---
title: "SimpRead - Reader View – Chrome extension stats, history and permissions"
description: "70,000 users, rated 4.80 by 2,120 people. Version 2.3.0.810, updated 2026-09-01. Requests 9 permissions."
url: "https://extensiontracker.com/extension/ijllcpnolfcooahcekpamkbidhejabll"
---

# SimpRead - Reader View

Live in the Chrome Web Store.

- Users: 70,000
- Rating: 4.80 from 2,120 ratings
- Last checked: 2026-09-27 03:08 UTC
- Users gained in 7 days: – (needs a week of history)
- Users gained in 30 days: – (needs a month of history)
- Rank by users: #2,064 of 264,703 live extensions
- Rank in Workflow & Planning: #694 of 44,474

## The listing

What the Chrome Web Store shows, as of the last check.

Summary from the listing:

> Immersion-reading mode of Chrome extensions, similar to Safari read mode.

- Extension ID: `ijllcpnolfcooahcekpamkbidhejabll`
- Developer: [Kenshin Wang](https://extensiontracker.com/developer/u0e443a113682ce79c1e79c9aa8030760)
- Trader status: Not declared a trader under EU law
- Category: [Productivity › Workflow & Planning](https://extensiontracker.com/category/productivity/workflow)
- First published: 2017-06-01
- Last updated: 2026-09-01
- Version: `2.3.0.810`
- Size: 4.74 MiB
- Minimum Chrome: 88
- Languages (3): English, 中文（中国）, 中文（台灣）
- Support page: `https://github.com/kenshin/simpread/issues`
- Chrome Web Store: <https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/simpread-reader-view/ijllcpnolfcooahcekpamkbidhejabll>
- View the code or download the CRX, in CRX Viewer: <https://robwu.nl/crxviewer/?crx=https%3A%2F%2Fchromewebstore.google.com%2Fdetail%2Fijllcpnolfcooahcekpamkbidhejabll>

## Users over time

One row per check, newest first, as shown on the Chrome Web Store.

| Checked | Users | Rating | Ratings |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 2026-09-27 | 70,000 | 4.80 | 2,120 |

## What changed

Every change found on a check, newest first.

No changes found since tracking began on 2026-09-27.

## What it can access

From the extension's manifest, in plain language.

**Every website:** it can read and change your data on all the sites you visit.

### Sites

- `<all_urls>`: Every website
- `http://127.0.0.1/*`: 127.0.0.1
- `http://localhost/*`: localhost

### Sites where it runs scripts

- `file:///*/*.htm*`: Files on your computer
- `file:///*/*.md`: Files on your computer
- `file:///*/*.txt`: Files on your computer
- `http://*/*`: Every website
- `https://*/*`: Every website

### Browser features

- `contextMenus`: Add items to the right-click menu
- `declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess`: Block or change network requests on the sites it can reach
- `storage`: Save settings and data in your browser
- `tabs`: Read the addresses and titles of your tabs
- `tts`: Read text aloud
- `unlimitedStorage`: Store more data than the usual limit

### Asked for later, if you agree

- `cookies`: Read and change cookies on the sites it can reach
- `downloads`: Manage your downloads
- `https://*.youdao.com/*`: youdao.com and its subdomains

## More from this developer

Other extensions from the same publisher account.

| Extension | Users | Rating | Ratings | Category |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
| [SimpTab - Minimalistic New Tab](https://extensiontracker.com/extension/kbgmbmkhepchmmcnbdbclpkpegbgikjc) | 5,000 | 4.63 | 182 | Functionality & UI |

All 2 extensions by [Kenshin Wang](https://extensiontracker.com/developer/u0e443a113682ce79c1e79c9aa8030760).

## About this data

Collected from the extension's public Chrome Web Store listing. It's checked every week, because it has 1,000 or more users, and again whenever a new version appears. Last checked 2026-09-27 03:08 UTC; next check around 2026-10-03.

How the data is collected: <https://extensiontracker.com/methodology>.

## Cite this page

Extension Tracker. “SimpRead - Reader View” (ijllcpnolfcooahcekpamkbidhejabll). Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-09-27. https://extensiontracker.com/extension/ijllcpnolfcooahcekpamkbidhejabll. Accessed 2026-09-28.

```bibtex
@misc{extensiontracker_ijllcpnolfcooahcekpamkbidhejabll,
  title   = {SimpRead - Reader View (ijllcpnolfcooahcekpamkbidhejabll)},
  author  = {{Extension Tracker}},
  year    = {2026},
  note    = {Chrome Web Store data, last checked 2026-09-27},
  url     = {https://extensiontracker.com/extension/ijllcpnolfcooahcekpamkbidhejabll},
  urldate = {2026-09-28}
}
```

---

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