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Stillpoint
The calm, private speed reader for PDFs and EPUBs. Everything runs in your browser and your files never leave your device. Works offline as a PWA, no account, free with an optional tip jar.
You still think of yourself as a reader. The unread pile says otherwise. The problem usually isn't time. Your eyes jump ahead and dart back until you've read the same paragraph four times, and the book goes back on the pile.
Stillpoint holds every word at one still point instead. Drop in a PDF or EPUB and the words come to you, one at a time or in short phrases, aligned so the letter your eye locks onto never moves. After a minute it feels less like reading and more like listening.
What you actually get:
- Privacy you can verify. There is no server. Parsing, library, highlights and reading positions all live in your browser. Open the network tab and watch: your files never leave the device. The code is open source under MIT on GitHub.
- Documents that survive the stream. Tables, images, figures and code are parsed as structure and shown as the real thing, not read out as word soup.
- A reader built for finishing. No 3ร claims. Most people settle around 400 to 600 wpm. Dense sentences slow down by themselves, the stream backs up five words whenever you unpause, and progress is chapter-scoped like an audiobook: minutes left in this chapter, not a 17-hour countdown.
- Zero commitment. No account, no upload, no install. Works offline as a PWA after the first visit. Free forever, funded by a tip jar and an optional $29 lifetime patron badge with cosmetic themes.
Honest limits: scanned image-only PDFs need OCR and there is none yet, and DRM'd EPUBs won't open.
If there's a PDF you've been avoiding, feed it this.
