A quiet reading app for long-form writing
An experiment in subtraction — what reading looks like with nothing in the way.
One column. One column is the whole product.
Most reading apps spend their best ideas on chrome. This one spends them on typography.
The brief was simple: build a place to read long-form writing without anything asking for attention. No tabs, no sidebars, no widgets, no engagement metrics. Just a single column of text, set in a comfortable measure, with a little bit of room to breathe at the edges.
What's in it
Three font choices. A toggle for serif or sans. A line-length slider. A reading progress dot in the corner. That's the entire interface — and most of it is hidden until you hover.
What's not in it
No accounts. No social anything. No "for you" feed. No annotations. No highlighting that follows you around. The whole point is that you read the thing, close the tab, and get on with your day.
Where it's going
The next version adds a small import panel — paste a URL, get a clean reading view. After that, probably nothing. The whole risk of a project like this is that you keep adding to it past the point where it was already good.
Next