Another Page: Read to Unlock
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Block the apps that eat your time. Read a few pages of a classic to open them.
- Rating
- 4.6
- 243 ratings
- Downloads
- 70.1K+
- on Google Play
- Price
- Free
- In-app purchases
- Updated
- Sep 15
- 2026 · v2.8.0
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About Another Page: Read to Unlock
Open Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, or Reddit and a reading screen appears instead. Read a few pages from a classic of your choice, and the app opens for a timed window. That's the whole idea: every time you reach for a distracting app, you have to read a little first.
Most app blockers just add friction. Another Page also helps you swap the doomscrolling habit for a reading one, and cut your screen time a few pages at a time.
How it works
1. Pick the apps you want to block, one at a time, or a whole category (social, video, or games) in a tap.
2. When you open one, a reading session starts, right where you left off.
3. Hit your goal, in pages or minutes, and your app unlocks for as long as you set.
You set the rules. How many pages or minutes, how long the unlock lasts, which apps get blocked. The app just holds you to it. Reading is never cut off mid-page; keep going past the goal if you like. Need a break? Pause blocking when you need to.
More than 4,000 books, in 12 languages, for free
A curated library of classics ships with the app, with no subscription to read them. English has around 1,500, including Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice and Moby Dick. Another 2,631 are in Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Filipino. The books come from public-domain sources that produce careful editions: Standard Ebooks, Project Gutenberg, Wikisource, Projecto Adamastor and the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
Another Page also works as a standalone ebook reader, no blocking required, and standalone reading still counts toward your daily goal and streak.
A reader built for reading
Light, sepia, and dark themes, with a choice of fonts. Highlight passages, bookmark your place, search the full text, and jump by chapter, then jump straight back after following a footnote. Tap once for a clean, full-screen view, or turn pages with the volume keys. Books download for offline reading, so you can read anywhere, even with no signal. Double-tap a word for its definition; dictionaries for eight more languages download on demand.
Built to be accessible
Another Page works well with screen readers like TalkBack: labeled controls, on-screen page turn buttons that announce each page as you turn, an OpenDyslexic font, and adjustable text size and spacing.
Nothing ever leaves your device
No account, no analytics, no tracking. Your blocked apps, reading progress, and streaks stay on your phone, and we can't see any of it. There's no sign-up, and nothing to log in to.
Keep the streak going
A daily reading goal, day streaks, and simple stats show how your pages add up over time, and how often you chose a book instead. A home-screen widget keeps your progress in view, and you can share a milestone when you finish a book or reach a new streak.
Free, with an optional upgrade
The core app is free: block up to three apps, read any book in the library, in any of its 12 languages, and set your own goals. The core experience will always remain free, with no ads, now or at any point in the future.
Premium adds:
• Unlimited blocked apps
• App groups, each with its own rules
• Your own books
• A stricter mode for the days you need it
• Do Not Disturb while you read
• Scheduling across multiple time windows
• Streak freezes
• Deeper reading insights
A note on permissions
To notice when a blocked app opens, Another Page uses Usage Access and permission to draw over other apps. On some phones you may also need to let it keep running in the background, so blocking doesn't get shut off to save battery. You turn these on yourself. They're used only to show the reading screen for the apps you chose, and nothing is ever sent anywhere. Another Page never uses an Accessibility Service and never reads your screen.
What’s new
Version 2.8.0 · Updated September 15, 2026
Morning Pages (Premium): all your apps stay blocked each morning until you read your pages. Fixed various bugs with daily goals and redesigned the stats screen to look nicer. Share how many pages you read to unlock your app, a finished book, today's goal or your month. Bug fixes: blocked apps no longer take a long time to show the reading screen.
User reviews
you'd expect the app to be good at only one of its 2 main features but it's surprisingly a good reading app AND screen time management system ! the free plan is fair and the premium one adds real value. would subscribe if the pricing wasn't too heavy in my currency, wish it was localized i'm looking forward to the a...
This app helps me to read more. So glad I found this on social media.
It's so good! I usually read physical books, but some titles are difficult to find. This app makes it possible for me to read them first and decide if I'll buy it later. It's easy to use too!
I want to thank the dev for making such a great app because of this I am able to read many books and I want you to expand the library... Overall the great app!
Brilliantly designed and crafted
I can choose and read many classic books. I also can read my own ebook with this app.
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