ReadAware

Reading that remembers

ReadAware reads alongside you. It builds memory across your books, highlights, and conversations, so every page arrives with the context it deserves.

Free and local-first. v0.4.1.
The ReadAware library — a grid of book covers across many languages and formats.
Your library — every format in one place.

A calm place to read anything

Import a file and start reading. There is no conversion and no cloud upload; your highlights, notes, and place in the book stay with the original text. When you want more focus, read sentence by sentence — the page holds back, a floating strip steps you through, and read-aloud can follow along.

A page of Atomic Habits in the ReadAware reader, one sentence held in focus while the rest of the page recedes.
Reading Atomic Habits one sentence at a time.

It remembers what you read

Ask about a passage, a book, or your whole shelf. ReadAware draws on your highlights, notes, and earlier conversations, and keeps a durable memory of what matters, so it picks up where you left off.

The ReadAware assistant surveying the reader's shelf and recent reading, and naming the thread that runs through it.
The assistant, answering from your own shelf.

In short

One engine, every format
EPUB, MOBI, AZW3, FB2, CBZ, CBR, TXT, HTML, and PDF open in the same reader, with the same selection, highlights, and progress. Nothing is converted; the original file is what you keep.
Memory, not transcripts
Reading becomes memory the app can hold onto. ReadAware keeps what matters and brings it back when it's relevant, instead of replaying a long chat history.
Extended from the inside
Sandboxed plugins from the built-in marketplace add read-aloud voices, dictionaries, reading themes, feeds that read like books — and new tools the assistant picks up and uses.
Local-first and private
Your library and your memory live on your device. You bring your own API key, and the cloud is only there to sync between machines.

Get ReadAware

Free and local-first. Bring your own API key; your library and memory stay on your device. The latest release is v0.4.1.

Desktop builds aren't code-signed yet; macOS and Windows may ask you to confirm the app on first launch.