Read at the speed of thought.
OmniSpeedReader streams any article, PDF, or page to you one word at a time, with the focal letter marked so your eyes stop hunting. Most people read twice as fast within a week. It is free, and nothing you read ever leaves your browser.
Free forever. No account. No tracking. No catch.
Your eyes are doing manual labor
Normal reading is a physical task. Your eyes crawl along each line, snap back to the start of the next one, and refocus a few hundred times every page. All that motion is overhead, and it is most of what slows you down. Take the motion away and the reading gets faster on its own.
One fixed point. One focal letter. Pacing you can feel.
One fixed point
Every word appears in the same spot. Your eyes stay still instead of sweeping across lines, so there is no motion to slow you down.
The red letter
Each word is positioned on its recognition point and that letter is marked in red. Your eye locks on and the word registers instantly.
Pacing like prose
It ramps up instead of throwing you into a sprint, and pauses a beat on punctuation. Sentences still read like sentences.
A serious reading tool, not a gimmick
The features the subscription apps charge for, and a few they do not have, all free.
Recognition-point focus
Every word is aligned on the letter your eye lands on to identify it, marked in red. You lock onto one spot and stop hunting across the line.
Pacing that reads like prose
It eases up to speed instead of dropping you into a sprint, and lingers a beat on commas and periods so sentences still feel like sentences.
Bionic mode
Prefer to keep your eyes moving? Bold the front of each word to pull yourself through ordinary text faster, no streaming required.
Context strip
The sentence you are currently in sits right below the word, so the moment your attention drifts you can catch back up at a glance.
Import anything
Paste a URL and it pulls the real article out of the clutter. Drop a PDF. Or bring your own text. It all becomes a clean stream.
Resume where you stopped
Close the tab mid-article and come back later. It remembers exactly where you were and offers to pick up from there.
Honest stats
Finish a read and see your real words, time, effective speed, and how much time you saved against a normal 250-words-a-minute pace.
Your speed, your look
Set your words-per-minute, switch light or dark, change the typeface, and turn on an OpenDyslexic font if that reads easier for you.
Keyboard-first
Space to play, arrows to move by sentence, brackets to nudge speed, B for Bionic. Once it is in your hands you never touch the mouse.
On the web, or right on the page you're reading
The web app
Paste a link, drop a PDF, or bring your own text. It pulls the clean article out of any page and streams it to you. Nothing to install.
Open the readerThe Chrome extension
One keystroke turns the article you are already on into a focused stream, without leaving the tab. Right-click any selection to read just that. Press Alt+Shift+R and go.
Add to ChromeWhat you read is nobody's business. Especially ours.
No accounts, no analytics, no servers logging what you read. Every word is processed inside your browser and is never sent anywhere. The only thing we save is your own settings, and they sync through your own Chrome profile, never to us.
Read the full privacy policyFree, and not the annoying kind of free
No trial that expires, no card to enter, no feature you actually need locked behind a plan. Speed, every mode, stats, resume, import, and the extension are all yours for nothing. We would rather have a lot of people reading faster than a few people paying for the basics.
The honest answers
Yes. Every reading feature is free with nothing held back behind a paywall. Later there will be an optional Pro tier for cosmetic extras like themes and fonts, but speed, modes, stats, resume, and import stay free for good.
No. You read every word. Skimming skips text and hopes you filled in the gaps. This shows you the whole thing, it just removes the eye movement that was slowing you down.
For most reading, no, once you settle into a pace that fits the material. You slow down for dense text the same way you would on paper. Start around 400 words a minute and push up from there as it gets comfortable.
Articles, newsletters, reports, documentation, pasted text, and PDFs. On the web app you paste a URL or drop a file. The extension reads whatever page you are already on.
Never. The text is handled inside your browser and is never uploaded. We run no server that could receive it. The only thing saved is your own settings.
Stop crawling. Start reading.
No account, no trial, no card, no Pro wall on anything that actually matters. Open the reader and point it at the longest thing in your tabs right now.