Readability Analyzer

Original Utility Suite

Flesch-Kincaid scoring with dense-paragraph and key-phrase highlighting.

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Readability score

Paste some text to get a Flesch Reading Ease score, grade level, and skimmability report.

What is Readability Analyzer?

Readability Analyzer scores your writing with the Flesch Reading Ease scale and estimates its grade level, then shows you where to tighten it. It counts words, sentences, paragraphs, and reading time, and a skimmability preview flags dense paragraphs and bolds the key phrases it detects. Paste an article, email, or draft and watch the analysis update live. Everything runs in your browser, so your text is never uploaded.

How to use Readability Analyzer

  1. Paste your text

    Drop an article, email, or blog draft into 'Your text', or click Load example to try a sample. The analysis updates live as you edit.

  2. Read the ease score

    See your Flesch Reading Ease number and its band, from Very difficult to Very easy, on a color-coded scale. A caption translates the grade level into an approximate reader age.

  3. Check the stats

    Tiles show words, sentences, paragraphs, and estimated read time, plus average words per sentence and average syllables per word — the two levers that move the score most.

  4. Scan the skimmability preview

    Your text is redisplayed with detected key phrases in bold and any paragraph over four sentences flagged as Dense with a red marker, so you can spot walls of text at a glance.

  5. Revise and re-check

    Shorten flagged paragraphs and trim long sentences, then watch the score climb in real time. Keep editing until the readability lands where you want it.

Common uses

  • Check whether a blog post reads at a general-audience level
  • Simplify a dense email before you send it
  • Spot paragraphs that pack in too many sentences
  • Estimate how long an article takes to read
  • See which key phrases your draft emphasizes
  • Lower the grade level of documentation or help content

Why choose FreeTools

100% private

Your files are processed inside your browser and are never uploaded to a server.

Free, no account

No sign-up, no watermark, no paywalled “premium” tier. Just open a tool and use it.

Instant

No upload, no queue, no server round-trip — work starts the moment you drop a file.

Runs in your browser

Built on open web standards. Works on any modern desktop browser, nothing to install.

No upload size caps

Nothing leaves your device, so there’s no server file-size limit — only your machine’s memory.

Yours to keep

Results download straight to your device in clean, standard file formats.

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