The reading app blocker for Android
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Saved to your quotes
“The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.”
Meditations · Marcus Aurelius
How it works
Three steps.
Meet your brain
A brain that grows as you read.
Five states, driven by what you actually do, not what you tap. The brain grows when you read, fades when you scroll. Tap through the stages, or poke it.
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
Everything in the app.
A full reader, audiobooks, translation, quotes and more, all included.
A clean reader for EPUB and PDF.
Real pages, book typography and nothing in the margins. Bring your own EPUB or PDF, or pick a classic. Tap any word or line you don't know and get the meaning in place.
- EPUB and PDF, with full-text search across every book
- Four reading themes and four typefaces
- Translate a word or a whole passage into 50+ languages
- Highlights in five colors, plus your own notes
English → Español
The whole book, in place
Stuck on a line? Ask the book.
Select any passage and tap Explain for a plain-language version. Lost track of a name? Tap Who for a reminder built only from the pages you've already read, so nothing ahead gets spoiled. And when a line sparks a thought, pin a note to it.
- Explain: any passage, in plain words
- Who: spoiler-free character reminders (Pro)
- Notes on any passage, gathered in Kept
Explain simply
those sins are greater which are committed through lust, than those which are committed through anger
Marcus says giving in to pleasure is worse than losing your temper. Anger at least starts with being hurt. Indulgence is a choice you make on your own.
Based on what you’ve read so far
Who is this
Theophrastus
A philosopher Marcus quotes here. He compares wrongs done in anger with wrongs done for pleasure, and calls the second worse.
Based on what you’ve read so far
Note on this passage
Anger or indulgence. Ask which one I’m choosing tonight.
Every book you own is also an audiobook.
Natural-sounding narration in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. The page follows the voice word by word, and turns itself when the voice does.
- Word-by-word highlighting that keeps your place
- 0.5× to 2× speed, with lock-screen controls
- Download a voice once, then listen on a plane
Voices
Save the best lines automatically.
As you read, FirstPage picks out the sentences that stay with people and files them next to your own highlights. All of it happens on your phone, so your books never leave it.
- On-device AI finds the best lines in every chapter
- Quotes, words, notes and sparks in one place
- Private by design. Nothing is uploaded to find them
Widget · Today’s quote
“All men are made one for another: either then teach them better, or bear with them.”
Meditations
Short reads and chapter summaries.
Spark is a short read on psychology, history, science or ideas, around five minutes long, and it counts toward your goal. Back after a week away? A chapter summary gives you the key ideas so you can pick up where you left off.
- Five-minute reads in 8 categories that count toward today
- The feed learns from what you save
- Chapter takeaways: 3 to 5 key ideas, when you want them
Takeaways · Book II
Where you left off
- Expect difficult people each morning, and meet them without anger.
- We are made to work together, like hands and feet.
- Your time is short. Spend it on what is yours to govern.
Thousands of classics. Plus your own books.
Browse the public-domain canon inside the app, from Austen to Dostoevsky, and start reading in a tap. Or bring the EPUBs and PDFs you already own.
- Search and browse by genre, with editor's picks
- Import EPUB and PDF files straight from your phone
- Queue up what's next, so there's always a book waiting
Sort your books into folders.
Tap Manage, pick a few books and drop them into a folder. Group them by mood, by season or by the friend who recommended them. Each folder gets a little shelf of its own, and you can share it as an image.
- Select several books at once and add them to a folder
- Drag to reorder. The top four make the folder's cover
- Share any folder as a shelf image
Share your shelf as an image.
Turn your finished books, a folder, your Up next or your whole library into one image worth posting. Arrange the books across shelves, add a plant or a candle, and share it as a Story or a square.
- Share finished books, a folder, or your whole shelf
- Drag-to-arrange books and cozy decor
- Finished shelves show pages read, reading time and ratings
Track reading against scrolling.
FirstPage puts your reading next to your scrolling, day by day, so you can watch one grow as the other shrinks. It also counts every time the lock caught you reaching for an app.
- Reading against scrolling, by week, month and year
- When in the day you read, and when you scroll
- How many times the lock stepped in, app by app
More features
Give me more time
A few short passes a day for when you really need an app. The lock counts them.
Streak freeze
One a week. A missed day doesn't wipe out a month of work.
Reading windows
Split the day into a morning and an evening goal, each tracked on its own.
Words
Save the words you look up and hear them pronounced.
Home-screen widgets
Your book, today's progress and a daily quote, in three sizes.
Cloud sync
Your library, quotes and progress follow you to a new phone.
On a tablet
Two pages open, and they turn like paper.
On a tablet the book opens as a spread. Grab a corner and the page bends where you hold it, illustrations and all.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, chapter VI, with Arthur Rackham’s 1907 plates.
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.