Plainly — Explain Any Web Page or Document: Bills, Insurance, Tax
Chrome extension by Mahesh Thomas @ Plainly Labs · Productivity · Tools
A Chrome extension in Productivity · Tools with 18 users, barely installed.
No site access is declared in the manifest, so it cannot read the pages you open on its own.
What the developer says, and 5 screenshots
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- Users
- 18
- Users, last 18 days
- +4
- Rating, last 30 days
- Not watched long enough to say
- Version
- 1.1.7
- Updated in the store
- 2026-08-18
- Published
- 2026-06-28
- Manifest
- V3
- Browser access
- 2 permissions
How it has moved
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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.
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Act on the current tab, but only after you click it
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Store data in your browser
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What changed recently
Nothing has moved on this listing since we started watching it.
The publisher
Mahesh Thomas @ Plainly Labs.
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