Helperbird: Accessibility & Productivity App

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

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.

By:
Helperbird
Users:
44,523+ 5.29K
Rating:
3.50
(41)
Version:
2025.4.24 Last updated: 2025-04-23
Creation date:
2022-01-13
Risk:
Moderate risk impact Low risk likelihood
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

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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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