Mundane Read: Calm, anxiety-free news

How calmly the news you read is written (100 is calm), scored in your browser. The text never leaves it. 7 articles a week free.

Mundane Read keeps the calm on every news site you read. Open a news article and a small panel shows its Niral Score: how calmly it is written, where 100 is a calm, plain report and 0 is anxiety-ridden. Under it are the readings that make it up — the adjectives that judge rather than report, words repeated to drive a point home, how much of the article is attributed to a named source, sentiment, mood, and political, generational, gender, flag-waving and religious wording. Tap Adjectives and every one it counted is marked on the page. It measures the writing, not the politics. There is no left-right rating and there will not be one. It does not say whether a story is true; it says how it is told. Every rule it works for is published, with a code, at mundaneread.com/catalogue. Nothing is written or rewritten by AI and nothing is sent to an AI service: the engine runs entirely in your browser. Your reading stays yours. The article's text never leaves your device. To show the readings Mundane Read publishes for an article, the extension sends. four characters of a fingerprint of the page's address — never the address. No advertising, no analytics. For the extension: Seven articles a week are free. For unlimited articles, subscribe for A$3.99 a month or A$39.99 a year at mundaneread.com/extension (a limited-time offer; regularly A$6.99 and A$69.99). From Mundane Read, calm and anxiety-free news with the loaded words taken out, at mundaneread.com.