Helperbird: Accessibility & Productivity App

Name: Helperbird: Accessibility & Productivity App
Rating: 3.5 (41 reviews)
Author: Helperbird

Improve your reading, writing & accessibility. Including Immersive Reader, Summarize, Dyslexia support and more.

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Helperbird is an all-in-one Chrome extension designed to enhance accessibility and productivity for everyone. It offers a variety of personalized tools tailored to individual abilities and learning styles, such as dyslexia support, voice typing, immersive reading modes, summarization, rewording, text extraction, and text-to-speech functionalities.

With over 30 powerful features, Helperbird improves reading by reducing distractions, adjusting text display, and providing specialized rulers and overlays. Writing aids like spell check, word prediction, and voice typing help users communicate effectively. The extension prioritizes accessibility with options for high-contrast themes, color blindness controls, cursor adjustments, and more. Helperbird integrates seamlessly with popular platforms including Google Docs, Google Classroom, and Microsoft Word Online, supporting users in education and professional environments. Privacy-conscious and compliant with global regulations, Helperbird is a versatile tool helping users navigate the web with ease and confidence.

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Version:

2025.4.24 Last updated: 2025-04-23

Creation date:

2022-01-13

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
storage
contextMenus
alarms
sidePanel
scripting

Host permissions:

http://*/*
*://*/*
https://*/*
<all_urls>

Size:

15.47M

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

See detailed description ⏷

Source:

Edge Add-on Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 702 ▲ 40

Other rankings

#4 in Tools for teachers

#6 in Learning tools for everyone

#9 in Make the web accessible

#27 in Get grammar and education tools ▼ 14

#3 in pdf grayscale keyword 7

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Helperbird: Accessibility & Productivity App (v2025.5.7)

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(164)

Helperbird: Accessibility & Productivity App (v2025.5.7)

821 3.81

(37)

User reviews

Helperbird offers valuable productivity and accessibility features, receiving praise for its immersive reader and responsive support. However, users express dissatisfaction with paywalled features, unreliable audio controls, and non-functional immersive reader modes. Font support issues and aggressive promotion of premium options further detract from the experience. Overall, it helps many users, especially in educational contexts, but has notable usability and transparency issues.

Pros

Provides useful productivity and accessibility tools
Includes immersive reader functionality
Support and customer service are responsive and helpful
Some free features like colour overlay and line ruler are available
Helpful for educational purposes, making learning enjoyable for children

Cons

Some essential features like colour overlay are behind a paywall without clear indication
Audio playback controls have bugs, e.g., stop button doesn't work properly
Immersive reader and reader mode sometimes do not function as expected
OpenDyslexic font support is unreliable on many websites
User interface heavily promotes premium features, causing user frustration

Recent reviews

Awesome extension! It offers really useful tools for productivity, and the accessibility is amazing.

by Jonathan, 2025-04-21

love

by Edward, 2024-11-23

Wrote a review on the Chrome store and thought I needed to write a review here too. This is a great immersive reader extension, and the support is great!

by Aaron, 2024-11-21

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Helperbird: Accessibility & Productivity App requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
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Risk likelihood

Helperbird: Accessibility & Productivity App has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.
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