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slowreading.blog · 12 min left

The Case for Reading Slowly

We skim more than ever, and remember less. The fix isn't reading more; it's returning to what mattered. A single sentence, revisited a week later, does more work than a hundred skimmed.

Attention is the only thing we truly spend. Where it goes, our lives follow. The tools we read with should protect it, not compete for it.

✈︎ Offline · 214 articles on this device

Pocket shut down. Omnivore shut down. The ones left charge $10 a month or more. This one is $39 a year, and your library is always yours to keep.

Reads offline. Properly.

Everything in your Inbox and Later is stored on your phone or laptop: the text, your highlights, even the images. Read a whole flight's worth with no Wi‑Fi. Highlights and notes you make offline sync when you land.

Save from anywhere

One click in Chrome (or Alt+Shift+S) saves the page as you see it, so articles you're logged into and paywalled pieces you pay for come through intact. On Android, just Share → Save to Quietly.

Highlights you'll actually see again

Pick yellow, green, blue, pink or purple. Add a note. Then choose 1 to 20 highlights a day or a week to land in your inbox, starting with the ones you haven't seen in the longest time.

Bring your whole library

Import from Readwise Reader with your Inbox, Later, Archive, tags, full text and highlights intact. Pull in Kindle and Apple Books highlights through Readwise, or drop in your Kindle My Clippings.txt. Re‑run it any time; nothing duplicates.

Made for reading

A clean serif page, adjustable text size, and light, dark and sepia themes. Swipe to archive on your phone. On a big screen, a quiet sidebar and nothing else.

Every device, one library

Install it on iPhone, Android, Mac or Windows straight from the browser. No app store, no waiting for updates. Sign in with Google or an email address.

The part people love

Your highlights, back in your inbox

Most highlights are never seen again. Quietly picks a handful each morning or each week, oldest‑seen first, and sends them at the hour you choose. Star one, tag it, or open the article right from the email.

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One simple plan with everything included. No premium tier, no upsells, no limit on what you save.

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Unlimited saved articles
Offline reading on every device
Highlights, notes and highlight emails
Readwise and Kindle import
Chrome extension
Every new feature as it ships

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Want more flexibility? Pay $5/month instead and cancel anytime.

A typical read‑later subscription

~$120 every year

Three times the price
Your library disappears if you stop paying
…or if the company shuts down

Questions

What do I get for $39 a year?

Everything on this page. There's no “premium tier” and no limit on how much you save. If you'd rather not commit to a year, there's a $5/month plan you can cancel anytime.

What happens if I stop paying?

Your library stays yours. You can still open, read, search and export everything you saved; only new saves, highlights and highlight emails pause. Resubscribe whenever you like and you pick up where you left off.

What happens if you stop running it?

Quietly can be self‑hosted: it runs on standard, inexpensive services, and the setup is documented. Your library isn't stuck on someone else's servers with nowhere to go.

I'm leaving Pocket, Omnivore, Instapaper or Readwise. Can I bring my stuff?

Yes, all of it. Download the export from the app you're leaving and drop it in. Quietly works out where it came from.

Pocket: your saved articles and highlights.
Omnivore: articles with their full text, labels and highlights.
Instapaper: articles with their folders and tags.
Readwise Reader: connect your account and your Inbox, Later, Archive, tags, full text and highlights come across as they were.
Kindle and Apple Books: highlights through Readwise, or straight from your Kindle's My Clippings.txt.

You can import again later without creating duplicates.

Does it work on iPhone?

Yes. Open it in Safari and choose Share → Add to Home Screen. It then opens like an app and keeps your articles available offline.

What if it's not for me?

You get a full refund within 7 days of buying, no questions asked. with the email you used at checkout. The money goes back to your original payment method; banks usually take 5–10 business days to show it. After 7 days purchases are final, except where your local law says otherwise. Before asking, you can download everything you saved from Settings → Export.

Your reading, finally in one calm place.