Alternatives

Products that do what Paste a link to an article, get a minimal version to read does

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Just The Article Please▲127
A simple article reader for the web
Feb 2026
2MM
Make Medium Readable Again▲193
2017 · github.com
3MB
Minimal Bookmarking Site▲62
2018 · appread.me
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Listen To This▲151
Paste an article to listen to it in your podcast app
Mar 2026
5PT
Plain text for the web▲151
2016 · saola.in
6TI
txtify.it – Easily convert web articles to plain text▲51
2018 · txtify.it
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Brutal Reader▲98
Strips any webpage down to just the article
Mar 2026
8
Clearly▲177
A simple, distraction free reader for Chrome
2018
9CB
Convert blog articles to high-quality audio▲146
2019 · websitevoice.com
10SP
Simple Print – Convert web articles into printable PDFs▲122
2018 · pdf.fivefilters.org
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Read on Mail▲92
Why "read it later" - email yourself now ⚡
2019
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Clear This Page▲119
Bypass the clutter from any web article
2019
13AL
A Links Crawler for News▲10
2020 · github.com
14
123Read▲70
Distraction free reading for every website
2019
15
Corpus▲86
Curate, take notes and share your reading list
2019
16TF
text.fish: Get Only Text, Read Peacefully▲30
2020 · text.fish
17RA
RTFA, a Chrome extension to hide HN comments until you read the article▲44
2014 · chrome.google.com
18LW
Light Web-Pages, a “free” alternative to AMP, Instant Articles et al▲26
2017 · github.com
19RL
Read Later – Quickly save links to read later▲5
2014 · chrome.google.com
20RW
Random Wikipedia browser extension▲15
2019 · chrome.google.com
21CE
Chrome extension for marking your reading progress in articles▲6
2014 · chrome.google.com
22AC
A chrome extension that fades out old links on HN/Reddit/News sites▲28
2018 · chrome.google.com
23SH
Show HN An open source chrome extension to read medium.com paid article for free▲10
2018 · github.com
24FO
Free, Offline, Article Reader for iOS▲8
2023 · apps.apple.com

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