Monkly · An app for readers
Your apps are locked.
Reading is the key.
Monkly shields your most distracting apps and gives the time back — one page at a time. Pick what to block. Open a book. Watch the minutes return.
Plate I · The Meter
Watch the minutes add up while you read.
One minute of reading earns two minutes of app time — counted live, right on the page. The little amber meter at the top never stops while your eyes move.
Fig. I — the live earn meter, reading Meditations.
Plate II · The Wallet
Earn it. Bank it. Spend it where you like.
Your reading becomes a balance you can see — minutes available, today's haul, your streak. When it runs dry, the apps close and the book reopens.
Today: 16 minutes available.
Fig. II — your balance on the home page. That forest-green “Unlock Apps” button is the same green as the button on this site.
The Rule
No book, no apps. That's the whole deal.
Monkly doesn't nag, gamify, or shame. It just holds the door until you've read — then gets out of your way.
How it works
Simple. Ruthless. Effective.
No willpower required — just a deal you make with yourself once.
Block your time-traps.
Pick the apps that pull you in. Monkly locks them during your chosen hours. No exceptions.
Read to earn it back.
Open any book. Every minute you read banks two minutes of app time, counted live.
Spend it, guilt-free.
Unlock your apps with minutes you actually earned. Run out, and the book is waiting.
Plate III · The Library
A shelf of great books, ready to open.
Stoics and strategists, detectives and adventurers — Meditations, The Art of War, Sherlock Holmes, Jekyll & Hyde and more public-domain classics, free to read. Or import your own EPUB. Every one of them earns minutes the same way.
Fig. III — the shelf, six volumes in. The amber “+3m” badge on Meditations means the library and the meter are one system.
Plate IV · The Payoff
Twelve books a year, instead of four hundred hours of scrolling.
Monkly keeps the receipts — hours read, pages turned, books finished, your streak held. Watch the time you'd have lost turn into chapters you actually keep.
- read this week
- 3.2h
- pages read
- 1,432
- books finished
- 7
- total reading
- 52h
Fig. IV — a week of reading, in full.
The Colophon
Be proud of your screen time.
Streaks, stats, and a quiet monk rooting for you. Monkly is coming to iPhone — leave your email and we'll send the download the day it ships.
— your monk