Get through the reading list without losing the afternoon.
Course readings pile up fast, and half the battle is just starting. Skimora is free to try on any page, and it works on the PDFs your professor actually assigns.
$29 $19 · one-time · 14-day refund
No account. Only your license key ever leaves your browser.
Where it gets hard
A dense chapter with no visual break
Ten pages of the same font, same size, same wall. Nothing marks where you are or how far you have left.
PDFs that fight you
A running header and a page number cut into the text every single page, and citations break up the sentence you're trying to follow.
A dozen tabs open at once
The reading competes with everything else on your screen, and it usually loses.
No way to know if it worked
You closed the tab. Did you actually read it, or did you just have it open while you did something else?
What helps
Bionic reading, free
Bolds the start of every word so your eyes have something to land on through a long chapter. No account, no time limit.
The PDF and EPUB reader
Open a course PDF and Skimora strips the running header and page number and detects the headings, so the paragraphs read as paragraphs again.
Deep Reading Time
Counts the minutes you actually stayed with a page, not just the minutes the tab was open. It's a better answer to "did I do the reading" than a guess.
Highlights and Library
Save the lines you want for your essay, with 240 characters of context either side, and export the set to Markdown when it is time to write.
Focus Mode
Course sites are often as cluttered as any other page. Focus Mode hides everything except the reading.
Questions
Is Skimora free for students?
Bionic reading is free for everyone, students included, with no account and no time limit. The lifetime license is one payment of $19, not a subscription or a student plan.
Can it read the PDFs my professor posts?
If the PDF has text in it (not a scan), yes. Skimora extracts the text, strips running headers and footers, and gives you the same bolding and pacers as a web page.
Does it cite sources for my essay?
No. It saves the quote and the surrounding context so you can find it again and cite it yourself. It does not generate citations.
Try it on something you're already reading.
Bionic reading is free to start. One payment unlocks the rest.
$29 $19 · one-time · 14-day refund
No account. Only your license key ever leaves your browser.