Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Readium
Skip click-gates & paywalls at Medium, NYT, Business Insider
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Readium launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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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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One▲414Read Product Hunt, HN, DN, Reddit, Medium from Mac menu bar
2014 · one.hackplan.com · its alternatives →
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Markticle▲158Mark your reading progress in articles for later
2014 · markticle.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've been working on this new open-source project called [name-redacted]. It is a simple and powerful RSS reader for the web with a modern UI, PWA support, and a built-in article reader. Visit it at [link-redacted] View our GitHub repo at [link-redacted]
2024 · its alternatives →
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Free Spitz-type speed reader for Chrome
2015 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Freedium▲15Read Medium articles on Freedium in one click
Aug 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Feedibus▲91A modern RSS newsreader, powered by machine learning
2021 · feedibus.app · its alternatives →
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2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Want the power of the Spritz speed reader on your web pages? Look no further than OpenSpritz, a speed reading bookmarklet.
2014 · gun.io · its alternatives →
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Chrome Extension - speed reading tool, online reading
2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Open the top 10 non visited links for PH, HN, Reddit & more
2015 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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