Bionic Reading - AaRead
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Description from extension meta
Read webpages with less effort and increased concentration, use the Bionic Reading method
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AaRead is a reading helper for your eyes and brain. It makes some letters extra bold to make reading fast and keep effort low. This is a free alternative to Bionic Reading and Open Dyslexic font, and is great for folks with ADHD, dyslexia, or anyone whose brain gets bored easily when reading.
AaRead helps you stay focused on what you’re reading, and it’s way easier on your eyes too! Wanna try it on your favorite website? Simply click the extension icon or use the quick shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd + 0), and reading Reddit, Twitter, your study materials, news, or anything else should feel much better :)
My goal is to make this extension awesome for everyone, so please share your ideas or just let me know how much you love it (if you do, of course...).
Enjoy your reading! :)
Latest reviews
- Lavinia Vougazianos (VinnieOnFleek)
- Holy cow it actually works. Thanks so much for making it so simple to use, and not having it require any subscriptions etc.. like I have seen others ask for 😭
- Leo Wang
- nice! but ctrl/command 0 doesn't work on my mac book pro chrome
- tair chamiel
- Great. Just wish it would work on my pdf too
- Dylan Sacco
- Great Web App. This has really increased my focus while reading. It seems really well programmed and easy to use. No pay walls, or annoying popups. The web app may not work on some sights, but is not something that can be worked around easily, and if you are a commoner, you prolly wont encounter it. Developer responds very fast to email. I got a response in like 2 hours of sending mail.
- Hisoka
- I tested this and it seems to work well but when I click "ON" it applies to Bionic reading to every tab i have opened. there should be an option to apply it to every tab or for a specific tab, if that makes sense
- Sacco Huo
- Incredibly useful extension, thanks. Could you add support to make it only valid for specify language? I don't want the extension valid for East Asian languages.
- kila suelika
- How about adding an option of "auto enable"? I find everytime I open a new window, I have to click the extension icon which is boring.
- new eks
- Thanks for the plugin! It's been really helpful. However, I've noticed it doesn't seem to work on some websites, like GitHub and ChatGPT. I get a "DIED" message below the plugin icon. Is there something I'm doing wrong?
- Yurii Hudzovskiy
- I'm blown away!!!! Props to the dev!!!
- Jazmine Baldizar
- Love it!!! I've always had a hard time reading out loud because I get the words mixed up and I was so thrilled to find out about bionic reading! This helps so much
- Turtle 3
- this is straight up 5 star material, because it is the only one that works as intended so far for me. the bionic text part is good. I love people who go out of their way to improve the world on their own, like the dev with this plugin. Looking at it from a functionality perspective though, this is a 4 because of a very minor detail. it would be a solid 5 stars IF it worked on all websites automatically, without having to turn it on again and again. whenever a new page loads it needs to be turned on. even if you have turned it on under a domain once. :(( I understand the developer's concern about security and experience going messy in some websites. but hey, if the person turns those settings on, give them a warning and be done aye? I appreciate the developer being concerned about the user and trying to protect them, but having such a choice would be nice for those that understand the risks. I use this in a browser where i only read stories. it's a bigger deal for me because unfortunately I am using it on something the developer didn't intend to use it on, in kiwi browser on mobile, so hotkey (which the dev has added) isn't an option for me. it seems the dev has been given this suggestion many times in the comments, i hope this feature gets added someday. don't get me wrong, for something available for free, it's awesome and lightweight
- Katya Huster
- does exactly what it is supposed to do!
- Kiana
- Perfect!
- Daniel Zaretsky
- I use it when skimming Hacker news articles. Works great.
- David Butler
- Works great, very fast compared to others. Best tool for this
- Cody Blaser
- I would like to also echo that there should be a setting to "enable automatically" and If I want to disable it on a page (because It wasnt working for some reason) I will do it.
- B0lt Master
- It works very well however it would be nice if there was an option to make it automatically enable on all websites.
- jin the wind master
- Awesome, lets me to highlight webpages with other extensions 👍
- Lionel Loquias
- I've been waiting for a Bionic Reader that doesn't require me to jump through hoops, doesn't crash, and works great. My search is over. Thank you for this.
- koinoi
- I want the option to enable this on all site, I'm tired of having to manually enable the extension every single time. Please add this, it's annoying.
- Dylan A
- First one that works for me
- Emerald
- Is there a way to make it work on pdfs viewed on chrome? Also amazing extensions helps reading a lot.
- Ava McCormick
- it does not work for me
- Leanna
- I love this web extension, easy to use, free, and helps me read much faster than I would usually.
- Mohamed Anan
- The best of its kind, but we need some options to customize it. I feel it's a bit bold.
- Sebastian Pozo
- "I love it, but it would be perfect if there were an option that enables the auto turn on always, so you don't have to click on it every time you open a new window."
- Cai Ada
- THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!! I love this extension so much. it actually transform the web page instead into bionic reading instead of making a new page. its so helpful to go through text-based courses. my adhd brain thanks you so much!!! you are GOD SEND!! P.S can you make it so where the extension can be turned on automatically and it turns every page we enter into bionic reading without having to click button?
- Peter Maynard
- Works great. Thank you! Love that I can pin the extension to my toolbar and then just click it on and off when I need it.
- Oscar Campohermoso Berdeja
- Nice extension, works well!
- Max Persson
- Thank you for this excellent extension dmtrh. Is it possible to make it work for PDFs somehow? I haven't figured out a way.
- N R
- Great for dyslexics. thanks
- Grigoriy
- Great for adhd folks!
- Hedgehog
- Easy and works great!
- tanin gockl
- Simple Powerful
- Marketing bright
- It's simple, effective, and does exactly what it promises.
- Zoosd Zosdd
- I'm dyslexic and this extension has helped me so much!!!
- Zoosd Zosdd
- I'm dyslexic and this extension has helped me so much!!!