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When focus is the whole point

No streaks. No badges. Ever.

Reading should feel cozy, not extractive. Glint is the reading app for everyone who’s tired of being yelled at by their phone.

I’d like your honest feedback before this hits the App Store. — Eric

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The act, not the output

Reading is the point.

Not pages cleared. Not minutes saved. Glint isn't a productivity tool. It's a way to be in a sentence while it's happening to you, and then in the next one.

Three small things

What Glint does, and what it doesn't.

The ring fills, gently.

A daily reading goal that you set, with no penalty for skipping. If you don't read today, nothing turns red.

Mindful Minutes, write-only.

Optional integration with Apple Health. Glint writes — it never reads — your data.

No analytics tied to you.

No accounts, no email field, no third-party tracking. Glint runs on your device and minds its own business.

The brand stance

We're not going
to gamify it.

Glint will not break your streak. Glint will not chase you with notifications. Glint will not make a face when you skip a day. Reading is its own reward; we're not going to gamify it.

A quiet daily reading ring, partially filled in warm amber
The daily ring. Quiet, optional, never punitive.

Most habit apps are built on shame. Break the streak, lose the streak, watch the number go to zero. The mechanic works — and that's the problem. It works on the part of you that's anxious, not the part of you that wants to read.

Glint is built the other way. There's a daily ring, because rings are pleasant to fill. There's a goal, because goals are useful. There's no penalty for skipping, because punishing readers for not reading is how people stop reading.

Free with the full library. Pro is a one-time upgrade. No subscription, no ads, no tier of user that gets less attention than the paying tier.

"Books used to ask a lot of you.
This asks for one word at a time."

1,400+ public-domain classics free. One-time price, no subscription. Bring your own books — PDFs, EPUBs.

Questions, calmly answered.

What’s free vs Glint Reader Pass?
Free on iPhone: the full reader, paste-anything, import your own PDFs and EPUBs, plus the full library of 1,400+ public-domain classics — all of it. Reading is capped at 50,000 words on the free tier. Free on Apple Watch: the Pace card to dial in your reading speed. Glint Reader Pass is a one-time $29.99 — no subscription, ever — that removes the iPhone word cap, adds Apple Watch reading (the library + your own books), and send-to-watch for your imports.
Will Glint guilt-trip me if I skip a day?
No. If you don’t read today, nothing turns red. The daily ring just doesn’t fill. There are no streaks, no badges, no notifications nudging you back. The whole point is to make reading feel like reading, not like a chore you owe an app.
What happens to my reading data?
It stays on your phone. Glint has no server-side account, no cloud sync of your text, no analytics on what you read. iCloud is used only to keep your settings and library between your own devices.

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