Tranquility Reader

Tranquility Reader

Tranquility Reader improves the readability of web articles by removing unnecessary elements

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What is Tranquility Reader?

Tranquility Reader is a user-friendly Chrome extension designed to enhance reading online articles. It enhances readability by eliminating unnecessary elements such as ads, images, and social share widgets. It offers functional benefits that include offline content saving, export/import features, customization of fonts and colors, creation and management of own preset configurations, and annotation features. All the processing and data storage is local to your browser ensuring user’s data privacy.

Merlin
Stats
By: arunk
Users: 4,041 ▲ 30
Rating: 4.55 (22)
Version: 3.0.21 (Last updated: 2020-09-02)
Creation date: 2019-10-11
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • alarms
  • contextMenus
Size: 162.82K
Email: Click to see
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Tranquility Reader
Tranquility Reader (v3.0.24)
4.61 (244) 37,096
Not available on Edge
Merlin
Summary

Tranquility Reader improves the readability of web articles by removing unnecessary elements like ads, images, social share widgets, and more.

Functionality

  • Click the navigation-bar icon to transform the page on Desktop

Features

  • Compatible with NoScript

  • Save content offline for reading later (the tranquility view is saved locally on your computer)

  • Ability to export/import the offline content.

  • Ability to customize default font, font-size, font color, background color, and width of the reading area (you can use https://www.w3schools.com/colors/colors_picker.asp to pick a suitable color code—thanks to user JA for feedback on this!)

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User reviews
User reviews summary
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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Great customization options such as defining, naming and saving presets
  • Completely declutters webpage, adjusts font type and size, and text display
  • Has a 'night mode'
  • Faster and Works better on Firefox
Cons
  • Does not work well on chrome
  • Poor performance in bypassing paywalls
  • Doesn't allow changing background and font colors
  • Doesn't open links in Reader View
  • Doesn't offer image on/off option
  • Design is not modern
  • Lacks a keyboard shortcut
Most mentioned
  • Customization/presets
  • Performance issues on chrome
  • Night mode color scheme cannot be changed
  • No keyboard shortcut
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Safety
Risk impact

Tranquility Reader is safe to use. It does not request any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Tranquility Reader has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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