Readride
Novels, news, phrase by phrase
Readride shows what you read a few words at a time in one spot, so your eyes stay still. Novels, news, essays, PDFs, and ePubs, cleaned up first and read to the end.
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See what was taken out
When you add something to read, Readride tidies it first. It takes out PDF headers and page numbers, and the ads and related-link lists around web articles, and joins lines broken in the middle of a sentence. Get Ready lists everything it took out, and you can put any of it back. It also picks the reading language from the text, and you can change it on Get Ready.
- Headers, footers, and page numbers taken out
- Lines broken mid-sentence joined
- Anything taken out can go back
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Read in one spot. Pause to see the page around it.
The words appear a few at a time in the same spot in the middle of the screen, with short pauses at commas and at the ends of sentences. Grouping is fitted to each of 44 languages, so Japanese, Chinese, and Thai are divided into words, and Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu run right to left. Pause, and the text before and after your place opens up. Tap any word there to go on from that word.
- A few words at a time, in one spot
- The text around your place when you pause
- Tap a word to go on from there
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Articles from Safari, and the files you have
Share an article from Safari to Readride, and it pulls out the article text and opens it in Get Ready. Text files (txt and md), PDFs, DRM-free ePubs, and pasted text work too.
- Articles shared from Safari
- txt, md, PDF, and DRM-free ePub
- Pasted text
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Your place and your pace
Readride saves where you paused or closed as a character position in the tidied text, so changing the text size doesn't lose your place. Each language keeps its own speed, and for English you choose from 100 to 1,000 words a minute. Pick one of five pause lengths for commas and the ends of sentences. Devices signed in to the same iCloud account keep the same shelf, reading positions, and what you've read, so you can pick up a document on another device where you left off.
- Your place, kept to the character
- A speed kept for each language
- Five pause lengths
- Adjustable text size
Readride Pro
Keep every document,
and see long ones on a map
- No limit on documents (3 to begin with)
- A ZIP of text files as one document
- Document Map, and the section you're in above the words
- Skip sections you turn off, in documents divided by headings or files
- Find More with AI, on supported iPhones and iPads
Support
Questions and contact details are on the support page.