A feed worth scrolling.
Lore is an iPhone app that replaces doomscrolling with short, true stories. The same scroll you already do — except you finish it knowing something you didn’t.
Download on the App StoreiPhone only. Free to download; a subscription unlocks the full feed.
The librarian who walked a thousand miles for books
In Depression-era Kentucky, pack-horse librarians rode into the hills to deliver reading to families the roads never reached.
How it works
Open it instead
The queue, the ad break, the ten minutes before bed. Wherever the reach for your phone usually goes, this goes there.
Swipe through real stories
Short cards about people, history, science, space, and art — things that actually happened. If one catches you, tap it and read the whole story.
Come away with something
That’s the difference. Ten minutes of doomscrolling leaves you with nothing; ten minutes here leaves you knowing something you can actually use.
The scroll isn’t the problem
What arrives is. Scrolling is just a way of asking for something new every few seconds — a reasonable thing to want. The trouble is that the usual feeds answer with outrage, envy, and noise. Lore answers with something true.
You actually learn something
This is the whole mechanism. Deleting an app fails because it takes something away and gives nothing back. A feed that leaves you knowing more than you did survives past the first week, because it stops being time you resent.
Tuned to curiosity, not engagement
The feed leans toward the subjects you actually finish, not the ones that hold you longest. There are no ads in it, so nothing is being optimised for how long you stay.
One daily read
One notification a day, at a time you choose, with one story worth your attention. Not a feed of alerts engineered to pull you back in.
Who it’s for
For anyone who puts the phone down annoyed at themselves — not because the time was long, but because it bought nothing. Lore assumes the habit stays and makes it pay. It’s a swap for a bad feed, not a treatment for addiction — if your phone use is affecting your health, talk to a professional.
Questions? Read the FAQ