Àlócura one essay a day

One good essay a day,
chosen for you.

Àlócura scans the web every day for essays that match your taste in literature, and delivers one good one to you. Tell our tortoise the writers and books you love, and every essay arrives with the reason it was chosen.

LONGREADS
L.R.B.LOLWE
THE NEW YORKER
GRANTA
THE DIALMOTHERWELLAEON
THE ATLANTIC
HARPER’S
THE REPUBLIC
THE PARIS REVIEW
BRITTLE PAPERCHIMURENGA
SUBSTACK
THE NEW YORK TIMES
HARVARD REVIEWCATAPULT
THE RUMPUS
HIMAL SOUTHASIAN
WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS
…and the wide open web

Tell Ìjàpá what you love.

Two minutes now, one good essay every morning after that.

WHEN SHOULD IT ARRIVE?
your first essay arrives by email at the time you choose. once the app is ready, you’ll be the first to know.
HOW IT WORKS

Tell us who you love

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to Paul Graham, from Treasure Island to any popular nonfiction that rhymes. Tell us who and what you love.

Ìjàpá brings the essay

Every day our tortoise arrives with one essay chosen for you, and tells you exactly why it was picked.

Read, keep, return

Highlight what moves you and keep it forever in your commonplace book. Finish the essay and keep a streak, to build a habit that feeds you.

This is what tomorrow morning looks like.

With Àlócura, an essay a day is guaranteed to land in your inbox.

READ IT →

He is packed and waiting.

Give our tortoise three writers and he starts tomorrow.

A FEW HONEST ANSWERS
WHAT IT COSTSNothing. There is no card to give and no plan to choose.
WHERE ESSAYS COME FROMThe open web. Every essay links back to the publisher who paid for it, and we send you there to read it.
HOW OFTEN WE EMAIL YOUOnce a day, at the time you choose. One click stops it, and nothing else happens.
WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR TASTEWe choose your essays with it. We do not sell it, and we do not need anything else about you.