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Enhance focus while reading with a customizable highlight that follows your cursor, reducing distractions and eye strain.
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### Overview
Reading Mask is a lightweight Chrome extension designed to reduce visual clutter and eye strain during extended reading sessions. By dimming the surrounding content and highlighting a customizable focus area that follows your cursor, it helps you maintain concentration on the text you're reading.
### Features
- Movable Focus Area: A clear rectangular zone follows your cursor
across the page, keeping your reading area in focus.
- Customizable Size: Adjust both the height and width of the focus area
to suit your preferences.
- Adjustable Opacity: Control how dark the mask appears for optimal
contrast.
- Cross-page Compatibility: Works seamlessly across websites, including
those with iframes.
- Light/Dark Mode Support: Automatically adapts to your system theme
preference.
- Simple Controls: Easy-to-use interface with persistent settings.
### How to Use
- Click the Reading Mask icon in your browser toolbar.
- Toggle the mask on/off.
- Adjust height, width, and opacity percentages to your preference.
- Click "Apply Changes" to save your settings.
### Keyboard Shortcuts
- **Windows/Linux**: Alt+M to toggle the Reading Mask on/off
- **macOS**: Option+Shift+M (⌥+⇧+M) to toggle the Reading Mask on/off
### Why Choose Reading Mask?
Whether you're reading lengthy articles, documentation, or any web content, Reading Mask helps you stay focused by minimizing distractions. It's perfect for students, professionals, and anyone looking to improve their online reading experience.
Latest reviews
- (2023-11-26) Marissa Woods: It only works on google on the search pages even when enabled for other websites.
Statistics
Installs
31
history
Category
Rating
2.5 (2 votes)
Last update / version
2025-04-22 / 0.0.3
Listing languages
en-GB