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24 alternatives to Low-Distraction Wikipedia Mirror
THIS IS PRIMARILY A DESKTOP EXPERIENCE. It kinda works on mobile, but it's not nearly as thought through. https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/article/Hacker_News This is a re-implementation of a thing I was experimenting with a few years ago earlier. I find the blue links of Wikipedia very distracting, and my attention starts skipping around when I read text that is busy like that. Gone are inline links, footnotes, most references, many tables, all images. I removed all the distractions on a what-if basis. I've also experimented with designing the encyclopedia around…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Low-Distraction Wikipedia Mirror launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Wikipedia. Enhance your Wikipedia experience with a redesigned look, new features and customization.
2021 · modernwiki.app · its alternatives →
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2021 · static.wiki · its alternatives →
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A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Wikipedia
2021 · modernwiki.app · its alternatives →
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Connect two articles on Wikipedia, but do it the long way. I've always been a fan of the theory of six degree of separation, but it's an overused concept when exploring the Wiki-graph. Instead of showing the shortest path, which in my opinion is "boring" and ends up connecting super-important central articles, I came up with my own method: WikiBinge selects the smaller, less represented articles on Wikipedia. In a WikiBinge path, the underdogs are the kings! How does it work? It's pretty straightforward! Compute PageRank on the Wiki-graph and assign as weight of each edge the PageRank value…
2023 · wikibinge.com · its alternatives →
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Clearly▲177A simple, distraction free reader for Chrome
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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A simple article reader for the web
Feb 2026 · justthearticleplease.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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I was inspired by Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes viewer and created this small web app to browse Wikipedia in the same way. Clicking on a link opens the content in a new pane to the right. And you can resize panes. It's really nice for following rabbit holes or checking out lists from articles. Let me know what you think! Code here: https://github.com/steezeburger/wikipedia-browser
2024 · steezeburger.com · its alternatives →
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Wikispeedia▲73A game for Wikipedia - connect articles in the fewest clicks
2015 · cs.mcgill.ca · its alternatives →
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Side Portal▲63Browse Wikipedia spatially, with a contextual sidebar/graph
2021 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Remove all unnecessary clutter from StackOverflow.
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, WikTok is a UI for Wikipedia that lets you quickly swipe (or use your arrow keys) to navigate between random and recommended articles (based on the previous articles you interacted most with). It's just a fun project I hacked together this weekend, so may be a little rough around the edges, but I'd love to get your thoughts. Let me know if you have any suggestions (or find any interesting articles!) Cheers,
2023 · wiktok.org · its alternatives →
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Recently i stumbled on too many clickgates on the Medium blog Towards Data science. Considering that most people publish to share knowledge on Medium and are driven into putting their content behind a paywall, without actually getting paid for it, including myself. I felt like Medium is running the academic publishing scheme. Get free content and get paid for it. So I decided to create a small script to bypass the paywall on Medium, it turns out it also works on other newssites. Heres the website: https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/ For the curious I will explain the…
2019 · its alternatives →
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Your Chrome Browsing history. Better.
2014 · better-history.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · justread.mpgarate.com · its alternatives →
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The Reader Wiki, Reader View of Wikipedia
2018 · thereaderwiki.com · its alternatives →
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