Short lessons from real books

Same scroll. A little smarter every time.

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Loup Learn is a vertical feed of short lessons drawn from real books. Pick a few topics, then scroll. Every card opens with a hook, gives you one idea in fresh wording, and tells you which book and chapter it came from.

Ten idle minutes with your phone can leave you knowing something you did not know before.

Free. No account needed to start.

The Loup Learn feed: a Health & Longevity lesson from How Not to Die, with L. saying "You're back!" above a gold bar reading 2m 02s smarter today.

How it works

Three things to know. Then you just scroll.

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Pick what you want to get smarter at.

On first open

Choose one or more topics. There is no sign-up wall and nothing to fill in. You can change your topics any time from the feed.

Every card is one idea.

20 sec to 1 min

A bold hook, the lesson in a few paragraphs, and one line on why it matters. The read time sits under the hook, so you know the cost of a card before you pay it.

Like a card and the feed stays with its book.

Whenever you want

The next cards follow that book chapter by chapter. Skip twice and you are back in the mixed feed. You can get through a whole book in forty minutes of scrolling without ever choosing one.

Inside the app

Minutes you can count. Books you can keep.

1 min read

Days read, never days missed.

On every card

A live counter at the foot of every card shows how many minutes smarter you are today. Tap it for your month: one bar per day, and a dashed line for your goal.

The reading sheet over a lesson card: 3m 29s smarter today, a bar chart of September with a dashed 10 minute goal line, and the daily goal setting.

3 minutes a day adds up.

3, 5, 7 or 10 minutes

Pick a daily goal you could still manage on a bad day. Three minutes a day is about 18 hours of reading over a year. Change it whenever you like; nothing you have already read is affected.

The daily goal screen with four choices, 3, 5, 7 and 10 minutes, each with its hours of reading over a year. 3 minutes is selected.

Collect the books you learned from.

On your profile

Every book you learn from takes a spine on your shelf, in the colour of its topic. L. keeps you company there, next to your month of reading.

The profile screen: L. standing in front of a bookshelf filling up with coloured spines, above a card reading 6m 00s smarter today and a 129-day streak.

Let us surprise you.

Wild card

A wild card comes face down, from a shelf you didn't pick. Tap to turn it over and find out what it is.

A wild card lying face down with L. on its back, captioned From a shelf you didn't pick, tap to turn it over.

Topics

Pick your topics to start.

7 topics, 28 areas

Keep a whole topic or only the areas inside it. Or skip picking: "Show me everything" works too.

  • Psychology & Human BehaviourHabits, bias, persuasion, relationships.
  • Philosophy & StoicismHow to live, with real passages from the Stoics.
  • Money & InvestingEarning, spending, investing and enough.
  • Productivity & FocusAttention, priorities and getting the right things done.
  • Mental Health & AnxietyAnxiety, attention, trauma and living with your own mind.
  • Health & LongevitySleep, food, movement and living longer, better.
  • Communication & ConflictHard conversations, negotiation, listening, being heard.
The Your topics screen: seven topics with round checkboxes, Money & Investing and Health & Longevity ticked, 8 of 28 areas kept, and a gold Save button.

The small print, said plainly

Every lesson names its book. Ads keep it free.

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The book gets the credit.

On every card

Each card says which book and chapter it draws from, and links to the book itself. Lessons are written in our own words. Only public-domain works are quoted at length.

Free, thanks to ads.

Every so often

A sponsored card appears now and then in the mixed feed. It is labelled, and it never appears inside a book you are following.

Get the app

Start scrolling.

iOS and Android

Loup Learn is free to download and free to use. Pick a topic and the first card is a swipe away.

L., the Loup Learn character