Stillpoint
The calm, private speed reader for PDFs and EPUBs
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.
Privacy you can verify: there is no server. Parsing, your library, highlights and reading positions all live in your browser, and your files never leave the device. Open the network tab and check.
Documents survive the stream: tables, images, figures and code are shown as the real thing, not read out as word soup.
Built for finishing: no speed-reading hype. Most people settle around 400 to 600 words a minute, dense sentences slow down by themselves, and progress is chapter-scoped like an audiobook.
No account, no upload, works offline as an installable PWA. Free forever, funded by a tip jar. Honest limits: scanned image-only PDFs need OCR and there is none yet, and DRM'd EPUBs won't open.
Features
Focal-point reading: ORP, RSVP and Hybrid modes, with the letter your eye locks onto never moving
In-browser PDF and EPUB parsing: no upload, no server
Structure-aware reading: tables, images, figures and code shown as the real thing
Chapter-scoped progress: time left in the current chapter, like an audiobook
Retention aids: rewind on unpause, sentence replay, highlights with Markdown export
Offline PWA with an on-device library and a self-contained backup file for moving devices
Use Cases
Finishing the PDFs and EPUBs that pile up on your devices
Long reports and papers that need sustained attention
Reading with ADHD, when your eyes wander and you re-read the same paragraph
Private reading: nothing you read leaves your device
Offline reading on flights and commutes
Comments
Hi Fazier. I built Stillpoint because I wanted to actually finish the PDFs and EPUBs piling up on my devices, and every RSVP reader I tried either wanted an account and a subscription or wanted my files on their server. So it runs entirely in the browser: parsing, library, highlights and positions all stay on your device, and you can verify that in the network tab. Tables and figures are shown as the real thing instead of being streamed as word soup, and progress is chapter-scoped like an audiobook, because minutes left in this chapter keeps you going and a 17-hour countdown does not. It's free, with no account. If you have a PDF you've been avoiding, feed it this and tell me where it stumbles. I reply to everything.
"Privacy you can verify: there is no server" is the right way to make that claim credible, and it resonates with how we think about privacy too. Curious about two things: how do highlights and reading positions move between devices without a server (export file?), and does the phrase mode adapt to punctuation or use fixed chunk sizes?
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Hi Fazier. I built Stillpoint because I wanted to actually finish the PDFs and EPUBs piling up on my devices, and every RSVP reader I tried either wanted an account and a subscription or wanted my files on their server. So it runs entirely in the browser: parsing, library, highlights and positions all stay on your device, and you can verify that in the network tab. Tables and figures are shown as the real thing instead of being streamed as word soup, and progress is chapter-scoped like an audiobook, because minutes left in this chapter keeps you going and a 17-hour countdown does not. It's free, with no account. If you have a PDF you've been avoiding, feed it this and tell me where it stumbles. I reply to everything.
"Privacy you can verify: there is no server" is the right way to make that claim credible, and it resonates with how we think about privacy too. Curious about two things: how do highlights and reading positions move between devices without a server (export file?), and does the phrase mode adapt to punctuation or use fixed chunk sizes?
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