Volumes

Read faster.
Understand more.

Other reading apps track your speed. Volumes tests whether you actually understood it.

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The Desk

30-Day Effective WPM
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183
+12 from baseline
Baseline: 171 eWPM
Reading consistency
5 days

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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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I. The principle

Other reading apps train you to move your eyes faster.
That's not reading. That's looking.

Volumes tests whether you understood what you read. Read a passage, answer a few bespoke questions and find out if you took in what you read.

Read at 400 WPM but only understand half? Your effective words-per-minute (eWPM) is 200. Read at 220 WPM and understand everything? Your eWPM is 220. This isn't about developing raw speed, this is about reading and understanding, whatever your reading style is.

Reading speed × Understanding = eWPM

Effective words per minute. One honest number.

"I've used three speed-reading apps. This is the first one that made me slow down and read better."

Beta reader, April 2026

II. The architecture

Five rooms.
One goal.

Volumes is organised like a small library: each room has its own purpose, none of them competing for your attention.

I. The Desk

Where you start each day.

Your eWPM, reading consistency, the text you left open and a retention check.

Dashboard II. Library

Your texts, in your hand.

Every book, article or document you've added, with progress and last-read date.

Texts you own III. The Study

The way to get more out of your reading.

Curated paths through great texts. You'll find the Reading Room (curated texts) and How Volumes Works (the ‘how’ of the app). The Bookshop and The Circle are coming soon — where you can buy books and be social.

Curated IV. The Ledger

An honest record of your reading.

Speed, understanding, eWPM. Weekly bars. Personal bests with the date and the chapter. No leaderboards. No comparisons to strangers. Just information to help you with your reading.

Statistics V. Settings

Yours to configure.

OpenDyslexic, colour overlays, adaptive pacing, a streak counter you can switch off entirely. Volumes is designed to be as flexible to your reading needs as possible.

Accessibility
Coming soon

The Circle & The Bookshop.

A space for readers to discuss books and ideas together. A small shop of curated, hand-picked texts. Both arriving in Summer 2026.

In progress
III. Reading mode

Three reading modes.
Easy on the eyes.

Each mode is designed with different reading styles and preferences in mind. Simple to use; pick the one that fits how you read, and switch any time.

  • i. Word-by-word (RSVP), chunked text (easy-to-process word groupings), or classic reader (the familiar e-reader experience).
  • ii. Adjustable WPM, font picker including OpenDyslexic, colour overlays.
  • iii. No notifications during a session, and many more options to meet the needs of every reader.
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understanding.
IV. Built with care

My son is dyslexic. I have ADHD.
Volumes is the app the two of us actually wanted.

Dyslexia-friendly fonts. Colour overlays. Pacing that adapts to the text. A streak counter you can switch off entirely, because guilt is not a feature — nobody needs more guilt-tripping from cartoon birds.

Read our accessibility note →
V. Begin

Free to download.
Free to read.
No account required.

Android first. iOS and a web companion coming later in 2026.

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