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FocusRead helps you read faster and stay focused on any webpage using a bionic reading technique that bolds the leading letters of every word. Customize bold intensity, reading fonts, whitelist websites, estimate reading time, track scroll progress, and enjoy a distraction-free reading experience—all while keeping your data private because everything runs locally in your browser.
👋 Hi Product Hunt!
I'm excited to introduce FocusRead, a Chrome extension I built as a solo developer to make reading on the web faster and more comfortable.
Like many people, I spend hours reading documentation, blogs, research papers, and articles every day. I wanted a simple tool that improves reading speed without changing the original content.
✨ FocusRead includes:
⚡ Bionic Reading style
🎯 Adjustable bold intensity
📖 Custom reading fonts
🧠 Per-site memory
📊 Reading time estimation
📈 Scroll progress indicator
🌙 Sepia reading mode
⌨️ Keyboard shortcut
🔒 Privacy-first — everything runs locally
This is only version one, and I already have many new features planned based on community feedback.
I'd love to know:
• What feature would make your reading experience even better?
• What would you improve?
Thank you for checking out FocusRead and supporting independent makers! 🚀
Love how everything runs locally, that's a huge plus. One thing that would make it even better for me is a dark mode that inverts the bionic bolding properly, right now on some sites the bolded letters get a little hard to track against dark backgrounds. Could the team look into per site color overrides?
Scrolled through a long article with the bold letters cranked up and it genuinely felt easier to keep my place when I looked away. The local-only data thing is a nice touch too.
The bionic bolding actually helped me scan long articles faster without losing the flow. Nice that it all runs locally too, no sign-in nonsense.
Bold idea, love that it's all local. One thing I'd love is a "focus mode" that auto-hides images and sidebars on long-form articles, maybe toggled per site in the whitelist settings. Would make bionic reading even more immersive on cluttered pages.
The bionic reading approach is genuinely useful for skimming dense articles, and love that it stays local. One thing that would seal it for me is a keyboard shortcut to instantly toggle the bionic mode on and off mid-page, so I can switch back to normal text when I hit a tricky paragraph that needs full reading.
About FocusRead on Product Hunt
“Read faster on any website with bionic reading.”
FocusRead was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 10 upvotes and 11 comments, placing #124 on the daily leaderboard. FocusRead helps you read faster and stay focused on any webpage using a bionic reading technique that bolds the leading letters of every word. Customize bold intensity, reading fonts, whitelist websites, estimate reading time, track scroll progress, and enjoy a distraction-free reading experience—all while keeping your data private because everything runs locally in your browser.
FocusRead was featured in Chrome Extensions (52.7k followers), Marketing (466.2k followers), Developer Tools (516.2k followers) and Tech (628.4k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 333.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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