Compare Chrome extensions: Read Bee - text mode reader online vs Best Reader View

Stats Read Bee -  text mode reader online Read Bee - text mode reader online Best Reader View Best Reader View
User count 500,000+ 7,000+
Average rating 4.71 4.72
Rating count 365 53
Last updated 2024-02-02 2021-05-13
Size 1.52M 104.45K
Version 1.1.9 1.2.7
Short description
Simplify your reading experience with our Text Mode/Reader view feature. Enjoy articles on site without unnecessary distractions Tired of cluttered web pages full of commericals? Best Reader View cleans all up and renders the only main article of the page!
Full summary

Reader Mode why do you need it?

Reader mode is a feature some browsers incorporate that simplifies open pages by removing their ads, navigation panels, videos, and buttons. That feature enhances the readability of pages’ essential content. This is how you can enable reader mode in Google Chrome.

One of the ways to reduce this fatigue is to reduce the contrast between text and the screen. Easy Read Bee - text reader provides an overlay to cover the screen offering several different colours for users to choose from. Further you can change the colour of the text so that it further reduces the contrast with a simple reading mode extension.

ReadBee is a Chrome extension designed to help people engage with text, articles, magazines, web pages in a comfortable article reader view. Often reading on a screen can cause strain on the eyes and most of the time this is not perceptible to your consciousness. Read Bee are helpful to keep your eyes in a text view mode. The only way you can tell is your inability to read long pieces of text after a while.

Activating the reader view in Chrome will strip the clutter from an open page. You’ll be left with the page’s actual content along with its images or without, depends on your settings of reader. Almost all the navigation sections for its website will disappear.

Note that Readbee - view read mode works best for web pages that have a lot of content. There are some tools on the top of the page that can help you personalize your ReadBee. You can change background color, font size, font family and line width of the reader view.

Removing unneeded clutter from pages with reader modes before printing will also save you ink.

Reader text online, remove ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site.

Main features:

  1. Beautifully rendered pages that rivals that of Safari.
  2. Many different options like font, size, themes to choose from.
  3. Open Best Reader automatically as you wish.
  4. Take notes or highlight selections.
  5. The awesome Focus Mode let you view the content in its original page.
  6. Save page to pdf or print use Chrome's print command.
  7. Your data is safe! All processing is done locally in Chrome. No history is sent out to network.
  8. Providing share functionality to twitter and facebook on highlighting the text.

Best Reader View is based on Firefox's open source Readability module, with heavy pre and post processing. It renders web pages better than Firefox's owner reader mode view!. The UX is modeled after Safari's reader view. With Best Reader View, you get the best features out of the two other leading browsers.