Perch Reader

Name: Perch Reader
Rating: 4.9 (139 reviews)
Author: GM Labs, Inc

By: GM Labs, Inc

Newsletter & Blog Aggregator

This app was removed from Apple Apps Store on 2026-05-28

Features & Capabilities

Perch Reader aggregates all of your blogs, newsletters, and Substacks in one place. No emails. No browser tabs. No paywalls. Just a beautiful, focused space to read your favorite writers.

With Perch you can listen to articles on-the-go with free AI audio, read AI summaries of long articles, enjoy dark mode and clean typography for easy reading, and highlight, annotate, and organize your ideas with shareable reading lists. Join thousands of daily readers getting the most out of Perch.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

GM Labs, Inc

Rating:

4.90

(139)

Version:

12.0.1 Last updated: 2026-01-28

Version code:

881933788

Creation date:

2024-07-31

Compatible devices:

Size:

58.26MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-05-28

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Developed by:

GM Labs, Inc

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/perch-reader/id6474042480

Website:

https://perch.app

User Reviews

Perch Reader is widely praised for aggregating newsletters and blogs into a single, clean feed with a minimal UI. Users value the ability to read, listen, and get summaries, plus offline access and strong personalization. The app helps build daily reading habits and reduces email clutter. While most feedback is positive, a few users note stability issues and minor UI quirks, and some wish for broader niche blog coverage. Overall, Perch is considered a top, efficient content companion for staying updated.

Pros

Centralizes newsletters and blogs into one clean, organized feed, reducing inbox clutter and notification overload.
Clean, simple, intuitive UI with minimal distractions.
Flexible content consumption includes reading, listening, and summaries (Listen and Summarize) with offline reading capability.
Strong personalization and discovery through favorite Substacks, smart filters, and source categorization.
Productivity boost by helping build daily reading habits, saving time, and making staying updated easier.

Cons

Recent reviews

I love the app concept and execution. Signing up for newsletters and getting them in my email inbox was always an issue for me, because it would add a lot of clutter. I’d have all these nice-to-read newsletters mixed in with my need-to-read emails, and the result would be that I’d sometimes miss emails and feel scared to open up my mail with 100s of notifications racking up. Perch changed that for me because I now have clear separation from my obligatory email notifications and my fun perch notifications. I also like that separation because, now, when I get an email notification, I know to instantly read it, but with Perch it’s one of those things where it can rack up over the day and then I read all the new articles in one go at the end of the day. The voice feature is also very good and the newsletter selection is too. The only thing I would want changed is the way notifications work - for the badges (red circle), it shows how many new articles are in my inbox, but if I just open the app and don’t even read them, the badge disappears (suggesting that I’ve read all of the articles). I would rather it be where, for example, if I read 1 article/blog out of the 7 new ones, the badge drops down to 6 to show me that I have 6 more I still want to read. Please make this change! Other than that, though, the app is perfect and I recommend it to all my friends.

by Ni*****, 2026-02-23

I’ve been procrastinating lately with my reading but 20 mins every morning on Perch has become my new normal and it makes my day so productive.

by Vi*****, 2026-01-29

What more can I say about this app, most newsletter aggregators are so bogged down with bloat that they’re not simple to use. Perch is the opposite. It’s clean, intuitive, and lets you choose how you want to consume your reading. Read every line. Go ahead. Listen to the writing. Yup. Get a summary of the text. Of course. Let alone that the ability to get newsletters in your inbox but blogs too makes this app one of the best around. And the team is so speedy and personable when you submit feedback. A must download 🙏