Compare Chrome extensions: Postlight Reader vs Google Translate

Stats Postlight Reader Postlight Reader Google Translate Google Translate
User count 1,000,000+ 40,000,000+
Average rating 3.87 4.33
Rating count 1,722 42,916
Last updated 2023-03-02 2023-03-22
Size 7.36M 241.66K
Version 10 2.0.13
Short description
Postlight Reader - Clear away the clutter from all of your articles. Instantly. View translations easily as you browse the web. By the Google Translate team.
Full summary

The Postlight Reader extension for Chrome removes ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site.

Features:

  • Disable surrounding webpage noise and clutter with one click
  • Send To Kindle functionality
  • Adjust typeface and text size, and toggle between light or dark themes
  • Quick keyboard shortcut (Cmd + Esc for Mac users, Alt + ` for Windows users) to switch to Reader on any article page
  • Printing optimization
  • Sharing through Facebook, Twitter and Email

Highlight or right-click on a section of text and click on Translate icon next to it to translate it to your language. Or, to translate the entire page you're visiting, click the translate icon on the browser toolbar.

Learn more about Google Translate at https://support.google.com/translate.

By installing this extension, you agree to the Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies.

UPDATE (v.2.0): Now you can highlight or right-click a text and translate it vs. translate the entire page. You can also change extension options to automatically show translation every time you highlight text.