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A short session from the topics you already watch. Two taps from the Home tab.
What it is
An app that hands you one queue and then stops
ration is a curated library of short educational video, wrapped in a timer. The library is browsable at any hour. The session is the part that makes it finish.
The session
You set the boundary before you start
A session begins with three choices: how long, on what, from where. ration builds a queue that fits the duration and plays it in order. A Live Activity keeps the remaining time on the Lock Screen, so the clock lives outside the app. At the end there is a short summary and an escape route back to what you were doing.
Deep dive
A longer run on one subject, sequenced so the pieces build on each other.
Daily ration
One session assembled each day by the editor, on a theme.
The app
Four tabs
- Home
- The daily ration, anything you left unfinished, and a quick start for the session you take most often.
- Explore
- The library by topic, by creator, and by constellation, which is a group of topics that sit near each other.
- Plans
- Multi-session courses on one subject, in a fixed order. Plans are part of the subscription. Every video inside one stays open to everyone.
- Palate
- What your watching adds up to, drawn as a taste radar. It stays on your account. It shapes your own recommendations and nobody else's.
Free and paid
Every link stays open
The free tier lets you browse every category, open any video, and run two guided sessions a day. No video link sits behind a paywall, even after the two sessions are used. Ration Plus, the subscription, adds unlimited sessions, custom session lengths, curated plans, every theme, and a For You feed ranked by your palate.
Pricing appears at launch. Subscription terms, trial length and price
will be listed here and in the App Store listing.
Curation
How a video gets in
Approval happens per kind of video, not per channel. A creator whose documentary work is careful can still make argument videos that do not belong here, and both judgements are recorded separately. Categories with a high density of pseudoscience carry a blocklist. Credentials count, and sourcing rigour can outweigh them.