Clear your reading backlog
Drop in that pile of saved books and finally finish them at 400 to 700 words per minute.
Focal is a speed reader built on RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation). It streams one word at a time and pins your eye to the optimal recognition point, so you stop subvocalizing and start flying. Books, PDFs, pasted articles, even your dev sessions.
This is the real engine. Drop in a book and it looks exactly like this.
RSVP streams text through a single fixed point so your eyes stop hunting across lines. Here is who it is for.
Drop in that pile of saved books and finally finish them at 400 to 700 words per minute.
Import a paper, skim the dense sections fast, then slow down where it counts.
Paste any longform piece and burn through it before the tab pile grows again.
Turn a coding session or git diff into a color-tagged brief you can read in a minute.
Thousands of free, public-domain titles in the Free Library, one tap to start.
Bionic bolding and a calm, distraction-free frame keep your attention locked in.
A reader that respects your hands, your eyes, and your time.
Hit Cmd K to jump to any book, tab, or action without leaving the keyboard.
Real words-per-minute and daily streaks that quietly keep you honest.
Mark a passage mid-stream, find it later.
Save speed and style combos for each kind of read.
Install it. Read on a plane. No connection needed.
See the whole document at a glance and scrub to any point in a single drag.
A calm dark default, a clean light mode, and an accent color you choose.
Turn a coding session or a git diff into a speed-readable, color-tagged brief. Works inline with Claude Code: run /digest to summarize a session or /diff to capture working-tree changes, then read the result here at full pace.
MIT licensed and local-first. No account, no tracking, no upsell, and no backend to run. Your library lives on your device, and the whole app is one HTML file you can audit in an afternoon.