Quillstone: News & Audiobooks
Daily briefing & free classics
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
The Early Bird reads you the day's top stories from trusted newsrooms in 15 minutes. New: discover thousands of free books and audiobooks, and add them in one tap.
Start your morning informed and end your evening with a good book. Quillstone gives you a trustworthy daily news briefing you can listen to, plus a lifetime of free classics. No account, no ads, no catch.
THE EARLY BIRD: YOUR MORNING IN 15 MINUTES
Wake up every morning to a ready-to-play audio briefing covering the day’s top stories in U.S. and world news, business, defense, technology, science, and sports.
Listen over coffee, during your commute, or while taking a walk.
News you can actually trust
• A story makes the briefing only after it has been reported by several independent newsrooms
• See how sources on the left, center, and right covered each story
• Open the original articles and review the sources yourself
• Get every story in plain language, with sources clearly credited
Free College Textbooks:
• College textbooks, 100% free: current, openly-licensed textbooks from OpenStax at Rice University Algebra, Biology, Psychology, American Government, and more. Quillstone now reads PDFs, remembers your page, and your study time counts toward your reading ring.
• Search your shelf, then find anything free: new search on the Books and Audiobooks tabs, with one tap to find what you don't own in Discover.
• Top 10 charts: the month's most-downloaded free audiobooks and newest popular books, right where you browse.
• A good-morning greeting with your name above your briefing set once, stored only on your device.
• Made for iPad: a two-pane newsroom for The Early Bird, with the full story text, coverage lens, and sources beside your briefing.
• Story Cards: swipe through the day's stories full-screen. Nine stories and you're done no endless feed.
• Read along: see each sentence as it's spoken, with a big-type teleprompter mode.
• Ambient mode: prop up your iPad and it becomes a calm morning display.
• Share a story as a beautiful card showing how many newsrooms reported it.
• New readers start with four free classics already in their library.
• Reading rings: gentle daily goals for reading and listening, plus a sturdier streak.
A FREE LIBRARY OF E-BOOKS
Search thousands of free, legal, public-domain ebooks and audiobooks from Project Gutenberg, Standard Ebooks, and LibriVox.
Discover Sherlock Holmes, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Dracula, and countless other classics. Add a title to your library and it is yours forever, with the ebook ready to read and the audiobook ready to play.
Filter by ebook or audiobook to find exactly what you are looking for.
A BEAUTIFUL HOME FOR YOUR BOOKS
Quillstone is also a clean, comfortable reader for books you already own. Import your EPUB files and pick up exactly where you left off.
• Calm, distraction-free reading with light and dark themes
• Full audiobook controls from the Lock Screen, Control Center, and CarPlay
• Chapters, adjustable playback speed, a sleep timer, and resume-anywhere progress
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
There is no account to create and no personal data to hand over.
Your library is offline-first, while The Early Bird is available wherever you have an internet connection. Optional iCloud sync is end-to-end encrypted, which means nobody but you can access your library, not even us.
Download Quillstone for free and make tomorrow morning one of your best-informed yet.
Quillstone is independently developed by Cove Technology, Inc.
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The Early Bird is now more reliable, easier to read, and built for a stronger daily habit.
• Pull to refresh now clears stale Early Bird cache and checks for the newest briefing.
• Daily briefings now target about 15 minutes, with stronger checks before an edition ships.
• Notifications can include a short summary of the day's stories instead of a generic reminder.
• Article pages are easier to read, with larger titles and cleaner Apple News-style spacing.
• The reading experience is cleaner: first-run explainer cards stay out of your way after setup, and the old "Good Morning" header is gone.
• Informed streaks now feel more rewarding, with new status language for daily readers.
• iCloud sync is safer in test builds and no longer crashes the app when the simulator is missing the iCloud entitlement.
• Contact Support now opens the support page directly.
• Free book and textbook shelves now favor English books, and textbook gallery items show covers. Search still lets you find a specific book when you need it.
The developer, Cove Technology, Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Cove Technology, Inc.
- Size
- 11.2 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Contains
User-Generated Content
- Copyright
- © Cove Technology, Inc.