Marble Reader

Safari-style Reader mode for Chrome. Free, private, and ready in one click.

Install from Chrome Web Store
Marble Reader displaying an Ars Technica article in a clean reading layout.

Marble Reader brings Safari’s elegant reading experience to Chrome. Click once and get a beautifully formatted article: comfortable typography, generous spacing, images, and automatic dark mode. It also works in Brave, Edge, Arc, Dia, and other Chromium browsers.

Beautiful articles in one click

Marble finds the main text, recovers the hero image, and cleans up bylines and page clutter. The reading width and spacing work out of the box. Choose serif or sans-serif text and adjust its size from the small Aa menu. Dark mode follows your system.

The extension package is about 60 KB. It’s free, with no account, subscription, or analytics. Article extraction runs locally when you click the icon; your reading isn’t uploaded to a Marble server.

Articles, newsletters, threads, and video transcripts

  • News sites and blogs: turn a busy article page into a focused reader view while preserving its images and useful formatting.
  • Substack and Gmail newsletters: give a long essay or an open email newsletter room to breathe.
  • X / Twitter threads: read the author’s posts as a continuous article, away from the surrounding timeline and interface.
  • YouTube: read available transcripts and chapters with clickable timestamps. Find a passage in a long interview or podcast and jump to that moment in the video.

How to use Marble Reader

Install the extension, pin it to your toolbar, and open something you want to read. Click the Marble icon. Press Escape or the close button to return to the original page.

YouTube transcripts require available captions. Marble reads content you already have access to.

Marble Reader vs. Chrome Reading Mode and other extensions

I built Marble because most reader extensions looked ugly to me. Extracting text isn’t enough: the article should look good, with proper typography, spacing, and image placement. Safari gets that right. That’s the experience I wanted in Chrome.

See the reader comparison for Marble Reader vs. Chrome Reading Mode, Just Read, Reader View, and Reader Mode, plus an alternative for Mercury / Postlight Reader users.

Is Marble Reader private?

Marble has no account system or analytics and doesn’t collect your reading history. The store listing declares no data collection. Images, embedded media, and YouTube captions can still load from their original services.

Install Marble Reader for free. For a new tab that brings back your saved reading, try Acropolis.