Effortlessly digest web content tailored to your needs.
LightRead is a powerful Chrome extension that leverages the capabilities of the Gemini 1.5 Flash AI model to provide customizable summaries of any text you select on a webpage. Whether you're a student, professional, or simply looking to consume information more efficiently, LightRead helps you quickly understand the core of any article, document, or web content.
Key Features:
- Select and Summarize: Simply highlight the text you want to summarize, right-click, and select "Summarize with LightRead." A convenient popup will appear with your generated summary.
- Customizable Summary Lengths (Free & Pro): Get summaries that fit your needs with preset options for short, medium, and long lengths.
- Adjustable Tone and Difficulty (Pro Feature): Tailor summaries to your specific requirements with a wide range of tone (e.g., academic, conversational, humorous) and difficulty level (e.g., eli5, college, technical) options. Regenerate summaries on the fly within the popup.
- Integrated Text-to-Speech: Listen to your summaries with Chrome's native text-to-speech, with planned integrations for ElevenLabs and Google's AI TTS for enhanced voice options.
- Save and Organize Summaries: Easily save generated summaries to your personal dashboard for future reference. Optionally save the source page URL along with the summary.
- User Dashboard: Manage your saved summaries, adjust preferences, monitor daily usage, and manage your subscription (Pro).
- Freemium Model: Get started with our free tier offering 5 summaries per day. Upgrade to LightRead Pro for expanded daily summaries (30/day) and access to advanced tone and difficulty customization.
- Powered by Gemini 1.5 Flash: Benefit from the advanced natural language processing capabilities of Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash model for accurate and relevant summaries.
Why Use LightRead?
In today's information-rich world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. LightRead is designed to help you:
- Save Time: Quickly grasp the main points of long articles, reports, or documents without reading every word.
- Improve Comprehension: Understand complex topics more easily by simplifying the language or adjusting the tone.
- Process Information Efficiently: Stay on top of industry news, research, or learning materials effectively.
- Enhance Accessibility: Provide a more accessible way for individuals with reading difficulties to consume online content.
Getting Started:
- Install the LightRead Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store .
- Create an account on our website.
- Log in to the extension by clicking the icon on the Chrome toolbar and moving to the account tab.
- Highlight any text on a webpage.
- Right-click the highlighted text.
- Select "Summarize with LightRead" from the context menu.
- View your summary in the popup window.
- With a pro subscription you can adjust the tone and difficulty level of the summary to get a different version right in the popup!
- You can also save your summary and view it later in the dashboard, or copy it to the clipboard.
Pricing:
- Free Tier: 5 summaries per day, standard features including summary length adjustment and dashboard with summary history.
- LightRead Pro: $5/month, 30 summaries per day, access to advanced tone and difficulty customization, and early access to new features.
Support and Feedback:
We're constantly working to improve LightRead. If you encounter any issues or have suggestions, please reach out or post a comment through the LightRead dashboard.
Privacy:
Your privacy is important to us. We process highlighted text through the Gemini 1.5 Flash model for summarization but do not save the original text. We only store summaries you choose to save to your dashboard, with the option to exclude the source URL. Feel free to read more about our privacy policy on our website here
Future Development:
We have exciting plans for LightRead, including potential integrations with platforms like Notion and the ability to summarize image content. If you'd like to contribute, please follow the guidelines described in CONTRIBUTING.md, and thanks for joining the adventure!