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Distil

The best ideas from great books, a few minutes a day.

Distil reader card: You cannot see your own triggers, idea 3 of 10 from Atomic Habits
Distil profile: your reading persona, trait bars and reading stats
Distil explore screen: editor's picks, topics and every book

Real screens from the current build.

Type
Mobile app
Runs on
iPhone and Android
Status
Closed beta
Content
Ideas from more than 100 non-fiction books

Distil is a micro-learning app for people who want the ideas from good books without the hours. Each card is one idea from a well-known non-fiction title, written plainly, with a prompt to act on it today. There are more than a thousand ideas from over a hundred books on money, habits, relationships, thinking and living well.

It learns from what you read. Skip what does not interest you, save what does, and the feed, the topics and a reading persona adjust to you. There is no questionnaire, no advertising and no tracking beyond your own reading.

Reading is free: ten ideas a day and the first three ideas of every book. Pro is an optional subscription that removes those limits. Distil is in closed beta on iPhone and Android now.

Features

One idea per card

A few paragraphs, a highlighted line, and an action prompt. Read it in the time it takes to make a coffee.

A feed that learns

Editor's picks to start, then a feed shaped by what you read, save and skip.

Your reading persona

A profile built from your reading: traits, topics and totals, worked out from what you open, skip and save rather than from a questionnaire.

Saved and stashed

Bookmark ideas into a grid you can come back to, grouped by book.

Yours to delete

No adverts, no third-party analytics and no selling of data. Delete your account and every trace of your reading from Settings, in one tap.

Gallery

Distil today feed with a card from The Psychology of Money
Distil saved ideas as a grid of coloured cards

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