Just Read

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A feature-packed, customizable reader extension.

Latest reviews

• (2022-12-08) Chris Vydas: Doesn't work on kiwi and desperately needs dark mode
• (2022-11-16) Treksh Marwaha: Its a really amazing extension for sure though one of the most recent updates seems to have broken it for me. I mostly use this on translated websites because they have a lot of clutter, previously you had to open and close Justread while not reloading the page for it to collect all the content properly, now it forces the page to reload making it incapable of formatting translated pages correctly. Please roll out a fix!
• (2022-11-13) Rick Powell: I evaluated a handful of distraction-free reading extensions before settling on this one, for two reasons: 1) it has a nice-looking dark mode; 2) any highlights I make with Readwise still reference the original URL, unlike two of the other extensions I tried which temporarily load pages into the extension itself. I'm not a deveoper so I'm sure there's a better way to express that. ;-) The extension is also fast and lightweight.
• (2022-11-09) Emmanuel Poirier: Hi Zach, just read is great as it saves tons of time scanning and reading long texts turning them into something more readable like on a book. Some sites with tons of design render badly: the design like all those clickable images are removed (I use the default theme with body background color as black to ease the reading) which breaks the eye scanning logic of the site but I think just read is for long blog posts anyway. Great job and please add a one time fee contribution so I can pay for it.
• (2022-10-21) Danijel DOMAZET: Very usefull addon, thanks. Where do I find the keyboard shortcut to apply Just Read on the current web page?
• (2022-10-14) Eduard Tikhenko: It doesn't work.
• (2022-10-06) usman lubis: good tool if you want to read without distraction
• (2022-09-13) Knut Külick: Perfekt tillägg!
• (2022-09-03) jindacz: function is good. but used too many RAM. using many plugin, RAM top1 ad-block, top2 just-read. Make this plugin consume less resource.
• (2022-08-30) Derek Ulrich: This plug-in epitomises 'less is more'; which is why I'm keeping my review short.
• (2022-08-30) Néstor Rosendo Fuentes: It works fine with the majority of web pages and articles, it is really helpful to have a clear view of the text. There are some pages where it does not work.
• (2022-08-29) John: This is quite possibly the best extension I've installed in any browswer. Today there is so much visual garbage and noise on so many pages that they are unreadable to me. "Just Read" takes care of that. It's like I'm in a room trying to watch TV but the room is filled with people who are shouting at me. Then "Just Read" walks in and says, "SHUT. UP." And they do.
• (2022-08-23) Anne-Elizabeth Hawley: Indispensable for two reasons: eye strain/aging eyes and a super-wide monitor that makes many web pages (notably Wikipedia and Gmail) too wide to read comfortably without resizing the browser window. One click and I've got a clear, appropriately sized interface to the text. I love Just Read. I've been using it for years.
• (2022-08-23) Damili: Ya he usado la APP 100 veces. Es genial y te permite ahorrar mucho tiempo.
• (2022-08-23) Nora Cserny: I use Just Read to save PDFs of articles flagged by my employer's Google Alerts. It's easy to use, relatively bug-free, and works with most websites. I highly recommend this extension.
• (2022-08-23) Randall Sohn: JustRead lets me get to the content without the distractions of the junk to the sides of the article. It is a great resource.
• (2022-08-23) William Scott Scherk: JustRead is my second-most important extension (I use it with Edge Chromium. There are so many good features, but here's a fave: when you 'Save to PDF,' you get an actual PDF with full text, able to be edited or copied from. If you want to have a quick, no-clutter version of a busy web page, this is it. It doesn't come any better.
• (2022-08-22) Neill Fronde: This has become an essential tool for someone who reads tons of news online, where ads and side columns are a constant clutter. 100% recommended, but if I had to complain: 1) It started adding a "?jr=on" variable to the end of the URL, so if you copy and paste the URL it is incorrect. I just noticed a setting that will include the original URL at the top of the edited text though, which solves this problem. 2) On many news websites the opening paragraph is formatted differently as a style choice. Just Read often interprets this as it being junk and eliminates it. I always copy the first paragraph of a story before clicking the JR button and then edit the first unneeded text to paste that paragraph in. If I could make a feature request, it would be an option to keep or remove all images on a page, and possibly like a sensitivity threshold for what JR cuts out, so you can make it automatically remove more or less superfluous text, if that's even possible! To be honest, the premium features aren't that attractive to me, but I'd consider upgrading just as a thanks for the features included for free - Just Read just notified me that I've used the extension nearly 3,000 times already!
• (2022-08-22) George Madden: This has become a daily use facility for me. When i dont have time to read something at the moment, i no longer have to capture the website and hope its there later. I simply use this and print to a PDF for later reading offline or even print it. Pulls just the article and gets rid of the clutter. Awesome!
• (2022-08-20) Андрей Кадецкий: Google translate do not work inside reader mode. I hope it is possible to add such feature.
• (2022-08-19) Bin Liu: Indispensable for me. But after the most recent update (August 2022) it is impossible to switch between themes?? The dropdown button becomes unclickable.
• (2022-08-17) Scott Pele: Permissions Read your browsing history
• (2022-08-03) يوسف المغربي: it asks you to joint premium from the first moment you open this app
• (2022-05-24) Jing Chen: love this SO SO much! i've been using it for months and it has never failed me! however, a few days ago it stopped working for some reason. i removed it then reinstalled it a couple times but it still doesn't work. i still loved it for the time i could use it though.
• (2022-05-24) M U: Usually I love using Just Read, it is the perfect extension to make any webpage readable. I mainly use it for reading books online. But since a couple of days ago, I the extension has not been working for me. As soon as I open the ext. the webpage will freeze and nothing else. I have already tried reinstalling Just Read twice, but it did not help in any way. I am afraid that, at least for me, the extension has broken completly.
• (2022-05-12) Frank Nextbook: Been using over a year and it works great on most websites. Strips everything but text found in paragraph form which should be easy if it is HTML.
• (2022-05-04) Nick Napier: As someone who is autistic and therefore has visual processing issues, this extension is a crucial accessibility tool for me. There are many poorly-designed websites that have so many pictures, videos, and popups that I literally cannot read them without this tool. I also have yet to encounter a website that does not work with this tool. Thank you for developing it!
• (2022-05-01) Pat MySecret: It can be used by average person, but this extension is primarily for people adept with handling CSS scripts. Allows auto domain run.. not many readers do. One great thing is that it lends itself to very specific site run for scripts which avoids problems with badly written scripts interfering. I notice a convenient share button. Uniquely, is a start/end deletion mode where you can delete the parts that you've read already.. 5/1/22 I agree with the author, it is trivial. I just needed to get more adept with scripts. Thank you for your help :-)
• (2022-04-26) Chiem Vu: Customizable and distraction-free.
• (2022-04-07) Jamie Ng: 2022 0407. 312kb, 810 review highest
• (2022-03-29) Andrew “saaadel” Spoda: Add an ability to hide the original full page content for autoloaded sites list in the read mode, but with a some pause before hiding – some N seconds (add a text field for it in settings). Because many sites are protected with the cloudflare CDN with 5 sec timeout. Make this pause a variable value because of some other sites can be protected with a different way/timeout
• (2022-02-28) span4: Помогает бесплатно читать статьи на сайте Times, отключая надоедливое окно. Автору спасибо.
• (2022-01-28) tabliqat chi: I want to use the free version and I need an option to get rid of the + sign to the right of the articles that moves as I scroll, it's distracting.
• (2022-01-24) Ro Sharp: Nice extension, pretty minimalistic, supports custom css.
• (2022-01-18) Bergg Uscha: Does not include all portions of the page. Reproduce: go to the webpage's function 'Print', toggle reading view with this extension, save to pdf (preview) does not include all sections. 'Reader View' by yokris.dev did the job.
• (2022-01-08) Jonata dmg: ótimo consegue deixar em modo leitura as páginas web
• (2021-11-22) Tom Napp: The free version is great but I would recommend the 'premium' version if you have the means!
• (2021-11-09) Victor Davich: Sounded good. Proof is in the pudding. uninstalled
• (2021-10-26) 永永YongYong: 好像和大陆的简悦插件差不多的功能
• (2021-10-08) Cristobal Rodriguez: ¿Para que instalar Extensiones Modo Lectura? que consumen CPU y RAM Si Google Chrome ya tiene la opción de Leer en Modo Lectura Hay que activar en chrome://flags/ y activar Reader Mode
• (2021-09-29) ASADF ASF: Top
• (2021-09-01) Júlia Vargas: me ajuda muito, muito útil para pessoas com TDAH, fica mas fácil de ler e entender o texto
• (2021-08-10) Dimangadap, Andre Rupert P.: You can specifically choose the text you want to read by highlighting the text, this extension can also highlight the text automatically by hovering your cursor on the text which saves a lot of time.
• (2021-07-17) Mauro Aliano: very nice, very speed, :) Es lindo cuando tu mente inicia una búsqueda por conseguir, más herramientas, con mucha iniciativa y estén personas como usted que desee poner cara y nombre a crear una extension. Dirigiendo a ofrecido por: esta el link para ver más y te encontras con el sitio web, que tambien es fabuloso. Muchas gracias, voy a tener en cuenta para proximas tareas y futuros proyectos que requieran mas uso web y resumenes. Lo use para leer una pagina de microsoft onedrive
• (2021-07-13) Ruth Lee: The best customizable reader, great for saving pdfs of articles!!
• (2021-07-02) adresty: It is a marvel！ Bug setting icon is a bit simple.
• (2021-06-25) Mukesh Thaker: You are inviting users to upgrade to premium, but after collecting the money I still cannot get the premium features. Have received absolutely no response to email query either - reporting this extension as abuse to Google.
• (2021-06-04) Benedict Twangington: Looks like it doesn't work for dailymail anymore. (Not that I read it - just a good test case!). I'd like an extension that just puts together all the text on one page for me i.e. remove most of CSS. If someone could code this and get back to me or otherwise I'll have to try.
• (2021-05-20) Nicholas Koldys: It currently cut out some content and does not display the whole document, it does not allow editing as the window is stuck at the top right and cant enlarge, and the premium ad displays constantly even when closed.
• (2021-05-12) Sushil Katoch: I tried many reader to read novels online but this one is the best by far.

Latest issues

• (2022-07-18, v:5.2.5) Bruce Bolduc: edit font size
  When I select the edit button, theme, font size, text color, ect., the words or choices to the rightin the box are unreadable. They barely appear in the box? I can't access to customize. I've tried picking different font size in chrome, and zoom size also, All I see is the very very top of the letters or numbers,,,,,, Help!
• (2022-05-23, v:5.2.1) Kevin Oliva: Whit the last version (22/05/2022) its imposible to use the read only mode
  As said in the title, imposible to read-only pages. It just go ON and OFF without doing anything
• (2022-05-10, v:5.1.10) Max Worm: Custom Theme CSS Hyphens doesn't work
  Hi, Great extension! I'm trying to add hyphenation to my theme. I added the following properties to various selector, and none of it worked. I used the same properties using the stylus extension that just changes the CSS of websites and it works properly. I used the `.simple-article-container` selector and the `p` selector. Doesn't work. However, inspecting the page using the dev tools confirms that the properties are being applied to the correct elements (mainly the `p` elements) I'm using Chrome v 100.0.4896.127 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 10. { overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-hyphens: auto; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-before: 3; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-after: 3; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-chars: 6 3 3; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-lines: 2; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-last: always; -webkit-hyphenate-limit-zone: 8%; -moz-hyphens: auto; -moz-hyphenate-limit-chars: 6 3 3; -moz-hyphenate-limit-lines: 2; -moz-hyphenate-limit-last: always; -moz-hyphenate-limit-zone: 8%; -ms-hyphens: auto; -ms-hyphenate-limit-chars: 6 3 3; -ms-hyphenate-limit-lines: 2; -ms-hyphenate-limit-last: always; -ms-hyphenate-limit-zone: 8%; hyphens: auto; hyphenate-limit-chars: 6 3 3; hyphenate-limit-lines: 2; hyphenate-limit-last: always; hyphenate-limit-zone: 8%; }
• (2022-03-28, v:5.1.10) Daniel Jones: Keep photos/pictures
  Just Read seems to always delete the photos from the article. How do I keep the photos? I looked through the Options but did not see anything. Thanks.
• (2021-12-27, v:5.1.10) Keleb Gadol: cannot use because Chromebook on Chrome browser makes it disappear
  For some reason ANY new extensions I place NEVER stay on the Chrome web menu top. They show for half a sec when I install, and then disappear. I thought it was a problem with too many icons, but I can remove all of them and Chrome only puts back the original ones I added a year ago. What a nightmare.
• (2021-11-22, v:5.1.10) AG2009: Hide images
  Sorry for asking this, but I couldn't find the settings to hide images in settings.
• (2021-10-08, v:5.1.9) Yugal: Printing in Read Mode cuts & eliminates few lines.
  Printing in Read Mode cuts & eliminates few lines.
• (2021-08-29, v:5.1.9) Nature fonder nature: Want to know what languages can it read?
  Want to know what language can it read from web pages?
• (2021-05-12, v:5.1.3) We Are: Not working on this website (and similar ones)
  https://www.readlightnovel.org/ When activated on this website, it just removes the scroll bar, nothing else happens. Making it literally useless. This isn't the only website it happens to- it happens fairly often on novel websites and it's really disappointing.
• (2021-04-17, v:5.1.3) Gary N: New account setup issue
  I was about to confirm my new account, when my computer had a issue that do not allow confirmation to go through. When I try logging in the ERROR Message reads -User Not Confirmed. Going to new account setup yields the ERROR Message - An account with the given email already exits. I see no way out, please help to get me out of this endless circle. Thanks Gary Nelson - [email protected]
• (2021-03-02, v:5.1.2) Nora Hartquist: Problems with "new" extension
  I've used Just Read for a very long time, but hadn't accessed it recently. When I tried to, it gave me a page saying we now have to pay for Premium in a new program. I followed the instructions, but when I added it back, nothing would work, just kept going back to that page about the new program. So I went in, deleted the extensions, cancelled the card to be charged next year for Premium, then added it to Chrome again. Now the free version works, but I see no way to upgrade to premium?
• (2021-02-17, v:5.1.2) Alex Kim: Great addon - one minor annoyance
  Is there a way to hide the button that automatically pops up anytime my mouse is around the "comment" area? It's a bit distracting and annoying, as I like to put my mouse in the clear area away from the text. BTW great job on the extension. I used this addon a few years back, but stopped using it due to many bugs and issues. Its much improved and working well now
• (2021-01-04, v:5.1.0) Cameron Derksen: Auto-run not working
  I have installed JustRead and cannot get the auto-run feature to work. Despite selection the option to "Always add current site to Just Read's autorun list when Just Read is started on a page," domains are never added to the auto-run list. The right-click context menu does not add items to the list either. The only thing that seems to work is manually typing domains into the auto-run list. Is there a fix for this?
• (2020-12-24, v:5.1.0) John Agger: Hide images
  Greetings Zach, A family member of mine has poor vision and is using the Mac to read out loud articles . Normally this works very well, but when there are images, it sometime gets screwed up and reads the caption and sometime the path to that image - mid article. Is there a way I can block images from loading with Just Read? Thank you, John
• (2020-12-15, v:5.0.10) Просто Я: Download
  I can't download programm during all day. I see only " Download interrupted". Help me, please. Thanks
• (2020-12-08, v:5.0.10) Khanh Nam: Formatting toolbar popup but unusable
  When I select text, a toolbar with Bold, Italic, Underline, Strikethrough, Color... popup, but nothing happens when I click on those buttons. I don't have Just Read Premium.
• (2020-12-03, v:5.0.8) tomek czerwiński: refreshing the page
  This page automatically refreshes the page https://www.interia.pl/
• (2020-11-27, v:5.0.0) Rich G: Extension disabled as new permissions unexpectedly required
  With version 5.0.0, Chrome displays an orange "Error" message on the Menu button, which brings up this dialog box: > *Just Read is disabled* > To re-enable it, accept the new permissions: > • Read and change your data on justread.link > • Know your email address > {Accept permissions} {Remove} It is not obvious why these two permissions are required, as the extension is expected to be read-only on the local browser. The unusual error message may cause some users to leave the extension disabled or let it be removed instead rather than risk sharing personal information.
• (2020-11-22, v:2.2.8) Joel Bruneski: Controls
  I am looking forward to using this app as I have some learning disabilities and this could make my schooling much faster. One problem. I cannot get it to run. It opens the selected text in the new window but I cannot get it to read from there. A little assistance please?
• (2020-11-07, v:2.2.8) Eric Patterson: Privacy Policy
  I am curious about your privacy policies and how you store and use your customers data. I would like a little peace of mind about this issue prior to adding your product to my Chrome browser. The more details the better please. Answers that do not give all inclusive details will not be helpful to me and others. I would not be adverse to some data being sold to support your work, but I would need to know what data is being sold, and if the data was being sold in a completely anonymous fashion with no identifying information added. Thank You in advance for your time.
• (2020-10-21, v:2.2.8) Ashley Hoang: Move the reading area to the left
  Hi, how to change the CSS so the reading area can move to the left (not center as default)?
• (2020-07-15, v:2.2.7) Joseph Gonzalez: can't load japanese text
  perhaps encoding should be changed to allow for japanese text
• (2020-07-08, v:2.2.7) Priscilla Jesslyn: Controls isn't working
  The control option for editing the theme suddenly stops working. The hovered controls that usually appear after I clicked the button to edit the themes have missed a few options, only leaving the option to change my theme to another theme. I could still edit it through the Java in the extension's options, but I need to to be careful, or else I would create an error. Is it a bug in the coding that caused the hovered controls act this way?
• (2019-03-12, v:1.5.4) Bruce TM: Have you tried this on CNET?
  Maybe they have a devious programmer or something, but I get dummy content instead of the page.
• (2019-03-04, v:1.5.3) Paulo Nogueira: Adding images to Just Read.
  Is it possible to add images to Just Read using CSS and if so has someone already written the code so that I can copy and past it in. Looked at the themes and tried a few but could not get images to show up. Happy with the default look just need images.
• (2019-01-30, v:1.5.1) wikka smells: Failed to read LocalStorage property from Window
  Uncaught DOMException: Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document. viwer.js:12 extension//extensioncode/viwer.js:12:30
• (2019-01-19, v:1.4.3) Alexander Manguba: Pages with frames
  Is there a way to make this work on websites that use frames?
• (2019-01-09, v:1.4.3) Antonio Flores-Alvarez: Payment
  Payment only with credit card? German debit card doesn't work! Help, please.
• (2018-12-12, v:1.4.3) Laura Sagen: The permissions include "read all my data"...
  Hey, Looks like a worthwhile extension, but the permissions include "read and change all your website data" – I'm conscious of the privacy and also passwords – where can I read more on that in relation to your extension? Thanks!
• (2018-11-17, v:1.2.9) app icon
  I acnnot find the app icon on my dock even though its been installed. whats wrong
• (2018-11-06, v:1.2.9) Incognito mode / not logged in?
  Can this extension be used without logging into Chrome? How about incognito mode?
• (2018-10-30, v:1.2.9) Tim Brennik: Can't load URL...
  When I click on the extension, the page loads in a mess and I get the error message: Can't Load URL: The domain of this URL isn't included in the app's domains. To be able to load this URL, add all domains and subdomains of your app to the App Domains field in your app settings. I have no idea why I need to add all domains and subdomains to the app domains field?! And I have no idea how to do this... Please advise
• (2018-10-20, v:1.2.9) Gili T.: Reader removes code blocks
  When reading https://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/89-class-code-and-header-files/ reader mode removes the code-block sections. Is there a way to keep them?