ReadKinetic
a free, local-first speed reader for your own books
Details
- External ID
- 49002344
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ReadKinetic
- Website domain
- readkinetic.com
- Launched
- July 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 105
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9223416965352449
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- browser utilities and bookmark managers
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- speed reader for your personal books
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a client-side PWA speed reader using standard browser APIs, IndexedDB for local storage, and open-source JavaScript parsers for EPUB/PDF.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: TamperMonkey script with speed-controlled voice reading
Concerns raised: Kindle refresh rates prevent implementation on e-readers, Doesn't work with languages without spaces (Japanese), Comprehension and retention suffer at higher speeds, Not suitable for enjoying fiction narratively, UI/instructions unclear - hard to discover speed controls
Feature requests: Per-book reading speed memory (different speeds for different titles), Adjustable speed based on content type/interest level, iOS app, Larger, more obvious UI controls in welcome instructions, Support for non-space-delimited languages
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 582 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 583 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 265 days after the earliest competitor.
- ThinkReader · github · 2026-09-11 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.68
- dewarr · github · 2026-09-21 · 71 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- epub1t · github · 2026-09-29 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Lite Bible · hn · 2026-01-19 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Free audiobooks with synchronized text for language learning · hn · 2026-03-11 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- CrossPlay · hn · 2026-08-07 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Calmscroll · hn · 2026-09-10 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Bookstoread.ai · hn · 2026-05-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.55
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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