# Half Bold

> A tool to help people with ADHD improve their reading focus and comprehension.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/half-bold](https://chrome-stats.com/d/half-bold)

## Overview

- **ID:** `half-bold`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jaymes Berry
- **Category:** appearance,language-support,other
- **Daily users:** 1,679
- **Weekly downloads:** 13
- **Rating:** 4.22 / 5 (23 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2023-03-30
- **First published:** 2023-03-29
- **Size:** 91 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/half-bold/)

## Description

Half Bold is a Chrome extension designed to assist individuals with ADHD improve their reading focus and comprehension. By bolding half of each word, it reduces visual overwhelm and helps users process text more effectively.

This tool is especially useful for reading long articles or large blocks of text, making reading less daunting and more manageable. Activate Half Bold to enhance your reading experience and maintain better concentration on complex or lengthy content.

## Rankings

- #2,472 — Overall
- #102 — Language Support
- #30 — hold
- #108 — improve
- #179 — focus

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users find Half Bold very helpful for improving focus and reading (notably for dyslexia/ADHD) and say it works on many sites. Major recurring problems are that it must be manually enabled per page, it breaks formatting or removes images/PDFs on some pages, and it often fails on online course or third‑party textbook platforms.

### Pros

- Improves focus and readability and is especially helpful for users with dyslexia or ADHD
- Effectively emphasizes text on many websites (users report it works on roughly 70% of sites)
- Simple, well-liked design — easy to use and appreciated by users

### Cons

- Must be turned on manually for each page; no persistent/default on option
- Breaks formatting on a number of sites (removes images, sidebars, embedded PDFs or otherwise disrupts layout)
- Does not work reliably with many online course/third‑party textbook platforms (e.g., Cengage, some Pearson/school sites)

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/half-bold)