Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to crux.
Replace an 8 minute blog read to a 60 seconds quick skim
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. crux. launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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7reads▲119A minimal mindful reading list for Google Chrome.
2020 · 7reads.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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Shortly▲150Short stories from reddit based on how much time you have
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Shows you the reading time of your blog post as you write
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Totem▲141Repo: https://github.com/nnnkit/totem Bookmarking a tweet/article/thread on X is one click, but actually reading it later is like five clicks — open X, dig into history, bookmarks, find the post, and dodge the distraction of new feeds and notifications on the way there. So I had hundreds of genuinely great tweets saved and basically never read any of them. Totem puts that queue on the browser new tab, so reading them is just one click away. No feed distraction, no algorithm, no AI, no server, no account — it's all local. In one sentence "It's like the reading…
Jul 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Every other week I discuss one B2B content experiment
2021 · its alternatives →
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Minute Pocket▲148Get the estimated reading time for your Pocket articles
2017 · minute-pocket.com · its alternatives →
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Screenbreak▲110Turn your "read later" articles into paperbacks
2020 · screenbreak.webflow.io · its alternatives →
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Three simple productivity techniques for busy bloggers
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Always Reading▲102Queue up articles and schedule when you want to read them.
2018 · its alternatives →
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TimeCapsule▲67Send Useful Articles into the Future to Read Again
2014 · timecapsule.io · its alternatives →
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Well, I certainly tried. I had to, because it has a certain quirk inspired by "digital minimalism." The quirk is that it only allows you to fetch new articles once per day (or X days). Why? Let me explain... I want my internet content to be like a boring newspaper. You get it in the morning, and you read the whole thing while sipping your morning coffee, and then you're done! No more new information for today. No pings, no alerts, peace, quiet, zen, etc. But with that, I needed it to be able to fetch all articles from my hundreds of feeds in one sitting. This is where Zig and curl…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Human voice reading news stories for Android, iOS
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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