Clearly Reader is a browser extension and web app focused on improving the online reading experience. Its main purpose is to remove ads, floating elements, and other distractions from web pages, allowing users to focus on the article content.
Main capabilities include:
- Reading mode: Removes ads, floating text, and restrictions to provide a distraction-free reading environment.
- Text-to-speech: Supports browser TTS and the Microsoft engine, allows voice selection, and adjusts speed and pitch to help with comprehension and memory.
- AI summary: Quickly generates a TL;DR, key points, and outline of a page via the Alt+S shortcut to help determine whether it is worth reading.
- Translation: Supports word-by-word or paragraph-by-paragraph text translation.
- Theme customization: Provides multiple themes (such as dark/light mode) and allows customization of font, size, color, line spacing, margins, and more.
- Article extraction: Extracts the article outline, links, vocabulary, estimated reading time, and more.
- Export and clipping: Supports export to PDF, Word, Markdown, and other formats, quick copying, clipping articles as bookmarks, RSS, or podcasts, and export to third-party services such as Craft, Obsidian, Pocket, and Instapaper.
How to use: Install it as a browser extension and enable reading mode while browsing web pages; it can also be used through the web app. Start for free and enable it with one click.
Use cases: Suitable for users who need to read online articles in depth and want to reduce distractions and improve reading efficiency, such as students, researchers, and content enthusiasts.
Limitations: Specific platform support, pricing, AI model details, and other details are not yet provided.
