Reviews of Bionic Reader

List of user reviews and ratings for Bionic Reader

Total ratings

3.91 (Rating count: 58)

Review summary

Pros

User-friendly and intuitive interface
Allows for customization of fonts on any website
Transforms browsing experience, especially for those who find large blocks of text difficult to focus on
Supports dynamic websites and keeps user preferences intact
Free to use, unlike some alternatives

Cons

Breaks functionality on several websites including WhatsApp, Medium, and Notion
Issues with saving changes and preferences not being applied properly
Lacks a robust way to blacklist or whitelist certain sites
Keyboard shortcuts can conflict with other applications
Causes text duplication or other rendering issues on some pages

Most mentioned

Customization options for typography
Functionality problems with certain websites
Need for better exclusion mechanisms for specific domains
Incompatibility with other add-ons like Dark Reader
Issues with saving configurations or preferences

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Recent rating average: 3.40

All time rating average: 3.91

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Date	Author	Comment
2025-03-23	远离中共邪教快退出党团队
2025-03-14	Noot-heen	Nice addon. Does what Iwant it to do. Though, something I would like to see would be to customize what the emphasis visual manifestation would be. You see, some websites may have many text rendered in bold by their design, which makes the bionic text not stand out as they should be. At the very least, I'd like to be able to choose between bold and italic, as not many design trends make use of italics. But if you really think you can take down the challenge, perhaps you could implement a custom open tag and end tag option that would sandwich the emphasized tesxt (ex: example -> ::exa::mple (this is a crazy example but the feature is empty and disabled by default and is up to the user)) or emphasize the text with another font entirely ! (if that is even possible). But if we really want to stay grounded, perhaps the most Minimum Viable Product for my feature requiest would be for me, the user, to be able to choose the Emphasis style between: bold, italics, and background highlighting (as if I was using a highlighter). This might require some rethinking of the extension UI as most actual options would be relevant for the bold style.
2025-02-09	退出党团队远离中共邪教
2025-01-31	Firefox user 18808831	Tá deixando todos os sites cinza, tá adionando a linha de codigo "background-color: rgb(48, 56, 65) !important;" no body e tá irritando bastante, desativei
2024-12-29	Zeicon	A lot of options, which is good, but maybe the defaults can be tweaked - imo. Also needs a "Exclude this page" button. Pages break every now and then and you have manually open the menu, switch to advanced and copy the url in.
2024-11-28	Trinutown
2024-11-04	Leonito	This is great, the only issue I have with it is how domain exceptions are handled when the extension is enabled for all websites: there are no wildcards. This is annoying on sites that have many subdomains, for example all *.arduino.cc sites are buggy with the extension, so it would be a massive time saver to be able to blacklist all of them with a single entry rather than adding each one manually, and would also avoid missing any in the process.
2024-11-03	Firefox user 18667913
2024-10-19	EmSixTeen	Good functionality options when it comes to the actual typography settings it applies, but currently breaks a huge amount of sites. This would benefit massively from two things: 1) the ability to provide class names it will apply to, rather than entire domains. 2) the ability to use a picker to select elements it would apply to, or right click and use the context menu to apply to that element (and that choice being saved).
2024-10-07	Anthy	Breaks web whatsapp.

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