Driftless Reader

ADHD-friendly reading: stay with long articles using Drift Guard, an anchor marker, Read Aloud, Focus View and Chunk mode.

Stay with the text. Driftless Reader is a calm, distraction-free way to read long articles on the web, designed with ADHD readers in mind. It helps you start, keep going, and get back on track when your mind wanders. WHAT IT DOES • Focus View — shows the article in a clean, comfortable layout without ads, menus or sidebars. • Chunk mode — shows one small piece of the article at a time and fades the rest. Press Space for the next piece. • Drift Guard — notices when you switch tabs, stop reading, or skim far ahead, and gently shows "Welcome back" with the last thing you read and a one-click way back. • Anchor marker — a small amber bar marks the last paragraph you actually read (not just scrolled past), and the reader remembers it so you can pick up where you left off. • Read Aloud — listens along with you, highlighting each sentence and word, and keeps the text on screen. Uses your browser's voices. • Focus band — dims everything except the few lines you're reading. Also works on pages that aren't articles. • Progress and time left — see how far you are and how long is left, based on your own reading speed. • Comfortable typography — Lexend, Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, Arial or serif; text size, line spacing, letter and word spacing, line width; light, sepia, dark or automatic themes. KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS (customizable) Alt+Shift+D open/close · Alt+Shift+S Read Aloud · Alt+Shift+F focus band · Alt+Shift+K Chunk mode PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Runs only on the page where you start it — no access to other tabs or your browsing history. • No accounts, servers, analytics or tracking. Settings stay in your browser; reading positions are stored as one-way hashes, never as page addresses or text. • Voices marked "(online)" are provided by your browser and send the text being read to their provider; pick any other voice to keep everything on your device. FREE AND OPEN SOURCE MIT licensed. Source code, issues and suggestions: https://github.com/mfranceschini/driftless-reader-web-extension ENJOYING IT? Driftless Reader is free and always will be. If it helps you, you can support the project at https://buymeacoffee.com/mathpfran Driftless Reader is a reading aid, not a medical device or treatment. Everyone reads differently — try the tools and keep what helps.