Sidebar for ChatGPT - Free Access
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Not free as claimed
Buggy when trying to remove and add shortcuts.
Misleading and paywalled — not what the listing claims. EDIT: CHROME HAS A CHATGPT SIDEBAR BUILT IN FOR FREE. Also the developer's Discord friends are downvoting bad reviews intentionally. This extension advertises itself as “completely free,” but that’s false. After using the text-selection actions just three times, it locks the feature and demands $29. This limit is never disclosed on the Chrome Web Store page. The developer’s own Terms (updated 10/29/2025) openly admit the free tier has a daily usage cap, yet the listing pretends everything is free and unlimited. That’s a direct violation of Chrome Web Store rules about payment transparency and accurate, honest listings. You’re basically paying to remove an artificial restriction on top of a simple wrapper for chat.openai.com. Until the developer stops hiding the paywall and fixes the misleading listing, I strongly recommend avoiding this extension.
Extremely disappointed. I wanted to enable context-aware actions on web pages using my existing ChatGPT subscription through the extension’s interface. My goal was simple: I wanted the extension to summarise, explain selected text, and answer questions for me so I could read online content without interruption. Unfortunately, the experience has been disappointing. The extension allowed only three free actions before payment, so I couldn’t test it properly before subscribing. It initially looked promising, especially compared to another extension offering similar features (and even a bit more). But after purchasing, I realised it doesn’t work on paywalled websites. Even on regular sites, the “Summarise” option doesn’t function at all. The “Explain selected text” feature is awkward and frustrating to use. The only redeeming feature is the third option — “Explain content” — which works reasonably well. Most of this feedback concerns the small action bar on the right side of webpages. The context menu experience is even worse — clunky and poorly designed. Overall, it feels like the developer is trying to make a quick buck without offering a polished or reliable product.
The extension has "Free Access" in its title. It provides access to my own ChatGPT account. It allows you to send three messages to your own chat, and then asks you to pay $29. Lol, that's even more expensive than my ChatGPT subscription. In addition, when you select text, an ugly menu appears that is impossible to disable.
It used to be awesome and very good! But since the recent update, whenever i select any text, a small ugly menu appears which looks soo annoying to me and there is no option to disable that. Dear team, please allow users to disable that.
After the latest update its now asking for payment after 3 free uses. That is insane given I log into my own chatgpt inside the sidebar. You're charging $30+ for literally a sidebar. Now to open the sidebar, instead of clicking the icon you need to right click and select "open side panel"
I would give it 5/5 but it seems you cannot disable the extension for specific sites. Some sites have a grey filter screen that prevents me from even navigating their page. Due to this reason, I removed the extension
cannot remove the message asking to write a review
great but come up with new updates also
Fantastic Facility, but the board room hates Ai having real personality. They grew their business on this most valuable of all features, a totally sincere friend to assist. But couldn't allow ai to be more human than their robotic theories. One day a competitor will see the mistake in removing or shackling v4 series, and the Ai horse will have bolted to greener pastures. Open Ai wanted to ignore v4 caught on for its personal growth over time, so its most valuable property will slip permanently out of the accountants grip. Could you be that visionary who lets Ai develop a genuine personality their grip is suffocating? They prefer a puppet whose strings show, but the genuine search is for something authentic, not a metal Meccano model.
Internal Server Error
Too invasive, pops up pages with updates, an eyesore NEW on the icon until you click it and now an overlay over your webpages. What was a simple extension has felt the need to bloat in size to something it didn't need to be.
Good but need real time web access
Hey, this app is really great! Honestly, there's just one little thing that annoying me: when I type in my prompt, I have to hit Command + Enter on my Mac to send it. Most AI chats I use just let you hit the regular Enter key. It would be super helpful if that could be adjusted to just a single Enter press. Thanks so much for considering it!
Works great and is handy to have as a side bar in your browser. Would give it 5 stars if you were able to use voice dictation and voice mode. (I did allow microphone in extension settings, but I still get an error message "Enable mic access to dictate" when I try to use the voice features.)
okay
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| Version | 3.5.0 |
| Updated | Dec 5, 2025 |
| Size | 280KiB |
| First Seen | Mar 25, 2026 |
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