Reading is the bottleneck now.
Read it all. One word at a time.
You type at 40 words a minute. AI writes at a thousand. You read at 240. Focal fixes the last number — paste anything or highlight it anywhere, and stream it up to 1,000 wpm.
Windows 10/11 · free 14-day trial included
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The loop has three speeds.
You type at ~40 wpm. The AI answers at effectively unlimited speed. Then you read at 240. Two of those numbers got fixed by technology.
“ChatGPT gave me 900 words. I read the first paragraph and the bullet points.”
“I copy answers into a doc to read later. Later never comes.”
“By paragraph three I'm already typing the next prompt.”
Focal fixes the third number.
Your eyes spend most of a page just moving. Focal holds every word still and hands your brain one job: understanding.
The science
Why one word beats a page
Your eyes don't glide, they jump
Reading looks smooth from the inside, but the eye moves in short hops. Every hop is time spent aiming at the next word instead of understanding the last one.
You keep going back
Regressions — flicking back to a line you already covered — quietly eat up to a third of a reading session. Most of them happen without you noticing.
The ceiling isn't your brain
Reading research puts the typical adult around 240 words a minute. Take the eye movement out of the loop and the same brain comfortably handles 400 to 700.
Your comprehension lives in your brain, not your eye muscles. Focal removes the wasted motion — understanding is the part you keep. Same brain. Fewer wasted motions.
The desktop app
Flow Read: highlight text in any app, press Ctrl+Shift+R, and you're reading — in about a tenth of a second.
Windows first. Chrome extension included with Pro.
Two ways in
Highlight it
Highlight text in any app — Word, email, a PDF — and press Ctrl+Shift+R. A floating reader appears already rolling in about a tenth of a second. (Windows app)
Copy or paste it
Copy anything and press the same hotkey — or paste straight into Focal on the web or desktop. Same reader, same speed.
Either way: one fixed point, one word at a time, up to 1,000 wpm.
The reader
One word at a time, held at a single point, with a green anchor letter your eye locks onto. 100 to 1,000 words a minute, with smart pauses at commas and full stops so sentences still breathe.
Narration
Hear it while you see it: synchronized voice keeps your brain locked on the stream. The free web app uses your browser's built-in voice; Pro users can add premium AI narration by the hour.
Everywhere you read
Flow Read on Windows: highlight anything in any app — Word, email, PDFs — press Ctrl+Shift+R, and a floating reader starts instantly. Plus the free web app, and a Chrome extension included with Pro (coming soon).
Just a tool
No library. No account to start. No streaks, no badges, no weekly reading report. Paste, read, close.
Same paragraph. Two and a half times the pace.
Both lanes are reading the exact same text. One of them finishes while the other is still on the first line.
Read an hour a day? Doubling 240 to 480 hands back about 21 hours a month.
Pricing
- —Web reader only
- —First 500 words of any text
- —Up to 400 WPM
- —Narration with the standard browser voice
- —No account, no signup
- —Unlimited length
- —Unlimited speed
- —Premium AI narration — pay-as-you-go hour packs
- —Windows desktop app with Flow Read (highlight anywhere → instant reader)
- —Chrome extension — read any webpage in one click
- —File import
- —Resume across sessions
Payments are in test mode while we finish launch — real cards aren't charged yet.
The other guys charge $24+ a year and $99 for lifetime. We're a tool, not a lifestyle.
