What is EasyRead.AI?
EasyRead.AI is your AI-powered web reading assistant, enabling you to understand articles or selected text more quickly and transform the content into clear, practical outcomes—all without ever having to leave the page. Its core features include: precisely locating the main article or specific sections using a content selector; generating key takeaways for the entire article with a single click; creating summaries and mind maps that allow users to ask follow-up questions, zoom in/out, and collapse branches, with the option to save the mind map as a PNG image; translating or explaining unfamiliar words, concepts, and paragraphs; and supporting in-page bilingual parallel translation for either the main article or selected content. This extension employs a BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) approach and a local-first architecture, compatible with Chrome’s built-in AI, local model services, and APIs from various cloud-based AI providers. All conversation history, API keys, and settings are stored locally, ensuring privacy and freedom of service choice.
Key features
It allows users to precisely select the main article or designated content areas on a webpage using a content selector, ensuring accurate AI processing; with one click, it generates key takeaways from the entire article, boosting information-capturing efficiency.
It supports generating summaries and interactive mind maps, enabling users to ask follow-up questions, zoom in/out, collapse branches, and export the map as a PNG image; it also offers in-page bilingual parallel translation, integrating services such as Google Cloud Translation, Youdao Translate, and Alibaba Cloud Translation.
Use cases and audience
This tool is ideal for researchers, students, cross-language professionals, and information-processing practitioners who need to efficiently read web content.
- Quickly generate key takeaways from web articles
- Generate a mind map from web page content, with support for zooming, collapsing, and exporting as PNG
- Perform bilingual side-by-side translation on selected text or the entire article
The full text of web articles, user-selected text snippets, or user-inputted questions or commands.
A list of key takeaways, an interactive mind map (with support for zooming/collapsing/exporting as a PNG), bilingual parallel translation results, and explanations or Q&A responses for selected text.
Frequently asked questions
Is an internet connection required to use this feature?
Some features (such as Chrome’s built-in AI) rely on on-device models and do not require an internet connection; connecting to local models or cloud services does require network access; all settings and conversation history are stored locally.
Does it support multilingual translation?
Supports bidirectional translation between Chinese and English, with bilingual translation integrated from Google Cloud Translation, Youdao Translate, and Alibaba Cloud Translation.
How to use
- 01
After installing the extension, follow the setup wizard to choose between Chrome’s built-in AI, a local model, or a cloud service
- 02
Use the content selector to locate the main article or specific paragraphs
- 03
Click to generate a summary, a mind map, or an explanation of the selected text
- 04
View bilingual translation results directly on the page or ask follow-up questions
Benefits and limitations
Benefits
- Save time reading with summaries and mind maps
- Easy to use, no learning curve
- Supports YouTube content
- Provides translation features
Limitations
- Currently only supports Google account login
- Still in public beta; may contain bugs or limitations
Pricing and availability
All extended features are available for free.
- Pricing source
- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/easyreadai-reading-assist/gphkbeidldbdedahhcffdfmdmkaddcca
- Pricing last updated
- 2026-10-29
Prices and limits may change. Check the official website for current terms.
Official website & sources
Updated on 2026-10-30
