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Chrome extension by Texthelp · Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility

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A Chrome extension in Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility with 13 000 000 users, one of the largest listings in the store.

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

What the developer says, and 4 screenshots

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Users
13 000 000
Rating
3.4 (1 588 ratings)
Users, last 9 days
+13M
Rating, last 30 days
Not watched long enough to say
Version
2.1.1029
Updated in the store
2026-09-07
Published
2012-09-13
Manifest
V3
Browser access
13 permissions, 1 site pattern

How it has moved

Users
+13M since 01.09
0-13M · 7 readings
2026-09-07: released 2.1.1029
  1. 2026-09-010
  2. 2026-09-0211M
  3. 2026-09-0312M
  4. 2026-09-0513M
  5. 2026-09-070released 2.1.1029
  6. 2026-09-0813M
  7. 2026-09-0913M
Rating
unchanged since 01.09
reviewsrating 3.44 · 7 readings
2026-09-07: released 2.1.1029
  1. 2026-09-01reviews1.6krating3.44
  2. 2026-09-02reviews1.6krating3.44
  3. 2026-09-03reviews1.6krating3.44
  4. 2026-09-05reviews1.6krating3.44
  5. 2026-09-07reviews1.6krating3.44released 2.1.1029
  6. 2026-09-08reviews1.6krating3.44
  7. 2026-09-09reviews1.6krating3.44
Users
+13M since 01.09
0-13M · 7 readings
2026-09-07: released 2.1.1029
  1. 2026-09-010
  2. 2026-09-0211M
  3. 2026-09-0312M
  4. 2026-09-0513M
  5. 2026-09-070released 2.1.1029
  6. 2026-09-0813M
  7. 2026-09-0913M
Rating
unchanged since 01.09
reviewsrating 3.44 · 7 readings
2026-09-07: released 2.1.1029
  1. 2026-09-01reviews1.6krating3.44
  2. 2026-09-02reviews1.6krating3.44
  3. 2026-09-03reviews1.6krating3.44
  4. 2026-09-05reviews1.6krating3.44
  5. 2026-09-07reviews1.6krating3.44released 2.1.1029
  6. 2026-09-08reviews1.6krating3.44
  7. 2026-09-09reviews1.6krating3.44

A dot marks a day the store showed a different number. Between them the line carries the last one forward: we read every listing more than once 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.

  • See, enable and disable your other extensions management
  • See the address and title of every tab you have open tabs
  • Manage your downloads downloads
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  • Sign you in with a Google account identity
  • See the email address of the signed-in Google account identity.email
  • Run its own code on the pages it can access scripting
  • Act on the current tab, but only after you click it activeTab
  • Schedule work to run later alarms
  • Add items to the right-click menu contextMenus
  • Receive push messages from its developer gcm
  • Run work in a hidden page offscreen
  • Run searches in your default search engine search
  • Store data in your browser storage

The full permission history for this extension

Version history

  1. Version 2.1.1029

What changed recently

  1. Released version 2.1.1029 (was 2.1.1015)

The publisher

Texthelp publishes 6 listings we track, 16.0M users between them. Listed website: texthelp.com.

  1. Equatio - Math made digital Texthelp · Productivity · Education · published 2017-04-04 3.0M users ★ 3.9
  2. Teach for Google™ Texthelp · published 2015-04-23 3k users ★ 5.0
  3. Polaris Texthelp · Productivity · Education · published 2025-12-01 981 users
Show 2 more from this publisher
  1. OrbitNote Texthelp · Make Chrome Yours · Accessibility · published 2017-02-22 0 users ★ 3.0
  2. Texthelp PDF Reader App Texthelp · published 2017-10-31 0 users ★ 3.2

Like this one

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

  1. ClaroRead Chrome Describes nearly the same job, with an established audience 90k users ★ 3.3
  2. ReadSpeaker® TextAid for Chrome Describes nearly the same job, with an established audience 90k users ★ 2.0
  3. Snap&Read Describes nearly the same job, with a large installed audience 1.0M users ★ 2.6
  4. Web2Speech Describes nearly the same job, with an established audience 20k users ★ 3.5
  5. Read Write ReadAssist Pro Describes nearly the same job, smaller audience 143 users

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