I'm Troy, the founder of SwiftRead. I made it originally to help me read through text faster. More than a decade later, it's helped half a million readers across fifty countries read faster. It started as a Chrome extension, and these days it's also a web app, an Edge extension, and iOS and Android apps. SwiftRead helps you read the text you already have, faster than you ever have before (some users report reading up to three times faster with SwiftRead). You bring an article, PDF or ebook, and pick how the text reaches you. Focus flashes a few words at a time in one spot, so your eyes don't travel across lines and you can push the speed up. Flow keeps the whole page and slides a highlight through it, so you don't lose context. Spotlight hides everything except the words you're on. Listen reads it aloud and highlights along, and seeing and hearing text together helps some people retain it. Building it was mostly about letting you find the mode and speed where you're faster but still following. On alternatives: Speechify and Voice Dream Reader are text-to-speech readers built around listening. SwiftRead is mainly for reading text on screen, and text-to-speech is optional. Other speed reading apps like ReadMe or Reedy are outdated or are only available on one platform. All features included free. A few have daily allowances. There's currently no annotation feature, so SwiftRead is more for getting through text fast than for marking it up. https://swiftread.com Feedback welcome, especially on what's confusing the first time you open a reading mode.   submitted by   /u/gouhst [link]   [comments]