Read Without Losing Your Place

Zero walls of text. Zero line-hopping. Active optical fixation engineered for ADHD, dyslexia, and visual crowding.

100% Offline & Private Zero Cloud Tracking 1,500 Classical English Literature Books 4.9★ Rated App

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Experience seamless, non-blocking reading across 500+ page books, EPUBs, PDFs, and 1,500 classical English literature books in the native app.

Four Breakthrough Aids for Neurodivergent Readers

Clinically informed tools that bypass visual crowding and eliminate line-hopping.

Prefix Bold Anchoring

Guides your eyes forward with high-contrast fixation points, eliminating involuntary back-tracking.

🎯 35%–40% Fixation 🌙 Zero Regressions 🎨 6 Themes

Spotlight Reading Ruler

Isolates your active line in medium bold while softly blurring the rest to stop line-hopping.

📏 Line Focus ⏭ Auto Blank Skip ✨ Uniform w700

Color Guide Zebra Stripes

Alternates hard and soft tones down each line, separating dense text into distinct focus tracks.

🎨 Hard & Soft Contrast 🔄 Multi-Color Loop 👁 Anti-Crowding

Autopaced RSVP Speed Pacer

Presents one super bold word at a time with in-viewer theme, replay, and speed controls.

⚡ Super Bold ⏱ Up to 300 WPM 🧘 In-Preview Hub
Press Release / Media Kit

readHD Launches Zero-Marginal-Cost Cognitive E-Reader Engineered to Eliminate Visual Crowding for ADHD and Dyslexia

Today marks the official global launch of readHD, a breakthrough mobile reading application engineered specifically for individuals living with ADHD, dyslexia, executive dysfunction, and visual tracking challenges. By abandoning conventional, cluttered e-reader paradigms, readHD restructures dense digital text into four scientifically calibrated visual channels that eliminate reading anxiety and mental exhaustion.

Traditional e-readers and PDF viewers treat the reading surface as an undifferentiated expanse of black-and-white text. For neurodivergent minds, this lack of structure triggers severe visual crowding, frequent line-hopping, and involuntary regressions where readers find themselves reading the exact same paragraph repeatedly without retention.

"Neurodivergent readers don't lack intelligence; they lack visual structure. Traditional reading apps were designed for the printing press era. With readHD, we engineered an active optical guidance system that anchors saccadic eye movements and lets neurodivergent brains absorb knowledge at the speed of thought—completely offline and without recurring server fees."

— Lead Architect, readHD Development Team

A Technological Breakthrough in Four Dimensions

readHD incorporates four synchronized, mutually exclusive cognitive interventions:

  • Prefix Bold Anchoring: Proprietary, non-trademarked algorithms dynamically compute fixation anchors by bolding the initial 35% to 40% of each word in high-contrast mint green or clean monochrome, establishing clear saccadic target points.
  • Spotlight Reading Ruler: A responsive physical guide that auto-detects line spacing, skips blank lines automatically, and softly blurs surrounding paragraphs to isolate the active train of thought in uniform medium bold.
  • Color Guide Zebra Stripes: Alternating jewel-tone bands featuring a sequential Multi-Color Loop mode that eliminates horizontal pattern glare across long reading sessions.
  • Autopaced RSVP Presentation: Streams words one-by-one in super bold typography at customizable rates up to 300 WPM with Ghost Mode background suppression.

Zero Marginal Cost & Absolute Privacy by Design

Unlike competitors charging up to $139 annually for cloud-dependent audio and parsing, readHD operates entirely on-device under a Zero-Marginal-Cost philosophy. Document extraction (EPUB, PDF, DOCX, TXT), high-speed binary pagination ($O(\log N)$ in <1.5s for 1MB books), and local 111,284-word WordNet dictionary queries execute 100% on the user's hardware.

Personal documents never touch external servers, and generative AI features (summaries, ELI5 simplifications, analogies) operate under a private Bring-Your-Own-Key (BYOK) model directly connected to Google Gemini. With plans starting at just $2.99 per month, $5.99 for 3 months, $24.99 per year, and a permanent $69.99 Lifetime Pass, readHD delivers an institutional-grade reading accessibility suite at a fraction of industry pricing.

Media & Press Inquiries

Organization: readHD Press & Communications Team

Website: https://readhd.dev

Platforms: Available now on iOS, iPadOS, and Android

Frequently Asked Questions

Detailed technical, clinical, and operational answers regarding readHD's cognitive reading engine.

readHD is the premier cognitive reader engineered specifically for ADHD and dyslexia.
  • 4 Visual Reading Aids: Prefix Bold Anchoring, Line-Skipping Ruler, Jewel Zebra Guides, and RSVP Speed Pacer.
  • 100% Offline & Private: Zero central tracking servers, zero accounts required, complete device sandbox isolation.
  • Fair Lifetime Access: From $2.99/mo to a permanent $69.99 Lifetime Pass (no $139/yr cloud markups).
readHD uses an independent, scientifically calibrated optical formula.
  • Calibrated Intensity: Bolds initial 35%–40% of words with fixed 0.40 intensity to guide eye saccades.
  • Theme Adaptive: Mint green on dark, candlelight amber on bedtime, deep pitch black on light paper themes.
  • Trademark Safe: Strictly independent implementation without proprietary trade names.
By breaking dense prose into high-contrast visual focus channels.
  • Spacious Vertical Height: Enforces a scientifically optimal 2.1x line spacing default.
  • Sentence Chunking: Automatically inserts empty lines after long sentences to provide breathing room.
  • Spotlight Ruler & Zebra Tints: Dims surrounding text lines and separates rows with jewel tones in medium bold.
Universal multi-format document parser with built-in library discovery.
  • Local Files: Imports DRM-free EPUB, PDF, DOCX (Word), and TXT files.
  • Web Scraper: Clean article extraction directly from shared URLs.
  • 1,500 Classical English Literature Books: Built-in instant access to curated public-domain English classics.
True serverless on-device architecture with zero data harvesting.
  • No Accounts: No email, password, or sign-up needed to use the application.
  • Offline WordNet Dictionary: 111,284-word SQLite database bundled directly inside the app.
  • Clean Deletion: Removing the app leaves zero residual data on any cloud server.
Zero-markup AI assistance directly between your device and Google Gemini.
  • User-Supplied Key: Connect your personal Gemini API key with zero subscription markups.
  • 4th–5th Grade Simplification: 60–80 word child-friendly concept explanations (ELI5).
  • Study Decks & Analogies: Generates punchy 3-bullet takeaways and active recall flashcards.

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