The plain version.

FirstPage locks selected social media apps on your phone until you’ve completed a daily reading goal. You set the goal. You pick the apps. The mechanic is the product.

The app also includes a reader for EPUBs and PDFs you bring in, a curated library of public-domain books, Listen mode (an on-device voice that reads books aloud), tap-to-translate, and optional manual cloud backup of your library and progress.

You need an email to use FirstPage — either directly or via Sign in with Google. You’re responsible for keeping that account under your control. If someone else gets into it, that’s on you — let us know and we’ll help you recover it.

You get 7 days free to try the paid features. After that, the subscription auto-renews on the schedule you picked — monthly or yearly — until you cancel.

Payments go through the App Store or Google Play, with RevenueCat relaying the receipt to us so the app knows whether your subscription is active. To cancel, manage subscriptions in the App Store or Google Play settings — not in FirstPage. Refunds are handled by them too.

The free tier stays free, with the core mechanic and a small curated library.

By default everything you do in the app stays on your phone. If you tap Sync now in settings, a copy of your library, reading progress, and saved quotes is uploaded to your account so you can restore it on another device. Sync only runs when you tap it. We don’t guarantee that synced data will be retained forever — treat it as convenience, not as a backup of last resort.

• Reverse engineer the app, decompile it, or strip the lock mechanism.
• Share your account with anyone else.
• Import content you don’t have the right to use, or use the Listen / translate features on content you don’t have the right to.
• Use FirstPage in a way that breaks the law in your country.

These are the standard “don’t be a bad actor” rules. We mean them.

The FirstPage app, brand, mascot, and code are ours. The books in our curated library are public domain or licensed; the original authors and translators own those. The on-device voices used in Listen mode are licensed from their respective creators under open-source terms.

The content you create — saved quotes, reading notes, imported books — is yours. We don’t claim a license to it.

FirstPage is provided as-is. We work hard to make it reliable, but we can’t guarantee:

• That the lock mechanism is uncircumventable. Phones change, operating systems update, and some workarounds are outside our control.
• That you’ll read more, finish more books, or change your habits. We built it to make that easier — the rest is up to you.
• That Listen mode will be word-perfect, that translations will always be accurate, or that on-device models won’t occasionally surprise you. These are best-effort features.
• That the service will be uninterrupted. We’ll fix outages quickly; we can’t promise zero.

If something goes wrong, our maximum liability to you is whatever you’ve paid us in the last 12 months. We’re not liable for indirect damages — lost productivity, missed reading goals, and so on.

We may update these terms occasionally. If anything material changes, we’ll notify you by email at least 30 days before the change takes effect.

You can stop using FirstPage and cancel your subscription anytime through the App Store or Google Play. We can suspend or end your account if you violate these terms — we’ll tell you why if we do.

Questions — hello@tryfirstpage.app.