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Reader View users statistics
Chrome Web Store · Workflow & Planning
Strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability
Reader View has approximately 50,000 recorded users on Chrome Web Store.
It ranks #130 of 2,033 tracked Chrome Web Store listings by users.
It is rated 4.6 out of 5 from 114 ratings.
PluginStats has 1 daily observations since Oct 19, 2026; the latest is from Oct 19, 2026.
Rating: 4.60 / 5 from 114 ratings
About Reader View
Strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability
Reader View extension removes clutter from web pages to enhance their readability. The extension uses Mozilla's Readability library as the engine to provide similar experience from what you get if you are on the Firefox browser. After installation, a button is added to your Chrome toolbar area or Opera's address bar.
Pressing this button once opens the current page in the "Reader View" mode. You will notice the button's color will be changed to orange while you are in the reader view mode.
Clicking on this orange button or pressing the back button of your browser closes the "Reader View" mode and restores the normal rendering mode. Since the extension uses history API, the page scroll position and the entire session is restored when "Reader View" mode is terminated.
★ Main Features of Reader View
✔ Open website directly in reader view ✔ Open website's links directly in the reader view ✔ Access the reader view button from a page action button ✔ Fullscreen reading ✔ Advertisement removing ✔ Save in HTML format ✔ Text to Speech (TTS) ✔ Move to the next and previous pages ✔ Keyboard shortcuts for almost all actions
Try our software now. Its 100% free to use, and you can access the test results onto your hard drive or Google Drive.
Description from the Chrome Web Store listing.
Where Reader View sits in the listing
Each band is one page of 20. Users on a log scale. Placement is projected from users, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.
Charts
Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark
Adoption over time
7/30/90-day growth
Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.
Recent observations
Full history (1)Similar Chrome Web Store Workflow & Planning plugins
Data source
User counts are read from public Chrome Web Store listing pages. Google displays rounded user counts (and caps the display at 10,000,000+), so small changes may not be visible. Rating counts above 1,000 are rounded (e.g. 1.6K).
Listing: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/reader-view/fachffmaagpajehggpkaigkacdjhkkdn. First seen Oct 19, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.