ReadMate
Free, distraction-free TTS reader with synced highlighting
Details
- External ID
- 1251953
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- ReadMate
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Chrome Extensions, Education, Languages
- Fetched at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 18, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
Description
ReadMate is a clean Chrome extension for focused reading. It removes web ads, provides natural neural TTS voices, and highlights text word-by-word in real time. Perfect for language learners and long-form readers. 100% free with no paywall or ads.
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- text-to-speech reader with synchronized highlighting for readers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A Chrome extension that strips page clutter using Readability.js, triggers the Web Speech API or an external TTS API, and highlights text spans via word boundary events can be vibe-coded quickly.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 80 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 81 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 255 days after the earliest competitor.
- ReadAloud · hn · 2026-07-15 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Better Twitter · ph · 2026-09-17 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Readolix · ph · 2026-09-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Mark & Meter · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Yapit · hn · 2026-04-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Google Chrome Vertical Tabs · ph · 2026-04-08 · 377 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Tim's Markdown Reader · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Extension to See Rating from Google Book, Amazon,StoryGraph on Goodread · hn · 2026-03-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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