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 Mercury Reader, which is free. Other great apps like Reader are Reader Highlighter, Flynx, Reader Mode and Purify.

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Mercury Reader
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Read It Later Tool
Online
Google Chrome
36 Mercury Reader alternatives
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.
- - Mercury Reader is the most popular Web-based alternative to Reader.
- - Mercury Reader is the most popular free alternative to Reader.
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Mercury Reader Features
Save web page for offline use
Reader Highlighter
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Free • Proprietary
Read It Later Tool
Online
Google Chrome
26 Reader Highlighter alternatives
Save articles, news, and webpages that you want to read later. Read clutter free, highlight text and share with others.
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Reader Highlighter Features
Save web page for offline use
Bookmarking
Flynx
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Free • Proprietary
Read It Later Tool
Android
Android Tablet
Kindle Fire
21 Flynx alternatives
Flynx helps you open articles and links from all your favorite apps like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Google+, etc. in a revolutionary new way.
- - Flynx is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Reader.
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Flynx Features
Floating browser
Multiple languages
Multitasking
Offline Reading
Save web page for offline use
Discontinued
Last update on 2 April 2017. See details https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flynx
Reader Mode
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Freemium • Proprietary
Online
Google Chrome
22 Reader Mode alternatives
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".
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Reader Mode Features
Browser extension
Annotations
Purify
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Free • Open Source
Windows
Google Chrome
22 Purify alternatives
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.
- - Purify is the most popular Windows alternative to Reader.
- - Purify is the most popular Open Source alternative to Reader.
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Purify Features
Reading
Multi Column View
Discontinued
It seems no longer developed. Last version, 0.2, released in January 2013, can be still downloaded from Chrome Web Store.
Easy Reader
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Free • Proprietary
Online
Chrome OS
Google Chrome
6 Easy Reader alternatives
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.
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Easy Reader Features
Readability
Reading
Typography
Web-Based
Enjoy Reading
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
Waterfox
Pale Moon
Firefox
6 Enjoy Reading alternatives
Enjoy Reading is heavily based on the old Readability open source bookmarklet.
- - Enjoy Reading is the most popular Mac & Linux alternative to Reader.
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Enjoy Reading Features
Readability
Legacy Firefox Addon
Discontinued
The extension is currently not working on Firefox 57. It still works on XUL-based Firefox forks like Waterfox and Pale Moon
Fika
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Free • Proprietary
Online
Google Chrome
6 Fika alternatives
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.
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Fika Features
Reading
Read Mode
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Free • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
Chrome OS
Google Chrome
22 Read Mode alternatives
Puts Google Chrome into read mode for a pleasant reading experience.
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Discontinued
The extension is no longer updated. Last version, 1.0.6, released in September 2012, can be still downloaded from Chrome Web Store.
Omoguru
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Free • Proprietary
Online
Microsoft Edge
Google Chrome
8 Omoguru alternatives
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.
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Readability

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