Minimal Reading Mode

Optimize any website for legibility and reading: clear spaced font, nice contrast, zen focus & night dark mode. Simple & lightweight
What is Minimal Reading Mode?
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.

Extension stats

Users: 5,000+
Rating: 3.97 (39)
Version: 1.7.3 (Last updated: 2022-02-06)
Creation date: 2020-04-17
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
Size: 19.96K

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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 and enhances reading experience
  • Good integration with other tools like Weava Highliter
  • Allows for some customization like font size and paragraph width
  • Saves settings once configured
Cons
  • Controls can feel clunky and minimal
  • Dark mode is uncomfortable for some users
  • Some features, like changing font color, are lacking
  • Inaccessible design elements like thin scrollbars for users with poor eyesight
  • Frequent reports of non-functionality and disappearing icons
Most mentioned
  • Minimal design
  • Not working or buggy functionality
  • Eye strain from certain color combinations
  • Desire for added customization options
  • Integration with other reading tools
Recent reviews
Good Enough
by MC Lim, 2024-04-28

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

by Tín Hoàng, 2024-01-12
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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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