Another Page: Read to Unlock

Another Page

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About this app

Another Page puts a few pages of a good classic book between you and your most distracting apps. It's an app for people who want to read more and scroll less.

Open Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or Reddit and a reading screen appears instead. Read a few pages from a classic of your choice, and the app opens for a timed window. That's the whole idea: every time you reach for a distracting app, you have to read a little first.

Most app blockers just add friction. Another Page also helps you swap the doomscrolling habit for a reading one, and cut your screen time a few pages at a time.

How it works
1. Pick the apps you want to block — one at a time, or a whole category (social, video, or games) in a tap.
2. When you open one, a reading session starts, right where you left off.
3. Hit your goal, in pages or minutes, and the app unlocks for as long as you set.

You set the rules. How many pages or minutes, how long the unlock lasts, which apps get blocked. The app just holds you to it. Reading is never cut off mid-page, so if you want to keep going past the goal, you can. Need a break? Pause blocking when you need to.

Around 1,500 books, for free
A curated library of beloved classics ships right in the app, including Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, Moby Dick, and many more, with no subscription to read them. The books come from Standard Ebooks, a volunteer project that hand-produces beautiful editions of public-domain works.

The app also works as a standalone ebook reader. Open Another Page any time to browse or pick up where you left off, no blocking required. Standalone reading still counts toward your daily goal and streak.

A reader built for reading
Light, sepia, and dark themes, with a choice of fonts. Highlight passages, bookmark your place, search the full text, and jump by chapter — then jump straight back after following a footnote. Tap once for a clean, full-screen view, or turn pages with the volume keys. Books download for offline reading, so you can read anywhere, even with no signal.

Built to be accessible
Another Page works well with screen readers like TalkBack and VoiceOver, the controls are labeled, and there are on-screen page turn buttons that announce each page as you turn. There's an OpenDyslexic font, and you can adjust text size and spacing to whatever's comfortable.

Nothing ever leaves your device
You don't need an an account, and there is no analytics and no tracking. Your blocked apps, reading progress, and streaks stay on your phone, and we can't see any of it. There's no sign-up, and nothing to log in to.

Keep the streak going
A daily reading goal, day streaks, and simple stats show how your pages add up over time, and how often you chose a book instead. A home-screen widget keeps your progress in view, and you can share a milestone when you finish a book or reach a new streak.

Free, with an optional upgrade
The core app is free: block up to three apps, read any of around 1,500 books in the library, and set your own goals. The core experience will always remain free, with no ads, now or at any point in the future.

Premium adds:
• Unlimited blocked apps
• App groups, each with its own rules
• Your own books
• A stricter mode for the days you need it
• Do Not Disturb while you read
• Scheduling across multiple time windows
• Streak freezes
• Deeper reading insights

And we're always adding more.

A note on permissions
To notice when a blocked app opens, Another Page uses Usage Access and permission to draw over other apps. On some phones you may also need to let it keep running in the background, so blocking doesn't get shut off to save battery. You turn these on yourself. They're used only to show the reading screen for the apps you chose, and nothing is ever sent anywhere. Another Page never uses an Accessibility Service and never reads your screen — and it still works with screen readers like TalkBack.

Ratings and reviews

I was frustrated with the amount of time I spent on Reddit, YouTube, and Facebook. This app has you Read a couple of pages in a book that you choose before you open up an app. I set it up for the above three. who knows you may continue reading instead of going on to social media. The app is easy to use, allows you to set the font and background to what you want. I think this will help with my semi-addiction with the above apps. I'm impressed with it so far.

I like the UI and the collection of classic books already available! You can also add your own epub if you have a book that you need to reward yourself to get through. Currently, if you want to scroll multiple apps, it can feel frustrating to have to read for X minutes/pages to open each individual app, so set the amount of pages low to around 3 to 5.

I needed this app years ago! I would much rather be reading a book, than doom scrolling on social media. I have mindlessly opened social media apps out of habit even though I actually intended on opening something else. Now though, with Another Page opening first I am reminded that I had intent and on top of that, I could squeeze in a few more pages of a classic book I'm reading and choose to continue reading or go back and do what I actually intended to do. No Ads! This app is a game changer!

What’s new

Built-in dictionary is finally here—select a word to see its definition, even offline.
Discover 144 approachable classics in the new Easy Read collection, plus 13 new books.
This update also improves downloads, font switching, and book-opening reliability.