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Scrine – Joyscroll books. Read any book one sentence at a time

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Joyscroll books with AI. Scrine turns any book, PDF or article into a feed of one-sentence cards. Swipe to read. Tap to have the hard parts explained. Finish the books you keep meaning to read. Free to start. iPhone, iOS 17 or later. How it works Reading that feels like scrolling. Walls of text are why books pile up unread. Scrine breaks a book into the next thought, and the next, so the hardest part is putting it down. Add anything Drop in an EPUB, PDF, Word file or text, paste a link to an article, or pick from thousands of free classics in Explore. Share straight from Files, Mail or Safari. Swipe to read Every card holds a sentence or two. Swipe up for the next one, down to go back. Press play and Scrine paces the reading for you. Ask when you're stuck Tap Explain and the AI tutor unpacks the passage at the level you choose, with the surrounding text as context. Follow up with any question. Features Four ways to read. One place for everything you keep. Cards One or two sentences per screen. The default, and the reason it feels like a feed. Page The whole book as one scrolling page, with a highlight that reads along as you go. Stream Text runs across the screen in one continuous line at the speed you set. Flash One word at a time in the same spot, so your eyes never move. Set your words per minute. Bionic text The start of every word in bold, to pull your eye along the line. Switch it on or off in a tap. Highlights, notes, bookmarks Mark a passage, write on it, save your place. Everything collects in Notes, organised by book. Chapter quizzes At the end of a chapter, test yourself. Pick the difficulty from plain recall to connecting ideas. Free library Thousands of public-domain books in Explore, with suggestions based on what you already have. Streaks and stats See how much you read, keep a streak going, and watch the unread pile shrink. AI tutor A tutor who has read the book. Dense chapters, old prose, a textbook that assumes you already know. Scrine's AI explains the passage you're on, in context, at the level you choose. Explain any passage, from middle school to graduate level Ask follow-up questions and keep the thread with that passage Rewrite hard text in plainer language Quiz yourself on each chapter Save answers straight to your notes Powered by Claude. Three answers free to try, unlimited on Pro. Pricing Start free. Upgrade when you want more. Subscriptions are weekly, monthly or yearly through the App Store. Change or cancel any time in your iPhone settings. Cards reader Your own books and articles Highlights, notes, bookmarks Explore library of free books 3 AI answers to try Everything in Free Page, Stream and Flash modes Auto-play at your pace Bionic text Everything in Plus Unlimited AI explanations Follow-up questions and threads Chapter quizzes at any level Plain-language rewrites Prices in US dollars. Local prices are shown in the App Store. FAQ Questions, answered. Yes. The free plan includes the swipe reader, highlights, notes, bookmarks, the Explore library of free books and three AI answers to try. Plus and Pro are optional subscriptions that add more reading modes and the AI tutor. EPUB, PDF, Word (.docx), Markdown, HTML and plain text, plus any web article by pasting its link. You can also send a file to Scrine from Files, Mail or Safari with the share sheet. Scrine opens DRM-free files only, so Kindle purchases with copy protection won't import. Books you own as EPUB or PDF without DRM work, and Explore has thousands of free classics. It can be. Stream and Flash modes pace the text for you at a words-per-minute you choose, and bionic text bolds the start of each word. But the main idea is making reading feel as easy as scrolling a feed, at whatever pace you like. Explanations, quizzes and rewrites are generated by Claude, Anthropic's AI model. Only the passage you ask about and a little surrounding text are sent, and nothing is used to train models. Scrine is on iPhone today. A web version runs in any browser at scrine.io/app. You can read the free library without one. Adding your own books takes a free account, so your library and subscription follow you to a new phone. Sign in with Apple, Google or an email code. Read the books you keep meaning to. Scrine is free on iPhone. Add a book tonight and see how far one swipe at a time takes you.