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Text files (txt and md), PDFs, and DRM-free ePubs, from the Files app or shared from other apps. You can also paste copied text, or share a web article from Safari. Password-protected PDFs open once you enter the password. Readride works best with running text such as novels, news, and essays. Tables and bullet lists are read as plain words, without their layout.

Readride can't open HWP files. Save the file as a PDF in Hancom Office, then add the PDF.

Readride can't read a PDF that has no text layer. Its text recognition is used only to read again Hindi and Marathi pages that have a text layer but are missing letters. If only some pages are scans, it reads the rest, tells you on Get Ready which pages it skipped, and marks the spot in the text. PDFs that already went through OCR have a text layer and can be read.

When a PDF in an Indian script, such as Hindi, Bengali, or Tamil, gives its letters out of order, Readride puts them back in order and shows on Get Ready how many places it fixed. Get Ready also tells you which pages have letters missing or turned into symbols. Hindi and Marathi pages among them are read again from the page images with text recognition on this device, when iOS supports it. You can turn this off with Read from Page Images on Get Ready. It's free, with no page limit.

It saves the place where you paused or closed as a character position in the tidied text, so changing the text size doesn't lose it. When you open the document again, it opens paused at that word, with the text around it.

Tidying, reading, the speed, pause, and text size settings, sharing from Safari, and iCloud sync are free. Your shelf holds up to 3 documents, counting finished documents and web articles. The tour that comes with the app doesn't count. When the shelf is full, you can delete one to make room, or read a new document without adding it. Documents you've added can always be read. If iCloud sync brings in documents from your other devices and the shelf goes over 3, you can still read them all; to add a new one to the shelf, delete documents until 2 or fewer are left.

On a new iPhone or iPad, or after reinstalling, open Settings in Readride and tap Restore Purchases in the Readride Pro section. On the same Apple Account you won't be charged again. Members of your Family Sharing group can use Pro too. Refunds are handled by Apple, and if Pro is refunded, the documents you've added can still be read.

An iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence, running iOS 26 or iPadOS 26 or later, with Apple Intelligence turned on in Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri. It isn't available while the on-device model is still downloading, or when the model doesn't support the language of the text. It works on Get Ready for PDFs and text files (not md). It runs on this device and can be wrong, so its suggestions start turned off, and only the ones you turn on are taken out. The AI features row in Readride's Settings shows whether this device can use it.

The one page you share (its address, title, and the HTML on screen) is placed in Readride's shared folder on this device. When you open Readride, Get Ready pulls the article text from it. Once you add or cancel, the page is deleted from that folder. If another app shares only an address, or the page from Safari is too large and only its address comes through, Readride fetches that page from the site once, without your cookies or cache, so no login is sent. It doesn't go through any developer server.

Readride runs on iPad too. It shows the same screens as on iPhone, widened to a comfortable reading width, in portrait or landscape, and it adjusts when you resize the window. On the wide screen of a foldable iPhone opened out, it widens the same way. When the reading screen has a system strip along one side, Play, Back One Sentence, Next Sentence, reading speed + and −, Document Map and Settings stand in that strip, with the speed shown as a number between + and −.

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. Original files aren't uploaded. Sync is free and on by default. Turn off Sync with iCloud in the iCloud section of Readride's Settings to stop syncing on that device only. A document you delete on one device is deleted on your other devices too. The data is kept in your own iCloud and doesn't go through any developer server.