Half Bold

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

What is Half Bold?

"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.

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This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2023-11-22 due to malware

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: Very high risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
contextMenus
declarativeNetRequest

Host permissions:

https://linkedin.com/*
https://*.facebook.com/*
https://*.twitter.com/*

Size: 581.63K

Email: re*****@gmail.com

URLs: Privacy policy

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Summary

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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

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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

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

Recent reviews

Doesn't work on PDFs

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.

Derek McBlane, 2023-07-22

Did not work for my digital textbooks, specifically VitalSource.

Allissa S, 2023-06-28

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Risk impact

Half Bold is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Half Bold if you trust the publisher.