What's new.
Simplify 4 Me 3.0 is a major rebuild focused on making difficult webpages easier to read and understand without adding cloud accounts or remote AI.
A complete reading-assistant update
- New highlight-to-Simplify experience with an in-page result card.
- Three simplification strengths: Light, Clear, and Simple.
- New Key Points view using extractive local sentence scoring.
- New Hard Words view with plain-English alternatives and meanings.
- New Quick Read distraction-free article view.
- Quick Read themes, text size controls, line spacing, reading width, key points, and simplified view.
- Read Aloud for selected text and Quick Read content using browser/OS speech synthesis.
- Focus Mode to emphasize the reading block under your pointer.
- Complexity Lens to underline known difficult words without rewriting page text.
- “Always help on this site” preference for sites where you want the Complexity Lens automatically.
- Safer Replace behavior limited to a single text node, with a short undo window.
- New custom-rules manager with settings import and export.
- New keyboard shortcuts and right-click actions.
- Completely redesigned popup, settings page, and interactive first-run onboarding.
- Settings migration logic for common Simplify 4 Me 2.x preference formats.
- Privacy-focused architecture with no developer cloud backend, no API key, no remote code, and no behavioral analytics.
What stayed the same
The original idea is still intact: make difficult wording easier. Version 3.0 expands that idea into a more complete reading workflow while keeping the extension independent and fast.