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.
v1.4.1 · macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon & Intel · 1.5 MB disk image
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple
Try it right now
Watch the tour, or paste your own text below and speed-read it right here — no download needed.
click the reader first so it hears your keyboard
Read your own text
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 30 seconds
Open the disk image
Double-click GigaRead.dmg. A window opens with the app on the left, your Applications folder on the right, and an arrow pointing from one to the other. If Chrome says the file “isn't commonly downloaded,” click Keep — that's a download-popularity check, not a virus scan, and every new app trips it until enough people have grabbed it.
Drag GigaRead onto Applications
Follow the arrow. Don't skip this and launch it from the disk image or your Downloads folder: macOS runs an app from either spot out of a read-only copy it made, and an Accessibility grant can never stick to a copy. That's the whole reason the hotkey would otherwise keep asking for a permission the switch says it already has.
Open it from Applications
It opens straight away — no “could not verify this app is free of malware” warning, no trip to System Settings, no right-click-Open workaround. macOS checks Apple's notarization ticket, finds it stapled inside the app, and gets out of your way. A bolt appears in your menu bar.
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. Because updates replace the app where it stands and keep the same signature, that grant carries across versions — if the hotkey ever stops seeing your selection, remove the GigaRead entry with the minus button and add it back.
It updates itself, in place
GigaRead checks once a day for a newer build. When there is one, the menu bar bolt turns into a download arrow and Settings tells you which version is waiting — nothing installs until you click Install.
One app, not a pile
The update replaces GigaRead where it already lives instead of leaving GigaRead 2.app in Downloads. The old copy goes to your Trash, recoverable if a build misbehaves.
Checked before it's trusted
The download is matched against a published checksum, assessed by Gatekeeper, and its signature read to confirm it's ours. Anything that doesn't line up is thrown away and your copy is left alone.
Restarts cleanly
macOS refuses to launch a second copy of an app that's already running, so the installer stops the running GigaRead first, swaps the bundle, and opens the new one.
Signed with Developer ID Brian Doran (CUH66KFZ33), notarized by Apple, and built with the hardened runtime. Reads selections via the Accessibility API. OCR runs on-device with Apple Vision. Nothing ever leaves your Mac.