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Product announcements, new features, and the thinking behind how we help authors hear their readers.

Product Update·June 15, 2026·5 min read

Ask your reader feedback anything: the ReaderPulse MCP server

You can now connect an AI assistant like Claude directly to your ReaderPulse account and explore your reader feedback in plain language. Here's what it does and how to set it up.

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Product Update·May 28, 2026·4 min read

Can't choose between two drafts? Let your readers decide

Version-specific share links let you send readers one exact draft — so you can run two versions head to head and see which one your readers actually respond to.

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Product Update·May 24, 2026·4 min read

Honest about AI, without biasing your readers

Authors can now disclose how AI was used on a manuscript — but we hold that disclosure until the end. Here's why blind reading produces better feedback.

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Product Update·May 20, 2026·3 min read

Read comfortably, day or night: dark mode

ReaderPulse now has a proper dark mode across the whole app — with a calm navy palette tuned for long reading sessions, and a toggle that's always one tap away.

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Product Update·May 2, 2026·3 min read

Put a name to the feedback — or stay a mystery

Readers can now introduce themselves or stay behind a playful pseudonym. Either way, every reaction is attributed — so you can follow one reader's journey through your whole book.

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Product Update·February 23, 2026·3 min read

Comment in the margins

Readers highlight a passage and leave a reaction or note right where it belongs — and you read it all in a Google-Docs-style margin, every comment anchored to the line that sparked it.

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Product Update·February 5, 2026·3 min read

Turn your beta readers into a mailing list

Readers can now opt in to email updates about your book when they finish reading — so the audience you built during revision is still there on launch day.

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Product Update·February 3, 2026·3 min read

A simple score for your story: star ratings

Readers can now rate your story from one to five stars. It's a fast, honest gut-check that rolls up into an average you can track across every draft.

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Product Update·February 3, 2026·3 min read

See exactly where your readers stop

Reader progress tracking shows how far each reader gets — so you can find the exact chapter where your story loses people, the signal that comments alone can never give you.

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Product Update·February 3, 2026·3 min read

Zero in on one reader

Filter your feedback to a single reader and follow their journey through the whole book — where they laughed, where they cooled off, how they felt at the end.

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Product Update·February 2, 2026·3 min read

How reactions work: place it, refine it, see it in context

Six emotions, one tap, anchored to the exact passage — readers can react, edit, or delete, and you see every reaction overlaid right on your manuscript.

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Product Update·February 2, 2026·3 min read

Set up your book and share it with one link

Give your manuscript a cover, send a single link to all your beta readers, and keep every draft organized as a version — the logistics handled in a couple of minutes.

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Announcement·February 1, 2026·3 min read

ReaderPulse, rebuilt from the ground up

We've rebuilt the entire product on a modern foundation — faster, more reliable, and a launchpad for everything we've shipped since. Here's why we started over.

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