Save any page or link in one click, highlight what matters in five colors, and read it later in a clean reader that remembers where you stopped, listens along or sums it up. It starts free, and the same subscription also covers the PDF editor, screenshots, short links and text templates you'd otherwise pay for one by one.
Free plan, every toolPremium: $16.67/month, billed yearlyOr $20/month, cancel anytime
On its own, Readwise Reader may well cost less than Pagewing. Pagewing pays off when it replaces several apps. Tick the ones you pay for and put in what you pay.
Filled in with each app's published US price for one person, billed monthly where it's offered, as of October 2026. Change any amount to what you actually pay.
Where Readwise Reader does more, the table says so.
| Feature | Pagewing | Readwise Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Save a page or link in one click | Yes | Yes |
| A clean copy of the article text, kept for you | Yes | Yes |
| Highlight text on any web page | Five colors | Yes |
| Notes on highlights | Premium | Yes |
| Highlights show again on the live page | Yes | Yes |
| Reader with your font, size, width and theme | Yes | Yes |
| Remembers where you stopped | Yes | Yes |
| Read aloud | Your browser's voices, at your speed | Yes |
| AI summaries, questions and explanations | From the article's text, with your daily AI requests | Ghostreader |
| Tags | Premium | Yes |
| Search inside article text | Premium | Yes |
| Unread, favorites and archive, with bulk actions | Yes | Yes |
| Keyboard shortcuts in the reader | Yes | Yes |
| PDFs, EPUBs, RSS feeds and newsletters | No | Yes |
| YouTube videos and X threads | No | Yes |
| Export highlights | Markdown | To Notion, Obsidian and other apps |
| Import from other read-later apps | Pocket, Omnivore and Instapaper exports | Pocket, Instapaper and other sources |
| How many articles you keep | 250 free, no cap on Premium | No cap |
| Free plan or trial | Free plan, 250 articles | 30-day trial, then paid |
| Mobile apps | Chrome only | iOS and Android |
| Screenshots, PDF editor, short links, text templates, bookmarks, notes and more | Yes | No |
If you read PDFs, EPUBs, RSS feeds and newsletters in the same app, want YouTube videos and X threads in your queue, or read on your phone, Readwise Reader does more as a reader, and its Highlights side reviews what you marked in Kindle and other apps.
If you mostly save web articles and want a reader that's free to start, Pagewing saves any page in one click, highlights in five colors on the live page and over the saved copy, reads articles aloud, summarizes them and answers questions from their own text, and imports your Pocket, Omnivore or Instapaper export. There's a free plan with a cap on saved articles instead of a trial, Premium removes it and adds tags, notes on highlights and search inside articles, and you don't pay for a read-later app on its own.
Checked against Readwise Reader's own pages in October 2026. Plans and features change: check there before you decide. Weighing more than these two? See the best read-later apps and extensions for chrome.
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Readwise has no free plan: after a 30-day trial, the Full Readwise plan with Reader costs $12.99 a month billed monthly, or $9.99 a month billed yearly, and Reader on its own $7.99 a month billed yearly. Pagewing's reader is free for up to 250 saved articles, and Premium removes that cap along with the limits of every other tool, so it pays off when you also pay for a PDF editor, a screenshot tool or a link shortener. Use the calculator above with what you actually pay.
Yes. Select text on any page and pick one of five colors from the bubble, or use the right-click menu. Highlights are saved with the article, show again when you return to the page, and appear over the saved copy in the reader and in the Highlights view on the website. Notes on highlights come with Premium.
Yes, free. Listen reads a saved article with your browser's voices at the speed you choose, following along paragraph by paragraph. Readwise Reader has its own text-to-speech voices, including on its phone apps.
Yes. Ask for a summary of any saved article, ask it a question or have a passage explained, and the answer comes from the article's own text. Each answer uses one of your daily AI requests, shared with the AI writer; Premium raises the daily number.
Not from Readwise's own export yet. Pagewing imports Pocket, Omnivore and Instapaper exports, bookmark files and CSV files, so a CSV of your Reader links with a URL column comes in as saved links; open one and save it from the extension to keep its text for the reader. On the free plan the first 250 articles come in; Premium keeps them all.
No. Pagewing's reader is for web pages and links. PDFs open in Pagewing's PDF editor instead, which annotates, fills, signs and organizes them, but it isn't a reading queue. Readwise Reader keeps PDFs, EPUBs, newsletters and feeds in one inbox.
There's no phone app. Your list lives on the Pagewing website, which opens on a phone browser, but saving and highlighting happen in Chrome on a computer. Readwise Reader has iOS and Android apps.
Yes. Every tool works on the free plan, with a few limits. Premium removes the limits and adds features like share links, PDF signatures and cloud storage, for every tool at once. Pro adds Office conversions, bookmark cleanups and AI summaries and branding for recordings on top. You only add a card if you decide to upgrade.
Every tool works on the free plan, so run it next to what you have now, then keep the subscriptions you still need.
Add to Chrome, freeReadwise Reader is a trademark of its owner, who isn't affiliated with or endorsing Pagewing. We name it only to compare the two.
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