Built for the screen
you can read outside.

Why most apps look wrong on it

A reflective display shows you the light already in the room. That rewards a very particular set of choices and punishes the opposite ones. Pure white backgrounds glare. Thin grey text on grey cards disappears. Animations smear. Interfaces that assume a bright, saturated, backlit panel end up feeling washed out and busy on a screen that behaves more like paper.

What Lantern does differently

• Warm paper, not white. The light theme is a cream ground with near black ink, which is what a reflective panel renders best.
• An amber accent. The one colour in the interface sits in the same warm register as the DC1 amber backlight, so nothing fights the screen at night.
• No motion in the reader. Nothing slides, fades or reflows while you are reading a page, and the landing page glow switches itself off when your system asks for reduced motion.
• Text you can size. Five steps from smaller to much larger, and the column widens with the text so a line never collapses to four words.
• One serif, one measure. Articles are set in a single reading face at a comfortable line length, the way a book is.

Nothing to install

Lantern is a web app. Open it in the DC1 browser, sign in, and add it to your home screen if you want it to open like an app. There is no store listing to wait for and no sideloading. The same account and the same reading positions follow you to a phone or a laptop.

How people actually use it here

Find something worth reading on a laptop during the day, paste the link into Lantern, and it is waiting on the tablet in the evening or outside the next morning, without the ads and pop-ups that make a reflective screen feel like hard work.

If you arrived here because Pocket shut down, the Pocket alternative page covers what carries over and what does not.