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Pura Letra

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Read any article without ads, pop-ups, or distractions

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Read any article without ads, pop-ups, or distractions

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The web is full of great writing buried under ads, banners, and pop-ups. Pura Letra strips it all away. Paste any URL and get clean, beautifully typeset text instantly. Create a free account to save articles, highlight passages, add notes, and listen with text-to-speech. Pro ($5/mo) adds unlimited saves, full-text search, tags, and data export.

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Hey Product Hunt! I'm Ricardo, a software engineer who has been reading online for as long as there's been something to read online. Fiction, non-fiction, technical blogs, memoirs, essays. Reading is one of those constants in my life that never went away. But reading on the web has gotten worse every year. Ads, popups, auto-playing videos, newsletter modals before you've read a single sentence. The writing gets buried under everything that isn't the writing. For years, Pocket was my solution. Paste a link, read it clean. Then Pocket was effectively shut down, and I found myself without a tool that matched how I actually read. So last September, I started building one. PuraLetra (the name means "pure letter/text" in Spanish) does one thing well: create a free account, paste a URL, and get the article in a clean, beautiful layout. No ads, no clutter. Just the writing. As I used it, I realized clean reading wasn't enough. I wanted to highlight passages and attach notes. I wanted a personal library of everything I'd saved. I wanted to see all my highlights in one place across every article. So I built all of that. What it does: Paste any article URL and read it in a distraction-free, magazine-style layout Highlight text in yellow, pink, or green. Add notes to any highlight Save articles to a personal library with sorting and filtering View all your highlights across every article in one dashboard Dark mode that follows your system preference Respects paywalls. If an article is paywalled, PuraLetra tells you and links to the original instead of trying to bypass it. Privacy matters here too. An app about clean reading shouldn't be tracking you while you read. Pura Letra uses Plausible Analytics, which is cookieless, collects no personal data, and processes everything in the EU. There are no third-party tracking cookies, no ads, no data sold to anyone. One session cookie to keep you signed in. That's it. Your highlights, notes, and library are yours. How I built it: This was my first project built almost entirely with AI-assisted development. I'm an experienced engineer, but AI tools let me move from idea to working prototype at a speed that would have been impossible a few years ago. The core extraction uses SmartReader, the typography is Playfair Display and Source Serif 4, and the whole thing is designed to feel like holding a good magazine. What's next: I'm using PuraLetra daily. I built it because I needed it, and I'm shipping it because I think other people need it too. I'd love to hear how you read online and what would make this more useful for you. Thanks for checking it out.

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If you were a fan of Pocket, you'd really like Pura Letra. Articles on the web are buried under ads, banners, and pop-ups. Pura Letra strips all of that away so you can actually focus on the words. Give it a try, it's free.

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1d ago

Why a reader app in the era of AI?

You might be wondering why, in 2026, someone would build a reading app with no AI summarization, no auto-generated highlights, no "key takeaways" button.

Because reading is the point. Pura Letra doesn't summarize articles for you. It gets everything else out of the way so you can read them yourself. Clean text, good typography, your own highlights and notes.

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