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Chrome extension by Kurzweil Education Inc. · Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility

  • Established publisher

A Chrome extension in Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility with 600 000 users, a widely installed extension. Audience over the last 30 days: +100 000.

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.

What the developer says, and 5 screenshots

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Users
600 000 (the store no longer states an audience; this is the last figure it published)
Rating
2.7 (47 ratings)
Users, last 30 days
+100 000
Rating, last 30 days
Steady over 30 days
Version
4.1.7
Updated in the store
2026-10-06
Published
2016-09-08
Manifest
V3
Browser access
6 permissions, 3 site patterns

How it has moved

Users
+100k since 10.09
500k-600k · 5 readings
2026-10-06: released 4.1.7
  1. 2026-09-10500k
  2. 2026-09-17600k
  3. 2026-09-25500k
  4. 2026-10-08600k
  5. 2026-10-10600k
Rating
unchanged since 10.09
reviewsrating 2.72 · 5 readings
2026-10-06: released 4.1.7
  1. 2026-09-10reviews47rating2.72
  2. 2026-09-17reviews47rating2.72
  3. 2026-09-25reviews47rating2.72
  4. 2026-10-08reviews47rating2.72
  5. 2026-10-10reviews47rating2.72
Users
+100k since 31.08
500k-600k · 7 readings
2026-10-06: released 4.1.7
  1. 2026-08-31500k
  2. 2026-09-04600k
  3. 2026-09-10500k
  4. 2026-09-17600k
  5. 2026-09-25500k
  6. 2026-10-08600k
  7. 2026-10-10600k
Rating
unchanged since 31.08
reviewsrating 2.72 · 7 readings
2026-10-06: released 4.1.7
  1. 2026-08-31reviews47rating2.72
  2. 2026-09-04reviews47rating2.72
  3. 2026-09-10reviews47rating2.72
  4. 2026-09-17reviews47rating2.72
  5. 2026-09-25reviews47rating2.72
  6. 2026-10-08reviews47rating2.72
  7. 2026-10-10reviews47rating2.72

A dot marks a day the store showed a different number. Between them the line carries the last one forward: we read every listing up to 2 times a day and record a point only when something moves. History beyond ninety days is in the app.

What it can reach

Every site you visit. This extension can read and change the content of any page you open.

  • Talk to an application installed on your computer nativeMessaging
  • See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs
  • Sign you in with a Google account identity
Show the remaining 3
  • Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting
  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
  • Store data in your browser storage

The full permission history for this extension

Version history

  1. Version 4.1.7

What changed recently

  1. Released version 4.1.7 (was 4.1.5)

The publisher

Kurzweil Education Inc. publishes 2 listings we track, 800k users between them. Listed website: kurzweiledu.com.

  1. Kurzweil 3000 Kurzweil Education Inc. · published 2016-08-04 200k users ★ 2.3

Like this one

Listings the catalog judges closest in what they say they do.

  1. Audihello — Listen to anything Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 3 users (last published figure)
  2. Focus Reader Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 9 users ★ 5.0
  3. ReadMe - Text to Speech Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 15 users
  4. SimpleReader: Text to Speech that Reads Aloud Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 8 users
  5. Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader Describes nearly the same job, with a large installed audience 6.0M users ★ 4.1

The top 5 only. The full comparison, with why each one is close, is on the alternatives page; ranking a whole neighbourhood by your own criteria is in the app.

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Figures come from our own regular passes over the public Chrome Web Store listing, last read on . The store last changed these figures on 2026-10-08. We publish no contact details for extension developers.

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