Get the browser extension
The same cleaner, one click away in your toolbar — no tab switching.
- Clean text in a popup without leaving the tab you're in
- Or open the side panel and keep it beside your work
- The same engine as the website — nothing is uploaded
- Works offline: no account, no network, no setup
Free, and it works the moment it installs.
No site access — it cannot read the pages you visit
Popup Side panel
Why an extension and not just the website
Cleaning text is a small task you do many times a day, and the cost is almost never the cleaning itself — it is the interruption. Copy something out of a chat, open a new tab, find the site, paste, copy the result, go back to what you were doing. The extension removes the middle of that: the tool opens on top of whatever you are already looking at, and closes the moment you are done.
Everything else is deliberately identical. The same presets, the same character report with code points and counts, the same guarantee that your words are never rewritten. There is nothing the extension can clean that the website cannot.
Two windows, one tool
Clicking the toolbar icon opens the popup. Chrome limits popups to 600 pixels tall, so this view is tuned for a single pass: paste in, read the cleaned result, hit Copy — all without scrolling. It closes when you click back into the page.
The side panel docks to the edge of the window and stays there. It is resizable and full height, so it shows the whole character report at once and suits working through a long document a paragraph at a time. Open it with the Side panel button in the popup, or by right-clicking the extension icon and choosing Open side panel.
What it asks for, and what it does not
Most extensions ask to “read and change all your data on all websites,” because a content script is the easiest way to build almost anything. This one has no content script, so it asks for no host permissions and Chrome shows no site-access warning at install. It cannot see the tab you are on, your history, or your cookies.
- clipboardRead — powers the Paste button inside the extension window. Nothing reads your clipboard in the background; Chrome only grants it while you are interacting with the extension.
- clipboardWrite — powers the Copy button.
- sidePanel — lets the extension open its own side panel. It grants no access to page content.
You do not have to take any of that on trust. Chrome lists an extension's full permission set on its entry in chrome://extensions, and the absence of site access is visible there before you ever open the tool. Disconnecting from the network and cleaning a passage anyway is the other quick check.
Keeping the web app
Installing the extension changes nothing about the site. The web version stays free, needs no install, and is still the right answer on a machine you do not control, on a phone, or in a browser the extension does not support yet. The two share an engine; use whichever is closer to hand.