Read&Write for Google Chrome™

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  • Extension status: Featured
  • Live on Store
Description from extension meta

Boost reading and writing confidence across all types of content and devices, in class, at work, and at home.

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Read&Write for Google Chrome™
Description from store

Wonderfully intuitive and easy-to-use, Read&Write for Google Chrome™ provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles.

Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including:

• Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting

• Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained

• With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying

• Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type

• Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research

• Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs

• Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting

Install Read&Write for Google Chrome to access ALL of these features FREE for 30 days!

Teachers can get a FREE premium subscription to Read&Write for Google Chrome. To register and activate your subscription, go to texthelp.com/en-gb/products/read-write/free-for-teachers/ after installing the Read&Write for Google Chrome trial.

Get more information on Read&Write for Google Chrome™ features, licensing, and pricing at
texthelp.com/en-gb/products/read-write/premium-features/

Latest reviews

Mark Cohen 2025-10-07

Awful. I don't want it and cannot uninstall it. It has slowed down my entire computer. It's terrible. No AI benefit at all.

Peter L 2025-10-04

When I got it, it worked great, then it seemed to start crashing my google docs frequently. I don't like the other options and am trying t again. We'll see how it goes.

Gurudeep Swasanekar 2025-09-29

this extension is not open ... i try to open many but nothing is happen

Alyssa Rose 2025-09-22

Doesnt work

Elijah Friend 2025-09-08

Someone in my class uses this, and I tested this and it doesn't work anymore.

Krzyś Kramczynski 2025-09-05

When it used to work, it was literally the best extension for google chrome but now it doesn't work. Every time when I click the extension it won't work. So fix the Google r&w already so it works. But at least it doesn't take up too much space.

Darah 2025-09-03

Bloatware, obviously takes up storage and chrome resources, but it works (sometimes0

Marchetta Thomas 2025-08-30

doesnt work. fix the freaking app

Ryan Hassouni 2025-08-25

does not work at all just fix it already damn

Katelyn Stanhope 2025-08-25

functions don't work

Madeline Annie 2025-08-21

Often doesn't open. The only function that somewhat works is the read aloud. Predictive text, picture dictionary, etc etc are all grayed out. Not helpful or reliable for accessibility.

Cleto Saldanha 2025-08-19

The extension doesn't work.

Ethan Payne 2025-08-18

"Sharon where do I put the gun?"-Ozzy osbourne

JONATHAN JACKSON 2025-08-14

I'm a student. I haven't found much need for this extension other than something that takes up way too much space. You see, this was recently downloaded by my administrator. I respect their choices, but I've noticed that ever since it was automatically downloaded my chromebook began to crash. Its not that the extension itself is bad or anything, but please fix the bug with it. I'm writing 2 stars because I'm a decent human being and I have compassion. -Jonathan

nate 2025-08-07

Broken. Won't load

Emma-Lee Arsenault 2025-07-15

I was so excited when a colleague told me about this as I thought it would be very helpful with my university readings! Unfortunately the extension doesn't work very well at all on a windows computer using Google Chrome. It doesn't always open and when it does open it won't read the PDF document I have open. I am also unable to highlight PDF documents. Maybe it works well for documents from google drive but it doesn't work for websites :(

Pell :D 2025-07-15

The extension doesn't work. I can't even open the settings!

Deepak Poojari 2025-07-10

doesnt work on chrome, ubunut 22. when i click on it, it doesnt open or do anything.

Jay Jay 2025-06-24

Why doesn't it open when I click on it, the app is unresponsive.

Kash Farhadi 2025-06-20

Non-functional, unresponsive. 0 Stars

Chris Tomlinson 2025-06-18

This extension is absolutly useless, I attempted to get it working for online classes and the extension does not even open, does not communitcate with the computer at all. If you really want the highlights, print off the work, if you really want the drone voice, just get the "Read Aloud" extension instead

Saulo Mascarenhas 2025-06-11

it bugs all the time

Cole Harred 2025-06-06

this extension literally never opens. I click on it and there is absolutely no response whatsoever. A joke. Only giving 1 star bc I have to

Rouj Zora 2025-05-30

Thought it was very cool until I used it a second time and it erased all of my highlights.

Zoran M 2025-05-28

Data harvester. Impossible to test without giving an email address, and for some reason they want a company or school address.

Apolline Lemazurier 2025-05-05

incredible

Caden Nguyen 2025-05-03

3 stars because there is no reason why you need this. Also, this extension is useless. Whoever made this extension needs to send to court or something because of the concerns (not the privacy, see the description right next to this text). It is located in Google Docs and possibly Google Slides and when you open it, you see some tools up in the top or in the side which we don't need this because some people might be thinking it could be cheating and stuff like that. It takes space also and there is no point of this extension. Also, auto correct the words feature has already been added to Google Docs. Also, it takes up space where there is no option to turn the tools off or where you can access it by a shortcut while in Google Docs. Also, there are already some extensions that has the same thing without these issues up here or websites contain like this one (not extensions) such as DeepL Write without of these issues. Certain features has already been added to Google Docs or in the device (as mentioned before) such as reading the text you highlighted which it can be done from your device or something else. There are other features that I can't list so there is no reason why you need to use this. Also, in rare cases, it would appear on other sites such as TurboWarp (https://turbowarp.org)

preston ramsey 2025-04-15

I like this because the is the shower thoughts that will blow your mind voice and the I was then shot 9 times voice

Romus Racine 2025-04-08

me do not like

Tien Nguyen 2025-04-05

Totally a spam Extension!!!

Christopher Davilla 2025-03-18

Can you fix the compatability with Amplify (online)? When the kids try to use rw to have the passage read to them, the screen begins to glitch badly. Ty

mason jones 2025-03-17

good

Jessica 2025-03-15

The app worked very well the first semester, now it's more of a nuisance then an aid. More then half of the features are not available, doesn't read words correctly or in sequence consistently. Sad because it was making a big difference during book study and now I'm back struggling without it, which is worse than ever having it at all. Imagine being locked in a dark room all your life and someone finally opens the door to let you out, and as you walk toward the light, the door slams shut like, "Juuuuuuust KIDDING!"

Huck McGalliard 2025-03-13

wow

Callie Alreza 2025-03-03

Firstly, I wish there were more highlighter colors. Secondly, I hate that it misspells words. When it read Icela, it said Iceilla. This is a bad (but a bit good) extension. Just needs some tweaks and it'll be fine.

Katrina Karla 2025-02-23

it wont open for me anywhere

Matthew 2025-02-11

Intrusive Pop-Ups. I guess the overall extension is decent for use. Not a big fan.

Gabriel McLennan 2025-02-06

FIVE BIG BOOOOMS

Remy Gaskin 2025-02-06

eye of rah

Mason jones 2025-02-03

I tried to use this it won't work

Kate 2025-02-02

its not working for me at all...

Zaki Rahman 2025-01-21

useless and gets in the way

Stephen VanVoorhis 2025-01-09

This app is great

David Rosenzweig 2024-12-16

I hate it so much and it just sucks I cant see the 0 stars

Emmett Hamilton 2024-12-05

I like it

MT Jxsh 2024-12-03

THIS IS STUPID, I REALLY HATED THIS BRO

Grier Collins 2024-12-02

Whoever made this is a genuine moron and their autocorrect doesn't even work and causes more errors. Forced on me by school and ruins my assignments all the time. Thanks for this horrible extension

Parker Thompson 2024-11-27

this sucks not even a star

Melanie McGivern 2024-11-21

Randomly pops up and gets in the way when I don't want it. I have looked everywhere and can't find an easy way to remove this.

itzizzyyt 2024-11-20

works but it pops up randomly and its annoying

Statistics

Installs
18,000,000+
Market
Chrome Web Store
Category
Rating
3.46 (1,582 votes)
Last update
2025-09-30
Version 2.1.715
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