AI Buddy

Tracking since May 17, 2026.

Changelog

• Jun 12, 2026
  description

  🚀 AI Buddy — Instantly Send Text & Screenshots to Your Favorite AI
  
  Stop copying text, switching tabs, and repeating prompts manually.
  AI Buddy lets you send selected text or screenshots from any webpage directly to your preferred AI platform — right from Chrome’s side panel.
  
  ✨ Features
  
  📝 Send Selected Text to AI
  Highlight any text on a webpage and instantly send it to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and more.
  
  📸 NEW in v1.1.0 — Send Screenshots to AI
  Capture and send webpage screenshots directly to AI platforms for visual analysis, explanations, OCR, UI feedback, debugging, and more.
  
  ⚡ One-Click AI Actions
  Use reusable prompt actions like:
  • Explain
  • Translate
  • Summarize
  • Draft Reply
  • Polish Writing
  • Brainstorm Ideas
  • Visualize Concepts
  
  🧠 Smart Prompt Workflow
  AI Buddy automatically combines your selected content with pre-built prompts so you can get answers faster with less typing.
  
  🪟 Built for Chrome Side Panel
  Keep your workflow uninterrupted while browsing. No more tab switching back and forth between websites and AI chats.
  
  🎯 Perfect For
  • Students & researchers
  • Developers & designers
  • Content creators
  • Customer support teams
  • Everyday AI power users
  
  💡 Examples
  • Explain complex articles instantly
  • Translate foreign language content
  • Summarize long webpages
  • Send UI screenshots for debugging
  • Ask AI to analyze charts, images, or layouts
  • Draft emails and replies from selected text
  
  AI Buddy helps you work faster, stay focused, and unlock the full power of AI directly inside your browser.

  🚀 AI Buddy — Send Text & Screenshots to Your Favorite AI from Chrome’s Side Panel
  
    Stop copying text, switching tabs, and repeating prompts manually.
  
    AI Buddy lets you send selected text or annotated screenshots from any webpage directly to your preferred chat
    platform, right from Chrome’s side panel.
  
    ✨ Features
  
    📝 Send Selected Text to AI
    Highlight text on any webpage and send it to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Microsoft Copilot, and more.
  
    📸 Send Screenshots to AI
    Capture part of a webpage, annotate it, and send it with a prompt for visual analysis, explanations, OCR, UI
    feedback, debugging, and more.
  
    ⚡ One-Click AI Actions
    Use reusable prompt actions like:
    • Explain
    • Translate
    • Summarize
    • Draft Reply
    • Polish Writing
    • Brainstorm Ideas
    • Visualize Concepts
    • Ask a Custom Question
  
    🧩 10 Starter Scenarios
    Switch between ready-made workflows for:
    • Learning
    • Workplace
    • Creative
    • Research
    • Writing
    • Coding
    • Marketing & Sales
    • Customer Support
    • Data Analysis
    • Planning
  
    🧠 Smart Prompt Workflow
    AI Buddy combines selected content, screenshots, reusable prompts, global instructions, and response language
    settings so you get better answers with less typing.
  
    🪟 Built for Chrome Side Panel
    Keep the source page visible while your AI or messaging platform opens beside it. No more switching back and
    forth between tabs.
  
    🎛️ Send Behavior Controls
    Choose how each platform handles prompts:
    • Auto-send
    • Draft only
    • Paste only
    • Open side panel first
  
    In v1.2.2, Send Behavior is available directly in the side panel, so it is easier to review or change before
    sending.
  
    💬 Messaging Platform Support
    Use WhatsApp Web, Telegram Web, and Discord as draft-first destinations, or switch them to Auto-send when you
    want faster delivery.
  
    🔒 Privacy-Minded Design
    AI Buddy has no backend server for your prompts or chats. Your settings stay in Chrome storage, and selected
    content is sent only to the platform you choose when you trigger an action.
  
    🎯 Perfect For
    • Students and researchers
    • Developers and designers
    • Writers and content creators
    • Customer support teams
    • Marketers and sales teams
    • Everyday AI power users
  
    💡 Examples
    • Explain complex articles instantly
    • Translate foreign language content
    • Summarize long webpages
    • Send UI screenshots for debugging
    • Ask AI to analyze charts, images, or layouts
    • Draft emails and replies from selected text
    • Turn notes into tables, checklists, quizzes, flashcards, or Mermaid diagrams
  
    AI Buddy helps you work faster, stay focused, and unlock the full power of AI directly inside your browser.

• Jun 12, 2026
  host_permissions

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• Jun 12, 2026
  permissions

  storage, sidePanel, declarativeNetRequest, declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

  storage, sidePanel, browsingData, declarativeNetRequest, declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess

• May 30, 2026
  description

  Tired of copying page text, switching tabs, and pasting the same context into your AI bot? AI Buddy lets you select text on any page, choose an action, and send a ready-made prompt to your preferred chat platform from Chrome's side panel.
  
  AI Buddy adds a selection toolbar for sending selected page text to an AI chat platform. It opens the platform in Chrome's side panel and uses reusable scenario actions such as Explain, Translate, Summarize, Draft Reply, Polish, Brainstorm, and Visualize.

  🚀 AI Buddy — Instantly Send Text & Screenshots to Your Favorite AI
  
  Stop copying text, switching tabs, and repeating prompts manually.
  AI Buddy lets you send selected text or screenshots from any webpage directly to your preferred AI platform — right from Chrome’s side panel.
  
  ✨ Features
  
  📝 Send Selected Text to AI
  Highlight any text on a webpage and instantly send it to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and more.
  
  📸 NEW in v1.1.0 — Send Screenshots to AI
  Capture and send webpage screenshots directly to AI platforms for visual analysis, explanations, OCR, UI feedback, debugging, and more.
  
  ⚡ One-Click AI Actions
  Use reusable prompt actions like:
  • Explain
  • Translate
  • Summarize
  • Draft Reply
  • Polish Writing
  • Brainstorm Ideas
  • Visualize Concepts
  
  🧠 Smart Prompt Workflow
  AI Buddy automatically combines your selected content with pre-built prompts so you can get answers faster with less typing.
  
  🪟 Built for Chrome Side Panel
  Keep your workflow uninterrupted while browsing. No more tab switching back and forth between websites and AI chats.
  
  🎯 Perfect For
  • Students & researchers
  • Developers & designers
  • Content creators
  • Customer support teams
  • Everyday AI power users
  
  💡 Examples
  • Explain complex articles instantly
  • Translate foreign language content
  • Summarize long webpages
  • Send UI screenshots for debugging
  • Ask AI to analyze charts, images, or layouts
  • Draft emails and replies from selected text
  
  AI Buddy helps you work faster, stay focused, and unlock the full power of AI directly inside your browser.

• May 30, 2026
  host_permissions

  https://chatgpt.com/*, https://chat.openai.com/*, https://claude.ai/*, https://gemini.google.com/*, https://chat.deepseek.com/*, https://web.whatsapp.com/*, https://web.telegram.org/*, https://discord.com/*, https://copilot.microsoft.com/*

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Permissions & access

Permissions

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Host access

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