Read the web at your desk, disguised as the tool you already have open.

· sneakread.com · 100% client-side, no backend, no account · 中文

Paste any public URL. SneakRead reads it through r.jina.ai, then renders it full-screen as a real desktop app — VS Code, Claude Code, Word, WPS, Google Docs, Notion, Slack, Lark/Feishu, DingTalk, WeCom, Teams, Gmail, Excel, or Outlook — so reading looks like working. Brand: SneakRead globally, 摸鱼 in Chinese.

^{↑ The BBC World Cup homepage, as a .docx. The word count in the status bar is real.}

The design goal is 以假乱真 (indistinguishable from the real thing), modelled on remoteok.com/vscode / /docx / /docs:

• One app fills the whole viewport at / — the landing is the reader, defaulting to the Word disguise. No wrapper — only the target app's own title bar (with the real brand logo), ribbon/activity bar, and status bar. (/app is a legacy alias that redirects to /.)
• Every control is hidden behind the disguise's real File menu and a command palette (⌘K / ⌘P): open URLs, switch apps, language, refresh, fullscreen, panic.
• Boss key. Press Esc (or lose window focus with Boss auto-hide on) to instantly flip to a plausible Q3 Budget Review.xlsx. Esc again restores.
• Continuous browsing. Every skin has clickable links; clicking one loads it through the reader in the current disguise.
• The browser tab title and favicon match the disguise, never the brand.

The marketing pages are static, prerendered, and localized into 10 languages, yet themselves disguised — the landing IS the reader's Word home (a Getting-Started document with a live URL box and the 15-skin dock; every other disguise is one click away as a full-screen live preview):

• /, /zh, /es, /hi, /ar, /pt, /ru, /ja, /fr, /de — each static HTML with localized <title>/description, canonical, hreflang (+ x-default), Open Graph, and FAQPage JSON-LD. sitemap.xml + robots.txt included.
• Features and FAQ are real, crawlable text rendered inside the disguise.
• The /app alias is noindex; opened documents live in the #u=… hash, never a crawlable path.

• The File menu is real. Every skin's File opens a working menu: Open URL, Home, Open as (each app), Language, Refresh, Fullscreen, Boss auto-hide, Panic, and "What is Moyu?".
• Command menu (⌘K / ⌘P): the same actions for keyboard users; paste a URL to open it.
• In-app browsing. Click any link inside a document and it loads through the reader in the current skin, so you browse article to article without ever leaving the disguise. ⌘/Ctrl-click opens the real page in a new tab.
• First-run onboarding explains the three controls, once, then never again.
• Localized into the browser's language across the top 10 (en, zh, es, hi, ar, pt, ru, ja, fr, de); switchable from File ▸ Language. Disguise chrome stays in its native app language.

New pages open as Word by default, and you can switch the disguise anytime from the File menu, the command palette, or the hover-to-reveal switcher at the top of any article. Set File ▸ Display name and every disguise wears your name — avatars, the Notion workspace, and a Feishu-style tiled watermark.

Claude Code — the article arrives as an agent reply, tool calls and all	Notion — a page inside a database, properties included
Slack — split into a believable run of messages	Gmail — a newsletter, smart replies included
Teams — a channel post with replies	Even loading stays in character — a document skeleton, never a spinner

Press Esc (or let auto-hide trigger on window blur) and the screen flips to a plausible quarterly budget — real formulas, a real chart, twelve months of cash flow. Press Esc again to resume reading.

No backend, no account, no cookies of our own. What you read is fetched by your browser and stays in your browser (localStorage). The public site loads Microsoft Clarity and Google Analytics for anonymous usage analytics — which product features are used (skins, boss key, samples), never the articles you read, never full URLs (hostnames and bucketed counts only), never anything you type. Both load lazily after first paint and only on sneakread.com; block them freely, nothing breaks. The self-hosted build sends nothing.

• Vite + React + TypeScript, no backend — everything runs in the browser.
• Reader with front-end fallback: Jina (r.jinaai.cn → r.jina.ai) → Firecrawl (keyless). Network-adaptive order, remembers the last-good provider, per-provider timeouts + cooldowns. No API key ever ships in the client.
• Real vendor assets for pixel fidelity: Monaco (the actual VS Code editor, lazy-loaded) for the VS Code skin, Codicons, Fluent UI icons for Office, Material Symbols for Docs, and self-hosted metric-compatible fonts (Inter/Carlito/Roboto/Cascadia Code).
• React Markdown + GFM for rendered content; a modelled FY P&L (with formulas + chart) for the boss-key sheet.
• Dependency-free i18n across 10 languages; SSG landing pages via a small prerender script.

pnpm install
pnpm dev        # http://localhost:5173  (the landing IS the reader)
pnpm build      # static site into dist/ (client + prerendered landing pages)

SneakRead is built to be extended — new disguises are the most welcome kind of contribution. A skin is a SkinDefinition (id, label, app name, accent, its own Logo) plus a React component that renders a DocumentRecord as that app. Each of the fifteen built-in disguises lives in its own src/skins/<name>/ folder — component, style.css, and logo together — and auto-registers via import.meta.glob; copy src/skins/_template/ to start. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the interface, the add-a-skin walkthrough, and the 以假乱真 fidelity checklist.

Built by 刘小排 (Liu Xiaopai) — an indie hacker shipping small, useful things.

• 微信公众号（WeChat）: 刘小排r
• X / Twitter: @bourneliu66
• Also by me: Raphael AI — free AI image generation.

If SneakRead saved you from a boring meeting, a ⭐ on GitHub means a lot — genuinely open-source apps like this are rare.

MIT © 2026 SneakRead · 刘小排 (Liu Xiaopai)

中文说明见 README.zh.md。