[PDF]
Papers before the meeting
Drop the PDF in, take the abstract at full tilt, drop to half speed for the method section. You walk in having actually read it.
read it in a flick
Read 2–3× faster,one word at a time.
flick plays your reading one word at a time, each word anchored on its pivot letter — so your eyes stop crawling across lines and the text comes to you. Open source, self-hostable, free to read.
how it works↓paste anythingPDFEPUBTXTMarkdownweb articlesKindle clippingscloud links
How it works
Your eye stays still.
The text moves instead.
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One word at a time
Instead of lines to scan, flick deals your text out word by word in one fixed spot. No skimming ahead, no losing your place, no re-reading the same sentence three times.
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Anchored on the pivot letter
Every word lands with its optimal recognition point — the pivot letter, in the accent color — on the same vertical line. Your eye locks onto it and simply never has to move again.
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Push the pace
Raise the speed until words just start to break apart, then back off a notch. That's your pace — and it climbs with practice. Most readers settle 2–3× above where they started.
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every pivot letter, one vertical line
the anchor demo — live, at 380 wpm
Use cases
Where the minutes come back.
flick reads whatever you feed it — paste, PDF, EPUB, TXT, Markdown, a URL, Kindle clippings, a cloud link. Here is where that actually matters.
[URL]
The read-later pile
Forty open tabs, three newsletters, one guilty folder. Paste a link, flick through it, close the tab for good.
[EPUB]
Books, finally finished
A steady 450 wpm turns a 90,000-word novel into a week of lunch breaks. Your place carries across every device.
[DOCS]
Reports without the dread
The 34-page quarterly lands at 9:12, standup is at 9:30. Feed it in at 600 and be the one who read it.
[STUDY]
Revision on repeat
Second pass at half again the speed, third pass faster still. Repetition stops being a chore when a chapter takes eleven minutes.
[PHONE]
The commute
One thumb, one word, standing on a train. The phone client picks up exactly where your desk left off.
The numbers
Honest arithmetic.
238wpm — the average adult reader*
700wpm — the demo at the top of this page
0eye movements per line, down from ~8
8ways to get text in, from paste to cloud link
No skipped words, no skimming tricks — every word is shown, just without the round trip your eyes make at the end of each line. 2–3× is what practiced RSVP readers comfortably hold with full comprehension.*Brysbaert (2019), meta-analysis of 190 reading studies.
Plans
Free to read. Pro to go deeper.
What's free stays free. Pro exists to fund an indie open-source project — it is not a paywall, and the reader will never move behind one.
Free
€0 forever
- The whole reader — every speed, every theme
- Web, phone, and the browser extension
- Every import: paste, PDF, EPUB, TXT, Markdown, URLs, Kindle clippings, cloud links
- Share links to anything you read
- 15 uploads a week, uncapped storage
- Streaks, goals, stats, your yearly Wrapped, the friends scoreboard
- 90 days of reading history
Pro supports the project
€4/month — or €36 a year
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited uploads
- Reading history that never expires
- Deep server-side reading insights soon
- Keeps the servers on and the project moving
The last word
Your reading listdoesn't stand a chance.
free · no card · open source (AGPL)