Reviews of Bionic Reader

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List of user reviews and ratings for Bionic Reader

Total ratings

3.87 (Rating count: 60)

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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: 3.87

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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.