Vellum — Read PDFs and web articles in one place

One reading workspace

The page, the context, and your thinking stay together.

Vellum gives PDFs and web pages the same reading tools, so your workflow does not change when the format does.

A research paper open in Vellum beside the optional AI assistant

Read and understand

Go beyond the page you can see.

Read PDFs, articles, and blogs in tabs or split panes. Search the full document, keep your place, and use an AI model you choose when a dense section needs another pass.

Full-document search and page navigation
Optional document-aware AI with source context
AI-created highlights and notes you can inspect
Multiple documents open side by side

A research paper open beside its per-document Scratchpad in Vellum

Mark and remember

Your notes live beside what inspired them.

Highlight passages, add sticky notes, bookmark a position, or build a longer set of ideas in the Scratchpad. Every document gets its own Markdown notebook with LaTeX and image support.

Highlights and notes across PDFs and webpages
Portable PDF annotations
Per-document Scratchpad with Markdown and LaTeX
Region snapshots and image attachments

Save the web

Keep offline copies of articles and blogs for distraction-free reading.

Find anything again

Search titles, filenames, and web addresses from one library.

Bring your reading list

Open saved reads from Readwise Reader and Raindrop inside Vellum.

Pick up where you left off

Resume recent reading with your last position and document context intact.

Available now

Built for long reads on Mac.

Download the full Vellum reading workspace today, or join the beta for the universal iPhone and iPad app.

macOS Download .dmg

iPhone & iPad

Vellum for Mac

Make room for reading.

Download Vellum

Open the downloaded .dmg, drag Vellum into Applications, then open it from there.