SlowRead Companion

Tracking since Apr 17, 2026.

Changelog

• Jun 4, 2026
  description

  You open an article.
  Two paragraphs in — your mind drifts.
  
  You scroll. You skim. You forget everything.
  Slowread fixes that.
  
  It turns any text into a focused reading experience — one sentence at a time — so your brain can keep up.
  
  WHAT IT DOES
  Shows one sentence at a time
  Slows your reading to a natural pace
  Reduces the urge to scroll and skim
  Helps you actually remember what you read
  
  HOW TO USE
  Select any text on a page → right-click → Slowread: Read selection
  or
  Paste text into Slowread and press Start Reading
  
  WHO IT’S FOR
  If you struggle to stay focused while reading
  If your brain “slides off” text
  If you read a lot but retain very little
  
  Works in any language.
  
  Try it once. You’ll feel the difference immediately.

  SlowRead Companion helps you stop losing your place while reading online.
  
  Built for ADHD, distracted, and overstimulated brains, it turns dense text into a calmer, more readable flow by showing content one sentence at a time.
  
  Use it on:
  
  articles
  documentation
  essays
  study materials
  long emails
  pasted text
  What you can do:
  
  Read selected text in a clean focused reader
  Open the current page in a calm reading overlay
  Paste text and read it sentence by sentence
  Choose how many sentences to see at once
  Adjust text size and theme, including night mode
  Open directly in SlowRead on the web for a longer reading session
  SlowRead Companion is made for people who:
  
  lose their place in walls of text
  re-read the same paragraph again and again
  get mentally overloaded by dense pages
  want a simpler way to finish what they start reading
  Great for:
  
  ADHD readers
  students
  non-native English readers
  researchers and knowledge workers
  anyone who wants lower-distraction reading
  No complicated setup. Just highlight text, open a page, or paste what you want to read.

• Jun 4, 2026
  short_description

  Read anything slowly. One sentence at a time. Paste any text and finally read it all the way through.

  Turn selections and articles into a calm reading overlay so you can stop losing your place.

• Jun 4, 2026
  name

  SlowRead

  SlowRead Companion

• Jun 4, 2026
  category

  productivity/workflow

  make_chrome_yours/accessibility

• Jun 4, 2026
  permissions

  contextMenus, activeTab, scripting

  activeTab, contextMenus, scripting, storage

• Apr 22, 2026
  description

  SlowRead turns any text into a focused, sentence-by-sentence reading experience — right inside your browser.
  
  HOW IT WORKS
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  Paste any article, email, report, or document into the popup and hit Read. SlowRead splits it into sentences and shows them one at a time, so your eyes and mind stay on what actually matters.
  
  Or: right-click any selected text on any page and choose "SlowRead: Read selection" to jump straight into reading mode.
  
  FEATURES
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  • Four pace modes — 1, 3, 5 sentences at a time, or full text
  • Highlight sentences that stand out
  • Add inline notes pinned to individual sentences
  • Five themes — Cream, Slate, Sage, Dusk, Night
  • Four font sizes
  • Keyboard navigation (Space / → to advance, ← to go back)
  • Reading history — your last 10 texts, one tap to reload
  • Open in slowread.app — continue reading in the full web app
  • No account, no sign-in, no tracking
  
  WHO IT'S FOR
  ────────────
  Slow readers, deep readers, students, researchers, people with ADHD or reading anxiety, or anyone who opens articles and never finishes them.
  
  SlowRead slows everything down so the words finally have room to land.
  
  Works in any language.

  You open an article.
  Two paragraphs in — your mind drifts.
  
  You scroll. You skim. You forget everything.
  Slowread fixes that.
  
  It turns any text into a focused reading experience — one sentence at a time — so your brain can keep up.
  
  WHAT IT DOES
  Shows one sentence at a time
  Slows your reading to a natural pace
  Reduces the urge to scroll and skim
  Helps you actually remember what you read
  
  HOW TO USE
  Select any text on a page → right-click → Slowread: Read selection
  or
  Paste text into Slowread and press Start Reading
  
  WHO IT’S FOR
  If you struggle to stay focused while reading
  If your brain “slides off” text
  If you read a lot but retain very little
  
  Works in any language.
  
  Try it once. You’ll feel the difference immediately.

• Apr 22, 2026
  category

  productivity/tools

  productivity/workflow

Permissions & access

Permissions

activeTabcontextMenusscriptingstorage

Host access

None declared

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