Reviews of Bionic Reader

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Total ratings

3.85 (Rating count: 59)

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Review summary

Reviewers praise Bionic Reader for strong typography customization and persistent, free-use features, but report major compatibility issues, unreliable saving, weak site-control options, and occasional text duplication that hamper everyday use.

Pros

Strong typography customization across sites (emphasis styles and font choices).
Settings persist across sessions and can be easily reset to default.
Free to use and accessible.
Works across dynamic websites / broad site coverage.

Cons

Breaks or garbles pages on many sites (e.g., WhatsApp Web, YouTube, ChatGPT, Sudowrite, Substack, Medium).
Saving changes is unreliable or the save button is missing, so settings may not be retained.
Weak per-site controls: no wildcard support for blacklists, no easy page exclusion, and limited element-targeting options.
Text duplication or repeated text on certain pages that disrupts reading.

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 3.80

All time rating average: 3.85

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11% (7)

Date	Author	Comment
2025-12-18	Fi*****

2025-11-06	mn*****	Convoluted and user-unfriendly.
Convoluted and user-unfriendly.
2025-06-23	2a*****	This extension can be helpful but it prevents webpages from rendering TeX, making it useless for a lot of technical reading. I couldn't find a way to make it escape TeX characters easily, although it seems like something that should be doable.
This extension can be helpful but it prevents webpages from rendering TeX, making it useless for a lot of technical reading. I couldn't find a way to make it escape TeX characters easily, although it seems like something that should be doable.
2025-05-14	Sa*****	THANK YOU! This is a game changer!
THANK YOU! This is a game changer!
2025-04-15	IN*****	it has rich customization features (you can set your letters bolded just like you want). and keeps previous versions with changelogs! although i find dark mode to be somewhat redundant, since it's not the extension's main selling point, but a nice bonus nonetheless, i guess. i second one other commenter's suggestion to make an option to switch from bold to italics or make highlighting use a different font edit. it also doesn't paste the bold html tags into wherever you're pasting the text from a page into, which is great and what i need
it has rich customization features (you can set your letters bolded just like you want). and keeps previous versions with changelogs! although i find dark mode to be somewhat redundant, since it's not the extension's main selling point, but a nice bonus nonetheless, i guess. i second one other commenter's suggestion to make an option to switch from bold to italics or make highlighting use a different font edit. it also doesn't paste the bold html tags into wherever you're pasting the text from a page into, which is great and what i need
2025-03-23	远离*****

2025-03-14	No*****	Nice addon. Does what Iwant it to do. Though, something I would like to see would be to customize what the emphasis visual manifestation would be. You see, some websites may have many text rendered in bold by their design, which makes the bionic text not stand out as they should be. At the very least, I'd like to be able to choose between bold and italic, as not many design trends make use of italics. But if you really think you can take down the challenge, perhaps you could implement a custom open tag and end tag option that would sandwich the emphasized tesxt (ex: example -> ::exa::mple (this is a crazy example but the feature is empty and disabled by default and is up to the user)) or emphasize the text with another font entirely ! (if that is even possible). But if we really want to stay grounded, perhaps the most Minimum Viable Product for my feature requiest would be for me, the user, to be able to choose the Emphasis style between: bold, italics, and background highlighting (as if I was using a highlighter). This might require some rethinking of the extension UI as most actual options would be relevant for the bold style.
Nice addon. Does what Iwant it to do. Though, something I would like to see would be to customize what the emphasis visual manifestation would be. You see, some websites may have many text rendered in bold by their design, which makes the bionic text not stand out as they should be. At the very least, I'd like to be able to choose between bold and italic, as not many design trends make use of italics. But if you really think you can take down the challenge, perhaps you could implement a custom open tag and end tag option that would sandwich the emphasized tesxt (ex: example -> ::exa::mple (this is a crazy example but the feature is empty and disabled by default and is up to the user)) or emphasize the text with another font entirely ! (if that is even possible). But if we really want to stay grounded, perhaps the most Minimum Viable Product for my feature requiest would be for me, the user, to be able to choose the Emphasis style between: bold, italics, and background highlighting (as if I was using a highlighter). This might require some rethinking of the extension UI as most actual options would be relevant for the bold style.
2025-02-09	退出*****

2025-01-31	Fi*****	Tá deixando todos os sites cinza, tá adionando a linha de codigo "background-color: rgb(48, 56, 65) !important;" no body e tá irritando bastante, desativei
Tá deixando todos os sites cinza, tá adionando a linha de codigo "background-color: rgb(48, 56, 65) !important;" no body e tá irritando bastante, desativei
2024-12-29	Ze*****	A lot of options, which is good, but maybe the defaults can be tweaked - imo. Also needs a "Exclude this page" button. Pages break every now and then and you have manually open the menu, switch to advanced and copy the url in.
A lot of options, which is good, but maybe the defaults can be tweaked - imo. Also needs a "Exclude this page" button. Pages break every now and then and you have manually open the menu, switch to advanced and copy the url in.