Reader View

Strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability

What is Reader View?

'Reader View' is an Edge add-on developed from Mozilla's open-source Readability. It enhances reading by removing clutter and distractions such as buttons and advertisements from webpages. It also provides tools for personalizing reading view with changes in color, background-color, font and width. Additional features include reading in fullscreen mode, saving pages in HTML format, providing text to speech engine, document emailing, mathematical formulas display, and much more.

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By: Bermet

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Users: 64,349 ▼ -13,541

Rating: 4.80 (30)

Version: 0.7.5 (Last updated: 2023-12-23)

Creation date: 2021-07-21

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Moderate risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage
activeTab
scripting
contextMenus
notifications
declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

Size: 279.91K

URLs: Website ,Privacy policy

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 542 ▼ 15

Other rankings

#9 in phrase keyword 17 ▼ 2

#9 in reader keyword 36

#10 in bug fixes keyword 45 ▲ 2

#10 in publish keyword 6 ▲ 1

#15 in define keyword 16

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Other platforms

Reader View (v0.7.5)

4.68 (1,010) 300,000

Reader View (v1.0.7)

4.00 (22) 2,009

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Summary

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Reader View extension brings Mozilla's open-source Readability implantation to Chromium. Using this extension you can strip clutters from webpages and read them on "Reader View" mode. The extension allows you to toggle between normal view and reader view by pressing the page-action button.

Note that reader view mode works best for web pages that have a lot of content. There are some tools in the left side panel that can help you personalize your Reader View. You can change color, background-color, font-size, font-family and width of the reader view.

Features: -> Remove distraction -> Read in fullscreen mode -> Remove advertisements -> Save in HTML format -> Print document -> Read content using a powerful Text to Speech (TTS) engine -> Edit HTML content (live editor) -> Email document (with title, body, and reference to the original document) -> Correctly display mathematical formulas (MathJax equations are Supported) -> Highlight selected text

User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Highly customizable
Works well with many websites
Good for reducing eye strain

Cons

Occasional errors on websites
Missing some key paragraphs
Text-to-speech feature not working for some users

Most mentioned

Reader view extension with extensive features and options
Works well with various websites
Great for reducing eye strain

Recent reviews

Excellent add on. I was looking for a reader view extension for a long time. I tried many but none were satisfactory to my expectations. This one checks all my requirements for a reader view extension. Thanks to the developer!