Alien Blue works better than Apollo in reader mode in several very significant ways:
- In AB dark mode there is no white flash! The screen stays black while the page is loading. In Apollo the screen goes white until the page is finished loading.
- In AB the reader mode forces all sites into reader / minimal HTML mode whether or not the website wants to allow reader mode
- In AB the reader mode seems to get more images and other content which is left out of reader mode by websites. It also seems to be less confused by some websites that display something other than the main content when reader mode is selected.