Use the arrow keys, Page Up and Page Down, or J and K to move between cards.
Paste any text, or open a file. It’s split into short cards at the ends of sentences, and kept only on this device.
Your short-card decks will appear here. Each one remembers where you stopped.
ReadThis Shorts is like short videos, but for reading. Each screen holds one short text: a fable, a poem, a wise thought, a surprising fact, a tiny story or a proverb, in English or Arabic. Swipe up for the next one, and tap Listen to hear it read aloud with each sentence highlighted. You can also turn your own text into short cards. It is calm on purpose: no autoplay unless you ask for it, a gentle break card every few cards, and no likes, streaks or tracking.
ReadThis Shorts is completely free. There are no ads, no account and no paid version.
Yes. It runs in your web browser on a phone, tablet or computer, and keeps working without internet after your first visit. The reading packs are part of the app, so nothing is fetched from other sites.
Yes. Text you paste or open is split into cards on your device and saved only in this browser. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no tracking of what you read.
Fables, poems and wise words come from public-domain books, with the author, book and year on every card. Facts, tiny stories and the explanations of proverbs were written for Favabeans.
A gentle card asks if you’d like a break. Tap “Keep going” to carry on. You can change it to every 5 or 20 cards, or switch it off, in Settings.