Skrollio

Skrollio is a reading app built on a simple idea: pay for the piece you want to read, not for a subscription you forget to cancel. Writers here are called Skribes, and what they publish are called Skrolls. Each Skroll has its own price, set by the person who wrote it. You buy the ones you want. They stay yours to re-read. BUY BY THE PIECE No monthly plan. No trial that quietly renews. No bundle of nine things you did not want wrapped around the one you did. Every Skroll shows its price up front, and buying takes one tap from a balance you have already topped up. Your purchases live in one place, and you can open them again whenever you like. Funds are added to your Skrollio balance on the web. Once there is a balance on your account, buying inside the app needs no card details and no payment steps. CHATEGORIES: READING, OUT LOUD Most reading apps stop at the last paragraph. Skrollio has Chategories - live chat rooms organised by subject, where the people who read this stuff talk to each other. - Rooms by topic: Science & Technology, Business & Finance, Health & Wellness, Education, Fashion & Entertainment, and more - Messages arrive live, so a conversation feels like a conversation - React with an emoji, reply to a specific message, and mention someone by their Skrollio Handle when you want their attention - Edit or delete something you just sent, within a short window - Pick your own handle - it is how people find you and tag you It is the part of reading that usually happens somewhere else, on a platform that never paid the writer anything. YOUR ROOM, YOUR RULES Chategories only works if it is somewhere you actually want to be, so moderation is built in rather than bolted on. - Block anyone, from any message. Blocking is symmetric: they disappear from your view, and you disappear from theirs. No half measures, no one-way mute that leaves you visible to someone you just walked away from. - Manage everyone you have blocked from one screen, and unblock just as easily. - Report a message or a Skroll in a few taps. Reports cover hate speech, harassment, spam, misinformation, violence, copyright and sensitive content, and are reviewed. - Rooms are public spaces and are moderated as such. FOLLOW THE WRITERS, NOT THE FEED Follow the Skribes whose work you keep buying and hear when they publish something new. Notifications tell you what changed - a reply, a mention, a new Skroll from someone you follow - and nothing else. FOR WRITERS If you write, Skrollio is somewhere to publish and be paid directly by the people who read you. Set your own price per Skroll. Write in a proper editor, with images. Publish when it is ready. Earnings from every sale land in your account, and the people who bought your work are in the rooms, ready to tell you what they thought. WHY WE BUILT IT Subscriptions ask you to bet on a publication. Advertising asks you to be the product. Skrollio asks for a few cents for a single piece of writing, and gives most of it to whoever wrote it. Read something worth reading. Pay the person who wrote it. Then go and talk about it with people who read it too.