Kanso Reader – personal read-it-later app

Hi everyone, I’m looking for a few people to help test Kanso Reader on TestFlight.

This is a personal app I built around how I save and read articles every day. It is really just a personal app (at least for now), but I thought maybe some of you are keen to help test it and give feedback.

The workflow is pretty simple:

  • save interesting articles

  • clean up the page for reading

  • export to PDF, Markdown, EPUB

A few things about it:

  • local-first

  • no cloud sync (yet)

  • no subscription

  • backups are basically through exports

So this is not meant to be a huge feature-heavy product. It is more like a focused, practical app built around my own everyday use.

Current features:

  • save article links

  • cleaned, distraction-free reading view

  • dark/light mode

  • reading preferences

  • tags and search

  • notes

  • export to PDF / EPUB / Markdown

I’d especially love feedback on:

  • article cleanup quality

  • sites that fail to parse properly

  • reading experience

  • export quality

  • bugs and performance