From Zero: Learn in 7 Minutes

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About this app

From Zero turns spare minutes into knowledge that sticks.

Each story is a seven-minute audio piece on one idea worth understanding: how Rome was actually founded, why the colonies barely spoke to each other, where money came from, how the Renaissance was paid for. Then three quick questions, a fact card, and the app brings the questions back over the following weeks until you simply know them.

CHECKED, WITH SOURCES
Every story is written from sources you can open inside the app, and every figure is checked before it is recorded. Most pictures are engravings, maps and photographs from museum and archive collections, credited on every page; the few made with AI are marked as such. The stories are narrated by a natural-sounding AI voice.

LISTEN THE WAY YOU LIKE
- Read along: the sentence being spoken lights up; tap any line to jump there
- Speed from 0.8x to 1.5x, a sleep timer, autoplay through a course
- Lock-screen and headphone controls, playback continues in the background

LEARN FOR GOOD
- A quiz after every story; hearts keep it honest
- Fact cards you can share as a picture
- Spaced review: questions return after 1, 3, 7 and 21 days
- A daily programme of about ten minutes and a streak that rewards showing up

FOURTEEN SUBJECTS
History, America, Art, Science, Money, Philosophy, Mythology, Nature, Technology, Literature, Music, Psychology, Language, Mathematics. Six courses are free, forever. Premium opens all 39 courses, 195 stories and 23 hours of narration, with new courses as they are published.

No feed, no notifications beyond the one daily reminder you choose, no account required.

What’s new

First release: 195 seven-minute audio stories across 14 subjects, quizzes, fact cards, read-along, spaced review, daily reminders.