06 / 07SPEED READING · iOS & ANDROIDComing soon
Lexipace
A speed-reading app: import a PDF, EPUB, web article or pasted text and read it word by word (RSVP) at your own pace. Built for students and exam preparation.
- What we did
- Product design
- iOS & Android app
- PDF / EPUB / web import
- Subscriptions
- Technologies
- React NativeZustandRevenueCatSentryFastifyRender
- Type
- Mobile app · Our own product
01About the project
The brief
Students and people preparing for exams read a lot, and that text is scattered across PDFs, EPUBs, web articles and copied notes. They needed a simple app that takes text from any of those sources and makes faster, more focused reading possible.
Our approach
Lexipace imports the text and shows it one word at a time at a fixed focus point (RSVP), so your eyes no longer travel along the lines. The reading rhythm adjusts to punctuation and word length. No account is needed and documents stay on the device.
02Key features
- 01
Import from any source
PDF, EPUB, a web link or pasted text. PDF text is extracted on the device by a native module we built, EPUBs are unpacked on the device, and from a web page only the article text is kept.
- 02
Word-by-word reading
The text flows one word at a time at your chosen words per minute; pause whenever you like and carry on where you left off.
- 03
A natural rhythm
Punctuation and paragraph ends get a short pause, and long words stay on screen a little longer. You set how strong those pauses are.
- 04
Focus letter and look
Each word's focus letter is highlighted in a colour of your choice. Background, text size, guide lines and fonts, including the dyslexia-friendly OpenDyslexic, can all be changed.
- 05
Library and progress
Documents live in a library on your device, and your progress is saved for each one.
- 06
One plan: Pro
No complicated tiers, just Pro. No sign-in is needed; purchases are linked anonymously.
03Screens
04Technology
Interface
- React Native
- iOS and Android app
- Zustand & MMKV
- Settings, library and fast local storage
- Native PDF module
- Text extraction with PDFKit and PdfBox
Server & data
- Fastify
- API that processes web links
- Mozilla Readability
- Clean article text from web pages
- RevenueCat
- Pro subscription
Infrastructure
- Render
- API hosting
- Sentry
- Error and crash reporting
05Status
This project is in development. Thinking of something similar?
