Reader.
Feeds in. Signal out.
Not just a list of unread items. Reader puts your feeds through AI — a personalized briefing of everything new, summaries and tags on every entry, and an MCP server so Claude can work your inbox for you. Save what you read as a narrated podcast, batch the rest into digests, and follow a lot of sources without drowning. No algorithm picking for you, no ads, no lock-in.
reader.river42.com · AI briefings · MCP for Claude · narrated podcasts
More than a reader.
Built for people who follow a lot of sources — with AI doing the heavy lifting so the firehose comes out as signal.
AI briefings
A personalized briefing of everything new across your feeds, written for you and ready on your schedule. Read it in the app — or listen, since every briefing can publish as a podcast episode.
AI pipelines
Run new entries through AI as they arrive: summarise, tag, translate, score, or filter — configured per feed or globally, applied automatically.
AI agent access
Connect Claude — or any MCP client — straight to your reader. A hosted MCP server exposes ~60 tools to browse, search, subscribe, and run briefings, secured by scoped access tokens you can revoke anytime.
Podcast creation
Turn what you save — and your briefings — into a narrated podcast. Generate audio, then subscribe one click away in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, or any app.
Email digests
Flag the feeds you don't need minute-by-minute as Digest, and Reader batches them into a single email on your schedule — so the firehose arrives when you want it, not when it fires.
Every source
RSS & Atom, YouTube, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, Git forges, podcasts, and saved bookmarks — one pluggable connector system, one inbox.
Extraction & search
Full-article fetch via Trafilatura with a headless-Chromium fallback, plus Postgres full-text search across every entry.
Web, CLI & TUI
Read where you work. A polished web app, the r42 command-line client, and a keyboard-driven terminal UI — all at feature parity, from briefings to audio to sharing.
No lock-in
OPML import and export anytime. Read-later to Linkding, Wallabag, or Karakeep. No algorithm picking for you, no ads — your data stays yours.