Read&Write for Google Chrome™

Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home.

What is Read&Write for Google Chrome™?

Read&Write for Google Chrome™ is a feature-rich Chrome extension designed to boost confidence in reading and writing. It enables users to interact with digital content in a way that suits their abilities and learning styles. It provides text-to-speech, text and picture dictionaries, speech-to-text, word prediction, summarizing and research tools, voice notes, and simplification of web pages. This extension is free for 30 days and teachers can obtain a free premium subscription.

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Extension stats

By: https://texthelp.com

View on Chrome Web Store

Users: 16,000,000+ ▲ 1000.00K

Rating: 3.51 (1,559)

Version: 2.1.410 (Last updated: 2024-11-08)

Creation date: 2020-06-09

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

activeTab
contextMenus
storage
tabs
identity
identity.email
scripting
management
offscreen
search

Host permissions:

<all_urls>

Size: 41.90M

Email: in*****@texthelp.com

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

Ranking

# 23

Other rankings

#1 in Accessibility

#1 in google chrome keyword 95

#2 in chrome keyword 96 ▲ 2

#8 in google keyword 93

#25 in features keyword 9 ▼ 9

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Other platforms

Not available on Firefox

Read&Write for Microsoft Edge™ (v2.1.410)

2.90

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Extension summary

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Wonderfully intuitive and easy-to-use, Read&Write for Google Chrome™ provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles.

Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:

• Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting

• Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained

• With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying

• Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type

• Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research

• Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs

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

text-to-speech feature
screen masking feature
annotation features

Cons

difficult to use
forced installation
distracting at times

Most mentioned

does not work
forced on my school account
not helpful for some users
needs improvement for different languages

Recent reviews

Tommy Conneely, 2024-11-15

This extension doesn't work. I downloaded it to help me read out essays on google and the toolbar won't come down.

Ivory Schumacher, 2024-11-13

Good

colton gibson, 2024-11-13

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Read&Write for Google Chrome™ requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.