Give your eyes something to follow, and actually finish what you start.
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Bionic reading is free. No subscription, no account.
The tab has been open since Tuesday. It's a good article, someone you trust sent it, and you really do mean to read it. But every time you start, your eyes slide to the sidebar, then the notification, then back to the top of the paragraph you just finished. Reading isn't the problem. Keeping your place is.
Skimora gives your eyes something to follow: bold word starts to land on, a highlight that keeps moving, or a single word held in the middle of the screen. Pick the one that suits the page, then keep going.
Sound
Plays soft background noise to help you concentrate.
Part of the licensed version.
Autopace
Shows one word at a time in the middle of the screen, at a speed you choose.
Try it here. Part of the licensed version.
Cadence
Highlights a few words at a time and moves along the text at your pace.
Try it here. Part of the licensed version.
GlideMark
Slides a marker along each line so you never lose your place.
Try it here. Part of the licensed version.
Reading Area
Drag a box around any part of the page to bold just that part.
Part of the licensed version.
Focus Mode
Hides everything except the article and fills your screen.
Part of the licensed version.
Reading font
Switches the page to a font that is easier to read.
Part of the licensed version.
Library
Your saved highlights, all in one place.
Part of the licensed version.
Settings
Change speeds, colours and more.
Hide toolbar
Tucks the toolbar away. Press Shift and Space to bring it back. If you are typing, click on the page first.
Stop reading
Turns everything off and puts the page back the way it was.
Press Autopace, Cadence or GlideMark on the toolbar to try it.
The real toolbar, running on this page. Autopace, Cadence and GlideMark are part of the license, and they work here anyway.
Long pages give your eyes nothing to hold and plenty else to look at. Here's what that looks like, and the fix.
Every glance away costs you the line. Finding it again costs you the paragraph.
Banners, margins and pop-ups compete with the sentence you are on.
With nothing to guide them, your eyes jump around and go back over ground they already covered.
Not because the article was bad. Because staying with every line took more out of you than it was worth.
Most of the trouble with a page is everything around the words. A banner asks for a decision before you have read a sentence. A panel in the margin shows something that has nothing to do with the article. Something slides in from the corner just as you reach the good part.
Take those away and the page is quiet again. The text is wider, the lines are easier to follow, and the only thing left to do is read.
Try them as you go: press the toolbar icons, drag the sliders, select some text.
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Plain text gives your eyes nothing to hold, so you drift and read the line again.
The fix. Bionic reading bolds the start of each word, so your eyes land and move on. Free on every page you can read.
A long paragraph is a wall. Somewhere in the middle of it your attention leaves, and your eyes keep travelling over words you are no longer taking in. Then you notice, and you go back to the start of the line, and the wall is a little taller than before.
Stop reading
Turns everything off and puts the page back the way it was.
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One glance at your phone and the line is gone, along with the paragraph around it.
The fix. Cadence keeps a highlight on the words you're up to. GlideMark draws one band that grows as you read.
Sunlight moved across the desk while the report stayed open. Page nine, page ten, a table of figures, another table. The words were all there and none of them stayed. The next paragraph began the same way the last one had, and you followed it with your eyes and nothing else.
Cadence
Highlights a few words at a time and moves along the text at your pace.
Try it here. Part of the licensed version.
GlideMark
Slides a marker along each line so you never lose your place.
Try it here. Part of the licensed version.
Stop reading
Turns everything off and puts the page back the way it was.
Press Cadence or GlideMark on the toolbar to try it.
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You speed up on the easy parts, stall on the hard ones, and slip into skimming.
The fix. Autopace shows one word at a time in the middle of a clean screen, at a pace you set on one dial.
Some paragraphs you fly through and some you have to fight. The trouble is that you can't tell which is which until you're already halfway in, and by then your eyes have sped up, or stalled, or wandered off to check the time.
Autopace
Shows one word at a time in the middle of the screen, at a speed you choose.
Try it here. Part of the licensed version.
Stop reading
Turns everything off and puts the page back the way it was.
Press Autopace on the toolbar to try it.
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Sidebars and pop-ups on the screen, traffic and chatter in the room.
The fix. Focus Mode hides everything but the article, and focus sound plays something steady underneath. Reading fonts include Atkinson Hyperlegible, made by the Braille Institute.
A long paragraph is a wall. Somewhere in the middle of it your attention leaves, and your eyes keep travelling over words you are no longer taking in. Then you notice, and you go back to the start of the line, and the wall is a little taller than before.
The page's own font.
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Extensions can't reach into Chrome's PDF viewer, and running headers cut into every paragraph.
The fix. Skimora's reader pulls out the text with pdf.js, Mozilla's open-source PDF engine, and drops the running headers. Then the same bolding and pacers apply.
A PDF, as its text comes out
Journal of Applied Studies, Vol. 12
4.2 Method
Participants read three short passages in a quiet room. After each passage they answered five questions about what they had read.
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Journal of Applied Studies, Vol. 12
The order of the passages was varied between participants so that no passage always came first.
In the Skimora reader
4.2 Method
Participants read three short passages in a quiet room. After each passage they answered five questions about what they had read. The order of the passages was varied between participants so that no passage always came first.
An illustration. The running header and page number are stripped and the heading is detected, so the paragraphs join up.
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A week later you remember there was a great line, and not where it was.
The fix. Select a line and press Highlight. It is saved with the words around it, and your Library exports to Markdown or JSON.
Select any sentence in this paragraph and a Highlight button appears next to it. Press it and the sentence is saved to your Library along with the words around it, so months from now you'll remember where it came from and why you kept it.
Not how long the tab was open. Skimora counts only the minutes you stayed with the page, and never turns them into a speed score.
Skimora keeps your reading on your device. It has no account, no analytics and no always-on access to your sites. The one thing that leaves your browser is the license key you type in.
Stays in your browser
Leaves once, to check a license
| Permission | What it is for |
|---|---|
activeTab | Lets Skimora touch the one tab you are on, at the moment you press its button, and only then. |
scripting | Puts the reading script into that tab on demand, so bolding and pacing can work. |
storage | Saves your settings and your cached license on your device. |
alarms | Re-checks an activated license key now and then, so refunds are honoured. |
offscreen | Plays focus sound from a hidden page, so it survives closing the popup. |
downloads | Saves the highlights and bolded EPUBs you export to your device. |
One host | The license check. It is the only address Skimora ever contacts. |
It needs no account and no setup.
Skimora runs on that one tab, only now that you asked.
It sits on the right edge of the page. Stop reading puts the page back as it was.
Bionic reading is free, for good. $19, paid once, unlocks everything else: three pacers, reading fonts, focus sound, the PDF and EPUB reader and your highlights library. Nothing to renew.
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Subscription reading tools run $5 to $13 a month. Skimora is $19, once: less than four months of the cheapest of them. (prices checked September 2026)
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What the license unlocks
The same features, described for what you're actually trying to get through.
It works on most pages you can read, including articles, documentation, GitHub, Jira, Notion and Slack. It doesn't run on Chrome's own pages, the Chrome Web Store or Chrome's built-in PDF viewer, and it leaves text fields and editable pages alone.
Skimora does not promise that, and the research on bionic reading is mixed. Some readers find bold word starts easier to follow and others do not. It is free, so try it on a page you need to read and keep it if it helps.
Bionic reading on any page you can read, at a fixed strength. Skimora also counts your deep-reading minutes for free, shows today's total in the popup, and makes a shareable session card. No account is needed.
No. It is one payment for a lifetime license. There is nothing to renew.
Yes. Ask within 14 days of buying and you get back the full amount you paid. You don't have to say why. The refund policy explains how to ask.
None. There is no account, no analytics and no telemetry. Your settings, highlights, notes and reading stats stay in your browser. The one request Skimora makes carries only your license key, to check it is valid.
Give your eyes something to follow, and finish it.
$29 $19 · one-time · 14-day refund
No account. Only your license key ever leaves your browser.