benchmarked against the methods I use
- NIHOrganizationfunding policy and indirect-cost changes
- IPCCOrganizationthe mitigation assessment and its review deadlines
What it won't do
- It isn't a literature search, a reference manager or a replacement for your field's preprint alerts.
- It doesn't read paywalled full text — it works from what feeds, newsletters, podcasts and news coverage publish.
- It summarizes and cites; judging the paper is still your job.
See it in practice
50% off with your academic email
Readster Pro is $10/month — or $96/year — with an academic email address (.edu, .ac.*, or equivalent; contact us if yours isn't recognized). The discount applies automatically at checkout based on your email domain; we may review discounted accounts and ask for proof of affiliation. It covers everything in Readster Pro — there is no separate academic tier.
Stop reading everything. Start reading one thing.
Tell it what you follow tonight. Your first brief arrives tomorrow morning.
No credit card. Cancel in two clicks — you keep Readster Free and full export.