Read-it-later apps are for those times when you come across an article you want to read but can’t get around to it at the time. You can save the article to the app and open it later when you have time to read something. These apps usually cache a version of the article so you can read it offline.

Every major read-it-later service I know of—Pocket, Instapaper, and the emerging Omnivore (which is great for reading newsletters)—relies on a web-based version with a user account. But that’s not the case with Flyleaf, which saves your articles to an Apple device, with syncing via iCloud. The developer, Max Melzer, told me the app doesn’t collect any user data at all, which is also a plus.

None of this matters if the reading experience is bad, though, and that’s exactly what I like about Flyleaf. By default, the focus is on “book-like pagination,” meaning that as you read, you “turn” the page left and right instead of scrolling down. Melzer told me that this kind of reading is “superior for focused reading compared to continuous vertical scrolling, as it requires less scrolling and provides better spatial orientation,” and after playing with his app for a while, I tend to agree. That said, you can disable the feature in settings.

There are a couple of other great things here. The app uses Apple’s sharing functionality, so there are no plugins needed to save articles. When you finish an article, you’re offered the RSS feed for the source material, which is something I’ve never seen in any other app and really appreciate. There’s also support for Apple Shortcuts, which means you can build your own automations to do things like add articles to your reading queue.