Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Unclutter — Modern Reader Mode
Read articles with style, literally
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Unclutter — Modern Reader Mode launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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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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Reader Mode 2.0▲347Read, highlight and annotate the web without distractions
2025 · its alternatives →
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Read articles + text blocks (any app) distraction free.
2022 · its alternatives →
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Read, highlight and annotate the web without distractions
2020 · its alternatives →
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A simple article reader for the web
Feb 2026 · justthearticleplease.com · its alternatives →
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Recast▲659Turn your read-later list into bite-size audio convos w/ AI
2023 · letsrecast.ai · its alternatives →
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I recently observed that majority of my family members and friends are not using ad blockers and reader mode for reasons suck as lack of knowledge about plugins & laziness. So their online reading experience is not pleasant as a result very less amount of them read anything including what i share. Its an attempt to give them clutter, tracker & ad free reading experience right off the bat.
2023 · web0.cc · its alternatives →
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Optimize websites for reading: font, contrast, night mode
2019 · its alternatives →
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Strips any webpage down to just the article
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Clean reading mode — one click, no distractions.
2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Use Pocket to read articles? Discover your reading habits!
2015 · its alternatives →
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