Reading is a potentially life-changing habit that has the power to shape your personality and also life as a whole. We tend to run away from reading books in today’s digital world of social media and bite-sized information.

This is where speed reading apps come in handy, as they can help you rebuild your reading habit. These apps allow you to save time while reading books, articles, blogs, or publications.

There are plenty of speed reading apps available for Android. So, let’s look at a list of the best ones out there.

1. SpeedRead

SpeedRead can help you read your books much faster with several useful features. Once you tap the Play button, an indicator will move across the book text, making you read faster. You can adjust the speed according to your preferences using the + and - buttons at the top.

The app also lets you bookmark and highlight sentences. You can then navigate across your saved bookmarks conveniently. In addition to all that, it also offers a text-to-speech feature that allows you to listen to the book. SpeedRead is a free app. You’ll have to make an in-app purchase and get the premium version to remove ads.

Download: SpeedRead (Free, in-app purchases available)

2. Speed Reader

Speed Reader is a minimal app that can improve your reading. You can speed read either your copied text or text from a file. You can select the number of words per minute as per your preference starting from 75.

The app shows you one word at a time to improve your focus, clarity, and speed. But you can adjust the number of words up to 15. With its player interface, you can pause/start and forward/rewind the text. Moreover, it also keeps a history of your speed reading activities.

Speed Reader is free. However, the free version has ads that you can remove by making an in-app purchase.

Download: Speed Reader (Free, in-app purchases available)

3. Speed Reading

Reading is sometimes stressful for your eyes because of the large number of words on a single page and the constant need to move your eyes between various lines and words. Speed Reading helps you avoid this stress, as it has a clean interface that displays one word at a time.

The app helps you improve your reading speed by letting you adjust the pace and number of words to your preference. If you want to read in standard full-page text format like in PDF readers, you can easily switch to it from the available options.

Speed Reading, like the apps above, is also free with ads. However, there seems to be no option for removing these ads.

If you don't like ads in your apps, you might want to try these ad-free music players and video player apps with no ads.

Download: Speed Reading (Free)

4. Reedy

Reedy is a feature-packed speed reading app. It allows you to read books and web files from the internet and supports multiple file formats, so you can read anything from copied text and internet content to local files stored on your device.

Reedy provides an advanced player that allows you to adjust the speed and move forward and backward in a file. It also displays the time left to complete the file based on your speed and remaining words. By default, the app slows down the reading speed when you reach any complex word or punctuation.

The RSVP (Rapid Serial Visual Presentation) technology it uses provides the same reading experience as a book in hand. The free version of the app has ads.

Download: Reedy (Free, in-app purchases available)

5. Quickify

Quickify supports many formats, so you can read any type of content on your device. It has most of the standard speed reading features. It lets you read content from web pages and add bookmarks to your files and helps reduce eye movement as words are shown in portions, so you can read them quicker.

Quickify has a text-to-speech feature that you can use to listen to your book or article. In addition to that, the app allows you to keep track of your reading activity and bookmarks, and organizes all your content in a library.

Download: Quickify (Free, in-app purchases available)

Read Books Efficiently With These Apps

Speed reading apps can be pretty effective, and will help you read a lot more content even if you have a busy work schedule. The apps mentioned above can reduce the reading time by 30 to 40 percent.

These apps are free and are some of the best choices available on Google Play. You can test them to find the right one for yourself.