No willpower required
Read first.
Unlock everything else.
Instagram, TikTok, X — they don’t open until you’ve read your pages. The app does the willpower for you.
Stage 01·Zombie
This is what happens when doom scrolling takes over.
The honest part
We’ve all
tried willpower.
It didn’t work. Not because you’re weak — because there are entire teams paid to defeat your willpower.
Average daily phone time, ages 18–34
The average person spends more time scrolling than they spend with the people they love. Most have a book they’ve been meaning to finish for months.
“This is your brain right now.”
— honest, not cruel.
How it works
Three steps. Then you stop thinking about it.
- 01
Set your goal.
Pages or minutes. We start you small, on purpose — day one should feel like a win, not a chore.
- 02
Choose what to lock.
Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube — whichever ones own your day. They stay locked until your reading is done.
InstagramTikTokXYouTube - 03
Read. Then scroll, if you still want to.
Most days, you won't. The first page is the hardest part — once you turn it, the rest follows. So does your evening.
Meet your brain
A character who’s honest about who you’re becoming.
Five states. Driven by what you actually do — not what you tap. The brain grows when you read, fades when you scroll. Drag through the stages.
Zombie
Heavy scrolling, barely reading
“This is what happens when doom scrolling takes over.”
The brain mascot reflects your reading-to-scrolling ratio over rolling weeks. There’s no streak shaming, no red rings. Just a quiet companion who tells you the truth.
What’s inside
The reading tools you’d buy separately, in one app.
Books, audio, translation, summaries, a brain that grows — the parts most apps charge for individually, built around the one rule that makes them stick.
Listen mode
Audiobooks for every book you own.
Natural-sounding narration in 6 languages. Real lock-screen controls. Speed 0.5×–2×. Download a voice once — then it plays on a plane, in a tunnel, with cellular off.
Meditations · Chapter 2
English (f) · 1.0× · offline
Chapter summaries
Catch up without re-reading.
A takeaway card with the three things that mattered. For when you put a book down for a week and didn’t mean to.
Takeaway · Chapter 2
The dichotomy of control.
- Stoicism begins with the dichotomy of control.
- Suffering comes from confusing the two.
- Practice indifference to externals.
Inline translation
Tap a word. Get the meaning.
50+ languages. Fully offline — the translation runs on your phone, not a server. Nothing about what you read leaves the device.
Le bonheur, c’est le plaisir de l’âme.
pleasure
a feeling of happy satisfaction
Offline. On-device. No tracking.
In-app reader
Distraction-free, page by page.
EPUB and PDF. Four themes, four fonts, full-text search across every book. A reader that respects the page.
Chapter II
Of the Things which are in our Power
Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions.
Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.
Quote extraction
The lines worth keeping.
On-device AI quietly surfaces the most meaningful sentences in every chapter. Private. No servers. No data sold.
The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
And so the days pass, the chapters fold quietly into one another.
Saved to your quote library · Meditations
Spark
5-minute reads when a chapter is too much.
Curated micro-articles in 8 categories. Counts toward your goal. Learns what you save.
Curated library
10 classics, free from day one.
Marcus Aurelius. Hesse. Gibran. The books worth your first hour. Plus your own EPUBs and PDFs.
Built for global readers
50+ languages for reading. 6 for audio.
Quote extraction, translation, and progress tracking work in any of 50+ languages. Audiobook narration ships in 6 today — English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese — with more on the roadmap.
Reading & translation · 50+ languages
Audiobook narration · 6 languages, offline
Other languages (Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese & more): reading + translation today. Narration on the roadmap.
And also
- Streak freeze · Today + yesterday count as active. One freeze per week.
- Brain mascot · Zombie → Foggy → Natural → Sharp → Radiant prestige.
- Home-screen widget · A daily quote that rotates at midnight. Three sizes.
- Lock-screen quotes · Every glance, a reminder of what you’re reading.
- Reading stats · Speed, time of day, longest streak, books finished.
- Cloud sync · Phone, tablet, your library — they follow you.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
Extracted automatically · from your library
Your first page starts now.
Download FirstPage. Pick a book. Read your pages. The rest of your phone unlocks — and so does the part of you that wanted to read in the first place.