BeeLine Reader: making reading on-screen easier and faster.

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Engage Your Audience

In the age of digital distractions, anything longer than a tweet runs the risk of interruption. So no matter how compelling your story—no matter how meticulously researched and artfully written—many of your readers will abandon you in favor of a tweet, message, buzz, or ring.

BeeLine is here to help. Our technology is proven to help keep users engaged when reading online. In testing by CNET, readers using BeeLine were 35% more likely to finish reading a story than readers using conventional text. (You can activate BeeLine on this page by using the color selectors above.) And users of our apps and browser plugins have read hundreds of millions of pages with BeeLine because it helps them stay focused and read easier online.

BeeLine’s approach is simple: instead of using plain black text, we apply a color gradient that wraps from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. This gradient pulls the reader’s eyes through the text, improving visual focus and keeping the reader engaged.

Simple Integration

BeeLine can be added to a website quickly and easily. And unlike many complicated web frameworks, the BeeLine JS is lightweight, so it won’t affect page load times. Best of all, our code base is stable and doesn’t require frequent updating. Even our longest-standing partners have literally never had to update their BeeLine code. To see what a BeeLine integration looks like, check out the Unreasonable Group blog.

Do Good + Do Well

In addition to keeping your readers happy and improving your site’s stickiness, BeeLine also makes your site more accessible to people with vision or reading difficulties. Research by a leading accessibility nonprofit shows that BeeLine dramatically improves reading ability for many people with common vision problems, dyslexia, and ADHD.

Learn more about BeeLine

BeeLine has been adopted by the California Public Library System and literacy nonprofits Reading Is Fundamental and Bookshare. Our external funding comes from NewSchools Venture Fund, Intel Capital, and the Tech Museum of Innovation.

Have a question? Check out our FAQ below, and feel free to get in touch if you have further questions.

FAQ

How much does BeeLine cost?

BeeLine tools are available for several platforms. Here’s the cost breakdown:

Browser plugin (Chrome/Firefox/Brave): Use BeeLine for free on your favorite websites. For unlimited use, upgrade to BeeLine Pro for $2/month for one browser or $4.50/month for 5 browsers. You can subscribe annually to get discounted pricing.

PDF plugin (Chrome/Brave): $5/month for up to 4 browsers. You can subscribe annually to get one month free.

iOS app: Our award-winning iOS app lets you save news articles and other web content to your personal reading list, where you can read it with our patented technology and other text formatting options ($4.99). There is an additional in-app purchase for viewing text-based PDFs ($9.99). But you can also use BeeLine on iOS for free, with our iOS extension for Safari. iOS purchases sync across all of your iOS devices, and all purchases are one-time, not subscription.

You can also use BeeLine for free on the Bookshare platform, Reading Is Fundamental’s Literacy Central platform, and other supported websites. If you have a favorite website that you’d like to see offer the BeeLine functionality, please send them a feature request with your suggestion!

I have a browser plugin subscription. How do I add/substitute a new browser?

Just use the form on this page to get your account code, which you can use to register your new browser.

I’m on the Worker Bee (1 browser) plan but want to upgrade to the Honey Bee (5-browser) plan. How do I do that?

We can take care of that for you—just shoot us an email and we’ll take care of the rest!

Do you have discounted education pricing?

We offer discounted education pricing that starts around $3 per student per year for a single class, and which is even less expensive for school and district licenses. You can see all the details here, or email us if you have other questions.

Is BeeLine supported by educational research?

BeeLine is supported by educational research studies that have been done with students from first grade up through high school. All of the BeeLine studies were designed and executed by independent educators, and we did not pay for any of the studies. You can read the BeeLine research summary here, or email us if you are interested in the full research reports.

Can I beta-test new BeeLine tools before they are released?

Yes—you can sign up as a beta tester here and indicate what platforms you are interested in trying out.

I have a website that I want to enable BeeLine on. Is that possible?

Sure! We have a javascript widget that can be added to any website. Just shoot us an email to find out how!

I have a different question!

Feel free to email us and we’ll get back to you shortly.