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What is Helperbird Free?

Learn about Helperbird Free. Core accessibility features included. No credit card required Support accessibility for everyone.

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Helperbird Free gives you access to essential accessibility features without any cost. You can use it for work, school, or personal browsing - no payment required. Here's what you get.


What's Included in Helperbird Free?

Reading Mode Strip away ads and distractions so you can focus on what matters. Just the content you need, nothing else.

Immersive Reader by Microsoft The popup offers up to 2,000 characters per launch on the free plan. Immersive Reader in the floating toolbar and PDF Reader needs Pro. See Immersive Reader for details.

Text to Speech Helperbird will read text aloud automatically. Perfect for when you want to listen instead of read.

Dyslexia Fonts Automatically switches to fonts designed for better readability if you have dyslexia.

Letter Spacing Adjusts spacing between letters to make reading easier and more comfortable.

Magnifier Zoom in on text to make it bigger and clearer.

Font Changer Switch to fonts that work better for you. Pick what feels right.

Picture Dictionary Shows images related to words you're reading, which helps with understanding and memory.

Screenshot Capture what is on your screen and save it. (Reading the text out of a capture is the Screenshot Reader, which is a Pro feature.)

Translation Open a webpage or selected text in Google Translate. Pro adds selected-text results inside Helperbird and current-page PDF translation.

Emphasize Links Makes links stand out so you can spot them faster.

Color Blindness Tools Adjusts colors on pages to make them easier to see if you have color blindness.

Highlight Colors Highlight text in different colors to help with focus and studying.


Free PDF Tools

You can open PDFs, search the current page and change zoom, read with Standard Voices, and add text or pasted images for free.

The side Notepad lets you type, format and choose Add Textbox to PDF without Pro. Download With my changes to keep a copy. Drawing, natural voices, dictation, grammar, equations and the advanced PDF reading tools need Pro.

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Need Additional Help?

Have questions about what's free or what's in Pro? Reach out to our Helperbird support team and we'll explain everything!

Printed from the Helperbird Help Center · Updated September 13th, 2026

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Join over 1,000,000 people who use Helperbird every day.

It's a great tool! Really simple to use and works as described.
shivashree vysaliHelperbird user

super responsive and open to feed...

The owner/developer is super responsive and open to feedback - a major asset to any company that wants to truly support individuals with diverse learning and accessibility needs.
MaryTherese SabatinoChrome user

supporting a range of learning di...

Helperbird is an excellent extension supporting a range of learning differences. Aside from providing many evidence-based dyslexia-assistive tools, the extension also functions as an easy-to-use, feature-rich web experience customization tool suitable to support a wide range of cognitive differences (i.e., color blindness and ADHD-related focus concerns, among others). Also, the developer is a very good person who supports the various learning-different communities in many ways, including by designing the free version of Helperbird to provide enough functionality to be beneficial to people who cannot afford to subscribe to the full-function version.
Kirk SmithHelperbird user
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Text to speech, dyslexia fonts, reading rulers, color overlays, and 44 more.

Free to add, and the everyday tools stay free. Works in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.