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FocusFlow AI Reading Assistant — read less, understand more

Summarize a page or pull out its key points, simplify a hard passage, define a word as it is used in its sentence, and check what you understood with a short quiz — right where you are reading. Built for people with dyslexia, ADHD, and anyone who wants text in plain language.

Every AI tool, one goal: readable text

Pick a tool on the text in front of you. Answers appear over the text you asked about, in the same language as that text.

On any page

Summarize & Key points

Turn a long article or section into a short plain-language summary that keeps every key point — as a paragraph, or as Key points: a short list instead of a paragraph.

  • With nothing selected, it summarizes the whole page's article
  • Your Paragraph or Key points choice is remembered

Simplify

Rewrite difficult text in plain, simple language — short sentences, common words, one idea per sentence.

  • Keeps every important fact and the original meaning
  • Adds no new information — only clarity

Define & In this sentence

Get a short, plain-language definition of a word or short phrase, with one example. Then choose In this sentence for the meaning of the word as it is used in the sentence where you found it.

  • Most common words are answered by the built-in dictionary, free
  • In this sentence sends the sentence only when you choose it

Check my understanding

A few multiple-choice questions on what you just read, shown one at a time. Each answer shows the passage from the text that supports it.

  • Uses your selection, or the whole page when nothing is selected
  • Your answers are checked on your device and never sent

In Reader Mode's Insights panel

Simplify this section

Replaces the section you are reading with a plain-language version, labelled “Simplified by AI”. Choose Show original to switch back. Exports still save the original text.

Words to know

Picks up to 10 hard words from the section — on your device — and defines them one at a time. Only the single words are sent, never the section's text.

Check my understanding

A few questions about the section you are reading. You answer them on your device; your answers and your score are never sent and are not saved.

On every answer

Listen

Click Listen to have the answer read aloud with your browser's own voices; click Stop to end.

Formatted answers

Lists and bold text in an answer show properly, so a list of key points reads as a list.

Move or minimise

Drag the answer card by its header — or move it from the keyboard — and minimise it out of the way. Listen keeps playing while it is minimised.

How it works

The assistant is built into the FocusFlow extension — nothing extra to install. Open it wherever you happen to be reading.

Right-click menu

Select text, right-click, and choose Summarize, Simplify or Define from the FocusFlow menu.

Toolbar popup

The AI tools tiles run Summarize, Simplify and Define. Summarize covers the whole page when nothing is selected.

Side panel

Advanced Settings → AI Tools tab: Summarize, Simplify, Define and Check my understanding.

Reader Mode

The Insights panel runs Simplify this section, Words to know and Check my understanding on the section you are reading.

1

Select text — or don't

Highlight a word, a sentence or a section. Summarize and Check my understanding can use the whole page instead.

2

Pick a tool

Nothing is sent until you press a tool, and each press sends one request.

3

Read, listen, follow up

The answer appears in a card over the page. Listen to it, switch to Key points, or ask In this sentence.

Step-by-step guides: New AI Tools and AI Reading Assistant in How to Use.

Monthly AI credits, plainly

Every Pro license comes with a credit pool that refills every 30 days. A request costs what it sends.

  • 1,000 AI credits per month, per license
  • 1 credit per 1,000 bytes of text sent, minimum 1 — about 1,000 characters of English
  • Dictionary definitions and cached answers (up to 30 days) are free
  • A request that gets no answer is refunded in full
  • Pool resets on each 30-day anniversary of first use

What each tool costs

Define, word the dictionary knows 0 credits
Define, word it doesn't know 1 credit
In this sentence (word + sentence, up to 600 bytes) 1 credit
Words to know (up to 10 words, each like Define) 0–10 credits
Summarize, Key points, Simplify, Simplify this section or Check my understanding on ~5,000 characters 5 credits
The same, at the 20,000-byte maximum 20 credits
Listen, or repeating a request within 30 days 0 credits

Key points cost the same as a paragraph summary of the same text. See your balance any time in the dashboard's AI & Credits section.

Private by design: what each tool sends

Nothing is sent until you pick a tool, and there is no background analysis of the pages you visit. When you do, the text goes to focusflowapp.in, which forwards it to a third-party large-language-model provider and returns the result.

  • Summarize, Simplify, Define, Check my understanding — the text you selected. With nothing selected, Summarize and the side panel's Check my understanding send the article text of the page you are on. Define always requires a selection (except for Words to know, below), and so does Simplify outside Reader Mode.
  • Key points — the same text as a paragraph summary; only the requested layout differs.
  • In this sentence — the word and the sentence on the page that contains it, up to 600 bytes, only when you choose it.
  • Simplify this section (Reader Mode) — the whole text of the section you are reading, once per press. The button says so.
  • Words to know (Reader Mode) — single words, picked on your device and sent one at a time. Never the section's text. The list is not saved.
  • Check my understanding — your answers, and your score, are never sent anywhere and are not saved.
  • Listen — uses your browser's own speech voices; the answer is not sent anywhere to be spoken.

Limits are 20,000 bytes for Summarize, Simplify and Check my understanding, and 200 bytes for Define. A selection over the limit is not sent; a page or section over it sends only its beginning, and FocusFlow says the answer covers only the first part. Results are cached for up to 30 days, and your license key travels in a request header, not the address.

Full details: Privacy Policy.

Where it works

FocusFlow Pro — and with it the AI Reading Assistant — works in the FocusFlow extension for Chrome and desktop Firefox.

It is not yet available in Edge or in Firefox for Android.

Frequently asked questions

What is FocusFlow AI Reading Assistant?
It is the set of AI reading tools built into the FocusFlow extension for Pro users. On any page you can Summarize (as a paragraph or as Key points), Simplify, Define (then In this sentence for the meaning where you found the word) and Check my understanding. In Reader Mode, the Insights panel adds Simplify this section, Words to know and Check my understanding for the section you are reading. Every answer has a Listen button.
How do AI credits work?
Each Pro license gets 1,000 AI credits per month, resetting on each 30-day anniversary of the day you first use the tools. A request costs 1 credit per 1,000 bytes of text sent, with a minimum of 1 — about 1,000 characters of English text. Dictionary definitions and cached answers are free, and a request that gets no answer is refunded.
What does each AI tool cost?
Summarize, Key points, Simplify, Simplify this section and Check my understanding cost 1 credit per 1,000 bytes of the text sent, up to 20 credits for the 20,000-byte maximum. Key points cost the same as a paragraph summary of the same text. Define is free when the built-in dictionary knows the word and 1 credit otherwise. In this sentence always asks the AI and costs 1 credit. Words to know defines up to 10 words one at a time, each free or 1 credit like Define. Listen is free.
What does each tool send?
Only what you ask for, only when you press the tool. Summarize, Simplify, Define and Check my understanding send the text you selected; with nothing selected, Summarize and the side panel's Check my understanding send the article text of the page. In this sentence sends the word and its sentence, up to 600 bytes. In Reader Mode, Simplify this section and Check my understanding send the section you are reading, and Words to know sends single words, never the text. Your quiz answers are never sent. See the privacy section above.
Are my quiz answers sent anywhere?
No. Check my understanding sends only the text it asks questions about. Your answers, and your score, are checked on your device, are never sent anywhere and are not saved.
Which browsers does it work in?
FocusFlow Pro, and with it the AI tools, works in the FocusFlow extension for Chrome and desktop Firefox. It is not yet available in Edge or in Firefox for Android.
Does AI Reading Assistant work in other languages?
Yes. The tools answer in the same language as the text you send. Limits are measured in bytes, so scripts that use more bytes per character, such as Hindi, Tamil or Japanese, fit fewer characters in each limit and in each credit.
How do I get AI Reading Assistant?
AI Reading Assistant is included with FocusFlow Pro. Start a 14-day free trial on the Pro page, activate your license in the extension, and the AI tools unlock immediately.

Try every AI tool free for 14 days

Summarize, Simplify, Define, Check my understanding and the Reader Mode tools — plus every other Pro feature. No charge until your trial ends.

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