Scroll Quest
Coming soon to iPhone

Earn your scroll.

A short puzzle, or one question on something you want to get better at, right before the apps that eat your time open.

How it works

  1. Pick the apps

    Choose the apps that pull you in. Apple's own picker does the choosing, so Scroll Quest never learns which ones.

  2. Do one small thing

    Open one and a Scroll Quest screen covers it. Tap through and a 30 to 90 second task is waiting: a crossword, a mental maths sum, one question on a subject you care about.

  3. Scroll, earned

    Finish and the app opens for the time you chose. Over a month that is hundreds of small lessons you never had to schedule.

Ten kinds of puzzle, all free

Every puzzle is built into the app and works offline. They get harder when you are on a roll and easier when you are not.

Also logic grids, number sequences, mini sudoku, word ladders, anagrams, and short facts with one question to check you read them.

Or learn something you picked

With Premium, the task can be a question on SQL, a short lesson on the planets, a step of a negotiation course, or five words in a language you are learning. Pick up to five topics and how much of each you want. Words and answers you miss come back sooner, so they stick.

Work skills
SQL, Excel, statistics, personal finance, negotiation, public speaking and more.
Interests
Astronomy, history, wine, chess, music theory, philosophy and more.
Exam prep
SAT, ACT and GRE vocabulary, AP subjects and driving theory.
Languages
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Arabic and Hindi to start, from first words to upper intermediate.

Lessons are written by AI and checked by a separate review step before you see them. Every one is labelled, and one tap reports a mistake.

Your own notes, after launch

Paste your notes, add a PDF or a photo of a page, and get a deck. Scroll Quest turns them into flashcards and quiz questions, then schedules them for you. This is planned for an update after launch, for Premium. Notes you add are sent to our servers to make your cards.

Rules you set, and keep

Block all day, or only when your phone gets in the way: weekdays 9 am to 6 pm, every night from 10. Choose how often a task is needed: every open, every few minutes, once an hour or once a day. Make up to three groups with their own rules.

Strict mode locks your rules for an hour, until midnight, a day or a week. You cannot loosen them or turn it off early. It cannot stop you deleting the app, and we would rather say so.

Need a way out? You get three skips a day, each after a short wait. An emergency switch turns everything off until midnight, and your weekly review shows when you used it.

Every rule is free.

See it add up

A streak for every day you finish at least one task. A Sunday review of your week, with one suggestion for your rules. A countdown on your lock screen while an app is open.

Every number comes from Scroll Quest itself. Apple does not tell us what you do in other apps, so where we estimate, we say so.

Everything that blocks is free

The free app is a complete blocker with puzzles. Premium is for learning what you choose.

Free

  • Every rule: schedules, groups, strict mode, skips
  • Ten kinds of puzzle, offline
  • Streaks, stats and the weekly review
  • No ads

Premium

  • Languages and topics you choose, up to five at a time
  • Spaced repetition for the words and answers you miss
  • Fuller explanations, with sources
  • Your own skip rules: wait length and skips per day
  • Sync across your devices

Premium comes with a 7-day free trial. Prices will be on the App Store at launch.

What we can and cannot see

Cannot
Which apps you picked. Apple hands us opaque tokens that never leave your phone.
Cannot
What you do inside other apps, your screen, your contacts or your location.
Can
Your puzzles, streaks and chosen topics, synced to your account so a new phone picks up where you left off.

Read the privacy policy.

One email when it launches

No newsletter. We send one email when Scroll Quest is on the App Store, then delete your address.

Get the launch email