GigaRead
Claude just wrote you 600 words. Read them in 90 seconds. Select text anywhere, hit ⌃⇧R, and speed-read it one word at a time.
v1.2.0 · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · 0.7 MB
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click the reader first so it hears your keyboard
Built for terminal output
ANSI colors, box-drawing chrome, spinners, and Claude Code tool-call framing are stripped automatically. You read the answer, not the noise.
Your eyes never move
Every word is aligned so its optimal recognition point sits on a fixed anchor. No scanning, no backtracking — just reading at 100–1000 WPM.
Code-aware
Code blocks collapse to a placeholder you can expand with Enter. File paths, inline code, and URLs stay intact as single tokens.
Reads anything on screen
Can't select the text? Drag a region like ⌘⇧5 and GigaRead OCRs it with Vision — protected apps, images, remote screens.
Keyboard-first
Every hotkey is remappable in Settings.
Installing takes a minute
Download and unzip
Grab the zip below and double-click it. Drag GigaRead.app to your Applications folder.
Tell macOS it's okay
GigaRead is free and independently built — it isn't notarized through Apple's paid developer program, so macOS shows its standard “could not verify this app is free of malware” warning. That's Apple flagging the unknown, not a detection. Click Done (not Move to Trash), open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, click “Open Anyway” next to GigaRead, and confirm. You only do this once. If your browser also warns about the download, choose Keep.
Grant Accessibility
GigaRead asks for Accessibility access so the ⌃⇧R hotkey can see the text you've selected. Flip the switch it points you to, and you're done — a bolt appears in your menu bar.
Reads selections via the Accessibility API. OCR runs on-device with Apple Vision. Nothing ever leaves your Mac.