JK RapidReader: Speed Reading, RSS Reader w/ AI Chat & Knowledge Management

Speed read any page, PDF or book one word at a time, then chat with it. Your library stays in a folder you own.

Read more of what matters, faster. Follow the sites and topics you care about, speed-read or listen to any article, PDF or book, quiz yourself on it, and talk to it with AI. All in one place, with your library kept in a folder you own. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ SPEED READING, ONE WORD AT A TIME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RapidReader shows text one word at a time in a single spot (RSVP), so your eyes stop jumping across lines and the page around the text disappears. A highlighted focus letter anchors every word. • Any speed from 100 to 1,000 words a minute; step up or down with the arrow keys • Speed ramping: start gently and build up to your target • Smart pauses at commas, full stops and paragraph breaks • A progress timeline you can click to jump anywhere • Chapters and a table of contents for books and long documents • Pick up exactly where you left off, with a time-to-finish estimate Going faster trades some detail for speed, so slow down for the parts that matter. Quizzes show what stuck. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔊 LISTEN INSTEAD: READ TO ME ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Text to speech for any article or book, with your computer's voices (free) • Every word highlighted as it is spoken • Adjustable speed and voice, with a preview • Optional natural-sounding AI voices (OpenAI, your own key; experimental) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📰 RSS FEED READER: KEEP UP WITH SITES AND TOPICS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Follow any blog, news site or newsletter with RSS • A built-in directory of feeds by category • Feed Scout: describe a topic and AI finds feeds worth following • Search across everything your feeds bring in, and save searches • Add any item to your library in one click, with the full article text • Old news steps back: articles age by what they are, so the freshest comes first ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📥 SAVE ANYTHING ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Highlight text on any page, right-click, "Read it Fast" • Right-click any link to read it now or add it to your library • Open a web page from its link, or a PDF, ebook or document from your computer • Paste or drop in anything • Open a linked PDF or document directly from the right-click menu • One-click cleanup removes ads, menus and clutter (free), or let AI tidy a messy document ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧠 UNDERSTAND AND REMEMBER IT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • AI summaries: brief, standard, detailed or key points, saved with the article • Quizzes: multiple-choice questions on what you read, graded, with explanations • AI flashcards from what you read • Key takeaways in a tap • Notes and bookmarks pinned to the exact spot in the text • Send articles and your notes to Readwise ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 CHAT WITH ANY ARTICLE, OR A WHOLE BOOK ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Ask questions about the article you are reading • Build a chat around a whole book or a stack of documents. When it is too long for the AI, RapidReader sends only the passages that answer your question and shows you which ones • See what each message will cost before you send it • Your own instructions and AI model for each chat • Turn what you read into something new, such as a post or a lesson plan, and save your favourite requests in the Prompt Library • Save any conversation to your library; export it as markdown • Attach files, links and images; describe images and generate new ones ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤖 YOUR CHOICE OF AI, OR NONE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Use the AI service you already have with your own API key: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Grok • Or run AI free and offline on your own computer with Ollama • Token and cost tracking, so you always know what you've spent • Every reading feature works with no AI at all ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 A LIBRARY THAT'S YOURS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Every article is a plain markdown file in a folder you choose: back it up, sync it with Dropbox or Google Drive, or open it in Obsidian • Edit in your notes app and RapidReader picks up the changes • Search, tags and favourites to find anything again • Reading stats: streaks, a weekly goal, a reading calendar and your speed over time • Full backup and restore ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ♿ COMFORTABLE FOR EVERY READER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Dyslexia Mode in one click, plus dyslexia-friendly fonts and letter spacing • Dark, light and sepia themes; adjustable font size • Four focus styles and a bolded-reading mode • Full keyboard control and screen-reader support ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVATE BY DESIGN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ No account. No tracking. No analytics. Your library stays on your computer. Text goes to an AI service only when you use an AI feature, and only to the one you chose. Your API keys stay on your computer. RapidReader asks for permission to fetch web pages only the first time it needs to. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👩‍🎓 GREAT FOR ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Students with heavy reading lists, professionals keeping up with their field, researchers working through papers, and anyone with too many saved articles and open tabs. Many readers with dyslexia or ADHD find a single word at a time easier to follow. Step-by-step guide: https://rapidreader.io/user-guide/ Free. © John Kirker Inc. All rights reserved. https://rapidreader.io