SkimFlow AI: Speed Reading & Summarization

Read faster and smarter with RSVP speed reading, on-device AI summarization, PDF support. Your data never leaves your device.

⚡ Read Faster. Understand More. Stay Private. SkimFlow AI is a modern speed-reading and AI summarization tool built right into your browser. Whether you're skimming articles, research papers, or PDFs — SkimFlow helps you read up to 3x faster with RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) and get instant AI-powered summaries, all without your data ever leaving your device. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 100% ON-DEVICE AI — YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU Unlike cloud-based summarizers, SkimFlow AI uses Chrome's built-in Summarizer API powered by Gemini Nano. Everything runs locally on your machine — no servers, no data uploads, no third-party access. Your reading habits and content remain completely private. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES ⚡ RSVP Speed Reading Display words one at a time at your chosen speed (50–1000+ WPM). RSVP eliminates eye movement, helping you read significantly faster while keeping comprehension high. 📄 PDF Support Open any PDF — local files or online documents — and speed-read them directly in the SkimFlow overlay. No need to copy-paste or convert. 🤖 AI Summarization Select any text on a webpage, right-click, and choose "Summarize with SkimFlow" to get an instant summary. Choose from multiple summary styles: • Key Points — Bullet-point breakdown of main ideas • TL;DR — Quick one-paragraph overview • Teaser — Intriguing preview to decide if it's worth reading • Headline — Single-line summary ✂️ Read Selected Text Highlight any passage, right-click, and choose "Read with SkimFlow" to speed-read just that selection. 🎯 Smart Highlight (Bionic Reading) Bolds the beginning of each word to guide your eyes and improve reading flow — a technique inspired by Bionic Reading. 🎨 Themes Switch between Light, Dark, or System-matched themes for comfortable reading in any environment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 HOW TO USE 1️⃣ Click the SkimFlow icon → Set your WPM → Hit "Start Reading" 2️⃣ On a PDF? Just click "Start Reading" — it works automatically 3️⃣ Select text → Right-click → "Read with SkimFlow" for selected text 4️⃣ Select text → Right-click → "Summarize with SkimFlow" for AI summary 5️⃣ For advanced summaries: Right-click → "Advanced Summary" → pick a style & length ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ PRIVACY FIRST • No data collection — zero analytics, zero tracking • No cloud processing — AI runs entirely on your device • No account required — install and start reading • Minimal permissions — only what's needed to function ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 PERFECT FOR • Students researching papers and articles • Professionals skimming reports and emails • Readers who want to consume more in less time • Anyone who values privacy and speed ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 REQUIREMENTS • Chrome 131+ for AI summarization features • Chrome AI flags enabled (chrome://flags/#summarization-api-for-gemini-nano) • Speed reading and PDF features work on all Chrome versions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Built with ❤️ for fast readers and privacy advocates.