This app replaces distracting apps with reading material to help you achieve your daily page goals. It offers a built-in e-reader and blocks selected applications until you meet your reading targets, promoting focus and time management.
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September 29, 2026
Your books, on a real shelf The library is a wooden bookcase now: four woods to choose from, warm light under every board, and covers standing on the wood. Bookmarks, highlights and notes Save a page and come back to it. Highlight what matters in eight colors, or any color you pick, and write a note on it. One reading menu for every format EPUBs, PDFs and comics share the same settings now, each showing only what it can do. EPUBs can scroll, and PDFs and comics get sepia. A shelf on your Home Screen The new widget shows your latest covers. Tap one and it opens. Four sizes, up to twelve books on iPad. Pay once instead Premium now offers Lifetime: a single payment, no subscription, nothing to renew. Free covers one blocked app and one book of your own, both forever.
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Block&Read is a productivity app designed to help you reduce distractions from other apps by replacing them with reading. You set a blocklist of apps, and when you try to open them, a book opens instead. You must reach your daily reading goal for the block to lift.
By blocking access to time-consuming apps like social media or video platforms, Block&Read encourages you to engage with reading material. This direct replacement helps you reclaim your time and build a reading habit without relying solely on willpower.
The free version allows you to block up to two apps, provides a shelf of public-domain classics, includes features like streaks and daily reminders, and offers a strict mode to prevent easy bypass.
Premium unlocks unlimited app blocking, allows you to import your own EPUB files, provides access to over 75,000 classics, offers blocking schedules, extra reader themes, reading insights, and private iCloud backup.
Block&Read offers a Premium Weekly subscription for $4.99/week with a 3-day free trial, and a Premium Yearly subscription for $17.99/year.
No, Block&Read does not contain advertisements. The app is free to use with optional premium features.
Yes, privacy is total. Block&Read does not require an account, nothing is measured or sent anywhere. Your library and reading progress remain on your device or in your private iCloud.
Block&Read is available on iPhone and iPad devices.
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