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Read&Write for Google Chrome™

by Texthelp

v2.1.785 Updated Feb 23, 2026 104MiB
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★ 3.44
1.6K reviews
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Description

Wonderfully intuitive and easy-to-use, Read&Write for Google Chrome™ provides personalized support to make documents, web pages and common file types in Google Drive (including: Google Docs, PDF & ePub) more accessible. It’s designed to help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits his/her abilities and learning styles. Read&Write offers a range of powerful support tools to help you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, including: • Text-to-speech to hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting • Text and picture dictionaries to see the meaning of words explained • With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying • Word prediction offers suggestions for the current or next word as you type • Collect highlights from text in documents or the web for summarizing and research • Create and listen to voice notes directly inside of Google Docs • Simplify and summarize text on web pages to remove ads and other copy that can be distracting Install Read&Write for Google Chrome to access ALL of these features FREE for 30 days! Teachers can get a FREE premium subscription to Read&Write for Google Chrome. To register and activate your subscription, go to texthelp.com/en-gb/products/read-write/free-for-teachers/ after installing the Read&Write for Google Chrome trial. Get more information on Read&Write for Google Chrome™ features, licensing, and pricing at texthelp.com/en-gb/products/read-write/premium-features/
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Reviews (200 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-17
Jesse Lowe

Thanks for not working and making students lives worse

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-10
Emmett Archer wohl

Cant use my docs!

★☆☆☆☆2026-02-02
Chase Custodinho

it doesn't work at all on my computer very frustrating.

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-20
Benjamin Sargent

Read and Write does not work well and it is in the way all the time.

★☆☆☆☆2026-01-14
Matthew Cole

What a disappointment! You'd think that a company like Google could make an app that worked the way it was advertised... or at least open at every attempt. Honestly, given the choice between this app and learning how to read and write yourself, I'd encourage you to just learn how to read and write yourself.

★☆☆☆☆2025-12-16
Skullflame

I got this extension added by school policy years ago, and now cannot access the history of my google docs. It's a useless extension with no place on my toolbar, and I can't remove it. I hate this extension.

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-14
George Benetatos

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-07
sasha cool kalezic

I used to like this app until it stopped working on every website. I've tried deleting and reinstalling it and its still not working

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-06
no no

I have an IEP from the school but the problem is that it causes computer to crash also can anyone link to Securly on chromestore

★☆☆☆☆2025-11-05
Cooper Rexroad

ts pmo

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-29
fractal cat (cool cat)

Forcibly installed on my school computer, and the privacy policy is absolutely garbage. While probably a legal form of spyware, this is still spyware.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-23
Kathryn Sharon

The free version is unreliable. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-16
Alex Stayton

It doesn't work I just got scammed

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-16
Noah J Komosinski

ts is slower than 0 bars on my phone :(

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-16
Matthew Cook

Ts slower than a person on the spectrum icl 💔😭

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-14
Colin Tyree

This extension gave me testicular cancer.

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-07
Mark Cohen

Awful. I don't want it and cannot uninstall it. It has slowed down my entire computer. It's terrible. No AI benefit at all.

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-29
Gurudeep Swasanekar

this extension is not open ... i try to open many but nothing is happen

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-22
Alyssa Rose

Doesnt work

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-30
Marchetta Thomas

doesnt work. fix the freaking app

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-25
Ryan Hassouni

does not work at all just fix it already damn

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-25
Katelyn Stanhope

functions don't work

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-21
Madeline Annie

Often doesn't open. The only function that somewhat works is the read aloud. Predictive text, picture dictionary, etc etc are all grayed out. Not helpful or reliable for accessibility.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-19
Cleto Saldanha

The extension doesn't work.

★☆☆☆☆2025-08-07
nate

Broken. Won't load

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-15
Emma-Lee Arsenault

I was so excited when a colleague told me about this as I thought it would be very helpful with my university readings! Unfortunately the extension doesn't work very well at all on a windows computer using Google Chrome. It doesn't always open and when it does open it won't read the PDF document I have open. I am also unable to highlight PDF documents. Maybe it works well for documents from google drive but it doesn't work for websites :(

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-15
Pell :D

The extension doesn't work. I can't even open the settings!

★☆☆☆☆2025-07-10
Deepak Poojari

doesnt work on chrome, ubunut 22. when i click on it, it doesnt open or do anything.

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-24
Jay Jay

Why doesn't it open when I click on it, the app is unresponsive.

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-20
Kash Farhadi

Non-functional, unresponsive. 0 Stars

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-18
Chris Tomlinson

This extension is absolutly useless, I attempted to get it working for online classes and the extension does not even open, does not communitcate with the computer at all. If you really want the highlights, print off the work, if you really want the drone voice, just get the "Read Aloud" extension instead

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-11
Saulo Mascarenhas

it bugs all the time

★☆☆☆☆2025-06-06
Cole Harred

this extension literally never opens. I click on it and there is absolutely no response whatsoever. A joke. Only giving 1 star bc I have to

★☆☆☆☆2025-05-28
Zoran M

Data harvester. Impossible to test without giving an email address, and for some reason they want a company or school address.

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-08
Romus Racine

me do not like

★☆☆☆☆2025-04-05
Tien Nguyen

Totally a spam Extension!!!

★☆☆☆☆2025-03-18
Christopher Davilla

Can you fix the compatability with Amplify (online)? When the kids try to use rw to have the passage read to them, the screen begins to glitch badly. Ty

★☆☆☆☆2025-02-23
Katrina Karla

it wont open for me anywhere

★☆☆☆☆2025-02-06
Remy Gaskin

eye of rah

★☆☆☆☆2025-02-03
Mason jones

I tried to use this it won't work

★☆☆☆☆2025-02-02
Kate

its not working for me at all...

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-21
Zaki Rahman

useless and gets in the way

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-16
David Rosenzweig

I hate it so much and it just sucks I cant see the 0 stars

★☆☆☆☆2024-12-03
MT Jxsh

THIS IS STUPID, I REALLY HATED THIS BRO

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-27
Parker Thompson

this sucks not even a star

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-21
Melanie McGivern

Randomly pops up and gets in the way when I don't want it. I have looked everywhere and can't find an easy way to remove this.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-13
Ivory Schumacher

This extension doesn't work. I downloaded it to help me read out essays on google and the toolbar won't come down.

★☆☆☆☆2024-11-07
Isla Chandler

bad

★☆☆☆☆2024-10-29
Timothy Wilson

This app is required by my school district, but it is playing havoc with Canvas, which is also required by my school district. I'd give it zero stars if I could.

★☆☆☆☆2024-10-29
Klara Atere

Unfortunately it is not working on Microsoft Edge. It is downloaded, but nothing happens when clicked.

Permissions (13)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension alarms Can schedule periodic background tasks contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu downloads Can manage and monitor downloads gcm identity Can use your Google account identity identity.email management Can manage other installed extensions offscreen scripting Can inject scripts into web pages search storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 2.1.785
Updated Feb 23, 2026
Size 104MiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026