Compare Chrome extensions: Read&Write for Google Chrome™ vs Postlight Reader

Stats Read&Write for Google Chrome™ Read&Write for Google Chrome™ Postlight Reader Postlight Reader
User count 16,000,000+ 1,000,000+
Average rating 3.51 3.87
Rating count 1,797 1,718
Last updated 2024-03-27 2023-03-02
Size 7.67M 7.36M
Version 2.1.266 10
Short description
Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home. Postlight Reader - Clear away the clutter from all of your articles. Instantly.
Full summary

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

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The Postlight Reader extension for Chrome removes ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site.

Features:

  • Disable surrounding webpage noise and clutter with one click
  • Send To Kindle functionality
  • Adjust typeface and text size, and toggle between light or dark themes
  • Quick keyboard shortcut (Cmd + Esc for Mac users, Alt + ` for Windows users) to switch to Reader on any article page
  • Printing optimization
  • Sharing through Facebook, Twitter and Email