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Compare Chrome extensions: Postlight Reader vs Just Read

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Stats Postlight Reader Postlight Reader Just Read Just Read
User count 1,000,000+ 200,000+
Average rating 3.87 4.66
Rating count 1,721 872
Last updated 2023-03-02 2024-04-23
Size 7.36M 397.31K
Version 10 6.0.6
Short description
Postlight Reader - Clear away the clutter from all of your articles. Instantly. A feature-packed, customizable reader extension.
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

Just Read is a feature-packed and customizable reader view.

With one click (or less!), you can remove distractions like:

  • The page's styling
  • Ads
  • Popups
  • Comments

And read the article in a customizable, simplified format - like a read mode but better!

Users can:

  • Summarize the article using AI.
  • Use the default white and dark themes.
  • Modify their theme using a graphical editor or CSS.
  • Use a theme someone else has made (found at https://goo.gl/Z59SM4 ).
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