Clear Read

Immersive reading mode

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Clear Read Extension

Enhance your browsing experience with Clear Read, an innovative Chrome extension designed to create an immersive reading mode. Simply click the Clear Read button to activate a distraction-free environment. This extension intelligently strips out non-essential elements from web pages, leaving you with just the core content displayed in easy-to-read text on a clean, white background. Perfect for students, professionals, or anyone who loves to read without interruptions, Clear Read is your go-to solution for a focused reading experience.

Key Features

Easy toggle for distraction-free reading
Presents content in a legible format
Simple and intuitive to use

Transform how you consume online content with Clear Read today!

By:: chris.scott
Users:: 10,000+ 1,000
Rating:: 3.98

(42)
Version:: 0.0.10 (Last updated: 2016-01-14)
Creation date:: 2016-01-14
Risk:: Low risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:: activeTab
Size:: 6.75K
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: 20 hours ago

Ranking

# 7,857 ▲ 2,030

Other rankings

#3995 in Accessibility ▲ 21

User reviews

Pros

Effectively removes clutter and distractions from web pages to provide a clean reading experience
Minimalist and simple design that focuses on readability with clear, pleasing font and layout
Helps users concentrate on article content and is especially useful for long articles
Lightweight and low resource usage, which can help improve battery life on some devices
Recognizes and extracts main article text well on many websites, improving reading convenience

Cons

Lack of customization options such as font type, size, colors, and text width
Does not work properly on all websites; sometimes fails to recognize or show all content
No keyboard shortcut for enabling/disabling the extension; accessing settings is not straightforward
Outdated Manifest V2; users request update to Manifest V3 for continued functionality
Some users experience bugs where the page layout is broken or text content is fragmented

Recent reviews

Great tool. We hope the developer read this, and update the "Manifest V2" to Manifest V3 before juni 2024, so we can go on using Clear Read

Per Klasson 363TEGY, 2024-04-03

The app works fine for me, I love to use immersive reading on articles I really want to concentrate on or print out. It gets rid of distracting stuff from the webpage. Remember when you want to use it make sure you have the article up, then click on the app short cut. To get to the settings you have to bring up your extension manager and click on the 3 dots at the end of its title. Some websites will not let you use immersive reading but the majority will. All in all a very good extension, I'm very pleased with it.

Mike Farkas, 2024-01-17

EVERYTIME I TURN THE EXTENSION ON IT DOES N0TH!NG.

ColurMine, 2024-01-07

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Clear Read requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.

Risk likelihood

Clear Read has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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