ReadBeam
Read any page aloud — your eyes stay on the text
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ReadBeam reads web pages aloud while keeping your eyes on the text. Select any passage and a small dot appears - hover it to pick how to read. While it reads, the page dims, your sentence stays bright, and a moving line follows your pace, so you hear and see the same words. When you drift, ReadBeam pauses and asks where to resume. It detects the page language, follows dark mode, and keeps a quiet record: focus score, day streak, total focus time. Everything runs locally. Free. No account.
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PH · launched Oct 28, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Chrome Extensions
- Productivity
- Education
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Yes It uses browser speech synthesis with word-boundary events plus DOM highlighting and dimming, all achievable with standard web APIs and a browser extension.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 239 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #128 of 240 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 318 days after the earliest competitor.
- ReadScore · ph · 2026-10-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Readerbeam · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Focus Reader · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Slow Glance · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Lumotext - Text-to-Speech Reader · ph · 2026-10-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Bookdam · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Claude Read Aloud · hn · 2026-09-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Epilude Narrator · ph · 2026-10-08 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.44