Hermit 8 — Reader Mode, Unlocker App
Feb 17, 2017
- New Unlocker App: Hermit Premium can now be purchased via a separate Unlocker App.
- 📖 Reader Mode: Read the Web the way you want: no ads, no navigation bars, no clutter.
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📰 Text Browser: Reader Mode in Hermit is not a dead end. Unlike many other browsers, you can switch between Reader Mode and Web Mode whenever you want.
- 4 High-Contrast Color Schemes: White, Sepia, Dark, and Black (for AMOLED screens) — optimized for legibility.
- 15 Hand-Curated Fonts, optimized for legibility of long texts.
- 10 Font Sizes, for comfortable reading.
- Brand New Text Extraction Engine: We looked around, but found none of the existing text extraction engines to be good enough, so we forked our own. Crux is optimized for performance on Android, preserves paragraph formatting & links, and extracts hero images and other metadata as well.
- Maintain your position when reading articles linked from Facebook or Twitter: To keep your place when reading articles posted on Facebook, turn off the Block Popups setting from the Quick Settings panel and turn on “Open links in Lite App” from the Lite App Settings.
