Reader Alternatives
Reader is described as 'is 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, Online / Web-based, Windows, Linux and Chrome OS. The best alternative is Mercury Reader, which is free. Other great apps like Reader are Reader Highlighter (Free), Flynx (Free), Reader Mode (Freemium) and Fika (Free).
- The Mercury Reader extension for Chrome removes ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site.
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Google Chrome
- Save articles and webpages you want to read later.
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Google Chrome
- Flynx helps you open articles and links from all your favorite apps like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Google+, etc. in a revolutionary new way.
- Free • Proprietary
- Android
- Android Tablet
- Kindle Fire
Discontinued
Last update on 2 April 2017. See details https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flynx
- 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".
- 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.
- EasyReader can customize and improve the readability of long web articles
- Free • Proprietary
- Online
- Chrome OS
- Google Chrome
- Enjoy Reading is heavily based on the old Readability open source bookmarklet.
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Waterfox
- Pale Moon
- Firefox
- 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.
Discontinued
It seems no longer developed. Last version, 0.2, released in January 2013, can be still downloaded from Chrome Web Store.
- Puts Google Chrome into read mode for a pleasant reading experience.
Discontinued
The extension is no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.6, released in September 2012, can be still downloaded from Chrome Web Store.