Reader Alternatives

Reader is described as 'The ultimate Reader tool for your Firefox that brings the Safari 5 Reader features to Firefox and provides you the best reading experience by transforming text on any website using fonts, colors, and layouts of your choosing in a clean and distraction free environment' and is an app in the news & books category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Reader for a variety of platforms, including Google Chrome, Web-based, Windows, Linux and Chrome OS apps. The best Reader alternative is Fika, which is free. Other great apps like Reader are Purify, Postlight Reader (Mercury Reader), Flynx and Enjoy Reading.

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  1. Fika icon
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    Fika is a tool which can help you extract the main content from the webpage and present it in a peaceful reading mode. Other than that, Fika retrieves the table of content and offers four delightful themes: Vanilla, Latte, Blabar, Licorice.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
    • Fika is the most popular Web-based alternative to Reader.

    • Fika is the most popular free alternative to Reader.

    • Fika is Free and ProprietaryReader is also Free and Proprietary
  2. Purify icon
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    Read news articles with minimal distraction and scrolling. It utilises the CSS3 multi-column layout to make good use of all the screen space available on a desktop/laptop monitor.

    21 Purify alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Google Chrome
     
    • Purify is the most popular Windows alternative to Reader.

    • Purify is the most popular Open Source alternative to Reader.

    • Purify is Free and Open SourceReader is Free and Proprietary
  3. Flynx icon
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    Flynx helps you open articles and links from all your favorite apps like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Google+, etc. in a revolutionary new way.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Kindle Fire
     
    • Flynx is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Reader.

    • Flynx is Free and ProprietaryReader is also Free and Proprietary
  4. Enjoy Reading icon
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    Enjoy Reading is heavily based on the old Readability open source bookmarklet.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Waterfox
    • Pale Moon
    • Firefox
     
    • Enjoy Reading is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Reader.

    • Enjoy Reading is Free and Open SourceReader is Free and Proprietary
  5. Easy Reader icon
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    EasyReader can customize and improve the readability of long web articles

    Make any article or part of a website more readable!

    Usage:

    1. Click extension button.
    2. Select content on the page to read.
    3. Enjoy.

    Features: ? Table of contents for headings are provided to the left.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
  6. Reader Mode icon
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    This feature-packed Chrome reading extension comes with Text annotating, Text-to-speech and features for dyslexics. It extracts the main content from any article and present it in a nice, distraction-free "Reader Mode".

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Google Chrome
     
  7. Read Mode icon
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    Puts Google Chrome into read mode for a pleasant reading experience.

    22 Read Mode alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
  8. Omoguru icon
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    For anyone with dyslexia, reading, focus, and attention difficulties (and everyone else as well) Omoguru makes a text clear and understandable. Designed for the highest readability on the screen and control of your reading experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
     
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    View and save any "readable" web pages and PDF documents directly from Mobile Safari, export to PDF or fulltext with images.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Online
     
    • ReaderView is the most popular iPhone & iPad alternative to Reader.

    • ReaderView is the most popular commercial alternative to Reader.

    • ReaderView is Paid and ProprietaryReader is Free and Proprietary
    • ReaderView is LightweightReader is not according to our users
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