Make a little room.
Choose a minute, five, or twenty. Begin with what you have. There’s no perfect reading day to wait for.
A little space for reading
For the moment you reach for your phone
and wish you’d picked up a book.
Margin makes it easy to choose a few pages, keep a thought, and get back to your day. No endless feed. Just a good place to begin.
Free to begin · No account · Your reading stays yours
MARGIN EDITIONS / Nº 01
Small observations.
A little room to think.
A book, waiting where
the scroll used to be.
Attention, on your terms
You need a small opening. A minute before bed. A pause between things. Somewhere your thumb can land that leaves you with a little more than you came for.
Margin is a reading room in your pocket. Bring a book you own, paste something worth reading, or begin with a short original passage. Then stop when you’ve had enough.

Quiet by design. Yours by choice.
A small ritual, not a new routine
Choose a minute, five, or twenty. Begin with what you have. There’s no perfect reading day to wait for.
Read in Margin, or put your phone down with a real book. A simple timer keeps the moment finite.
A sentence. A thought. Something you noticed. Your private reading record grows, little by little.
Margin records reading sessions. It doesn’t monitor or block other apps.
A clear stopping point. No streak to protect.
The rest of your day is yours.
A little room, a fair price
Good reading doesn’t need another monthly bill. Start free. Make the room your own with one optional purchase.
Margin
Margin Plus
Margin Plus — Lifetime, unlocked in the app.
Your local price is shown in the App Store before you buy.
One-time purchase. No subscription.
Yes. Add a physical book or e-reader title and use Margin as your timer, or paste text you own or have permission to use. Margin doesn’t include a commercial ebook catalog or EPUB/PDF import.
No. Margin gives you a place to choose reading. Move it to your Home Screen where your usual feed sits, or create a Shortcuts automation using margin://read.
Your books and thoughts stay in the app’s local storage on your device. No account or reading analytics. You can export or erase your data at any time. Device backups follow your Apple settings.
No. All core reading features work without it. On supported devices, an optional on-device model can offer a reflection question about what you just read. A standard question is always available.
Margin is available now on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Download Margin on the App Store, or try a short reading on this page first.
The next minute is yours