Chrome Buddy is an AI voice assistant that lives in your side panel. It reads whatever you're reading — then you talk it through, out loud, in real time.
Works on articles, docs, repos & more · Google or GitHub sign-in
No prompts to write, no documents to upload. If you can read it in Chrome, you can talk about it.
Add Chrome Buddy from the Chrome Web Store and sign in with Google or GitHub. Takes about twenty seconds.
An article, a doc, a repo — open the side panel and hit the orb. Buddy reads the page instantly.
“Summarize this.” “Explain that paragraph like I'm new.” “What's the counter-argument?” Ask anything, out loud.
Everything happens in the side panel, right next to the page — not in another tab you'll lose track of.
Buddy pulls the text of your active tab the moment you connect, so it always knows exactly what you're looking at.
Speak naturally and get spoken answers with sub-second latency. Interrupt any time — Buddy stops and listens.
Switch tabs or click a link mid-conversation — the new page syncs automatically and the conversation just continues.
Every word — yours and Buddy's — appears as chat bubbles in the panel, so you can skim back at any point.
Google or GitHub — no new passwords. Your session keeps you signed in across browser restarts.
Page content is used only for your live session — never stored, sold, or used to train models.
Get the gist of a 40-minute read in 40 seconds, then dig into the parts that matter with follow-up questions.
Walk through unfamiliar docs or a new codebase's README hands-free while you keep typing in another window.
Ask the questions you'd ask a tutor — "why?", "what if?", "explain it simpler" — and hear answers grounded in the page.
Yes — Chrome Buddy is currently free to use. You just need a Google or GitHub account to sign in.
The text of your active tab is sent to your private voice session only while you're connected, used to answer your questions, and discarded when the session ends. It's never stored, sold, or used for training. See our Privacy Policy for the full picture.
Any normal website — articles, documentation, GitHub, blogs, wikis. It can't read Chrome's internal pages (chrome://) or the Chrome Web Store, since extensions aren't allowed there.
The whole point is a voice conversation — your mic audio streams to the assistant while you're connected, and only then. The mute button cuts it instantly, and ending the conversation closes the connection entirely.
Chrome Buddy is built for Google Chrome and uses Chrome's side panel. Chromium-based browsers that support side panels and Chrome Web Store extensions may work, but Chrome is what we test on.
Install Chrome Buddy and have your first conversation with a web page in under a minute.
Add to Chrome — free