This project is scheduled for launch
Launch date: Monday, September 21, 2026 at 08:00 AM UTC

READR strips any webpage down to just the words. One click on any article and everything disappears cookie banners, autoplay videos, sidebar ads,
subscribe popups leaving only clean, comfortable reading.
Built on Mozilla's Readability engine the same technology powering Firefox Reader View so it works reliably on virtually every website. News sites, Medium, Substack, Wikipedia, research papers, blogs. Any site. Any article.
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FREE FEATURES
✦ Reader mode on any website
✦ Dark and light theme
✦ Font size control — small, medium, large
✦ Line width control — narrow, medium, wide
✦ Settings saved across sessions
✦ ESC to close instantly
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PRO FEATURES — $19.99 one-time, no subscription . Code READRPRO50 for 50% off Pro till June
✦ PDF export — save any article as a perfectly formatted PDF in your reading style
✦ Cross-device reading sync — close an article at 67% on your work laptop, open it at home and READR picks up exactly where you stopped.
No account. No backend. Chrome's own infrastructure doing the work invisibly.
✦ Auto-open on saved domains reader mode opens automatically on your favourite sites
✦ Recent reads history your last 10 articles with reading progress, accessible from any device
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CROSS-DEVICE SYNC — HOW IT WORKS
When you close the READR overlay, your reading position is silently saved by paragraph not pixels, so it works perfectly across different screen sizes and devices.
Open the same article anywhere and a small prompt appears: "Continue reading from 67% →"
One click. Exact paragraph. Any device.
No account required. No login. No server.
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PRIVACY FIRST
No telemetry. No data collection. No backend server. Everything runs locally in your browser.
Only 4 permissions requested:
activeTab, scripting, storage, tabs.
Nothing more than what is needed. Nothing stored beyond your own device and
Chrome's own secure sync infrastructure.
Privacy policy: wushu75.github.io/readr/readr-privacy.html
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TRUSTED BY READERS IN 10 COUNTRIES
Organically recommended by Chrome through
multiple discovery channels — no paid
acquisition, no ad spend.
95% retention rate. Users keep it because
they use it every time they read online.
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