Dyslexia-Friendly
Stories should be for everyone. Check out our Dyslexia-Friendly Tools and Book Options
Try our Dyslexia-Friendly Reader App
To use this eReader App, launch the reader and follow the installation instructions for Desktop or iPhone. You can upload any text file and customize your reading experience. Choose your font, then use the slider tools to adjust font size, line spacing, background color and text color. Open Dyslexia font is designed with letters that are thicker at the bottom of the letter. This helps some people with dyslexia who experience word flipping. Custom background and text colors can help minimize eye strain. Autoformat for readability will automatically split longer paragraphs into more readable chunks and separate dialogue into more readable sections. This app also includes Click to Read Aloud in a wide variety of voices. Browse the Readability Catalog and Load books straight into the Reader. Enjoy!
Try our Readability Tool
Use our free, research-based readability analyzer to test any text — whether it’s your own writing, a book excerpt, or a classroom passage.
This tool is for educational and research purposes only. Users must upload only text for which they have legal rights to analyze. This tool uses a simplified version of word and sentence counting and does not produce publication quality data. Use for relative comparison and visualization purposes only.
Explore the Readability Library
This curated collection includes public domain books paired with custom readability reports. Perfect for parents, teachers, and tutors preparing for a challenging book assignment. We have also analyzed the top 1000 downloads from Project Gutenberg and filtered them for readability and other metrics related to Dyslexia-Friendly books. There are recommendations of freely available books in most genre’s. The library features books and readability reports for novels that are often assigned in high school classrooms, but are not Dyslexia-Friendly. The readability reports can help students struggling with these assignments. If you find a book you like, just download the text file and open it in our Reader for a customized reading experience. Happy browsing!
William and Hannah: Dyslexia-Friendly Edition
Our historical novel is available in a dyslexia-friendly format — using adjusted fonts, spacing, and layout features for improved accessibility.