Steven Rueter

Spdr 2.0 - Speed Reading

Read faster.

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Klein osim-asu
Need an Android version it will help me study better
ajimix
Hello @rueter I've purchased the Pro version but I see that the styles applied on the phone doesn't apply to the apple watch making the watch app useless (that was what I was most interested in). The text is very small and there is no letter highlight. How can I fix that? Or how can I get a refund? Thanks
ajimix
@rueter great! Looking forward for the new version. Thanks for your great support!
Robert U
Great product, However... I cannot get it to open an epub without killing the app. Are there some file size limits or issues with images that I should be aware of. IOS 12.2 iPhone XS
Peter Meier
Everytime when a "-" or a "—" in comination with a "," or a ";" appears on the same section, the autoplay stops. Is this maybe a bug?
Cara Martner
Eh, not impressed. Paid for the app and all and it just crashes immediately upon trying to open, every. Single. Time. I've restarted the app, I've restarted my phone, ive checked that I have the latest version. Nada. Try to find a customer service email, good luck. Through all my searching this is apparently the best place to reach someone, which I imagine means I won't hear a reply if at all or for months. Shoulda saved my money and went for a good cup of coffee instead. There's nothing more annoying than experiencing a random frustration from a small investment and not having any way to fix it.
Lino Grubben

It is working well, I like that thinking about something else while reading is much harder, since there comes one word after the other, and I don't want to miss one, of course. The (browser) extension is very important for the user experience of this app, since nobody wants to copy long texts manually. The problem was, the articles I've sent to the app via the extension (Pro version) all began with the site's privacy policy. Maybe you can find a solution for that. The UI is radical, pure black, pure white. It's not friendly, maybe some other dark colors make the app more appealing. Also, I would increase the size of the text field a bit, and I would like to select single words by tapping on them in addition to just skipping. The onboarding was poor, I didn't even understand it was one before the simulation has ended. I was like why do the buttons don't work?! I didn't test on Apple Watch yet, I can imagine how cool the app is on it.

Pros:

Brilliant approach

Cons:

Confusing onboarding

Ross Hawari
@linogrubben black is elegant and doesn’t strain the eye. Keep it that way
Kartik Sathappan
Even with the IAP the app can’t get the text from 9/10 pages via the share sheet, even Apple News, as advertised. Always stuck at Loading...
Ross Hawari
Hi Steven The app doesn’t resize properly on my ipad while using multitask or changing the screen orientation.
Ross Hawari
Hi Steven is it possible to sync the reading list by using icloud? so i can continue reading on my iphone/ipad
Thomas Klebanoff
thank you for making this wonderful application! As somebody who also makes high frame rate programs, I can tell the depth and detail you put in! It is so smooth! I am looking forward to using it hopefully ten hours a day! :) I purchased pro so that I could access the full set of features, specifically the ability to import pdf. I read many pdf documents already on my iPad and would love to be able to access the power of spdr while doing so! After successfully importing a pdf, I hit a snag which makes it so I am having a hard time using spdr. I was wondering if you could help me! It seems like it may be a minor code fix on your end, but would dramatically improve my ability to enjoy spdr! The documents I read have many long words, intermixed with short words. I find that I can’t register the long words properly at the word rate I am most comfortable with. They flash on the screen for too short of a time! I have to continuously go back to check what they were. Would you consider adding a toggle that lets us scale the speed for each word by word length? I would love to be able to adjust this behavior to make long words show up for longer than short words. What do you think? Is this something you would add and release? I am hopeful you say yes, because truly, every other thing about spdr makes me want to use it ten hours a day. I just can’t use it if I don’t have enough time to read the long words! Slowing the whole thing down makes the short words go way slower than I can process, and I feel I am not getting the speed benefit as acutely! Thank you! I’ll leave this message in the App Store too! I hope you get a chance to see it!! All the best, -T