Readspace

Tired of digital noise? Readspace brings all your content into one clean, distraction-free inbox.

RSS. Newsletters. Twitter. Reddit. Articles. Books. All in one beautiful, modern UI, designed for focused reading.

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What is Readspace?

Readspace is an open-source, privacy-focused platform that streamlines your digital reading. It's your personal, curated inbox for everything you want to read from across the web—without ads, algorithms, or distractions.

Inspired by Google Reader's simplicity, Readspace modernizes RSS for today’s readers.

Note

RSS empowers you to directly follow your favorite websites and creators, keeping your feed clean, chronological, and free from manipulative algorithms. Think of it as a quieter, more personal social feed, where you control what you see.

Why You'll Love Readspace

• Beautiful UI/UX: Intuitive, minimalistic, and crafted for enjoyable, focused reading.
• Privacy & Control: Zero ads, no analytics, fully self-hostable. Your data remains yours.
• Smart AI (Optional & Local): Local summarization, noise filtering, auto-tagging, and personalized content discovery—all privacy-preserving.

Why Choose Readspace Over Feedly or Readwise?

• Feedly has pivoted to enterprise threat detection, offers a severely limited free tier, and suffers from declining reliability.
• Readwise Reader is not really geared towards RSS, still in beta after years, proprietary and paywalled.

Readspace offers a superior, transparent, and open-source alternative. We're built by readers, for readers, with a singular focus on an exceptional reading experience.

Built for Focused Reading

• Comprehensive Content: Seamlessly integrate RSS feeds, newsletters, saved articles, books, Twitter threads, and Reddit posts.
• Chrome Extension: Quickly save articles and capture content directly from your browser.
• Enhanced Reading: Enjoy EPUB/PDF reading, with robust annotation and highlighting tools.
• Cross-Platform: Mobile apps built with React Native are in development.

Readspace is Perfect If You:

• Are overwhelmed by endless tabs, bookmarks, and unread newsletters.
• Want to effortlessly stay informed about your interests and current events.
• Deeply value your privacy, open-source software, and full control over your data.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Git: For cloning the repository.
• Docker: Ensure Docker Desktop or Docker Engine is installed and running (v20 or higher recommended).

Self-Hosting

Readspace is designed for easy self-hosting, giving you complete control over your data and experience.

1. Clone the Repository

   Start by cloning the Readspace repository to your local machine:

   git clone https://github.com/kamui-fin/readspace.git
   cd readspace

2. Set Up and Start Supabase Backend

   This step will prepare and launch your local Supabase services, which Readspace relies on for its backend database and authentication.

   # Navigate to the Supabase directory
   cd supabase
   
   # Generate necessary environment secrets for Supabase
   ./gensecrets.sh
   
   # Launch Supabase services using its specific docker-compose file
   # This will bring up services like PostgreSQL, Auth, Storage, etc.
   docker compose -f docker-compose.yml --env-file ./.env up -d
   
   # Go back to the root directory
   cd ..

3. Launch Readspace Application

   From the root of the readspace directory, use Docker Compose to bring up the main Readspace application services. This will connect to your local Supabase backend.

   docker compose --env-file supabase/.env up -d

4. Access Your Instance

   Once all services are running, your Readspace instance should be accessible in your web browser.

   Visit localhost:8042

Community & Roadmap

We're building Readspace transparently and collaboratively. Join our growing community and help shape the future of focused reading:

• Discord: Join our community here
• GitHub: Star us and help shape the product.

Readspace is open-source, built by readers, for readers. We believe you'll feel the difference.