Simplify by Alanas
Tired of cluttered articles? Hide ads and sidebars in one click. Read in light, sepia, or dark. Highlight any paragraph for a plain-English rewrite. Free, no account.
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About this extension
Simplify does two things:
Reader Mode — strips clutter from articles and shows them in a clean,
themeable view. Fully local.
AI Simplify Selection — sends selected text to our AI for plain-language
rewriting. Off by default. First use shows a consent prompt; we store the
"yes" flag locally so we don't ask again.
Test:
1. Open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars.
2. Press Alt+Shift+S — reader mode opens. Try the theme switcher. Escape
to exit.
3. Select any paragraph, right-click → "Simplify Selection". Accept the
prompt. The text comes back simpler. With the AI service offline, a
local heuristic kicks in silently.
Permissions:
- activeTab + scripting: inject the reader and selection UI.
- contextMenus: the right-click action.
- storage: themes + the AI consent flag.
- host_permissions for our Railway endpoint: only hit after opt-in, only
for the AI feature.
Vanilla JS. No bundler. No minification. The zip is the source.
Reader Mode — strips clutter from articles and shows them in a clean,
themeable view. Fully local.
AI Simplify Selection — sends selected text to our AI for plain-language
rewriting. Off by default. First use shows a consent prompt; we store the
"yes" flag locally so we don't ask again.
Test:
1. Open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars.
2. Press Alt+Shift+S — reader mode opens. Try the theme switcher. Escape
to exit.
3. Select any paragraph, right-click → "Simplify Selection". Accept the
prompt. The text comes back simpler. With the AI service offline, a
local heuristic kicks in silently.
Permissions:
- activeTab + scripting: inject the reader and selection UI.
- contextMenus: the right-click action.
- storage: themes + the AI consent flag.
- host_permissions for our Railway endpoint: only hit after opt-in, only
for the AI feature.
Vanilla JS. No bundler. No minification. The zip is the source.
Rated 5 by 1 reviewer
Permissions and data
Optional permissions:
- Access your data for ai-proxy-production-6b92.up.railway.app
Data collection:
- The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection.
Optional data collection, according to the developer:
- Website content
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- Version
- 1.0.5
- Size
- 66.61 KB
- Last updated
- 3 hours ago (May 18, 2026)
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