Readspace
Readspace brings followed publications, writers, and newsletters into a reading feed and creates a five-minute daily briefing.
What Readspace is
Readspace brings followed publications, writers, and newsletters into a reading feed and creates a five-minute daily briefing. Its chronological feed contains only sources a user follows, without engagement ranking or suggested posts. The Daily Digest groups coverage of the same development across those sources and links back to them. Readers can explore more than 120,000 sources, import or export subscriptions in OPML format, and use a browser extension to find a site’s RSS feed when available. The reader offers summaries, key-point highlighting, and translation. Newsletters can be sent to a private Readspace email alias and appear in a dedicated folder. The maker says reading has no ads or trackers and that reading activity is not sold or used for targeting. Readspace is open source and can be self-hosted; self-hosting has no usage limits but lacks the hosted catalog, requires OPML imports, and bills AI through the user’s provider. Basic is free with daily limits on reading tools; Pro is $5.99 a month, billed monthly, with fair-use limits.
Good
- Chronological feed shows only followed sources
- Daily Digest groups related coverage
- Imports and exports subscriptions in OPML
- Open source and self-hostable
Watch out
- Self-hosted option lacks the hosted catalog
- Self-hosting requires importing sources via OPML
- Self-hosted AI is billed by the user's provider
- Pro fair-use limits apply
Who it suits
Readspace may suit readers who want news, analysis, and writing from selected sources in one place. Self-hosting may fit people who want to manage their own instance and can import sources through OPML.
Verdict
Readspace combines a reader, newsletter inbox, and daily briefing around sources the user chooses. Compare the Basic limits and self-hosted tradeoffs with the Pro plan’s fair-use terms.
Plans and prices
From Readspace's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | — | RSS and news reading · Save articles for later · Feed discovery · Cross-device sync |
| Readspace Pro | — | Summaries · Highlights · Translations · Daily Digest |
| Basic | Free | 10 feeds · Save up to 50 articles at a time · 5 summaries, translations, or highlights a day · 5 clean article views a day · 3 Daily Digests a month · Full source catalog search · Web, iOS, Android, browser extensions |
| Self-hosted | Free | No usage limits · Bring your own API key and server · Extension and mobile apps supported · No hosted catalog; import via OPML · AI billed by your provider |
| Pro | $5.99 a month | Generous feed limit · Summaries, translations, highlights, and clean article views without daily caps · Newsletters · Daily Digests every day · Fair-use limits apply · Monthly |
The facts
Each one read from Readspace's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Audience
- The maker describes Readspace as intended for people who want news, analysis, and writing from selected publications, blogs, and writers in a dedicated place.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Daily Digest
- The Digest groups coverage of the same development across chosen sources and links back to those sources.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Discovery
- Readspace says users can explore more than 120,000 sources and search by name, topic, or description.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Feed
- The feed is chronological and contains only sources the user follows, without engagement ranking or suggested posts.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Highlighting
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Newsletters
- Users can subscribe to mailing lists with a private Readspace email alias, which places received newsletters in a Newsletters folder.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Open source and hosting
- Readspace is open source, can be self-hosted, and permits disabling AI features on a self-hosted instance.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The maker says reading has no ads or trackers and that it does not sell reading activity or use it for targeting.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Product
- Readspace combines followed publications, writers, and newsletters in one feed and creates a five-minute daily briefing.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Reading tools
- The reader offers article summaries, key point highlighting, and translation without leaving Readspace.checked 8 Oct 2026
- RSS and OPML
- Users can import and export subscriptions in OPML format, and the browser extension can find a site's RSS feed when available.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Self-hosted limits
- The self-hosted option has no usage limits but lacks the hosted catalog, requires importing sources via OPML, and bills AI through the user's provider.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- The site directs users with questions to GitHub Discussions.checked 8 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser extension
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
- Mobile apps
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 22 Sep 2026
The company
- Maker
- The site says Readspace is built and maintained by one independent developer and credits “@kamui-fin.”checked 8 Oct 2026
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