Readsy

A tool to help users read text more easily by highlighting key parts of speech

Readsy: Chrome Extension for Enhanced Reading Experience

Readsy is a unique Chrome extension designed to elevate your reading experience. By identifying each text item's part of speech on web pages and adding user-driven color highlights, it allows users to skim through material faster and understand better, aiming to enrich user comprehension. It also provides customization features, enabling users to change highlighting consideration and even save their own color templates. Readsy only runs when needed, initiated by a floating button, maintaining user control.
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Extension stats

Users: 875
29
Rating: 4.25
(4)
Version: 1.0.5 (Last updated: 2022-10-17)
Creation date: 2022-10-14
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
Host permissions:
  • http://*/
  • https://*/
Size: 149.50K
URLs: Website

Other platforms

Readsy: Books and Stories (v1.8.0)
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Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Readsy parses text on webpages to determine each text item's part-of-speech and then adds user directed background highlighting or font color shading around each word based on its classification type. The aim is to allow users to skim through material faster than normal by emphasizing parts-of-speech such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives, while de-emphasizing parts-of-speech such as prepositions and conjuctions.

Users can change which parts-of-speech are highlighted, change the color of the highlights, and save their own color templates.

Readsy does not run automatically. Instead, a floating button is added to the browser window in the top left corner which a user can click on to execute the part-of-speech parsing. This takes all the text on the page and sends it to an API which parses through all of the text and sends back a data-object containing each word and its classification. Readsy then takes this data-object, parses through the page HTML and encapsulates each text-item with the appropriate classification.

User reviews

Too much blue it is tedious for the eyes. I don't see how it can help.
by David Fronval, 2023-01-25

This is exactly what I've been looking for... Thanks a lot for developing this.
by M Umar Khan, 2023-01-20
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Readsy requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

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