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Bionic Reading

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The one and only from Switzerland is a “Life Changer” for Lisa, a “Game Changer” for Tommy and “Absolutely Mind Blowing” for Kelly.

Image from store Bionic Reading
Description from store All 6 Bionic Reading® Apps are available as a free or a Premium version – 6 for 1 Price. The one and only from Switzerland is a “Life Changer” for Lisa, a “Game Changer” for Tommy and “Absolutely Mind Blowing” for Kelly. Bionic Reading® Faster. Better. More focused. Reading. Bionic Reading® for Apple iOS and macOS, Google Android, Microsoft Windows, Google Chrome and Web. We offer you the free version “Discover” and the subscriptions “Premium” and “Premium Plus”. • NEW: Download as Word file. • NEW: You can now smoothly continue your reading experience with “Bionic Reading® Reader” across platforms, as the last reading position is now saved. • NEW: Bookmarks now allow you to mark your favorite pages. Bionic Reading® revises texts in such a way that the most concise parts of the words are highlighted. This guides the eye over the text and the brain remembers words already learned more quickly. YOU GET. Save precious time. Gain advantages. Learn new things faster. Expand your knowledge. Improve your skills. Noise-free with more focus. Less distraction. EVERYONE IS DIFFERENT. The Bionic Reading® reading mode can be individually adapted to the needs of all readers. This flexibility allows Bionic Reading® to provide maximum customization for all users. FEATURES. • NEW: You can now smoothly continue your reading experience with “Bionic Reading® Reader” across platforms, as the last reading position is now saved. • NEW: Bookmarks now allow you to mark your favorite pages. • Advanced Bionic Reading® Settings with Part of speech. • Bionic Reading® Reader for your reading experience. • Bionic Reading® Library for your favourites. • Synced content. • Fixation, Sccade, Opacity. • Fixation via Letters or Syllables. • Details. • Colors. • Light Mode. Dark Mode. • Upload File, Text or Website, convert and read in the Apps. • File Conversion (.epub, .docx, .rtf, .txt). • Text Conversion. • Website Conversion. • Send to Amazon® Kindle. • Download as EPUB, PDF, WORD. • Carefully selected Fonts. • Designed for the Latin alphabet. +15% HAVE READING DIFFICULTIES. More than 15% of the population has great difficulty reading and understanding texts (ADHD, dyslexia). We have received feedback from people with ADHD that thanks to Bionic Reading® they immediately understood the content of various texts the first time they read them, which was impossible without Bionic Reading®. COMMENTS AND FEEDBACK. Jessica: “Having ADHD and processing issues means that I read very slow because my brain can’t focus on the words enough to both read them and process what they mean at a decent pace. Using Bionic Reading® has allowed me to feel functional and productive when I’m reading something lengthy – it’s such a GAME CHANGER!” Lisa: “I have not read fiction for 20 years. I read what I have to read. It almost hurts my brain to read regular type. But now I will be reading fiction again! Bionic Reading® works for me and I can read 2–3 times faster! AMAZING! This is a LIFE CHANGER! Thank You!” Patrick: “OK, Bionic Reading® is the real deal. I already read quickly and this doubled it.” Reaction from Daniel: “Holy smokes you’re not kidding!” Carla: “WOW! I could read quickly and fluently using Bionic Reading®. Doing this helped me understand the context of the paragraph much better than when I have to squint and focus on each word, which tires me out and I lose focus. Bionic Reading® is brilliant!” Nestor: “Your tool is gorgeous, It’s helping me a lot. My sight is reduced because one of my transplanted corneas has become opaque and Bionic Reading® is helping me a lot to read easier and comprehend faster.” TYPOGRAPHY. DESIGN. SWITZERLAND. With over 25 years of experience in typography, we know how important it is to get text right. It’s the small details that matter enormously to make you read better. INTERNATIONAL AWARDS FOR BIONIC READING®. Gold in the category “Excellence in Business to Business” for “Information Technologies, Functional Software” and in the category “Apps” for “Excellent Communications Design”. • German Innovation Award 2023: Gold (highest distinction) • German Design Award 2023: Gold (highest distinction) PRICING. More information about pricing: https://bionic-reading.com/br-pricing/ EULA. More information about EULA: https://bionic-reading.com/end-user-license-agreement/

Latest reviews

  • (2023-12-19) Tenille: UPDATE 12/19/23: Still 2 Stars Extension appears to be working again... Fantastic! BUT... When you use it on a page, you get THREE back-to-back popups (explaining how the extension works and where to find settings and whatnot). ...on every. Single. New. Page. The popups were helpful the first time, but that information is also already available in the settings to review if you're ever confused or didn't read/remember the anything in said popup. So why is there even a popup at all? Why is there no way to disable the popup? I could understand the first time (or couple of times) this extension is used, but *every* time? This extension is predominantly used to help/support neurodivergents with reading and processing. We're already having to take extra steps in order to be more effective at reading and processing information. What neurotypical dev (and their manager) at this company thought these persistent popups wouldn't be intrusive and distracting for people who already struggle with focus, attention, sensory sensitivities, and/or emotional regulation? Please. We just want to read without having to click a million more boxes and jump through even more hoops because we live in a society that is not very accommodating. To add insult to injury, there is NO utilization of you own BionicReading software in any popup? Like at all? Really? These might be even more annoying/distracting than the incessant popups on websites asking to signup for their email list to get a discount because at least you have the ability to block those popups. These popups are like having a child interrupting your entire thought process with already known and therefore irrelevant statements like, "HEY IDGAF ABOUT THE RESEARCH YOU'RE TRYING TO READ LOOK AT THESE COOL SHINY SETTINGS OPTIONS" every single time you need to read. I've now lost 45-60 minutes of my day just to give feedback in the hopes that this is heard and changed... At this point, my brain is no longer in a place interested in or capable of studying/reading because with anything I pull up, I know my flow and focus will be interrupted ***again*** in a way I have zero ability to control or mitigate, and then have to deal with the growingly irrational rage. So please. For the love of all that holy. Just stop, consider how literally majority of humans feel about uncontrollable popups, and do better. With all of the incredible things this software does, this really isn't the hard part---it's the easiest part. ....will update rating to the 4 or 5 it would deserve when this app effectively and consistently does strictly what is advertised without being more frustrating and distracting than it is helpful for its actual target audience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Review 6/12/23: 2 Stars Something is broken with the extension. I've tried multiple websites at this point and when the page tries to load with the bionic extension, it populates a pop-up that isn't coded correctly (see below). Brackets [ ] are used to indicate a button. cookie_consent_description_1 cookie_consent_description_2 [ privacy_policy ] [ button_impressum ] [ button_accept_only_necessary ] [ button_accept_all_cookies ]
  • (2023-11-08) Daniel Mendelson (Danny): Disfunctional
  • (2023-11-01) Anchor Lin: stupid pop ups can't ever close even if you do what they ask.
  • (2023-10-04) Stephanie Motta: Worked for me! I have two screens so I open one webpage on one screen and activate BR and then have the same page open on the other screen so I can switch back in forth. IDK why but I like having both options. When I read with both I retain more information
  • (2023-10-02) karn soo: not working feel like cheated my money many problems wrong expiry date unable to work on docx file too wasted my time
  • (2023-09-26) Steven de Windt: I love the fact that new tools are being created for aiding in reading, This tool has helped me a lot in reading the small amount of text I can actually change to bionic reading. Since it is automatic in many instances, it does not seem to recognize what text I actually want to make bionic, so I end up reading a disclaimer rather than the content of an email, for example. I home that the developers can soon come with a more creative idea to fix this issue, maybe change the text on the page itself? Or is it possible to select the text to want to read and let the tool only transform the selected text?
  • (2023-09-24) Kyle Lee: It does work for me, for those having issues. Once you install the extension, try refreshing all webpages before you try to enable them for bionic reading. Worked like a charm for me
  • (2023-09-21) Amiri Nael Gómez Martínez: no funciona
  • (2023-08-09) Molly Witmer: Was not able to make it work, sadly.
  • (2023-08-05) Dale Thomas: You can't read PDFs with the Chrome extension they force you to buy their desktop app. You can't log into the desktop app with a Google sign in after you make a purchase. This extension is about the worst experience I have had with extensions.
  • (2023-07-19) Andrea Patiño: No sirve. Doesn't work.
  • (2023-06-28) אמיר מולאי: doesnt work
  • (2023-06-17) Michael Jefferson: Bionic Reading changed my life. If you're reading this you probably already know the benefits of this text style. This extension works for me, as I mostly use it to read news articles. I pinned the extension to my toolbar then navigate to the article and press the BR button. Giving 4/5 stars because you have to manually "bionify" each webpage. It would be nice if BR was more integrated into the browsing experience.
  • (2023-05-30) Andrey Oliveira: Very efficient, one of the best available for this purpose. The only problem is that it doesn't work very well on pages translated with Google Translator.
  • (2023-05-30) Theodore: Many websites don't present the content in correct way or intentionally present information so that plugins cant capture content. So, if there was a popup option in this plugin, then I could copy-paste text into that popup, and ask that text to be rendered with bionic method. That would be really useful. As of now, this doesn't work on half the sites I use. Or, it highlights the wrong content - like it highlights the navigation bar content instead of the description. I agree those websites may not be presenting the content in the right way - but there should be a workaround for such content, so that the user is not left abandoned.
  • (2023-05-13) James Cobalt: You must pin the extension and click it to run it each time. This will then copy the content of the webpage to a special Bionic Reading page and apply the Bionic styling to it. Unfortunately, this process is slow enough that it's hard to imagine it saving time on a webpage unless you're reading the longest of long form articles. And even then... the Bionic styling removes things like commas and hyphens, which may be fine for speed reading to quickly get the gist, but can slow you down as you double take sentences to re-interpret what it's trying to say e.g. the class "Let's eat Grandma" vs "Let's eat, Grandma". A neat idea that isn't ready for the masses in neither execution nor utility.
  • (2023-05-13) Kevan Dodhia: Lol doesn't work at all. Ended up using JiffyReader instead.
  • (2023-05-13) MohammadHossein Haqiqatkhah: Stuck on cookie concent window thus useless.
  • (2023-05-13) Sir Bughunter: To everyone saying "it doesn't work anymore"... It works pretty well. You just need to reload a page if a tab was already cached in your browser and then click manually each time on the icon for the extension to load the configuration of it. I can't give it 5 stars yet, because of the need of having to manually activate the extension and the sheer complexity of the options. I AM NOT a psychologist or scientist who knows which settings influence what exactly and who can set up his configurations flawlessly... Some help would be greatly appreciated here. Apart from this, this could help neurodiverse people like me read MUCH FASTER than before. So thank you for all you do! <3
  • (2023-05-08) J J: das Gejammer hier ist ja nicht zum aushalten - freut euch doch, dass einige Texte besser lesbar sind als euch darüber aufzuregen, dass nicht alle Formate unterstützt werden. Find das ne super Sache.
  • (2023-05-08) Guilherme Augusto Rodrigues: Does not work.
  • (2023-05-07) David C Margotta: Tried it on six different websites, in Chrome and Vivaldi and finally gave up. It does not work at all, anywhere.
  • (2023-05-04) Belén B: No funcionó
  • (2023-05-03) TW-TS Wong: Doesn't work. Don't waste your time to get disappointed.
  • (2023-05-03) Carlos Guadarrama: Was working before. Not working now. I click it and it does nothing.
  • (2023-04-21) Jade M: I love bionic reading and use the web version and android app very frequently, but this chrome extension does not work. The extension is pinned in my browser. However, when I click it, either nothing at all happens or an error page loads with a cookies permission box popped up over it. It is impossible to either accept or reject cookies as those buttons do nothing. It is not even possible for me to read the entire error message behind the popup because there is no way to get rid of the popup. The only way to fix the page is to refresh it.
  • (2023-04-20) alan sun: Possibly because I am in China, the waiting time required for the conversion is too long. I am not sure if the plugin depends on the network. If it does, it is very troublesome.
  • (2023-04-19) LuDoo o: Geht gar nicht. Egal ob englische oder deutsche Artikel
  • (2023-04-17) chakaponi: Не обрабатывает русский язык
  • (2023-04-17) Malte Iwanicki: It does translate the text into a bionic reading text, but it does this in a seperate reader which doesnt have the format of the website anymore. Little useful. I found a better app
  • (2023-04-16) Arseny Makarov: it works, but the experience sucks, because the extension doesn't preserve selected display preferences and most annoyingly shows the cookies prompt and user manual overlay ON EVERY NEW PAGE I turn it on.
  • (2023-04-16) Jaime Baez: Working great so far for reading books online.
  • (2023-04-13) Erik Klamer: Why publish an extension if it doesn't even work at all.
  • (2023-04-13) Existing Observer: broken cant use
  • (2023-04-02) Nicolas de greef: One of the best app's i ever used to facilitate speed reading
  • (2023-03-30) Megan Smith: It works, but there is far too much contrast between the bold and the fine print to be legible. ETA: And now it won't turn off, even when removing the extension.
  • (2023-03-27) Tom Allain: love the idea, but it really should just do the BR stuff on any text on the page, in context, not in some other viewer that cant handle site functionality. i think this may only be for long articles or books, so i wont use this much at all.
  • (2023-03-20) Chris G.: Works just fine. Pin the extension to your browser > navigate to the page you want to read > click the extension favicon and the page will load. Would prefer the next to be modified in page so all images/graphics could remain vs being navigated to a new text only view. Still pretty good for news sites.
  • (2023-03-18) Patrick Veilleux: The App is not working because it is not requesting the correct permissions to work.
  • (2023-03-17) Emma-louise James: PLEASE MAKE THIS WORK!!
  • (2023-03-16) Howard Gil: Does not work
  • (2023-03-16) Leah Olbrich: Downloaded the extension but could not figure out how to make it work.
  • (2023-03-15) tan bob: does not work right now
  • (2023-03-14) Sean Mascarenhas: Currently doesn't work.
  • (2021-01-07) Alan Zhang: I love this idea and enjoy the experience in reeder app. but this plugin seems not working at many site, for example: https://reactjs.org/docs/getting-started.html https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types.html
  • (2020-12-27) Daun Ozuna: given depth-perception (related to years of staring at screens) issues i have, it greatly enhances my reading performance. I also set span{font-family:monospace;} for an added boost
  • (2020-11-17) Michael Fan: This extension interferes with the proper rendering of Amazon sites. If a product has variants, e.g. small, medium, large, the variant button would be crammed together and hover on the web page as one scrolls. Disabling it instantly allows proper rendering.
  • (2020-06-22) Rodrigo Bressane: Lovely extension. It would be awesome to have a keyboard shortcut to toggle between on/off states for a given site. Can't wait to see where this one goes.
  • (2020-02-09) Matej Kováč: Does not currently work in Microsoft Edge 80.0.361.48.
  • (2020-01-29) Fabian B.: Nachtmodus? Sehr zufrieden, wäre super wenn ihr einen darkmode d.h. schwarzer oder grauer hintergrund mit weißen Buchstaben integrieren könntet!

Latest issues

  • (2023-10-15, v:5.0.0) steph “Xeravla” Loren: stuck on loading 'process'
    pasted i the text I wanted to read, hit process, but its stuck in state of loading
  • (2023-10-01, v:5.0.0) Reony Tonneyck: Not working, fresh install.
    It simply doesn't work. Gets stuck on the loading indicator and thats it.
  • (2023-09-14, v:5.0.0) Sam: To Overbearing
    Could you make it more discrete? I don't like how it takes over the web page and messes with the pictures and website design. You should be able to open Chrome to any page, and it works immediately.
  • (2023-09-12, v:5.0.0) VALENTYNA KOZHEMYAKINA: it's not working
    subscribed for premium but it doesn't work. Please give me the refund.
  • (2023-08-24, v:5.0.0) Jacqueline Darling: it wont work
    hi i have paid for premium and it wont work. Please give directions or refund.
  • (2023-05-23, v:4.0.1) Simon: Bionic Reader is not working
    I tried to use the bionic reader on different websites, but unfortunately it doesnt work. Everytime, when i click on the icon A cookie message appears in the window, but it is bugged (cookie_consent_description_1, cookie_consent_description_2, button_accept_all cookies etc). But the buttons to confirm do not work there (the rest do). There is no further progress from the website (it is black in the background). I have already tried deleting all other extensions (and reinstalling Bionic reader several times), but it has not helped. I also have another Chrome profile (same PC and Windows account) and it works there.
  • (2023-04-20, v:4.0.1) Battle Dave: Work with a website.
    This needs to be able to just be an overlay onto existing websites, rather than processing just the words on the site and generating in a separate window. Makes homework or work research slow instead of faster due to constant back and forth processing the site text as Bionic, then having to reference images, or respond to discussion board posts, etc. Would be great if it could just change the wording as an overlay on top of the website.
  • (2023-04-18, v:4.0.1) Ayush Tiwari ce20b022: Feature Request
    Please add a toggle feature to enable images in the bionic text. Sometimes it is necessary to see images in the text like flowcharts while checking an assignment etc. IT IS A MUST HAVE FEATURE (I assume plenty of people find this major missing).
  • (2023-03-20, v:4.0.1) Kim Fray: BIONIC FONT
    Please get this working again
  • (2023-03-09, v:4.0.1) michelle kenny: support for chrome use
    This does not seem to work on chrome for me. Any advise?
  • (2023-02-22, v:4.0.1) Tyson Le Strange: App still doesn't work Spring '23
    ...but it is installed in Chrome by default. This is what happens when you put more money into marketing than product development.
  • (2022-12-16, v:4.0.1) Samantha Staffanell: publisher MIA for techical support
    it seems as though this extension hasnt worked for anyone since July. this is a great idea that could help many people but not if it just doesnt work. its been like 6 months and no response. going to downlod a competitor's extension, maybe their publisher actually responds to technical support issues.
  • (2022-11-14, v:4.0.1) Freek Telkamp: Export PDF.
    I read at the discription of the extention that I can export PDF files, but I see no option of doing so.
  • (2022-10-07, v:4.0.1) Willem Backer: Doesn't work
    It does not change anything in my text. What am I missing?
  • (2022-09-27, v:4.0.1) Chris Schremmer: Not working on MS Edge
    As the title says. Activated the extension, but still nothing on my most used sites like www.handelsblatt.com; www.uni-weimar.de
  • (2022-08-22, v:4.0.1) Noemi Gunea: nothing is happening
    it doesn't work even though i turned it on
  • (2021-05-16, v:2.2.7) Madison: BionicReading text weighting broken on Chrome/Edge browsers for both Mac/Windows10
    BionicReading doesn't seem to work in Chrome or Edge as of now (tested on both Mac and Windows). The extensions reflows and reformats text in a Reader mode but there's no bionic reading text weighting. Has this been broken with a recent browser update?
  • (2021-01-04, v:2.2.7) Justin Tang: Not working for Gmail or Complex Webpages
    Seems like this extension only works with sites that's mostly text (CNN, news sites). Is it possible for this extension to modify all text on the page in chrome?
  • (2020-07-03, v:2.2.7) Rodrigo Bressane: Not playing well with Amazon UK
    Hey there. The extension is apparently breaking the Amazon UK website (product variations). By turning the extension off the site comes back to normal.
  • (2020-06-16, v:2.2.7) Matte Edens: Causes problems with Bootstrap 4 tooltips
    When this extension is enabled it is injecting CSS for the `.tooltip` class that is conflicting with the Bootstrap `.tooltip` styling. Try it on https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.5/components/tooltips. It is causing placement issues and a grey background to appear behind the Bootstrap "balloon" tooltip styling. I'm currently using version 2.2.7 of this extension. Perhaps renaming your classes to something more like `.bionic-tooltip` so it won't conflict. Thanks for the extension.
  • (2019-12-23, v:2.2.7) This extension breaks an app
    Menus in the https://missiveapp.com/ app are broken in Chrome when your Bionic Reading extension is merely installed (not even activated). Can you look into it?
  • (2019-10-24, v:2.2.7) James Kelso: Is there a way to use BionicReading without engaging reader mode?
    I'd like my sites to remain as they are, but with Bionic text.
  • (2019-05-01, v:2.0.1) Łukasz Wołczyk: reading other files through web browser?
    Hello there, app is superb. I really enjoy new level of productivity. Is it possible to somehow export pdf into other format so BR tool could be activated to read content in the browser? Thanks & Best Regards, Lukasz
  • (2019-04-16, v:2.0.1) Wider reading area
    Love the extension and hypothesis behind it. Would love it even more if there were alternate reading widths available though. Having the text reduced to a phone width on a desktop sized screen is jarring.

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Installs
201,146 history
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Rating
2.3249 (237 votes)
Last update / version
2023-11-15 / 5.0.0
Listing languages
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