Bridges Adds a Reader View

I’ve been using Jonathan Ruiz’s link-saving app Bridges to put together show notes for my podcast for so long now, I can’t imagine getting my work done without it. I’m a big fan of its unique feature set for not only saving links, but also organizing and sharing them.

Recently, the app received a big upgrade in the form of a reader view. When you tap on a link you’ve saved in Bridges, it now shows you the content of the webpage in a nice, reading-focused layout. If you need to see more, you can tap a button at the bottom of the view to load the full page. It sounds like a small addition, but it’s quite useful in practice, and it rounds out the app’s feature set as a full link-saving solution.

This implementation has impressed me to the point that I’m now using Bridges as my go-to read later app. Reading articles from the web is an important part of my daily routine, so entrusting it to a new app is a big deal for me. But I really like the experience of reading articles in Bridges, and it even saves me a step when I want to add something I’ve read to the show notes for an upcoming podcast episode.

If you haven’t tried Bridges yet, now is the perfect time. Not only does it have this great new feature, but it’s also free for a limited time through the start of WWDC. I can’t recommend it enough, so I encourage you to give it a spin.