READR – Reader Mode & PDF Export

Clean page, one click. A fast, privacy-first reader-mode Chrome extension that turns any cluttered article into a calm, distraction-free reading view — and (with Pro) exports it as a high-quality PDF that works on every site, even strict ones like Wikipedia.

Everything runs locally in your browser. No accounts, no tracking, no servers.

⭐ Install from the Chrome Web Store →

• Distraction-free reader view on any website — ads, popups, autoplay, and cookie banners fall away, leaving just the article.
• Dark mode & light theme for comfortable reading.
• Adjustable font size and line width.
• Original page is untouched — press ESC to return to it any time.

• PDF export — save any article as a high-quality PDF that keeps your reading style (headings, images, selectable text). Generated privately on your device; works on strict-CSP sites. Not the browser's generic print output.
• Cross-device reading sync — pick up where you left off on any computer.
• Auto-open reader mode on the sites you choose.
• Recent reads history.

READR extracts the readable content of a page and renders it in a clean, isolated overlay.

• Extraction uses Mozilla's Readability.js (the engine behind Firefox Reader View) on a clone of the page, with a lightweight fallback extractor for pages it can't parse. The live page is never modified.
• Rendering happens in a full-screen overlay (all: initial isolation so host-page styles can't bleed in), themed and sized via CSS classes.
• PDF export is generated with jsPDF directly from the extracted text — not by rasterizing the page. This is deliberate: page-rasterization (html2canvas) is silently blocked by strict site Content-Security-Policies (Wikipedia, GitHub, news sites) and produces blank output. Text rendering is CSP-independent, works everywhere, and keeps text selectable.
• Payments are handled by ExtensionPay (Stripe under the hood) — no backend and no license keys. The extension checks extpay.getUser().paid.
• State (settings, Pro status, reading history) lives in chrome.storage.sync, so it follows the user across devices.

readr/
├── manifest.json           # MV3 config, permissions
├── Readability.js          # Mozilla reader engine (vendored)
├── contentScript.js        # extraction, overlay, PDF export, prompts
├── overlay.css             # reading overlay styles (scoped)
├── popup.html/.css/.js     # toolbar popup: settings + Pro
├── service_worker.js       # background: routing, lib injection, ExtPay
├── privacy.html            # privacy policy
├── ExtPay.js               # ExtensionPay SDK (see note below)
├── vendor/
│   └── jspdf.umd.min.js    # PDF engine (lazy-loaded)
└── icons/                  # 16 / 48 / 128 px

No build step — it's vanilla JavaScript loaded directly by Chrome.

1. Clone the repo.
2. Add the payment SDK: download ExtPay.js from ExtensionPay and place it in the project root. (Kept out of the repo — see Licensing.)
3. Go to chrome://extensions/, enable Developer mode, click Load unpacked, and select the folder.
4. In dev mode, ExtensionPay runs in test mode, so you can test the payment flow without real charges.

To package for the Web Store, zip the contents of the folder (so manifest.json is at the zip root), including vendor/ and icons/.

READR collects no data. There is no analytics, no tracking, and no backend that sees what you read — extraction and PDF generation happen entirely on your device. Payment is processed by Stripe (via ExtensionPay), which only receives what's needed to complete a purchase.

Full policy: https://wushu75.github.io/readr/readr-privacy.html

Vanilla JS · Chrome Manifest V3 · Readability.js · jsPDF · ExtensionPay

• Readability.js — © Mozilla, Apache-2.0
• jsPDF — MIT
• ExtensionPay (ExtPay.js) — AGPL-3.0

Note on ExtPay.js: it is licensed AGPL-3.0. To keep this repository under your own license without AGPL entanglement, ExtPay.js is not committed here — download it from ExtensionPay when setting up (see Development). It ships inside the packaged extension only.

© 2026 wushu75. All rights reserved.

(This is a source-available default that retains your rights. If you'd prefer an open-source license — MIT, Apache-2.0, etc. — replace this section and add a LICENSE file. Keeping ExtPay.js out of the repo, as above, avoids AGPL affecting your choice.)

Questions or bug reports: wushumaster75@gmail.com — or open an issue on this repo.

If READR helps you, an honest review on the Chrome Web Store genuinely helps others find it. ⭐