Paper makes a Pixel feel like an e-paper reader. Grayscale everywhere, a grainy paper surface instead of a wallpaper, and a home screen that reads like a book’s table of contents — and actually lets you read a book on it.
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· ask, and it answers on this page ·
try “when should I leave for the dentist?”
or “add a task: email the Hort”
a scripted demo — swipe the page; tap the book to turn it, and
the clock page keeps your place.
the agent sheet needs your own Gemini key on a real phone
Two kids; school runs on Tuesdays. Answer plainly, never hedge.
Repos are re-read on every question; push a change and the agent knows it. When you tell it something lasting, it writes it back — and a push puts it in your history, not a vendor’s.
A full agent in a Linux sandbox — it browses, runs code, reads your calendar — with questions in the margin voice and answers typeset like the book. Speak instead of typing, if you like.
Its memory is a git repository you own. The secretary reads its knowledge from your repos and, when you tell it something lasting, writes it back — your life, versioned in markdown, on your own GitHub. Nothing sits in anyone else’s database.
Hand it the day’s notes and it returns a ledger: loops closed with researched answers, or reduced to one clear decision. Say research … and it disappears for a few minutes and comes back with a report.
It runs on your own Gemini API key, and there is no version where it doesn’t. You create the key at Google AI Studio, paste it into Paper’s settings, and Google bills you directly for what you ask — Paper never sees the traffic and takes no cut. Knowledge repositories mean git repositories you own and push to.
That makes this half of Paper a tinkerer’s feature, and it’s sold as one. If handling an API key isn’t something you want to do, buy Paper for the pages — the launcher, the book, the index, the quiet — and leave the agent switched off, where it ships.
Every one of them ships turned off. Paper does nothing until you ask.
No icons. No widgets. No animations. No analytics.
The point is what isn’t here. E-paper does not shimmer — which is why nothing on this page moves, either.
Bought once, like a book. No subscription, no trial that expires, no second tier to unlock — every feature on this page is in the app you buy.
Get it on Google Play →Android 13 or newer. Built for Pixels — the grain shader needs API 33.
What you buy is the launcher. The pages, the book, the index, the paper — all of it works the moment you install it, with nothing to configure and no account to make.
Two things ask something of you. System-wide grayscale needs one permission Android only grants over a cable — or from the phone to itself in about five minutes, which Paper walks you through. And the secretary needs your own Gemini API key, billed to you by Google: a tinkerer’s feature, off by default, and no part of what makes Paper worth using otherwise.
Nothing is collected. No analytics, no accounts, no advertising, no crash reports — the app has nowhere to send anything. The privacy policy is one short page, and it is the whole story.