On the App Store since 2010
Still eyes. Fast words.
Flash Reader shows text one word at a time, always in the same place, so your eyes stay still and the words come to you.
Paste text, share a page or a link from another app, or open a file. Flash Reader turns it into a clean read and keeps your place in every document.
Designed for iPhone Duo. Open the phone, and the words flash on one half with the text around them on the other. Close it, and you carry on where you were.
You are reading one word at a time. Your eyes have not moved since the first one. Every word lands in the same spot, with one letter marked under the two small ticks, so your eyes can rest there and let the words come to them.
On a page, your eyes do a lot of quiet work. They jump from word to word, land a little early or a little late, and sometimes slip back to check a line they already passed. Here that work is gone. The words do the moving, and you do the reading.
Notice the small pauses. A comma holds a word a beat longer, and the end of a sentence holds it longer still. A new paragraph leaves the stage empty for a moment, like a breath. Short words like "the" and "of" pass quickly, because you hardly need to see them.
If this feels slow, try a faster speed below. If it feels fast, tap to pause. You set the pace, and the words wait for you.
That is all there is to it. One word, one place, and your eyes at rest.
Version 4 is on its way.
An email when Flash Reader 4 ships, then a short note with each update worth knowing about. A few emails a year, never more than one a month.
We keep your address in Buttondown, the service that sends the emails, and nowhere else. No tracking in the emails, and every one has an unsubscribe link.
Flash Reader 4 is coming to the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo. The date goes up here first.