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# Quick Reads 1.0.4 is a beefy iPad update
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/quick-reads-1-0-4-is-a-beefy-ipad-update/
- Published: 2026-08-08T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-08T13:59:59.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler

[Quick Reads for iPhone and iPad](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quick-reads-read-it-later/id6759210587?uo=4&ref=birchtree.me) 1.0.4 is rolling out on the App Store now, and I didn't bump the version that much, but this is the biggest update yet for iPad users.

## The iPad app got some serious love

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Truthfully, I don't use the app on an iPad that much myself, so the app was mostly optimized around the iPhone experience. However, I know lots of people use this sort of app primarily on an iPad, and it needed to get some love. So I forced myself to use the iPad every day for a week and use the app as much as possible. You won't be surprised to hear this revealed quite a few paper cuts that shouldn't have been there in the first place.

As such, the app now has a real split view layout, you can drag articles onto lists in the sidebar to move them around, and you can multi-select articles and archive, delete, or tag them in bulk. Mouse users get proper hover states, and if you have a keyboard attached, you can drive more of the app from it. Every keyboard shortcut now lives in the menu bar too.

Chris, this one's for you. 😉

## Real search

Across both the iPhone and iPad, search got a big upgrade. The app previously just searched things cached locally, but now it performs real-time lookups to the server, so anything you've ever saved should be accessible. I'll talk about it in another post, but I recently shipped an update to how the server performs searches and radically improved performance and ranking of results. The iOS app benefits from these updates as well.

## Sign in without an API key

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When I shipped the app, I expected users to generate an API key on the website and paste it into the app. That works fine, but it's not exactly the sort of thing you'd expect from a Premiere app, and I wanted to have a better onboarding experience. As such, I've implemented a sort of single sign-on solution in the web application that allows me to have a simple connect button in the app. You tap it, it opens your browser, and you can connect your account from the browser to the app. No copying API keys anymore.

## All the small things

There's a lot more in here too: a scrubbable audio bar for text-to-speech, an offline banner so you know when you're working locally, sharper favicons in your article list, delightful empty states, better reduce motion support, more and nicer haptics, and a bunch of dark mode fixes.

If you're a Quick Reads user, [the update is live now](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quick-reads-read-it-later/id6759210587?uo=4&ref=birchtree.me). If you're not, [now's a great time to give it a look](https://quickreads.app/?ref=birchtree.me).