Half Bold

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

Half Bold - Chrome Extension for Improved Reading Focus

"Half Bold" is a Chrome extension specifically designed to aid people with ADHD in reading comprehension. The extension works on the principle of bolding half of any word on the screen, allowing users to concentrate better without feeling overwhelmed by large chunks of text. The latest update adds the ability to half bold text within plain text files and quickly share selected text on social media platforms.

Extension stats

By: repon
Users: 78,247+
Rating: 4.02
(109)
Version: 1.1.1 (Last updated: 2023-11-22)
Creation date: 2023-03-27
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • contextMenus
  • declarativeNetRequest
Host permissions:
  • https://linkedin.com/*
  • https://*.facebook.com/*
  • https://*.twitter.com/*
Size: 581.63K

Other platforms

Not available on Android
Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Half Bold literally bolds half of the word allows all users to focus on text without being overwhelmed. This can be a great tool to activate when you see long blogs or even a large group of paragraphs.

Change log: Version: 1.1.0

  • Add feature Half bold text for text plain file
  • Add feature selected some text and fast share on social such as: twitter, linkedIn and facebook (auto post use api post).

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • Helps with focus and reading efficiency
  • Beneficial for people with ADHD or dyslexia
  • Possibility to increase the speed of reading
Cons
  • Doesn't work on most websites
  • Doesn't work on PDFs
  • Issues with breaking website UI and removing images
  • Requires manual enabling for each page
  • Breaks website formatting and may remove important parts like buttons and text boxes
Most mentioned
  • Does not work consistently across websites and file types
  • Problem with manually requiring activation for each new page
  • Affects website UI negatively by removing images or changing structure
User reviews
Doesn't work on PDFs
by Monish 2626, 2023-09-04

I love this idea. It doesn't work very well for quoted blocks, esp. code blocks. Sometimes it removes the line breaks. I also doesn't really seem to help much for code anyway since code already has syntax highlighting and isn't structured the same as natural language. I'm not sure if there's a way to generally distinguish code blocks, but if there is, it'd be great to just disable this for those sections. Maybe there could be a way to manually disable for a certain type of section.
by Derek McBlane, 2023-07-22

Did not work for my digital textbooks, specifically VitalSource.
by Allissa S, 2023-06-28
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Half Bold requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Half Bold is very likely to contain malware and should not be trusted. Avoid installing.

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