Circle Reader

An extension that provides immersive reading to make you fall in love with reading on the web
What is Circle Reader?
Circle Reader is a free reading assistant Chrome extension that enhances the web page reading experience by providing a pure and enjoyable reading experience. It uses self-developed analysis and typesetting engines to offer smarter and faster recognition and typesetting capabilities. The extension includes multiple distinctive functions such as letter paper effect, multi-page analysis, reading by column, read aloud, customizable themes, and custom CSS. It also supports custom themes and system theme switch. Users can subscribe to updates and provide feedback through various channels, and the source code is hosted on Github.

Extension stats

Users: 20,000+
Rating: 4.57 (115)
Version: 3.2.3 (Last updated: 2024-08-30)
Creation date: 2021-02-26
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • scripting
  • contextMenus
  • fontSettings
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 1.88M

Other platforms

Circle reader (v2.7.0)
4.47 (53) 2,475+
Circle Reader (v3.2.3)
4.50 (80) 49,956+
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Extension summary

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The best free reading assistant (reader mode) that enhances the web page reading experience.

Ads are too distracting, the colors are too ugly, the fonts are too small to see clearly, the typography is too messy to find the text, does it really need to be so difficult to read the web? With just one click, Circle gives you the purest reading experience, escorting you to better reading.

Circle reading assistant can extract the content of the webpage and rearrange the layout into a more suitable interface for reading. Using self-developed analysis engine and typesetting engine, the recognition effect and typesetting ability are smarter, faster and more friendly. If you are looking for a lightweight and intelligent reading aid product, you might as well try Circle Reading Assistant-the best reading aid of its kind!

The reading assistant browser extension Circle, which is more powerful than the Safari reading mode, is an extension and improvement of the browser's own reading mode; it is the only magical tool for computers to read web pages, read novels, and watch news; it has shortcut key support, custom styles, Custom fonts, custom themes, automatic scrolling, automatic loading of the next page, reading aloud, article outline (outline), back to the top, reading by column, printing the formatted webpage in reading mode, supporting browser translation, etc. Reading auxiliary functions.

The self-developed analysis engine provides faster analysis and smarter analysis capabilities. The self-developed typesetting engine automatically blocks advertisements and noise on html, and says goodbye to the format escape. The Circle reading assistant browser extension developed by pure js has been launched on Google Chrome browser, Firefox browser, Edge browser, 360 browser, Opera browser, etc.

★ Several distinctive functions of Circle Reading Assistant: ➤ Self-developed recognition engine: With the help of self-developed recognition engine, Circle's recognition effect is smarter and the recognition speed is faster. ➤ Self-developed typesetting engine: With the help of self-developed typesetting engine, Circle's typesetting effect is more friendly and the typesetting speed is faster. ➤ Letter paper effect: a reading experience like reading a letter. ➤ Multi-page analysis: On a page with a link to the next page, the content of the next page is automatically parsed and displayed on the current page.

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User reviews

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
  • 视觉效果好,页面清爽
  • 功能强大,支持多页解析和智能识别页面
  • 用户体验超过了Safari的原生阅读模式
  • 可设置的选项丰富
  • 非常适合处理复杂排版的文章
Cons
  • 存在一些BUG,特别是在多页解析和全屏模式
  • 新版更新后控制台打印log影响使用体验
  • 一些字体设置不生效
  • 有用户体验不稳定的问题,可能导致浏览器界面异常
Most mentioned
  • 请求增加更多功能如翻译和章节导航
  • 希望改善BUG并优化用户体验
  • 提到Safari版插件的需求
Recent reviews
能出Safari版插件么
by Issac Lee, 2024-10-26

建议增加chatgpt 功能,带翻译,连接第三方,这样可以方便的阅读外文
by 土狗先生, 2024-09-25

很好用,但我个人需要看英文文档比较多,经常会用到沉浸式翻译这些插件,能增加在进入后还能使用这些插件的功能吗?
by rewriter, 2024-09-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Circle Reader requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Circle Reader is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

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