For Medium writers
Your Medium stats, without digging through Medium's stats pages
Readout is a Chrome extension that reads your own Medium account — lifetime totals, full daily-earnings history, and a per-article earnings curve — and shows it on one page, cached locally so it opens instantly.
Full history, not this month
Medium's own dashboard only ever shows whole months. Readout backfills your entire earnings history in the background, a couple weeks at a time, and keeps it current.
What one article earned yesterday
Click any article to see its own day-by-day earnings curve — not just a lifetime total. Views and reads don't have a daily breakdown in Medium's API; earnings does, and this is the only place that shows it.
Opens instantly
Every sync writes to your browser's local storage first. Opening the dashboard reads that cache — it never waits on a network request.
Click an article, see its earnings curve
Every article row expands into an inline chart of that article's own daily earnings, drawn from the same background-synced history — not a separate request. The read-ratio and view counts next to it are still lifetime totals, because that's genuinely all Medium exposes for those two.
Nothing leaves your browser
Readout has no backend. There's no account, no server it talks to, and no analytics.
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Uses the session you already have. Requests go to medium.com with your existing signed-in cookie — the same way medium.com's own pages do. Readout never reads or stores that cookie itself.
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Cached only in your browser. Everything synced is written to chrome.storage.local, private to your browser profile. It's never sent anywhere else.
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Your account, and only your account. There's no way for Readout to see anyone else's Medium stats — it only ever queries the account you're signed into.