Stan Taylor
Read, listen, and execute
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
The Black Book of Power and The Little Dictator. Protocols that dismantle the programming running you, in an app built for execution over insight.
The official app for Stan Taylor's books, The Black Book of Power and The Little Dictator. The opening chapters of both are free to read and to hear. If you own the books, your full library unlocks the moment you sign in.
BUILT FOR THE WORK
These books ask you to dismantle a self you have been running for decades, and that deserves better than a reader that forgets where you were. The typography is tuned for hours of work, with 5 typefaces including 2 designed for dyslexic readers, adjustable size, pages or scroll, and a dark interface with a light mode when you want it.
THE COMPLETE AUDIOBOOKS
Every chapter narrated. It plays in the background with lock screen controls, speed control, a sleep timer, and a full chapter list. Tap the headphones inside the reader and the narration follows the chapter you are on, so you can move between the page and the voice by chapter.
BOOKMARKS & HIGHLIGHTS
Press and hold a passage, drag to where it ends, and add a note when the thought deserves one. Every highlight, note, and bookmark is private to your account and synced to every device you sign in on. Arrange the shelf by hand.
YOURS, OFFLINE
Download the books and every hour of audio to your device. Use it in Airplane Mode.
IN YOUR LANGUAGE
The books and the companion journals are in thirteen languages. Open Extras, then Translations, and add an edition to your shelf: its opening chapters are free to read, and the rest comes with the book you already own.
THE FEED
Stan's posts, open to everyone, with no algorithm deciding whether you see them. Behind them, a members-only community for adults who read the books: posts, comments, reactions and private messages, every post screened before it appears. No ads, no strangers. On your first visit you choose how you appear, the real name from your order or a pen name made on the spot, and you can switch post by post.
THE ESSAYS
Stan's essays, in the app and on the web, set in the reader's own typography, with audio where it exists. Some are kept for readers with a book.
THE FORGE
Turn the line that rewired you into a wallpaper for your lock screen or a card worth posting.
THE EXTRAS
The printable companion journals, the FAQ and the wallpapers live beside the books.
HOW ACCESS WORKS
This app sells nothing. It is a reader for books you already own. Sign in with the email you used at checkout and your shelf fills itself.
PRIVATE BY PRINCIPLE
It carries no ads, tracks nothing, runs no analytics, and sends no push notifications. There are no streaks and nothing engineered to pull you back in. You open it because you decided to do the work, and it gets out of the way while you do.
To your power and freedom,
Stan Taylor
The Wire, in the app. A new tab sits between the Feed and the Deck. Every day the Wire takes the news apart the way The Black Book of Power teaches you to read it: the words an outlet chose, the picture, the timing, and the chapter that answers it. Open any article to read the analysis, save the ones you want to keep, and share the ones that matter.
Ask the Wire. Seen an article that is working on people? Send its link with your reason, and a PDF or screenshots if it sits behind a subscription. A request is seen by Stan and the desk, never by other readers. If Stan takes it, a notification tells you and the desk takes it apart in a later analysis. Requests are open to signed-in readers with a book on their account.
Your profile, one tap away. Your face now sits at the top right of every page, signed in or not. Its menu opens your profile and Settings, which moved out of the bottom bar to make room for the Wire.
Yours to switch off. In Settings you can hide the Wire on this device, or remove it from your account for good.
Read it. A card of The Black Deck can be hard to read on a small screen. Tap Read it on an open card, or on a card you carry, and its words open as plain text in your phone's own text size and your app's language.
Also: the Feed now opens up to date, and the line that counts new posts appears only for posts that arrive while you read. A comment's last line is no longer cut off on iPhone. A post's comment count matches the comments you can open.
The developer, Hashtag Publishing LLC, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Hashtag Publishing LLC
- Size
- 83.6 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.4 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
18+
- 18+
- Frequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Infrequent
Realistic Violence
Medical Treatment information
Sexual Content or Nudity
Contains
Messaging and Chat
User-Generated Content
Health or Wellness Topics
Social Media
- Copyright
- © 2026 Hashtag Publishing LLC
