Choose your ceilingEnough to look forward to.
Enough to look forward to.
Less to put off.
Set your limit between 3 and 10. When the queue is full, finish something or let it expire to make room.
Read what you choose
Save less.
Actually read it.
Quell deliberately limits how much you save, so every save becomes a commitment. A small queue for what matters.
Install QuellFree to download iOS & Android
3–10
items. That’s your queue.
The limit is the point.
Small by design
A short queue.
A little more headspace.
Save everything, and it becomes another list to avoid.
Choose a little, and it becomes something you can finish.
Today.
Or this week.
Two honest choices instead of “someday”. Unfinished items expire automatically, so the queue stays clear.
Intention over accumulation.Clarity over clutter.Reading over saving.
A different kind of reading app
The limit isn’t the bug.
The limit is the product.
Every save asks one simple question:
will I actually read this?
From intention to done
Make “later”
mean something.
Three small steps. A queue you can actually clear.
Example activity shown in the app.
The honest part
See what you
actually finished.
Each month, Quell shows where your attention went. What you saved, what you read, and what you let go.
- Your follow through
Finished items, measured against your intentions.
- Your time to read
How long it took to get from saved to done.
- Your sources
The ones that really earn your attention.
No streaks. No badges. No vanity metrics.
“The only thing worth optimising is whether
you actually read what you chose.”
I’m Lorand, the developer behind Quell. I built it after getting tired of saving things I never came back to. Quell began with a small personal rule: keep five things worth reading, and finish them before adding more.
Lorand
Quell’s founder and developer
Quell’s founder and developer
A few fair questions
Before you make room.
The limit is deliberate. Here’s how it works.
What happens when my queue is full?
You can still paste a link and see its analysis, but saving is blocked. Finish something or let it expire to make room for something new.
Can I change the queue limit?
Yes. Choose between 3 and 10 items in Settings. Quell recommends starting with 5 to keep your queue manageable.
What happens to expired items?
They leave your queue automatically and count as expired in your monthly stats. If something still matters, you can deliberately save it again.
Does opening an article mark it as finished?
No. Completion is always a deliberate tap. Opening something does not mean you read it.
Can I import my existing saved links?
No, deliberately. Importing an entire backlog would recreate the pile Quell helps you leave behind. Start with a few things you actually want to read.
Can I save a link from Safari?
Yes. Use the Share sheet to send a link to Quell, or paste the URL in the app. Your queue limit still applies.
Less saved. More read.
Start with five things
you’ll actually finish.
Install Quell, set your ceiling,
and let your queue stay small on purpose.
Free to download. Choose your own limit.
A direct line
Write to the person
who built it.
Need a hand, spotted a bug, or have an idea? Support, feedback and press questions all land in the same inbox. I read and reply to them myself.
support@quellreads.comStraight to Lorand. No support maze.