Reader View

Strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability

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Reader View: An Uncluttered Chrome Reading Extension

'Reader View' is a Chrome extension designed to provide a distraction-free reading experience. It strips away unnecessary elements such as buttons, background images, and ads, and optimizes the text size, layout, and contrast. It's equipped with handy tools that allow you to personalize the reading mode. You can also save content in HTML format, email documents, use a Text to Speech engine, add notes, highlight text, and more. Ideal for long reads, informative articles, and educational content.

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By: yokris.dev

Users: 300,000+

Rating: 4.69

(1,048)

Version: 0.8.0 (Last updated: 2024-11-18)

Creation date: 2020-03-29

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood:

Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
activeTab
scripting
contextMenus
notifications
declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

Size: 304.13K

Email: yo*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

Ranking

# 1,056 ▼ 8

Other rankings

#369 in Accessibility

#3 in reader keyword 82 ▼ 1

#73 in article keyword 9

#89 in display keyword 16 ▼ 20

#104 in browser extension keyword 67 ▲

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Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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Reader View extension brings Mozilla's open-source Readability implantation to Chromium. Using this extension you can strip clutters from webpages and read them on "Reader View" mode. The extension allows you to toggle between normal view and reader view by pressing the page-action button.

Note that reader view mode works best for web pages that have a lot of content. There are some tools in the left side panel that can help you personalize your Reader View. You can change color, background-color, font-size, font-family and width of the reader view.

Features: -> Remove distraction -> Read in fullscreen mode -> Remove advertisements -> Save in HTML format -> Print document -> Read content using a powerful Text to Speech (TTS) engine -> Edit HTML content (live editor) -> Email document (with title, body, and reference to the original document) -> Correctly display mathematical formulas (MathJax equations are Supported) -> Highlight selected text

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Pros

Powerful and easy to use
Cuts out ads and reduces visual clutter
Customizable text options (bold, underline)
Clean and effective design
Good performance across different browsers

Cons

Issues with displaying Japanese text on Windows
No option for white background with black text
Lack of dark mode feature
Recent update changed paging method negatively
Limited customizability for highlighting and fonts

Most mentioned

The application is useful for turning online articles into a clean read.
There's a need for better customization options.
Users faced issues with language support on different operating systems.

User reviews

The only one I've found really good so far!

Thiago Araujo, 2025-01-19

我在Mac上搭配Brave瀏覽器，結果非常好。但最近使用Windows遇到一些問題，兩邊使用的瀏覽器和Reader View版本都一樣： 1. 打開日文網頁，Mac這邊可以正常顯示完整的文字内容。Windows這邊則僅顯示一小部分文字内容，而且中間還顯示一段HTML Code。 2. 打開另一個日文網頁並使用朗讀功能，Mac這邊雖然一開始用中文朗讀，但自行設定為日文就可以。Windows這邊是用中文朗讀翻譯成中文的内容，設定裏面也沒有日語的選項。請問這是爲什麽？謝謝！