Local-first reader and file browser
About this app
Readwide is a local-first Android reader and file browser for TXT, Markdown, PDF, EPUB, Word-family documents, HWP/HWPX, images, comic archives, and common archive workflows.
It supports local reading, recent files with reading-history search, bookmarks, folder shortcuts, file search and type filtering, in-document text search (including find inside PDFs), archive browsing, archive-backed image viewing, multi-select file operations, local copy/move/delete/extract/compress queues, and text-to-speech with a sleep timer, pause/resume, and a floating on-screen control.
TXT keeps an exact source-page reader model; Markdown uses a rendered WebView visual-page model. PDF in-document find works on digital (text-based) PDFs; scanned or image-only PDFs are not searched, and OCR is not included. HWP/HWPX is text-first and read-only through Apache-2.0 Java libraries, not Hancom-compatible layout rendering or editing. RAR/CBR is read-only and limited: some archives may not open, and full RAR compatibility is not guaranteed.
The default build does not request INTERNET permission and does not include ads, analytics, telemetry SDKs, Firebase, Google Play Services, an account system, cloud sync, an in-app update checker, or a developer-operated upload backend. Android Auto Backup is disabled. Broad file access is used for local file browsing and management of user-selected folders and files. Files opened into Readwide from other apps are copied into an app-private cache with filename sanitization, a path check, and a 2 GB per-file limit, and JSON backup import is capped at 256 MB.
Readwide uses the Android applicationId com.readwide.manager; older TextView Reader builds used com.textview.reader and install as a separate app. The F-Droid build is signed by F-Droid and does not update in place over Readwide APKs from GitHub, which use a different signing key. To switch builds, export a JSON backup from the old one, install the new one, then import the backup to restore bookmarks, reading positions, themes, and settings.
Licensed under Apache-2.0, by k1717.
What's New in v1.0.15
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Fixed PDF clipping, transparent text pages, rotation/toolbar movement, and search/TTS highlights on both spread pages. EPUB spread is limited to image-page books; text EPUB stays single-page. Side-zone long-press no longer turns pages. Document/PDF thumbs fade at rest and long-PDF scrub jumps directly. Comic prefetch now rejects stale/failed cache work, yields obsolete RAR/7z scans, and safely hands off encrypted readers. No new permissions/dependencies.
Version history
Jul 16, 2026 · 13.3 MB · Android API 24–35 · code 10015
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Fixed PDF clipping, transparent text pages, rotation/toolbar movement, and search/TTS highlights on both spread pages. EPUB spread is limited to image-page books; text EPUB stays single-page. Side-zone long-press no longer turns pages. Document/PDF thumbs fade at rest and long-PDF scrub jumps directly. Comic prefetch now rejects stale/failed cache work, yields obsolete RAR/7z scans, and safely hands off encrypted readers. No new permissions/dependencies.
SHA-256 657c3d93d55186c641511b4c8fccd9b487626ecd7fe2777296a70d50ccbf3ab6
Jul 11, 2026 · 13.3 MB · Android API 24–35 · code 10014
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- Landscape two-page viewing for EPUB and PDF (portrait stays single-page). Much faster page turns and scrolling in very large text files. Text files open with the controls and a title bar visible; with controls on, the top area uses the toolbar color. Files shared without a name now show a title and open in the right viewer. Revisited images keep full quality without re-decoding. No new permissions.
SHA-256 32d9fe36cb57684aa99d51f32f5247ef664a2a02c38b868c2a012480ea4a9e3d
Jul 10, 2026 · 13.3 MB · Android API 24–35 · code 10013
Imported from the F-Droid repository index.
- - Read-aloud now highlights the sentence being spoken in the document viewer (EPUB, Word, HWP, Markdown) and the PDF viewer.
- - Page titles are no longer spoken twice in EPUB-style documents.
- - "Continue reading aloud" resumes in the right viewer at the exact saved spot; PDF auto-starts.
- - Renaming a file or folder to the same name in a different case no longer fails silently.
SHA-256 76998c4c951e7bc357f16a5e6147f34775e5f187237a0379cb0d2644e96fe530
Will it run on your device?
92%
- Runs on a broad range of modern Android versions.
- Multiple CPU architectures are covered.
- Aligned with the latest Android target SDK expectations.
Installation Guide
Open Settings on your Android device
Go to Security → Unknown sources (or Install unknown apps)
Enable "Allow from this source" for your browser or file manager
Open the downloaded APK file from your Downloads folder
Tap "Install" and wait for installation to complete
Launch the app from your home screen
Make sure to re-enable Unknown Sources restrictions after installation for security.
How to install this safely
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How to roll back to an earlier version
If the current release misbehaves, 1.0.14 is the last build before it. Android will not install an older version code over a newer one, so you must uninstall Readwide first — which clears its local data unless you have a backup. Reinstall the older APK only if its signing fingerprint matches the build you already trust, and check the API range: an older release may target an Android version your device has moved past.
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SHA-256 Hash
657c3d93d55186c641511b4c8fccd9b487626ecd7fe2777296a70d50ccbf3ab6
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