Save articles.
Read them later.
Simple as that.
Send articles here from your browser, your phone, or your RSS reader. Read them without the popups and cookie banners, then highlight the parts you want to keep.
What's in the box
Everything here is on both plans, apart from the two marked Pro.
Your reading queue
Save an article from anywhere and it waits here, parsed and stripped of everything that was in the way.
RSS feeds and podcasts
Subscribe to a site and new posts arrive on their own. Mark a feed as a podcast and episodes come with a player, chapter jumps, and artwork.
Newsletter inbox
A private address to point your subscriptions at. Issues arrive as clean articles instead of piling up in your inbox.
More than articles
YouTube videos with their transcripts, PDFs you drag in, and Mastodon, Bluesky, or Threads posts saved with the whole thread.
Browser extensions
Save with one click as you browse.
iOS app
A native app for iPhone and iPad, free on the App Store.
Listen to anything
Any article becomes audio in a natural-sounding voice you choose, and the words light up as they are spoken. The player follows you around the app.
Highlights
Drag across a sentence and it is saved. Every highlight collects on one page, exports to Obsidian, and turns into a quote image in two clicks.
Not everything is an article
An app to download, a form to fill in, a thing to buy. Those go on a separate To Do list instead of burying your queue.
Tags that file themselves
Organize everything with tags, then set auto-tagging rules that file new articles for you the moment they arrive.
MCP server built in
Point Claude, Claude Code, or Cursor at Quick Reads and it can search your library, pull up an article, save a link, or retag things. Every plan, same key as the API.
Obsidian plugin
Sync your highlights straight into Obsidian and connect them to your notes.
Boss your library around
The REST API and an MCP server come with every plan, on the same key. Plenty of read-later apps hand you a save endpoint and stop there. This is the whole app: search, highlights, tags, archive, To Do.
What did I save about mechanical keyboards? Pull my highlights out of it.
search_articleslist_highlightsSave every link in this newsletter to my To Do list.
save_articleTag everything from arstechnica.com as tech, then archive anything I saved before June.
list_articlesset_article_tagsarchive_articleWhat are the three longest things in my queue? Give me the gist of each.
list_articlesget_articleclaude mcp add --transport http quick-reads \
https://quickreads.app/mcp \
--header "Authorization: Bearer rl_your_key"
curl -X POST https://quickreads.app/api/articles \ -H "Authorization: Bearer rl_your_key" \ -d '{"url": "https://example.com/post"}'
{
"id": "a1b2c3",
"title": "The Quiet Charm of Slow Software",
"wordCount": 1840,
"highlightCount": 3,
"tags": [{ "name": "tech" }]
}
Ten MCP tools, the full REST API, and outbound webhooks for when you want Quick Reads to do the talking. Read the docs
Simple, honest pricing
Quick Reads is indie software built by one person, with exactly zero VC funding. Your subscription directly supports development and keeps the lights on.
| Feature | Basic | Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited saved articles | Included | Included |
| Unlimited highlights | Included | Included |
| Tags & auto-tagging rules | Included | Included |
| Distraction-free reading | Included | Included |
| Full API and MCP access | Included | Included |
| Email newsletters | Not included | Included |
| RSS feeds | Included | Included |
| Mastodon bookmark sync | Included | Included |
| Bluesky bookmark sync | Included | Included |
| Text-to-speech | Not included | 3 hrs / mo |
| Outbound webhooks | Not included | Included |
Every plan starts with one 7-day free trial per payment method. If your card has been used for a Quick Reads trial before, your subscription starts after a short grace period instead.
