Magoo Readability is now officially released.
This first public version delivers a lightweight, locally hosted readability analysis tool built with Flask and designed for writers, marketers, developers, and SEO teams who want fast, useful readability feedback without heavy dependencies or external APIs.
What is Magoo?
Magoo Readability is a lightweight Flask-based readability analysis tool designed to help you write clearer, more effective content.
It provides fast, local insights into:
- Reading difficulty
- Grade level targeting
- Sentence complexity
- Content structure
- Writing clarity
This tool is built for real-world usability, not academic overkill.
📸 Application Preview
✨ Features
- Flesch Reading Ease
- Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level
- Gunning Fog Index
- Coleman-Liau Index
- SMOG Index
- Automated Readability Index (ARI)
- Word count
- Sentence count
- Character count
- Syllable estimation
- Average sentence length
- Average word complexity
- Estimated reading time
- Sentiment indicator (lightweight)
- Quick writing improvement tips
- Extractive summary generation
- Accepts plain text or HTML
- Automatically cleans HTML before analysis
- Displays the cleaned version used for scoring
Most readability tools fall into two categories:
- Too simple, with no useful insights
- Too heavy, requiring ML models, APIs, or large installs
Magoo solves both problems.
- Pure Python implementation
- No heavy dependencies
- No external APIs
- Fast local execution
- Python 3.11+
- Flask 3.x
- HTML5 / CSS3
- Vanilla JavaScript
- BeautifulSoup4
🛠 Installation
Windows (PowerShell)
git clone https://github.com/trevorleit/magoo.git
cd magoo
py -m venv venv
venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py