Meloa
The calendar that learns you
Chrome extension
Some days the headline gets you before you have decided to read it. The Meloa extension softens the heavy parts of a page — headlines, paragraphs, photographs — so they are still there, still exactly as written, but they wait until you choose to look.
Free, and no account needed. Extensions install on a computer rather than a phone — so if you’re reading this on mobile, this is the page to come back to.
This is the part that separates it from a blocker. Nothing is removed, reordered, or rewritten. A softened headline is the real headline, in place, one deliberate click from being readable — and the click is always yours. The point is not to keep you from the news. It is to put a half-second between the page and you, so that you meet it having decided to.
Nothing is sent anywhere to make that decision, either. The extension reads the page in your own browser, scores it against a word list that ships inside the download, and softens what crosses the line. No page you visit is uploaded, no account is required, and it spends no credits on any plan.
Titles and link text, which is what reaches you first on a front page you were only scrolling past.
Paragraphs, summaries and captions — because the standfirst under a mild headline is often the part that lands.
Photographs and video sitting beside heavy text. A war photograph does not need a headline to do its work.
Each of the three is a separate switch, with a sensitivity setting over the top, so you can soften photographs and leave the words alone if that is the split that suits you. It starts on eighteen large news sites — the AP, Reuters, the BBC, the Guardian, CNN, Fox, the Times, the Post and others — and anywhere else is one button in the toolbar: Soften this site. It asks permission to read a site at the moment you ask it to, not on install.
A dreaded email is a different problem from a dreaded headline, because you cannot scroll past it. In Gmail, the extension flags the ones that read tense before you open them, and softens the body of the one you do open, under the same rule as everywhere else — it is one click from readable, and “I’ll read it myself” is always the other button.
The part that needs Meloa Pro
Beside that flag is an offer to go through it together. Take it and Suvi opens the message with you: what it is actually asking of you, separated from how it is asking; which part is a real deadline and which part is tone; and a first line back, if the reply is the thing you have been carrying for a week. That is the one capability in Meloa that only Pro unlocks, and it is why the extension exists at all.
Everything above this box works without it, on no plan, signed out.
The extension never asks for a password and never holds a session. If you are signed in to Meloa in the same browser, it notices on your next visit to meloa.io and learns one thing — whether the walkthrough is available to you — so the Gmail banner can name your plan before you click rather than after. It cannot read your Meloa account, and uninstalling it takes nothing with it.
It installs from the Chrome Web Store, and the softening works from the moment it lands — nothing to set up, no account to make. If you want the email walkthrough as well, that comes with a Meloa Pro account, and every new account starts on a trial that includes it.
Free to use, every day — no card, ever.
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