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Metric	Reader Mode	Reader View
User count	100,000	300,000
Average rating	3.10	4.69
Rating count	185	1,104
Last updated	2025-11-29	2026-05-11
Size	5.35 MB	0.30 MB
Version	2.0.9	0.8.4

Short description	Reader Mode is a distraction-free Chrome reader with dyslexia support, bookmarking, highlighting, text-to-speech, translation, and research tools.	Reader View Chrome extension removes clutter, ads, adjusts layout, and offers features like TTS and saving for a distraction-free reading experience.
Full summary	Reader Mode is a feature-packed Chrome reading extension and web app that removes clutter, ads and distractions, while offering dyslexia support, bookmarking, annotating, highlighting and text-to-speech. As a strong Pocket replacement, it enhances your reading and research workflow with a web and PDF highlighter, translation, saving and syncing bookmarks, and sharing across Evernote and Notion, plus custom themes, auto-scroll, print-to-PDF, and more.	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.