About Chunking Express
A reading app for long writing, served in pieces you can actually finish.
What it does
Paste a link to an article, an essay, a wiki page or a public-domain book. Chunking Express pulls the text out of the page, finds the natural seams in it — where a heading closes, where a thought ends — and cuts there. You read one short chunk at a time instead of scrolling a wall of text, and the app keeps your place. If a cut lands somewhere you do not like, you can move it. If you would rather listen, the app reads to you with your device's own voice and turns the page when a chunk ends, so your hands stay free.
Who it is for
It is for anyone who wants to read more than they manage to: students working through dense reading lists, commuters with five-minute stretches of quiet, people who find a very long page hard to hold in one sitting, and readers who lose their place easily. It also suits readers who prefer listening with a screen reader or text-to-speech, and book clubs that want everyone moving through the same book at the same pace with shared checkpoints.
Who builds it
Chunking Express is designed and built by tara.city LLC, an independent studio. It grew out of a simple annoyance: good long writing kept going unfinished, not because it was dull but because the shape of it, one endless scroll, made it easy to abandon. The crown-and-scissors mascot is the whole idea in one picture: a reader taking a long scroll and snipping it into pieces small enough to carry.
What it deliberately does not do
It does not rewrite, summarize or reword what you read. The words stay exactly as the author wrote them, and every piece remains the property of the person who made it. Editions hold text only — pictures stay on the original page — and nothing you paste is used to profile you or sold to anyone. Reading should be quiet, and the app tries to stay out of the way.