Reader — Clean Reading Mode

Turn any article into a clean, distraction-free page. Fonts, dark mode, reading time. No account, no tracking, works offline.

One shortcut. Zero clutter. Nothing leaves your browser. Press Alt+R on any article and Reader strips away the ads, banners, popups and sidebars — leaving just the text, beautifully typeset. Reading, your way • Serif or sans-serif typography • Text size, column width and line spacing controls • Light, sepia and dark themes — follows your system theme automatically • Estimated reading time and word count • Print the clean version (great for PDFs via "Save as PDF") • Your tweaks are remembered per site, with global defaults in options Private by design • No account. No sign-in. No cloud. • Zero network requests — article extraction (Mozilla's open-source Readability engine) runs entirely on your device • No analytics, no telemetry, no remote code — nothing to leak • Minimal permissions: it can only touch a page when you invoke it (activeTab). It cannot read your browsing in the background. Works offline — because there is no server to talk to. If you lost your reader extension in Chrome's Manifest V2 shutdown (Mercury Reader, reader mode extensions that were discontinued or removed), Reader is a modern, privacy-first replacement built on Manifest V3. Free in this version: reading mode, all themes, all typography controls, printing. Planned (one-time Pro unlock, no subscription): highlights & notes, Markdown export, per-site auto-activate, custom CSS.