BeeLine Reader PDF Viewer

Make PDFs easier to read using BeeLine Reader's award-winning technology.

Total ratings for BeeLine Reader PDF Viewer

3.18 (Rating count: 28)

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Pros

Helps with focus and readability, especially for students and those with ADD
Allows users to customize the gradient and contrast
Gives the ability to print in gradient
Works well with latex files, accurately rendering complex equations
Smooth scrolling and crisp on-screen rendering

Cons

There is a charge for using the service which is not clearly communicated
Issues with the payment system and switching from Google Payments to its own site
Some PDFs are not colorized, especially locally stored ones
Problems with loading PDFs and errors
No 'off' button to view PDFs without the BeeLine view

Most mentioned

Helps with readability and focus
Works only for the first few pages or does not colorize all the content
Issues with the pricing and separate charges for different features
Issues with printing in lower resolution than screen view
Bugs and technical issues with loading and viewing PDFs

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Recent rating average: 2.70

All time rating average: 3.18

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Date	Author	Lang	Comment
2023-09-13	Melissa		I have an eye tracking problem and I need software like this to read my assignments so please stop paywalling accessibility. This should be FREE FOR STUDENTS!
2023-08-07	Nicole Ahmed		There is a cost to use this extension which is not made clear in the description. Moreover their pricing plans look like you would be charged twice for using their services on a single browser (Chrome): $55 annually for PDF support $24 annually for web page support The pdf viewing itself is fine as it based on the pdf.js mozilla work (https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js) Worked well for making pdf easier to read with the 5 page free limit. Also works with a dark theme (dark background light text), But after the first 5 pages which are free - the text becomes black on black so its useless for this unless you pay.
2023-05-23	Ida Marshall		Didn't function at all
2023-05-06	Beldades Word		só dá pra usar se pagar. tem outros que são gratuitos e tão bons quanto esta extensão.
2023-04-25	M R		Almost perfect for my purposes, i.e. reading recently-exported PDFs, usually constructed via LaTeX. This extension manages to flawlessly render thousands of equations, from superscript to thrice-nested subscript, all while preserving smooth scrolling and crisp boundaries on rendered features. Having said that, BeeLine Reader PDF does have the occasional technical problem. First, while creating a custom color scheme, the selected color will sometimes jumps to pitch-black, particularly in the upper-left quadrant. Second, the applied gradient will occasionally transition suddenly, i.e. between two characters, rather than throughout the affected line; this happens with perhaps one "color boundary" per rendered document, and does not substantially affect readability. Third, and less centrally: printing BeeLine-rendered PDFs still appears to be in the developmental stages. I've found that printing a pristine TeX-based document in 600dpi yielded low-res printouts, far from the crisp text of the original as was rendered on-screen. That said, it DID print with the applied gradient, so I'd call it a neutral outcome. Fourth, finally, and least importantly, certain keyboard shortcuts do not work while reading PDFs via BeeLine Reader: [CTRL-\] does not cycle between Page View options as it does in Edge, and [ESCAPE] does not close out of the color-picker's drop-down menu as one might expect. But the above is an exhaustive list of all the negatives, from my experience. As such, given its price, I'd rate BeeLine Reader PDF in its current form at 4.5 stars ("who cases lol" --- you, I'm guessing). If/when the GUI issues mentioned are fixed -- fingers crossed -- I'll be calling it perfect for the vast majority of PDFs created within the past 20 years. Don't expect it to fix up your janky-ase crooked old copy of "Baby Rudin" which you plucked out of lipgem-dot-whatever, though. In the words of a wise and sagacious leader: c'mon, man.
2022-11-20	M. “MdH” H.		Either I get an error when loading the PDF, or it only works on the first few pages.
2022-11-20	M. H.	en	Either I get an error when loading the PDF, or it only works on the first few pages.
2022-11-06	Peter Hartree		It's good. I'd love to have this function integrated into my primary PDF reader (PDF Expert).
2021-12-15	Anna S.		The description claims to color short pdfs, and to color first few pages of longer pdfs. In reality in only colors the very first page, I've tried with pdfs as small as 4 page long as well as full books.
2021-11-18	truncatedGrip		It worked fine for awhile. Then it got moved from google payments to its own site, and now it keeps telling me I'm using an unregistered version despite still costing money. I cannot find where or how to stop the payments. Do NOT recommend.

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