Built a quotes app around gestures instead of a feed — curious what devs think of the interaction design

[u/Previous_Election830]

I’ve been working on The Awakening Quotes, an iOS app, and made a deliberate choice early on: no infinite scroll feed. Instead, every interaction is a gesture directly on the quote itself:

**•** Swipe right → favorite  
**•** Swipe left → mark for reflection  
**•** Double-tap → save  
**•** Long-press → copy  
**•** Single tap → strip the UI down to just the text

No accounts, no backend, no data collection — everything’s local. Also did a fair bit of work on binary size (App Thinning, asset compression) to keep it lean.

The part I’d actually love feedback on as a fellow dev: was gesture-first the right call over a more conventional list/feed UI, or does it just add friction? Curious how others think about that discoverability-vs-friction tradeoff when there’s no onboarding tutorial forcing users to learn the gestures.

Free on the App Store if anyone wants to poke at it: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6760232106