The Best Speed Reading App for Entrepreneurs in 2026
Skillshot Reader is the best speed reading app for entrepreneurs who want to read faster and improve productivity, without sacrificing comprehension. It utilizes RSVP, a well-researched technique, and other techniques based on actual scientific research and how people actually read. Plus, it's quite fun! If you want to fix slow reading speeds, read more books in less time, and enjoy reading way more, this app is for you.
Got 10 minutes? That's enough to start picking up speed.
This Speed Reading App Was Built For Entrepreneurs
As an entrepreneur, you're busy enough. You don't need something that's going to take up tons of your time. You need a tool that helps you quickly. We don't aim to bog you down with unnecessary features and more stuff to do. We want to get you results fast.
Skillshot Reader was created over two years ago (in 2023), and since then we have looked deeply into reading science and psychology to create the most effective reading tools for entrepreneurs.
In fact, this app was built specifically for fixing slow reading speeds, in order to be able to read nonfiction books faster and with less struggle. The endless frustration of "reading slow", constant re-reading, and losing focus was a lifelong struggle with no solution in sight.
Entrepreneurs tend to read non-fiction books like Russell Brunson's Traffic Secrets or Magnetic Marketing by Dan Kennedy, and our software was built to help you read books like that faster.
How It Works: Two Ways to Speed Up Your Reading
Skillshot Reader helps you read faster in two key ways:
- Read faster inside the app. Paste text or upload PDFs directly into the software and read them at accelerated speeds. No waiting around to start seeing results.
- Read faster outside the app. Using the app trains your eyes and brain to process text more efficiently. When you go read a physical book or a website, you'll naturally and automatically begin to read faster, saving you time and frustration.
| What you need | How Skillshot Reader helps |
|---|---|
| Start fast, with no setup hassle | It's web-based. No installs. Open it on any desktop, laptop, phone, or tablet and begin. |
| Customizable speed | Everyone reads at different speeds. You can adjust it to your liking, and slow it down or pump it up to 2,000 words/min if you really wanted to. |
| FUN | This one is underrated. Everyone loves to have fun, and this app is known as fun. There is some gamification to it, but also the way it's designed, is so that you can have fun reading faster. Training sticks better when it's fun. |
| Works with digital content | Upload PDFs, paste emails, articles, docs, or book excerpts and read them in the app. |
| Training that carries over to books | This app helps you practice in a way that transfers core skills necessary for reading speed to your everyday normal reading. |
Why Entrepreneurs Benefit From Speed Reading Training
Here are four of the biggest reasons why. The first one is obvious, but important. The second one, you've probably never thought of, at least in this context.
The first reason is you get through more content. If you're an entrepreneur, you can benefit financially by reading more books! Even if you aren't reading 5 to 6 hours per day like Warren Buffett, there are almost certainly books that would you accelerate in your field if you read them for even 15 minutes a day. Even just 10 minutes a day!
Not to mention the large amount of reading the typical entrepreneur is doing with AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude.
The second reason is a simple principle many people in business are familiar with. "How you do one thing is how you do everything."
Let's say you're reading a book, and you get an idea for your business. You go to implement on that idea, but you were just reading at a snails pace, how fast do you think you're going to move? You probably will need to gain momentum. Then you go back to reading, and you're back to reading at snails pace again. You get my drift.
The third reason is focus. One of the core reasons people struggle to read quickly is because of difficulty focusing. Training speed reading with Skillshot Reader improves your focus.
The fourth and final reason to mention right now is saving time. Another way to put it, like entrepreneur Myron Golden says, is "condensing timeframes". For example, if you could read 10 pages in 30 minutes, then if you read faster, you could spend let's say 15 or 20 minutes, maybe even less. Maybe you could read it in 5 minutes.
But if you read the same 10 pages in 30 minutes with greater speeds, you could read it once, then read it again. You could study the same material and extract more out of it. You could make a game-changing discovery that changes your financial future.
The most overlooked aspect of learning speed reading is what you get out of it. It's not just about getting through the books, it's about what you get out of the books.
And this might be more true for entrepreneurs than any other type of reader.
Gain leverage with speed reading
Two Reasons This Works (A Bit Of The Science Behind Skillshot Reader)
Skillshot Reader has quite a bit of science baked into it. We've spent quite a bit of time reading books most people would find so boring they wanted to cry. But we did it to help advance in speed reading, and you get to benefit!
Here are two science-backed ways that Skillshot Reader can help you read faster.
RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation)
RSVP shows one word at a time, and your eyes do not have to move in order to keep reading. The theory behind this is that part of the difficulty of reading faster is the eye movements. If your eyes don't have to move, you can read faster and process more information in less time.
In one study by Rubin & Turano in 1992, readers with normally-sighted people read an average of 1171 words/min with RSVP compared to regular static reading at an average of 303 words/min. 6 of the 13 people in the study were able to read at the maximum rate of 1652 words/min with at least 75% of comprehension questions correct.
Benefits have also been found in RSVP by low vision readers. Rubin and Turano also found in a study in 1994 that readers with central field loss (CFL) read an average of 1.5 times faster with RSVP. Visually impaired readers in the study without CFL read on average 2.1 times faster with RSVP.
Skillshot Reader positions each word using an Optimal Recognition Point (ORP) style alignment. This works because scientists have found that your eyes can read more to the right of your vision focus than to the left.
Guided Highlighting
Guided highlighting keeps full sentences on screen, but moves a highlight through the text at your chosen pace. It feels closer to normal reading, which is nice for long chapters, reports, or anything where you want more context per glance. Plus, you have the ability to easily reread.
Common Entrepreneur Use Cases
- Business books. Keep momentum through chapters and finish more books per month.
- Market notes and competitor docs. Scan for the few pages that matter.
- Contracts and policies. Move faster through the boring parts so you can focus on the risky parts.
- Long articles and newsletters. Get the main idea without losing half your morning.
Key Takeaways
- Skillshot Reader is built for busy entrepreneurs. Short sessions are enough to get started.
- Science-backed speed reading. Utilizes RSVP and guided highlighting.
- Use it for work and for training. Use it for short-term reading speed buffs today, and build faster reading skills over time.
Start Reading Faster Today
If you're serious about saving time, getting through more reading each week, and getting more out of your reading Skillshot Reader gives you a straightforward way to do it.
Turn reading into a daily advantage.