Evanreads

Built for ADHD, dyslexia & attention differences

The reading app that ends the re-reading loop

You've read the same paragraph four times and still couldn't say what it said. That isn't a discipline problem — it's what happens when a wall of text asks your working memory to hold more than it can.

Evanreads guides you through course reading one focused line at a time, so each idea gets long enough to stick. Paste a PDF or Word doc and start in under a minute.

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The problem isn't that you aren't trying

You finish a page with nothing to show for it

Your eyes reached the bottom. Nothing above it registered. So you scroll back up and start the same page again.

Reading takes you two or three times longer than it "should"

A 30-page assignment eats an entire evening, and most of that time goes to re-reading rather than to reading.

Read-aloud apps let you drift even faster

Audio without structure just means you zone out with narration playing. Nothing brings your attention back to the line that matters.

Evanreads doesn't read to you. It reads with you.

Text-to-speech apps do the reading so you can stop. Evanreads keeps you in the driver's seat and removes what pulls you out of it — showing one line at a time, tracking your real pace, and quizzing you on what you just covered so you find out what stuck while you can still do something about it.

One line at a time

The rest of the page dims away, so there is no peripheral text competing for the attention the current line needs.

Your actual reading pace

Evanreads calibrates to how fast you really read, then gives honest time estimates — so an assignment stops being an unknown-length ordeal.

Retention quizzes on your own material

Questions generated from the text you just read, not generic ones. Retrieval practice is the single best-evidenced way to make reading stick.

Dyslexia-friendly by default

OpenDyslexic typeface, adjustable spacing and size, and bionic reading are one tap away — no settings archaeology required.

Why reading this way actually works

~40% — of students with ADHD also have a significant reading disability

Reading and attention difficulties co-occur far more often than chance. Line-by-line reading removes the visual competition that makes sustained reading especially hard for this population.

Willcutt & Pennington, 2000

2–3× — faster error-free reading for dyslexic readers with shorter line lengths

Participants who struggled with reading showed significantly better accuracy and speed when text was presented in narrow columns. Evanreads' single-line display takes this to its logical conclusion.

Schneps et al., 2013 — PLOS ONE

50% — more material retained with retrieval practice vs. re-reading

Testing yourself on material (active recall) produces dramatically stronger long-term retention than simply reviewing it again. Evanreads' AI quizzes apply this finding directly after each reading session.

Karpicke & Blunt, 2011 — Science

Start free. No card, no trial countdown.

The free plan is a real plan, not a teaser — the full reading experience, every accessibility option, and enough AI to see whether this works for you.

• 20 documents a month
• Line-by-line focus mode
• Read-aloud with browser voices
• Pace calibration and reading stats
• 2 retention quizzes per document
• Flagged sections you can review later

Paid plans start at $7/month with a verified school email. Nothing on this page requires one. See the pricing page.

Try it on something you actually have to read

Paste a chapter, upload a PDF, or start with our sample. You will know within one section whether reading this way is different for you.