Minimal Reading Mode

Optimize any website for legibility and reading: clear spaced font, nice contrast, zen focus & night dark mode. Simple & lightweight

Minimal Reading Mode - Chrome Extension for Optimal Reading

Minimal Reading Mode is a Chrome extension that optimizes any webpage for improved reading. With an emphasis on clarity and readability, it provides a clear font, excellent contrast, zen focus, and an auto night dark mode. It customizes settings including font size, color, typography, margin, line-height, and spacing to provide a smooth and legible reading environment. The extension also includes image minification, automatic scroll to content, ad-removal and is uniquely designed to be super lightweight and CPU-friendly.
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Extension stats

Users: 5,000+
Rating: 4.00
(40)
Version: 1.7.3 (Last updated: 2022-02-06)
Creation date: 2020-04-17
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
Size: 19.96K

Other platforms

Minimal theme for CL (v4.5)
4.41 (224) 82,216+
Not available on Firefox
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Extension summary

Minimal Reading Mode is a super lightweight extension that optimizes any website for reading: clear spaced font, nice contrast, zen focus & auto night dark mode.

Font size, color, typography, margins, line-heights and spacings, all have been analyzed and tested for more than two years to find the best reading experience on your screen, activating the latest typography rendering technology to smooth fonts and optimize legibility. Minimal Reading Mode keeps getting updated with tweaks and optimizations as new technology becomes available.

✪✪ FEATURES ✪✪

✪ Night Dark Modes There's 3 Dark Mode themes available, featuring a black background design and eliminating blue colors to avoid eye strain and improve your sleep. You can switch amongst all the different themes.

✪ Image and media minification Images and other media found on the article are resized to a tiny square so it doesn't distract you from reading. To see the image/media at full size, simply move your cursor over it. This feature also becomes a great SFW (Safe For Work) solution when reading articles with dubious content.

✪ Custom settings Tweak your reading experience to your specific liking by choosing paragraph width, font size, font and background colors, font typography, line height, letter spacing and more. Settings are saved between sessions.

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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
  • Minimal design and functionality
  • Works well with Weava Highlighter
  • Good for reading without distractions
  • Allows adjusting font size and paragraph width
Cons
  • Control interface can feel clunky or unresponsive
  • Issues with color contrast in dark mode
  • Some features not working reliably (e.g., icons disappearing)
  • Limited customization options for font color and layout
Most mentioned
  • Minimal and functional
  • Problems with dark mode and color contrast
  • Clunky controls and unresponsiveness
  • Good integration with other tools
User reviews
The best. Tiny and great features.
by John Weiss, 2024-11-17

Good Enough
by MC Lim, 2024-04-28

Holy! That one is good. Well done sir
by Entropy B. Ball, 2024-03-29
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Minimal Reading Mode does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Minimal Reading Mode has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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