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Metric	Reader View	Just Read
User count	300,000	200,000
Average rating	4.69	4.65
Rating count	1,104	907
Last updated	2026-05-11	2026-05-19
Size	0.30 MB	0.38 MB
Version	0.8.4	6.1.1

Short description	Reader View Chrome extension removes clutter, ads, adjusts layout, and offers features like TTS and saving for a distraction-free reading experience.	Just Read is a customizable reader extension that removes distractions, AI-summarizes articles, and lets you tailor themes and styles.
Full summary	Reader View is a powerful Chrome extension that transforms cluttered webpages into clean, easily readable content. By removing distractions such as buttons, backgrounds, and advertisements, it enhances the user’s reading experience on content-rich sites. Users can switch between normal and reader views with a click, and customize settings like text size, contrast, fonts, colors, and column layout. Additional features include fullscreen reading, content saving in HTML format, printing, live HTML editing, emailing documents, highlighting text, keyboard shortcuts, and support for mathematical formulas (MathJax). The extension even offers text-to-speech (TTS) functionality and persistent sticky notes for better engagement. With support for both left-to-right and right-to-left languages and integration of Mozilla's Readability.js, Reader View ensures a versatile, distraction-free reading environment. Compatible with Chrome version 104 and above.	Just Read provides a feature-packed, distraction-free reading experience. With one click you can strip away a page's styling, ads, popups, and comments to reveal the article in a clean, readable format. It’s like read mode—only better and fully customizable. Advanced users can AI-summarize articles, switch between white and dark themes, craft their own themes via CSS or a graphical editor, and even try themes shared by others. It supports auto-run on specific sites, keyboard shortcuts, printing, selection and deletion modes, and a rich set of premium features like saving, sharing, annotations, and domain-specific selectors. Just Read is open source on GitHub and commits to zero data collection by default.