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CastReader

Last updated 2026-09-10 · benchmark measured 2026-09-10 — deterministic & reproducible

CastReader narrates web pages and ebooks with synced word highlighting and auto-scroll.

Is CastReader production-ready?

Legit.Show scores CastReader 100 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on CastReader (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Discoverability. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 100/100
• Privacy — 100/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 100/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 1811 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
• Discoverable: structured data, sitemap, OpenGraph image, canonical URL.

Who it's for

Heavy readers · Students · Non-native English speakers · People with ADHD · Multitaskers

Pricing

Free (20 min/day); Pro $4.99/month or $35.99/year (40% annual savings)

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