A free Chrome extension that clears the clutter and shapes text the way your eyes need.
Everyone reads a little differently — this lets the page fit the way you do.
No account. No sign-up. No tracking. Free forever — and that is not a trial.
Not features — what the reading itself feels like afterwards.
A lit band follows the line you are on and the rest of the page steps back. You stop rereading the same sentence because your eye jumped to the wrong row on the way back.
Banners, cookie notices, moving pictures and “recommended for you” blocks go quiet. What is left is the text you came for.
Wider spacing, shorter lines and a calmer font turn a solid block into something with room to breathe. The same article, half the resistance.
A warm background throws back less light than pure white. Add a soft colour layer and the strain that builds up over an hour simply does not build up.
A reading-time badge at the top of the article tells you what you are committing to. Nine minutes is a decision; an endless page is a reason to close the tab.
No account, no email, no upgrade prompt, no reminder to rate it. You install it, it works, and it stays out of your way.
Same website, better reading. Everything below is working, not a picture — press the buttons and watch this article change.
These are the real tools of the extension, not an imitation. Every button below matches a switch you get in the panel after installing — same names, same three groups: 📚 Reading, 🎯 Focus, 🌿 Comfort.
Try whatever you like here first. Then → see where these same switches live in the extension.
≈ 2 min read
Reading long text on a screen is tiring, and the font is only part of the reason. A great deal depends on how much light the background throws back at you. A pure white screen shines into your eyes almost like a lamp, so the muscles stay tense and the line starts to drift.
Spacing matters just as much. When lines sit tightly together, the eye jumps to the wrong one on the way back, and you read the same sentence twice without noticing. Wider spacing removes that whole class of mistakes.
And then there is everything around the text. Banners, pop-ups, moving images and cookie notices all ask for attention that was meant for reading. Each of them is small on its own, and together they are the reason a five-minute article takes twenty.
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The word above is the one being read — watch it light up in the text at the same time. Move the speed slider while it plays: the change happens straight away.
Start with Decluttered — then add whatever helps. Nothing here is permanent.
Different reasons, same tool. Nothing here needs a diagnosis.
Nine tools in three groups. Everything is off until you switch it on, and nothing is held back behind a payment.
📚 Reading — how the text itself looks
What it does. Rebuilds the text of the page: font, size, line spacing, letter spacing, word spacing, line width and background theme.
Who it helps. Almost everyone. It is the first thing to turn on and often the only thing you need.
Settings. Four fonts — Default, Simple, Classic and Dyslexia. Four themes — Off, Light, Dark and Sepia. Size, three separate spacings and line width are sliders you move until it feels right.
What it does. Makes the first letters of every word bold, so the eye anchors on the beginning and completes the rest without stopping.
Who it helps. People who skim a lot, read in a second language, or find their attention sliding off long paragraphs.
Settings. Three strengths — Light, Medium, Strong. Start with Light; Strong is a lot on a long article.
What it does. Breaks paragraphs into short lines, a few words each, instead of one full-width block.
Who it helps. Anyone who loses the line on the way back — a very common experience with dyslexia and with ADHD.
Settings. You choose how many words go on a line.
What it does. Puts a small “≈ 9 min read” badge at the top of the article.
Who it helps. Anyone who needs to know what they are committing to before they start.
Settings. Pick your own pace — Slow (140 words per minute), Normal (200) or Fast (280) — and the estimate matches you rather than an average stranger.
🔢 How the number is worked out. It counts the words of the article itself, skipping menus, sidebars, footers, forms and code blocks, then divides by your pace. The badge appears only when a page has at least 200 words — roughly a minute of reading — so short pages stay clean.
🎯 Focus — where your eyes are
What it does. A lit horizontal band follows your line, and the page around it dims.
Who it helps. The single most-loved tool for people who reread the same sentence without meaning to.
Settings. Band height and how strongly the rest of the page dims.
What it does. Shows the text one word — or a few words — at a time in the centre of the screen, so your eyes stop travelling altogether.
Who it helps. When focus is gone completely and even a clean page will not hold you.
Settings. Speed from 100 to 700 words per minute — 300 to begin with — and whether one, two or three words appear at a time. A small panel at the bottom has ▶ start, ⏸ pause and ⟲ restart.
💡 Worth knowing: select the passage you want first, then press ▶ — it will read exactly that. Without a selection it takes the main text of the page.
🌿 Calm & comfort — everything around the text
What it does. Stops animations, pauses autoplay video and freezes moving images.
Who it helps. Anyone distracted or made uncomfortable by movement at the edge of vision.
Honest limit. It does not catch everything — movement inside a video player or inside an advertising frame from another site stays. It makes the web calmer, and it is not a medical device.
What it does. Lays a soft colour film over the whole page, in the spirit of the coloured sheets used on paper.
Who it helps. Some people find it reduces visual fatigue and the sense that letters are moving. Which colour works is personal — that is why there are six.
Settings. Yellow, peach, green, blue, rose or grey, and how strong the film is.
What it does. Hides advertising blocks and cookie banners so the text has room.
Who it helps. Anyone reading on a page that is mostly not the article.
Honest limit. Sites are built differently, so occasionally it hides something you wanted. If that happens, switch it off — nothing breaks. A stronger mode also removes pop-ups and sign-up boxes.
From nothing to comfortable reading in about two minutes.
You have already used these tools — up in the section above, on that demo article. The only difference is that there they worked on one page, and here they will work on every page you open.
The switches keep the same names and the same three groups, so nothing below will be new to you.
Open the Chrome Web Store page and press Add to Chrome. Chrome will ask for confirmation and warn that the extension can read and change data on websites — that is the permission it needs to restyle the page you are on.
Click the puzzle-piece icon in the Chrome toolbar and pin Focus Reader. Without this it hides inside that menu and is easy to forget you have it.
The panel opens with everything switched off. Nothing changes until you choose something.
At the top of the panel there are four Quick start sets — ADHD, Dyslexia, Low vision and Eye strain. Press one and the right tools switch on together. You can change anything afterwards.
Each recipe below can be tested in the demo above before you install anything.
Everything is a switch. Anything you turn on, you can turn off. Reset all in the panel returns the page to exactly how it was.
Your settings follow you. They are stored in your own Chrome profile, so signing into Chrome on another computer brings them with you — through Chrome, not through us.
Some pages are out of reach. Chrome does not allow extensions to run on its own system pages, on the Chrome Web Store, or inside the built-in PDF viewer. That is a Chrome rule, not a fault of the extension.
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Yes. Every feature is open, there is no paid tier and no trial that runs out. Free forever is the plan, not the introduction.
No. The extension makes no network requests at all — there is no code in it that sends anything anywhere. No account, no analytics, no advertising. Even the dyslexia font sits inside the extension rather than being pulled from another server, so no third party learns which pages you visit.
Because that is literally what restyling a page requires: to change how an article looks, the extension has to run on that article. It is the same permission every reading, translation or dark-mode extension needs. What it does with it is change the appearance of text — nothing is collected and nothing is sent.
On almost every ordinary page. Three places are out of reach because Chrome forbids extensions there: Chrome's own system pages, the Chrome Web Store itself, and the built-in PDF viewer.
Yes, if you are signed into the same Chrome profile. The settings sync through Chrome, not through us — we have no server for them to travel through.
That will be Declutter — websites are built differently and occasionally it removes more than intended. Switch it off in the panel and the page returns immediately. Nothing is permanent.
Switch off any mode in the panel, or press Reset all to put everything back the way it was. To remove the extension entirely, right-click its icon in the toolbar and choose Remove from Chrome. We would rather tell you this than hide it.
The panel is available in English, Ukrainian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French and Arabic. It picks your browser language automatically, and you can change it in the panel.
Two separate things, so there is no confusion about which is which.
The full privacy notice is on the extension's page in the Chrome Web Store, next to the permission it asks for. Open the listing , opens in a new tab
Focus Reader is free and stays free. Nothing here unlocks anything — every feature is already open, and it will not change.
Something missing, something broken, something that would help you read? We would rather hear it than not. No account needed, and you can stay anonymous.
Share an idea , opens in a new tabThe form opens on another website, and only when you press the button. Nothing is asked of you here.
Works in Chrome and in Chromium browsers such as Edge, Brave and Opera.
After installing, pin the icon to your toolbar — otherwise it hides in the puzzle menu. Then open any article and press one of the four ready-made sets.
Focus Reader