Our Readable story
Readable is a collection of tools for improving the quality of your writing.
We believe there is a clearer, smarter and better way to write. A way that helps your readers easily understand what you are trying to say.
With unrivalled readability scoring, we help marketers, authors, lawyers, and anyone else with a passion for writing.
Dave Child
Founder
Dave is the founder of Readable and has been building websites since the early 90s. He’s one of those fortunate people who gets to do what he loves for a living.
Laura Kelly
Marketing Executive
Laura is a Marketing Executive at Readable, with an academic background in English language and literature. She loves coffee, poetry, weightlifting and film photography.
Natasha Horrelt
Customer Success Champion
Natasha is a Canadian journalist turned communications specialist who loves solving problems and helping people. As Readable’s Customer Success Champion, Natasha is excited to combine her love of writing with her love of customer service. Traveling, classical singing and strong cups of coffee top her list of favourite things.
Ruth Colmer
Researcher and writer
Ruth is a freelance writer, researcher, and lecturer. She likes reading, cooking, writing stories, travel, and human beings.
2015
Readability-score.com was born
After discovering Rudolf Flesch's Reading Ease, Readable founder, Dave Child, was inspired. He began to develop a tool for measuring readability online, at Readability-score.com.
Our first customers
Before long this new tool was attracting attention and usage grew. Dave enhanced the offering by adding the Gunning Fog grade level algorithm and the first few paid features.
2016
Moved to readable.io
After realising – far too late – that readability-score.com was ironically hard to read, we moved home and said hello to the much easier to spell readable.io.
The team begins to grow
Dave welcomed Ruth Colmer to the Readable team as a freelance writer and researcher.
2017
Reporting comes of age
Printable readability reports added, giving users clearer results and actions to work on. The Readable community continued to grow, at pace.
2018
Steve joins the team
Steve Linney joins Readable as the Chief Marketing Officer.
ReadablePro goes live
Offering a full array of readability tools. ReadablePro is the world’s most advanced readability service.
Quickly, easily and effectively measure your writing. From one page blogs, through to product laden online stores, and complicated terms and conditions. ReadablePro has you covered.
Laura joins the team
Laura Kelly joins Readable as our Customer Success Champion.
2019
Moved to readable.com
In what we hope is the last time we change our domain, we moved to readable.com.
