Built for Apple TV

Read the web
from your couch.

Marquee Reader turns your Apple TV into a calm, beautiful place to follow your favorite sites — with gorgeous typography, a one-word-at-a-time speed-reading mode, and an iPhone companion to pocket anything for later.

Coming soon to Apple TV on the App Store

Marquee Reader dashboard on Apple TV showing unread counts and recent activity

Speed reading, built in

Stream an article one word at a time with the optimal-recognition-point letter highlighted. Read faster without lifting a finger.

Made for the remote

Every screen is designed around the Siri Remote — swipe to browse, click to read, hold to share. No keyboard gymnastics.

Private by design

Your feeds live on your Apple TV. No account, no tracking, no ads — sync to your own devices through iCloud, and nothing else.

Speed-reading mode showing a single word with its key letter highlighted in red
Speed-reading mode with words-per-minute and a progress bar

Speed Reading

One word at a time.
A whole article in minutes.

Engage speed-reading mode and the article streams to the center of the screen, one word at a time. Each word's Optimal Recognition Point is highlighted in amber and pinned to a fixed reticle, so your eyes never move — the part that normally eats most of your reading time.

  • Dial the pace from a calm 100 up to 900 words per minute
  • Swipe up or down on the remote to change speed live
  • Skip or rewind by sentence; pause to see the words around you
  • Smart pauses on commas and full stops keep meaning intact

A reader you'll want to look at

Typography worthy of the big screen.

Articles are rendered natively — headings, pull quotes, code, lists and inline images all laid out for a TV, not crammed into a web view. Pick the look that suits the room and settle in.

  • Four typefaces: System, Serif, Avenir and Casual
  • Four themes: Dark, Black, Sepia and Light
  • Five text sizes, from Small to Huge
  • Inline images, plus audio and video playback
An article open in Marquee Reader with an inline image and body text
Settings showing font, text size and theme options
The unread list showing recent articles from across all feeds

Always up to date

Everything new, at a glance.

A dashboard greets you with what's unread, what arrived today, and how your feeds are doing. Marquee fetches politely in the background — honoring each feed's cache and back-off rules — so it's quietly current whenever you sit down.

  • Unread, Today, This Week and per-feed counts
  • A screensaver of rotating headlines and a clock
  • Conditional fetches that respect each site's schedule
  • Mark all read, star, and jump between articles instantly

Marquee for iPhone

Send any story to your pocket.

Found something you'd rather read on the move? Send it to your iPhone in a tap. The free companion app keeps an inbox of everything you've pushed from the TV — and quietly keeps your subscriptions in sync, both ways.

  • "Send to iPhone" — over iCloud, or scan a QR code on any phone
  • A push notification and a tidy inbox of saved articles
  • Add a feed on either device; it shows up on the other
  • No sign-up — it rides on your own iCloud account
Marquee Reader app icon

Everything in the box

RSVP speed reading

Spritz-style word streaming with an ORP highlight, 100–900 WPM, and sentence seek.

Native rendering

Headings, quotes, code blocks, lists and images laid out for the TV — no web view.

Feed auto-discovery

Paste a site's address and Marquee finds the feed for you.

OPML import

Bring your whole subscription list over from any other reader in one go.

Folders & search

Group feeds into folders and find anything with keyword search.

Themes & type

Four typefaces, four themes and five text sizes to match any room.

Polite syncing

Conditional GETs, cache-control awareness and error back-off — easy on every server.

Media playback

Inline images plus podcast audio and video, right inside the reader.

Screensaver

Rotating headlines and a clock keep the room alive while you're away.

iPhone companion

Send articles to your phone and keep subscriptions in sync, both ways.

On-device storage

Your library lives on the Apple TV — no servers, no accounts.

iCloud sync

Device-to-device sync runs on your own iCloud — private and yours.

No accounts. No tracking. No ads.

Marquee Reader doesn't have a backend. It keeps your feeds and articles on your Apple TV, and uses your own iCloud only to talk to your iPhone. The web, the way it was meant to be — quietly yours.

Almost here

Coming soon to Apple TV.

Marquee Reader is landing on the App Store soon. Want a heads-up the moment it drops?

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