Apps to Use Instead of Doomscrolling on Your iPhone

#1 Headway I downloaded Headway on a day when I convinced myself that reading a few book summaries might cancel out the two hours I spent watching strangers argue in YouTube comments. Sadly, it didn’t. But the app stuck around anyway. Headway takes nonfiction books, the ones that usually require a commitment, a highlighter, and a tolerance for long-winded analogies, and then trims them down to just the key ideas. It’s not trying to make you a scholar. It’s just trying to make sure you walk away with something slightly more useful than a random reel on Instagram. Press enter or click to view image in full size You set any goal you have, like being less of a mess, making more money, and understanding people without decoding trauma textbooks, and it curates summaries that lean into that. I usually use Headway when I’m chilling at the house and don’t have the mood to do anything. It’s kind of like a passive learning approach, but at least it doesn’t involve endless scrolling or articles that end with ‘what happens next will shock you.