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Chrome extension by Quick Simple Apps · Productivity · Workflow

  • Established publisher

A Chrome extension in Productivity · Workflow with 70 000 users, an established extension. Audience over the last 30 days: unchanged.

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

What the developer says, and 2 screenshots

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Users
70 000
Rating
3.2 (323 ratings)
Users, last 30 days
Unchanged (the store rounds this count to 10 000, so it moves only between steps)
Rating, last 30 days
Steady over 30 days
Version
4.0.0
Updated in the store
2026-06-16
Published
2019-07-22
Manifest
V3
Browser access
6 permissions

How it has moved

Users
unchanged since 14.10
70k · 4 readings
  1. 2026-10-1470k
  2. 2026-10-1670k
  3. 2026-11-0170k
  4. 2026-11-1270k
Rating
+0.027 since 14.10
reviewsrating 3.213-3.240 · 4 readings
  1. 2026-10-14reviews321rating3.213
  2. 2026-10-16reviews322rating3.240
  3. 2026-11-01reviews323rating3.240
  4. 2026-11-12reviews323rating3.240
Users
unchanged since 01.09
70k · 5 readings
  1. 2026-09-0170k
  2. 2026-10-1470k
  3. 2026-10-1670k
  4. 2026-11-0170k
  5. 2026-11-1270k
Rating
+0.37 since 01.09
reviewsrating 2.87-3.24 · 5 readings
  1. 2026-09-01reviews321rating2.87
  2. 2026-10-14reviews321rating3.21
  3. 2026-10-16reviews322rating3.24
  4. 2026-11-01reviews323rating3.24
  5. 2026-11-12reviews323rating3.24

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What it can reach

No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.

  • Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting
  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
  • Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
Show the remaining 3
  • Run work in a hidden page offscreen
  • Store data in your browser storage
  • Speak text out loud tts

The full permission history for this extension

What changed recently

Nothing has moved on this listing since we started watching it.

The publisher

Quick Simple Apps publishes 14 listings we track, 1.4M users between them. Listed website: texttospeech.freebusinessapps.net.

  1. Screen Recorder for Google Chrome™ Quick Simple Apps · Productivity · Workflow · published 2019-06-24 700k users ★ 4.3
  2. ePub Reader for Google Chrome™ Quick Simple Apps · Productivity · Workflow · published 2019-06-24 300k users ★ 2.3
  3. Volume Control for Google Chrome™ Quick Simple Apps · Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility · published 2019-09-04 100k users ★ 4.4
Show 5 more from this publisher
  1. Incognito This Tab for Google Chrome™ Quick Simple Apps · Productivity · Workflow · published 2019-10-04 100k users ★ 4.4
  2. History & Cache Cleaner for Google Chrome™ Quick Simple Apps · Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility · published 2019-10-10 40k users ★ 4.7
  3. Free Download Manager for Google Chrome™ Quick Simple Apps · Productivity · Workflow · published 2019-07-22 40k users ★ 2.8
  4. Cool Cursors for Chrome™ Quick Simple Apps · Lifestyle · Fun · published 2019-08-17 20k users ★ 3.3
  5. Reader Mode for Google Chrome™ Quick Simple Apps · Productivity · Workflow · published 2019-07-30 20k users ★ 4.5

Like this one

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

  1. SelectSpeak: Read Aloud Text to Speech (TTS) Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 72 users ★ 5.0
  2. TTSReader V3 - Premium AI Text To Speech Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 4k users ★ 4.5
  3. GlowReadTTS - Text to Speech Voice Reader Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 115 users ★ 5.0
  4. Aloudly – Text to Speech & AI Read Aloud: Natural Voice Reader for Any Page Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 37 users ★ 5.0
  5. Kokoro Speak Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 5k users ★ 3.3

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