Eclipse Reader

Strip clutter and read any article in a clean, distraction-free overlay.

Eclipse Reader strips away the ads, popups, sidebars, and clutter from any article — leaving you with clean, beautiful text you can actually focus on. Press Alt + R on any page. That's it. Not working? Go to chrome://extensions/shortcuts and edit "Toggle Reader Mode" then press Alt + R ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ READ THE WAY YOU WANT - Three reading themes — Light, Sepia, and Dark - Serif or sans-serif typefaces - Adjustable font size and line spacing - Choose your page width: Narrow, Medium, or Wide Every preference is saved automatically and applied the next time you open an article. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ BUILT FOR FOCUS - Bionic Reading — bolds the leading letters of each word to help your eyes move faster through text - Scroll progress bar — always know how far you are through a piece - Selection insights — highlight any passage to see its word count and read time instantly - Ambient audio — play rain, lofi, cafe, or ocean waves in the background with volume control ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SMART EXTRACTION Eclipse Reader intelligently finds the real article on the page and removes navigation, comments, related-post grids, newsletter prompts, and ad slots. Bold text, italics, lists, headings, and block quotes are all preserved — so the piece still reads the way the author wrote it. Wikipedia articles get special handling, including a collapsible table of contents. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ALSO INCLUDED - Copy Clean Text — grab the whole article as plain text, formatting junk removed - Print-friendly — print or save to PDF with all interface elements automatically hidden - Keyboard shortcuts — Alt+R to toggle the reader, Alt+S for settings, Esc to exit ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY FIRST Eclipse Reader does not track you. There is no analytics, no account, and no data collection. Your settings are stored locally in your own browser and never leave your device. The extension only activates on the page you're reading, and only when you ask it to. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ COMING SOON — ECLIPSE READER PRO - Continuous page-width slider for pixel-perfect control - Custom color pickers for header, background, and text - Premium typefaces including Merriweather, Playfair Display, JetBrains Mono, and OpenDyslexic - Reading timer and focus sprints - Zen View — a fully distraction-free mode that hides every control - AI summaries for any passage you highlight ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Free to use. No account required. Works on virtually any article, blog post, or documentation page.