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24 alternatives to Reader Mode
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Reader Mode is a Chrome extension that strips away clutter and ads from articles to display clean, distraction-free content. It extracts main text and offers text annotation, text-to-speech functionality, and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Reader Mode launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Reader Mode 2.0▲332Read, highlight and annotate the web without distractions
2025 · readermode.io · its alternatives →
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Read, highlight and annotate the web without distractions
2020 · readermode.io · its alternatives →
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Customize the article view to your liking
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Reader Mode is a powerful online reading toolkit that lets you read, highlight, annotate, bookmark and research better and without distractions
2019 · readermode.io · its alternatives →
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Optimize websites for reading: font, contrast, night mode
2019 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! In the last months I've been working on Unclutter, a modern reader mode browser extension. In contrast to all existing approaches, it unclutters articles by modifying their CSS instead of extracting the text content. This results in a more visually pleasing result that reuses the original article style. The idea is to remove friction so you use the reader mode more often. There are a few more features around saving articles automatically and taking highlights -- more details are on the website. The extension has about 400 active weekly users right now, mostly from organic web…
2022 · unclutter.it · its alternatives →
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Neat reader mode extension for Google Chrome 📃
2024 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · beelinereader.com · its alternatives →
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The Better Chrome Reading Mode Extension That Just Works!
Jun 2026 · chromewebstore.google.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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Enable dark mode (night mode) on all websites
2018 · darkreader.org · its alternatives →
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Chrome now supports vertical tabs and immersive reading mode
Apr 2026 · google.com · its alternatives →
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A Chrome extension that makes you read what you save
2018 · rukshn.github.io · its alternatives →
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Organize your clutter-free articles on mobile
2020 · readermode.io · its alternatives →
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Jiffy Reader▲509Read anything on the internet faster and more clearly
2022 · jiffyreader.com · its alternatives →
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Hey! This is a reader mode browser extension I built that hides noisy page elements rather than extracting and re-rendering only the page text. The idea is to not make all articles look the same [0], have them still render graphs, and ideally to work in more cases. There are a few "tricks": patching the site CSSOM to apply simpler mobile styles even at desktop width, detecting the likely main text & removing its non-text siblings, blocklists for classnames that contain words like "sidebar", and testing this on a few hundred popular sites. I got carried away and also added a dark mode, page…
2022 · unclutter.lindylearn.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, cofounder of Readwise here. We've been working on this cross-platform reader app for about 2 years, excited to finally share it in public beta. Probably the most notable thing that makes Reader unique is that it supports almost any content type you could want to save/read/highlight: * web pages * emails/newsletters * PDFs * ePubs * twitter threads * youtube videos (with transcripts) * RSS feeds With all of your knowledge content in one place, we built powerful reading and highlighting, as well as a bunch of novel triage/organization features, so you can actually…
2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →
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Strips any webpage down to just the article
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ReadPilot▲303Read any webpage in 1 minute, with only 1 click
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Readwise Reader▲380The all-in-one reading app for power readers
2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →
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Readvox▲211Chrome Extension that will read texts on web pages for you
2024 · readvox.com · its alternatives →
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