Paste a link or text. Read it clean, or hear it aloud.
Just the article text: no menus, ads or pop-ups. Copy it as plain text or Markdown, listen to it, or translate it.
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- Which pages work best?
- Articles, blog posts, news stories, documentation and wiki pages. Pages that build their content with JavaScript, sit behind a login, or are mostly images may come back empty.
- What's the difference between Text and Markdown?
- Text is clean paragraphs, ready to paste into a document, chat or AI prompt; tables come out as tab-separated rows that paste into a spreadsheet as columns. Markdown keeps headings, lists, tables, links and code blocks.
- Can it read an article aloud or translate it?
- Yes. Listen reads the article in a natural Microsoft voice; tap any paragraph to read from there, and pick the voice, speed and volume. Translate turns it into one of ten languages. For both, imread passes the article's text to Microsoft's free Edge services, and Translate also sends the title and short lines (headings, table cells, list items) to Zhipu's AI models (Agnes's when Zhipu's fail); if Microsoft's services are unavailable, Listen uses your device's own voice.
- Can I paste text instead of a link?
- Yes. Paste any text, from a PDF, an email or a document, and it shows like an article: Listen reads it aloud and Translate translates it. Lines a PDF broke mid-sentence are joined again, while a poem or an address keeps its lines. The text stays in your browser tab; only Listen and Translate send it out, to Microsoft, Zhipu and Agnes as above.
- Do you store the pages I read?
- imread doesn't keep the pages you read: each is fetched, cleaned and sent back to your browser. If you sign in and save an article to your Library, imread keeps its link, title and where you stopped (never its text), with your name, email address and picture from Google, until you remove it or ask for your account to be deleted. Listening and translating send the article's text to Microsoft, and translating sends its short lines to Zhipu (or Agnes), as described above.
- Is it free?
- Yes. There is no sign-up and no limit for normal use. Signing in with Google is optional: it adds a Library that keeps saved articles, where you stopped in each, and your voice and translation settings on all your devices.