Web links, bound into a book.
Drop in a pile of links, choose PDF, EPUB or HTML, and Broadsheet reads each page and sets the articles as one well-made book: a contents page, columns, notes and pictures. Reading for a seminar, a trip or a slow Sunday, in one place.
- How to Do Great Workpaulgraham.com · 51 min
- The Scaling Hypothesisgwern.net · 55 min
- Movable typeWikipedia · 21 min
- What John Goodman Knows About FearThe New Yorker · 22 min
- Your Book Review: Storm of SteelAstral Codex Ten · 32 min
- Software 2.0Medium · reading…
Links in, a book out.
Broadsheet keeps the writing and drops the rest of the page, then typesets it the way a literary review would: in columns, with a contents page that is also the cover.
Links from anywhere
Paste or drop links from any app, Apple Notes' link previews included. Or import a bookmarks file exported from Safari, Chrome or Firefox, a Pocket or Instapaper export, or pick articles from a site's feed.
A book, properly set
A PDF in two columns, or one column like a book, on A4, US Letter or A5. Running heads, footnotes, pictures, and the web links listed as notes, since paper can't be clicked. Six typefaces.
PDF, EPUB or HTML
The PDF to print or read on a tablet. An EPUB for Apple Books, Kobo or Send to Kindle, with footnotes as pop-ups. Or one self-contained web page that opens in any browser, even offline.
See the book as you go
The book appears beside your list as the articles are read, typeset as it will be printed, and changes as you reorder, retitle or change a setting. Click an article to see it there.
Your own subscriptions
Sign in to a site once in Broadsheet, or use Broadsheet for Chrome, a free extension that sends pages to the app as Chrome shows them, with your own sign-ins. Broadsheet never gets around a paywall.
In many languages
Arabic and Hebrew are set right to left, Chinese and Japanese read cleanly, and share buttons, "most read" lists and other page furniture are recognised by what they are, not by their words.
How it works
One window, three steps.
Drop in links
Paste them (⌘V), drag them onto the window, or type them in. Broadsheet reads each page as it arrives. A page that wasn't an article, or that's only a subscriber's preview, is marked so you can see it before it goes in.
Choose a format
PDF, EPUB or HTML, at the bottom of the window. Give the book a title if you like; otherwise it's dated. Layout, paper, typeface and pictures are in the options beside it.
Make it
Click Make, choose where to save, and the book opens: the PDF in Preview, the EPUB in Books. Save the packet of links as a .broadsheet file to bind it again later.
Private by design
There is no Broadsheet account and no Broadsheet server. Pages are fetched straight from their sites to your Mac and made into a book there. Nothing is uploaded, to me or to anyone.
- No accounts, no sign-up
- No analytics, tracking or ads
- Pages come straight from their sites
- Your sign-ins stay in the app, on your Mac
- The Chrome extension talks only to the app on your Mac
- Sandboxed, native Swift app
Requirements
- macOS 14 Sonoma or later
- An internet connection, to read the pages
- For articles behind a sign-in: your own account or subscription with that site
- Optional: Google Chrome, for Broadsheet for Chrome (free, from the Chrome Web Store)
Questions? See Support & FAQ.
