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Everything in Pro, plus the Synthesis briefing, custom tone & focus, and up to 8 schedules

What Max adds

Max is Pro with three extra controls over how your digests read. You keep everything Pro already does — the same sources, the same nine languages, your own Readless email — and unlock three things on top:

  • The Synthesis briefing — one merged brief instead of a summary per newsletter.
  • Custom tone & focus — plain-language instructions that steer every digest on a schedule.
  • Up to 8 digest schedules — instead of the 3 you get on Pro.

Max is $9/month, which is $4.10 more than Pro. Everything below is set on a schedule, so you can run one Synthesis briefing and keep your other schedules exactly as they are.

The Synthesis briefing

Concise and Detailed both give you a summary per newsletter — one block for each sender. Synthesis works differently. It reads everything from all your newsletters, finds the threads running across them, and writes one briefing organized by theme, with links back to each source.

So if three newsletters cover the same story, you read it once, written as a single narrative, instead of three times in three separate summaries. It's the right pick when your senders overlap a lot and you want the big picture rather than a sender-by-sender rundown.

Summary style picker showing Concise, Detailed, and the Synthesis option with a MAX badge selected
Pick Synthesis as the summary style on any schedule's form

You choose Synthesis the same way you choose Concise or Detailed — it's a summary style on the schedule form, set per schedule.

Custom tone & focus

Under the style picker, Max adds a Customize tone & focus field. Write plain-language instructions and Readless applies them to every digest on that schedule, layered on top of whichever style you picked. A few examples:

  • “Lead with the most important takeaways.”
  • “Skip promotions, ads, and job postings.”
  • “Explain any jargon in plain language.”
The Customize tone and focus panel with a text box and three example instruction chips
Instructions apply to every digest on the schedule — you can write up to 2,000 characters
MAX

Synthesis and custom instructions are Max features

On Pro, both appear on the schedule form but stay locked, with a prompt to upgrade. Set them once on Max and they keep working on that schedule.

The schedule form on a Pro account showing the Synthesis card locked and a Custom summary instructions upgrade row
How the style picker looks on Pro — Synthesis and custom instructions show an Upgrade to Max prompt

Up to 8 digest schedules

Pro gives you 3 schedules; Max raises that to 8. Each schedule is its own briefing with its own cadence, style, and sources, so more schedules means you can split contexts apart — work in one, personal in another, a weekly deep read in a third — instead of squeezing everything into three buckets. See Digest Schedules for how routing works.

Switching to Max

Open the Subscription tab in your dashboard and use Upgrade to Max. The change takes effect right away and your first bill is prorated for the rest of the current period. The same tab has a full Pro-versus-Max comparison if you want to check what changes first.

Subscription tab comparing the Pro and Max plans with an Upgrade to Max button
Upgrade from the Subscription tab — the Pro and Max columns sit side by side

Switching back to Pro

A downgrade takes effect at the end of your billing period. If a schedule still uses Synthesis or custom instructions after that, its digests fall back to the Detailed style — the settings aren't deleted, so upgrading again restores them exactly as they were.

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