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Boldify Reading Assistant

by diganta.dey2013 Β· Accessibility
FeaturedManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 16 Oct 2026

Boldify helps people with ADHD and improves reading comprehension by creating visual fixation points.

Users
39
+2 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#119K
#99K among extensions
Version
2.0.0
updated 26 May 2026

Users

monthly, 3 years
32139Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 39 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
001Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About Boldify Reading Assistant

🧠 Read Faster. Focus Better. Comprehend More. Boldify Reading Assistant transforms any webpage into an easier-to-read experience using scientifically-inspired bionic reading techniques. By bolding the initial letters of each word, Boldify creates visual anchoring points that help your eyes flow through text naturally β€” reducing mental fatigue and boosting reading speed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ KEY FEATURES β–Έ One-Click Activation β€” Toggle bionic reading on any website instantly β–Έ Adjustable Bold Intensity β€” Fine-tune from subtle (10%) to strong (90%) β–Έ Optional Italic Mode β€” Add italic styling for enhanced visual distinction β–Έ Keyboard Shortcut (Alt+B) β€” Quick toggle without touching your mouse β–Έ Per-Site Settings β€” Remember your preferences for each website β–Έ Dark Mode Support β€” Beautiful interface that respects your system theme β–Έ Zero Performance Impact β€” Lightweight, runs only when activated β–Έ 100% Privacy Focused β€” No data collection, no tracking, no analytics ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 WHO IS BOLDIFY FOR? β€’ People with ADHD who struggle to maintain focus while reading β€’ Students processing dense academic material β€’ Professionals reading lengthy reports and documentation β€’ Speed readers looking to improve their reading flow β€’ Anyone who experiences eye fatigue from prolonged screen reading β€’ People with dyslexia who benefit from visual word anchoring β€’ Non-native speakers improving reading fluency ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ”¬ HOW IT WORKS Boldify uses a technique inspired by bionic reading research. By highlighting the most important parts of each word (typically the first few letters), your brain can complete the word recognition faster using its natural language processing abilities. This creates: β†’ Faster word recognition through visual fixation points β†’ Improved reading flow with reduced eye regression β†’ Better comprehension through reduced cognitive load β†’ Less mental fatigue during extended reading sessions ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ”’ PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS Boldify requests minimal permissions: β€’ "activeTab" β€” To modify text on the current page only when you activate it β€’ "storage" β€” To save your preferences locally on your device We do NOT: βœ— Collect any personal data βœ— Track your browsing history βœ— Send data to external servers βœ— Use analytics or telemetry βœ— Require account creation Your data stays on YOUR device. Always. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS β€’ Alt+B β€” Toggle Boldify on/off for the current page β€’ Customize shortcuts at chrome://extensions/shortcuts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ πŸ’¬ SUPPORT & FEEDBACK Found a bug or have a feature request? We'd love to hear from you! Visit our GitHub repository to submit issues or contribute. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Made with ❀️ for the reading community. Free forever. No ads. No premium tier. Just better reading.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 daysβˆ’3βˆ’7.1%00.00
30 days+2+5.4%00.00
6 months+13+50.0%00.00
1 year+8+25.8%00.00

Version history

2 versions recorded
2.0.026 May 2026
1.018 Apr 2023

Details

Category
Accessibility
First seen
18 Apr 2023
Size
34 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
github.com
Extension ID
fdplmdppacojbngmlibekjdipeiankal

Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 2, likelihood 1
Permissions
activeTabstorage

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