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

(1,043)

1 new ratings

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

# 1,234 ▼ 4

Other rankings

#373 in Accessibility

#2 in reader keyword 83 ▲ 1

#66 in display keyword 19 ▲ 3

#70 in article keyword 9 ▲ 2

#127 in version keyword 9 ▲ 1

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Other platforms

Not available on Android

Reader View (v1.0.7)

4.22

(23) 2,205+

Reader View (v0.8.0)

4.70

(32) 61,982+

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Extension summary

Analyze keywords

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

User reviews

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Pros

Powerful and easy to use
Clean and customizable interface
Excellent features like read aloud and text formatting
Cuts out ads and reduces visual clutter
Fast and responsive performance

Cons

Lack of basic customization options like background color
Recent update changed paging method to include unnecessary comments
No dark mode option available
Limited rich text formatting options
Read aloud voice quality could be improved

Most mentioned

Customization options
Read aloud functionality
User-friendly design
Performance speed
Ad-free reading experience

User reviews

Pruthvi Raju, 2024-12-14

what's the point of a reader view if you can't even choose basic things like background color? why is there no option for pure white with black text???