Reader View

Reader View

Strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability

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What is Reader View?
'Reader View' is a Chrome extension designed to provide a distraction-free reading experience. It strips away unnecessary elements such as buttons, background images, and ads, and optimizes the text size, layout, and contrast. It's equipped with handy tools that allow you to personalize the reading mode. You can also save content in HTML format, email documents, use a Text to Speech engine, add notes, highlight text, and more. Ideal for long reads, informative articles, and educational content.
Stats
Users: 300,000+
Version: 0.7.5 (Last updated: 2023-12-24)
Creation date: 2020-03-29
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • scripting
  • contextMenus
  • notifications
  • declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
Size: 286.72K
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Reader View (v1.0.7)
4.00 (22) 2,149+
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Reader View (v0.7.5)
4.80 (31) 68,297+
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Reader View extension brings Mozilla's open-source Readability implantation to Chromium. Using this extension you can strip clutters from webpages and read them on "Reader View" mode. The extension allows you to toggle between normal view and reader view by pressing the page-action button.

Note that reader view mode works best for web pages that have a lot of content. There are some tools in the left side panel that can help you personalize your Reader View. You can change color, background-color, font-size, font-family and width of the reader view.

Features: -> Remove distraction -> Read in fullscreen mode -> Remove advertisements -> Save in HTML format -> Print document -> Read content using a powerful Text to Speech (TTS) engine -> Edit HTML content (live editor) -> Email document (with title, body, and reference to the original document) -> Correctly display mathematical formulas (MathJax equations are Supported) -> Highlight selected text

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User reviews
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These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Customizable font, color, and size options
  • Useful for saving educational and informational resources
  • Ability to summarize highlighted parts of an article into a concise summary
Cons
  • Bugs in TTS system, including jitters and inability to read titles
  • Struggles to work on Firefox and Librewolf browsers
  • Reader view is broken and takes only 50% of the text
Most mentioned
  • Customizable font, color, and size options
  • TTS system bugs
  • Useful for saving educational and informational resources
Recent reviews
absolutely Amazing!!!!
by Matz Splatz Matz Splatz, 2024-01-22

Genau das, was ich gebraucht habe. Sehr flexibel.
by Derek Lesho Derek Lesho, 2024-06-08

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by Abner Wirtz Abner Wirtz, 2024-06-08
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Safety
Risk impact

Reader View is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Reader View has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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