A tiny native app that streams any text on your screen one word at a time — so your eye stops moving and the words start flowing.
Every word has a letter your brain fixates on to recognize it — roughly a third of the way in. WordAnchor lines every word up on that letter and tints it red.
Your eyes stop saccading across a page. Words stream past the anchor instead, and you read at the speed your brain can parse rather than the speed your eyes can scan.
Select text anywhere — Safari, Mail, Notes, a PDF, a Slack thread — and press the hotkey. WordAnchor reads the selection through the macOS Accessibility API. No extensions, no copy-paste.
Fixed WPM is punishing. WordAnchor breathes at commas, rests on periods, and lingers on words longer than ten characters — so the cadence matches the prose instead of fighting it.
Not in the mood for RSVP? Flip to bionic: the same anchor letters stay highlighted, but the paragraph stays put. For code comments, careful reading, or when you just want to slow down.
Yes, within limits. RSVP won't make you a superhuman reader — comprehension drops above ~700 WPM for most people, and dense material still needs re-reading. What it will do is dissolve the friction in front of your reading backlog: the Pocket queue, the long-form you bookmarked, the docs you keep meaning to get through. It's a tool for skimming, focus, and getting the backlog down — nothing louder than that.
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