The second life of the things you’ve been meaning to read.
The articles in your bookmarks. The PDFs you downloaded and never opened. The thing the AI told you on Tuesday. Skim distils each one into a card — the idea it is really about, and the lines that earn it — then hands them back to you one at a time, for as long as you want to keep going.
An Android app by Muhammad Shah, in testing on Google Play. Not public yet.
Seven ways in
Everything you add ends up in the same place — a card in your feed.
| You have | Skim takes it as |
|---|---|
| A link, or anything shared from another app | The page fetched and distilled, with the article kept so you can read it in full |
| A PDF you downloaded and never opened | One concept per card, each citing the page it came from |
| A screenshot of a paragraph | The text read off the image, and the photo kept beside it |
| A newsletter in your inbox | Forwarded to an address that is yours alone, headings and links intact |
| A ChatGPT or Claude conversation | The turns, with the code blocks, tables and artifacts still in them |
| Your X bookmarks | Connected once, then synced and distilled like everything else |
| A site you follow | Its new posts, checked every hour and distilled as they arrive |
Pieces you keep land in a library. A line you loved goes to a commonplace book, and Skim returns it to you once you have had time to forget it.
It comes back when you want it
A card you have read — kept, opened, or swiped past — stays out of your feed until the time you chose has passed: six hours, a day, a month, or any span you set. Then it comes back, one card in every three so new reading never stops, marked with when you last read it. Swipe it away and it is gone for good.
What it looks like
Swipe right to keep a card, left to let it go, up to come back to it later. Tap to read the whole thing, or listen to it.
What it isn’t
No ads. Nothing sold. No feed of other people’s opinions. Just what you meant to read.
Your data
To build a card, the content you add is sent to third-party AI providers to be summarised. The privacy policy names every one of them, and everything else Skim stores.
You can delete your account and everything in it at any time, from inside the app or from here.