Read It Quick app for iPhone and iPad

-- Warning! This is an iOS extension that triggers when long tapping an URL. So far, not a lot of applications support that, the most famous being Tweetbot.

Read It Quick allows you start reading any article in less than half a second, saving you time, battery life and data. Thats more time you can spend with your family, friends, or doing whatever weird stuff youre into. Really, its pretty crazy to have a supercomputer in your pocket, and yet have to wait 5s for it to load an article, especially if you just want to skim through it.

With the Web, we may well have invented the worst compression algorithm that ever existed.

The average CNN article weighs 3.8MB. Thats right, almost 4 freakin megabytes. Were not talking about the whole Lord of Rings collection here, but about an article shy of 1000 words long. The thing should weigh 5kB tops. Did I mention it also connected to 15 different domains, mostly ad trackers? Hell, the thing might even pull your credit record when you just wanna *read the article already*.

Oh and dont get me started on the strain it puts on your battery too. Youve got no idea how much of a struggle it is for your phone to load its browser, make all these connections, receive these 4 megabytes, interpret and show them.