Top 10: Speed-reading apps
October 17, 2024 | Author: Maria Lin
These apps use various techniques such as rapid serial visual presentation, chunking, and guided exercises to help users enhance their reading speed. Some of the most popular speed-reading apps are listed below.
See also: Top 10 eBook Readers
See also: Top 10 eBook Readers
2023. Top 5 speed-reading apps for Android and iPhone

Speed-reading apps have, in a bafflingly inexplicable way, gained popularity in today’s world, which, as we all know, is hurtling through space at ludicrous speeds while we humans scurry around trying to do more things faster, as if we weren’t already spinning fast enough. These apps, the digital equivalent of asking your eyes to hurry up and catch the bus, claim to help you read faster and comprehend more, all in the increasingly shrinking span of time we now like to call “a day.” For those brave souls willing to challenge the laws of both optics and comprehension, here are five speed-reading apps that promise to make reading feel less like reading and more like a brisk jog through words. ***
2023. Outread 2.0 adds speed-reading assistant

In a galaxy not so far away, where the words on a page often feel like they’re plotting an escape, Outread has returned triumphantly with the dazzling spectacle of Outread 2.0. This isn’t just an update—it’s a full-blown, hyper-intelligent re-engineering designed to take humanity’s reading skills to warp speed. Now featuring a continuous reading assistant that cleverly highlights words needing extra attention (because some words, frankly, are divas) and scrolls text automatically, it creates a hands-free reading utopia. The new Reading Speed Test not only calculates your reading velocity with ruthless efficiency but also quizzes you to ensure you haven’t been pretending to read like a Vogon poet avoiding his own work. Add to that an uncanny ability to tag content automatically, seamless integration with Shortcuts via the App Intents framework, and a revamped design that’s so intuitive it might actually be telepathic. All in all, Outread 2.0 is not just a tool—it’s an interstellar leap for readers everywhere.
2023. Speed-reading app Spreeder adds tags

Picture this: Spreeder, that delightfully clever tool for the reading-obsessed, has unleashed a shiny new gadgetry called Spreeder Tags. Imagine Gmail’s labels but for books—a tidy little system that lets you slap tags on your reading stash so you can summon them later without wading through a digital jungle. Whether you’re cataloging your epic fantasy sagas or the grimly professional "how-to-conquer-the-world" guides, Spreeder Tags is your trusty sorting wizard. And as if that weren’t enough to make you break into a delighted grin, the updated interface now paints your books in colors matching their categories—turning your library into a cheerful rainbow of literary efficiency. Forget tedious manual sorting; with Spreeder, it's all about a dazzlingly intuitive, tag-powered adventure!
2022. Bionic Reading - reading app that your eyes will love

Bionic Reading is a mobile application (for iOS and Android) that alters texts by emphasizing the most crucial parts of the words. This technique directs the eye across the text, helping the brain retain and process the words more swiftly. They provide an online tool that allows you to upload a book, which will then automatically transform the standard font into bionic reading format. The apps enable you to upload text, files, or even online articles from a website, which are then automatically converted to a bionic reading format. Users can download the book as an EPUB or PDF to their PC or MAC. The files can be sideloaded to your preferred e-reader using Windows Explorer, Apple File Manager, or third-party tools such as Sigil or Calibre. The app also includes Send to Kindle functionality, allowing you to wirelessly transfer the bionic reading book directly to your Kindle e-reader.
2015. Spritz - speed-reading app that wants to change the way people read
Spritz, with the boundless ambition of a small fish attempting to swim through molasses, seeks nothing less than to utterly redefine how we read and communicate—because why should words be so inconveniently scattered across a page? Using its almost suspiciously clever redicle technology, it delivers text one word at a time, zeroing in on the "Optimal Recognition Point" (a letter so smugly important you can’t look away) to keep your eyes glued and your reading streamlined, even in those horribly cramped spaces like elevators or existential crises. As if that weren’t enough, this little marvel can slip seamlessly into photos, maps, videos, and websites, transforming every medium into a more effective tool for transmitting human brilliance (or at least headlines). And with its alliances forged in the digital trenches of news sites, Spritz lets you gobble up global events faster than a Vogon demolishes a perfectly good planet, all while somehow making you smarter in the process.
2014. Oyster Teams up With Spritz to Bring Faster Reading Experience

Ebook subscription service Oyster and text streaming startup Spritz have joined forces to deliver a reading experience like never before. With growing enthusiasm around Spritz’s capabilities, Oyster is excited to offer the first platform where the public can read a full-length, in-copyright book using Spritz’s speed-reading technology. Available at OysterBooks.com/Spritz, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”—the acclaimed business book by Stephen Covey with over 20 million copies sold to date—is available for free reading with Spritz technology. The 432 print pages of the book can be completed in under 2 hours. This initiative represents a pioneering collaboration and Oyster and Spritz are eager to receive feedback from users about the experience. They will review the response and consider introducing additional full-length, in-copyright books to the public together in the future.