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Mercury Reader
Clear clutter from articles instantly
As of 30 August 2026, Mercury Reader is free to use. Mercury Reader is a browser extension that removes ads, navigation, and other clutter from web articles, leaving only the text and images for a clean reading ex. Softwr lists it under Browser Extensions. Mercury Reader is made by Postlight, launched in 2015, available on Browser extension.
Overview
What Mercury Reader does
Mercury Reader is a browser extension that removes ads, navigation, and other clutter from web articles, leaving only the text and images for a clean reading experience. It transforms any article into a clean and readable format.
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Mercury Reader.
- Mercury Reader's underlying engine (Postlight Parser) is free open source software licensed under Apache License 2.0, per the GitHub repository, with no paid tier
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Pricing
What Mercury Reader costs
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Free
Free
- Clutter removal
- Clean reading
- Custom themes
- Font options
Capabilities
Features
Content extraction
Clean reading view
Custom themes
Font customization
Chrome support
Available on chrome
Firefox support
Available on firefox
Edge support
Available on edge
Behind it
Who makes Mercury Reader
- Company
- Postlight
- Based in
- New York, New York
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