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Metric	Reader View	Dark Reader
User count	2,000	6,000,000
Average rating	3.63	4.66
Rating count	8	13,126
Last updated	2025-08-26	2026-06-23
Size	0.05 MB	0.81 MB
Version	0.1.8	4.9.128

Short description	Simplify your web pages with Reader View. Choose light, dark, or sepia themes for a distraction-free reading experience.	Experience comfortable browsing with real-time dark mode. Dark Reader adjusts brightness, contrast, and sepia, and syncs with your system theme.
Full summary	Reader View is a Chrome extension that transforms any web page into a clean, distraction-free reading environment. With the click of a toolbar button, it reloads pages in a minimalist format that eliminates ads, toolbars, and banners to reduce eye strain and improve focus. Users can customize their reading experience by selecting from three themes—Light, Dark, and Sepia—as well as adjusting font size, line height, and page width. The extension automatically saves these preferences for convenience. Reader View is powered by the open-source Readability library, ensuring high-quality content rendering. Options to open the reader interface include same-tab, popup, or sidebar views. This extension is ideal for users seeking a comfortable and distraction-free way to read articles and long-form content online.	Dark Reader creates on-the-fly dark themes for websites, inverting bright colors to deliver high-contrast, easy-to-read pages. It lets you tune brightness, contrast, sepia, and font preferences, and choose dark mode for all sites or a sepia tone for a warmer look. With per-site controls, automatic system theme syncing, and smart detection to leave already-dark pages unchanged, Dark Reader has evolved since 2014 to stay fast and reliable. By installing, you agree to the terms at https://darkreader.org/terms/; please disable conflicting extensions for best results.