AN ACADEMIC READING & STUDY SPACE
Don't just read your PDFs. Work with them.
Organize your PDF and Word documents in one library. Take notes as you read, ask questions grounded in the document's own text, and generate an AI summary or quiz whenever you need one.
Free during beta · No payment info required right now
Upload your document, start working.
Focus Read brings the whole reading process into one place — from organizing your documents to keeping your study notes.
1. Add your document
Upload a PDF or Word file. Organize documents into folders and reopen them from your library anytime.
2. Work with the content
Take notes as you read. Ask questions grounded in the text, or generate an AI summary and quiz.
3. Pick up where you left off
Your notes save automatically. Export them whenever you need to, and keep going.
Two ways to work with your document.
Choose the tool that fits what you need: finding information in the text, or generating new study material with AI.
💬 Chat with document
Ask questions about the text extracted from your PDF. This feature never sends your document's text to an outside AI service.
🤖 AI Assistant
Generate a summary or quiz from the document, or ask it questions, whenever you choose to. Using this feature sends the relevant text to our AI provider to generate the response.
Your reading setup, in one workspace.
Organized library
Keep your documents in folders, search them, and reopen them anytime.
Chat with document
Ask questions about the document's text and get answers grounded in it.
AI Assistant
Use summary, quiz, and Q&A tools whenever you need them.
Notes that save themselves
Write notes as you read, and export them when you need to.
Focus tools
Structure your study sessions with a Pomodoro timer and music.
Made your own
Set your language and switch between night and day mode.
Search inside a document
Press Ctrl+F to find every match in the open document and jump between them.
Pick up where you left off
Every document remembers your last scroll position, so you return exactly where you stopped.
Compare two documents
Open a second document side by side with the one you're reading.
Turn highlights into notes
Pull the text under your highlighter marks straight into your notes, tagged with the source document.
Word cloud & frequency
See the most common words in a document at a glance, as a list or a cloud.
Citation generator
Generate a ready-to-use citation for any document and drop it straight into your notes.
Tag your documents
Add your own tags to any document and filter your library by them.
Search your whole library
Find a document by its name, its tags, or the text inside it.
Reading stats
See how many documents you've opened, how long you've focused, and how many sessions you've completed.
Nodes for coding your reading
Collect excerpts under named themes across every document, then export them to Word or Excel.
Built for people who read a lot of documents.
- Students: to organize lecture notes and prepare for exams.
- Researchers: to keep questions and notes together with the paper they came from.
- Academics: to work through a large number of academic documents in an organized way.
- Professionals: to read long technical documents and find information again later.
You stay in control of your documents.
Your documents and notes are stored under your own account. We don't share your documents with other Focus Read users or advertisers. You can delete any document, or your whole account, whenever you want.
- Manage your documents: delete any file you've uploaded from your library.
- Your notes are yours: keep them, or export them.
- AI is optional: your document's text is only sent to our AI provider when you actively use the AI Assistant.
Open your next document in Focus Read.
Build your library, upload your document, and set up your own way of working.
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