Find the main article
Detects page content and skips typical navigation, ads, sidebars, and comments.
Built for focused listening
A straightforward reader for the web.
Flow Reader is free to use and keeps the experience simple: choose what to hear, choose a voice, and continue reading at your pace.
Start where you are
Hover over a paragraph to begin from that point and continue through the article.
Follow along
Highlights the paragraph currently being read, with in-page pause, resume, and stop controls.
Choose a voice
Use available Google online or local system voices, with language filtering and a voice test.
Tune your pace
Adjust speed and pitch for a listening experience that feels comfortable to you.
Read a selection
Read highlighted text from the extension or Chrome’s right-click menu.
How it works
Three simple steps.
1
Open a page
Visit a regular HTTP or HTTPS web page with text you want to hear.
2
Choose how to start
Select Read page, highlight text, or use the hover play control beside a paragraph.
3
Listen your way
Choose a language and voice, then adjust speed or pitch whenever you need to.
Privacy policy
Flow Reader Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 4, 2026
Flow Reader is a free-to-use browser extension that reads web pages and selected text aloud. It requires no account, subscription, or paid API.
What the extension handles
When you ask Flow Reader to read a page, a selection, or text you hover over, the extension accesses the relevant text on that page. It also saves your chosen voice, speed, pitch, and language preferences on your device using Chrome’s local extension storage.
How information is used
Page text is used only to create speech for the current reading session. Flow Reader does not operate its own server, create user accounts, track browsing history, use analytics, sell information, or transmit data to the developer.
If you select an online Google voice in Chrome, Chrome or its speech provider may send the text needed to synthesize speech to that provider. This is controlled by Chrome and the selected voice. Local system voices can be used offline and keep speech processing on your device.
Chrome Web Store user-data commitment
Flow Reader handles website content only to provide its disclosed text-to-speech feature. It does not sell user data, use it for advertising, retain webpage text after a reading session, or use or transfer it for any purpose unrelated to reading text aloud. It does not use user data to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes. Where Chrome routes text to a selected online voice provider, that processing is solely to synthesize the speech requested by the user.
Sharing
Flow Reader does not share data with the developer or other third parties. The optional Buy Me a Coffee link opens the Buy Me a Coffee website only when you click it; payments are handled by that service, not by Flow Reader.
Contact
For questions about this policy, contact the developer through buymeacoffee.com/austinzheng.