Name: SideAI: AI Sidebar For ChatGPT - Free Access
Rating: 4.66 (423 reviews)
Author: SideAI

Jun 12, 2026

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Jun 2, 2026

description

SideAI: AI Sidebar for ChatGPT brings ChatGPT into your browser sidebar so you can read, write, summarize, research, translate, and ask questions without constantly switching tabs.

SideAI is the rebranded and upgraded version of Sidebar for ChatGPT. It keeps the fast, familiar ChatGPT sidebar experience users already know, and adds a cleaner interface, better page tools, smarter writing workflows, screenshot capture, Google Search insights, custom prompts, and more.

The core ChatGPT sidebar is free and unlimited inside SideAI. You can open the sidebar whenever you need it and use your own ChatGPT account without adding an API key. Optional SideAI premium plans unlock advanced extension features, but the main sidebar access remains free.

🚀 Quick Overview

SideAI gives you a fast AI sidebar for Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. Open ChatGPT beside any webpage, select text to run quick AI actions, improve writing inside fields, summarize pages, capture screenshots, and use saved prompts directly from your browsing workflow.

Instead of copying content, opening a new tab, pasting into ChatGPT, waiting for a response, and returning to the original page, SideAI keeps ChatGPT available where you are already working.

Use SideAI for research, writing, studying, coding, shopping, email, documentation, forms, dashboards, product comparisons, support replies, and everyday browsing.

✨ Key Features

✅ Sidebar for ChatGPT

Open ChatGPT in a clean browser sidebar from any page. The core sidebar is free and unlimited, so you can keep AI help available while browsing. Open SideAI from the extension icon, keyboard shortcut CTRL + SPACE , or right-click menu.

🔐 No API Key Required

SideAI works with your own ChatGPT account and session. You do not need to create, paste, or manage an API key. ChatGPT access, model availability, message limits, and subscriptions are controlled by your own OpenAI account.

🖱️ AI Text Selection Menu

Highlight text on a webpage and open a smart AI menu instantly. Use quick actions such as Ask, Summarize, Explain, Translate, Rewrite, Continue Writing, Fix Spelling & Grammar, and more. This is useful when you want help with selected text without leaving the page.

📄 Page Assistant

Chat with the current webpage. Ask SideAI to summarize a long article, explain a section, extract key points, answer follow-up questions, or help you understand the page faster. It is useful for research, learning, reading documentation, comparing products, and reviewing long content.

✍️ AI Writing Assistant

Improve text directly inside emails, forms, messages, comments, documents, and other writing fields. SideAI can help rewrite, polish, shorten, expand, fix grammar, improve tone, or generate better wording while you stay in the same field.

🔎 Google Search AI Insights

Use AI beside Google Search results to research faster. SideAI can provide concise answers, structured summaries, and useful context while you search, reducing the need to open many tabs just to understand a topic.

📸 Screenshot Capture

Capture a selected area or the visible part of a page and send it to the assistant for help. Use screenshots for debugging, explaining UI issues, summarizing visual content, asking questions about charts, or sharing context that is easier to show than describe.

🧩 Custom Prompts Library

Create and manage your own prompt library. Reuse prompts from the sidebar, context menu, or selection menu so your most common workflows are always close. This is helpful for repeated tasks such as rewriting in a specific tone, summarizing in a format, generating replies, or applying your own instructions.

⚡ Quick Chat

Open SideAI quickly and ask a question about the current page or your current task. Quick Chat is designed to reduce friction and keep your focus on the work you are doing.

🎙️ Voice and Microphone Support

Use voice features through your ChatGPT session when available. SideAI helps guide microphone access in the sidebar so voice workflows are easier to start when you want hands-free interaction.

🛡️ Per-Site Controls

Choose where SideAI tools appear. You can disable the text selection menu or page assistant on specific websites when you want a cleaner experience or when a site should stay untouched.

🎛️ Customizable Actions

Organize your text menu actions around your workflow. Show, hide, reorder, or customize actions so SideAI feels focused instead of crowded.

💡 Common Use Cases

✅ Summarize long articles, blog posts, and documentation
✅ Explain selected text in simple terms
✅ Translate text while reading webpages
✅ Rewrite emails, replies, and form content
✅ Fix grammar and improve writing tone
✅ Ask questions about the current page
✅ Research faster with AI beside Google Search
✅ Capture screenshots and ask for explanations
✅ Create reusable custom prompts
✅ Get help with code snippets or technical content
✅ Draft social posts, support replies, and messages
✅ Compare information across pages
✅ Keep ChatGPT available while browsing

🧭 How SideAI Works

Install SideAI from the Chrome Web Store.
Open the sidebar from the extension icon, keyboard shortcut, or right-click menu.
Sign in with your own ChatGPT account if needed.
Browse normally and use SideAI when you want AI help.
Select text, open page tools, capture screenshots, or use custom prompts when useful.
SideAI does not replace your ChatGPT account. It gives you a faster browser interface for using ChatGPT and adds productivity tools around your browsing workflow.

🆓 Free Access Clarification

SideAI includes free and unlimited access to the core browser sidebar feature. This means you can open the SideAI sidebar and use it as your ChatGPT sidebar without buying a SideAI plan.

SideAI premium plans are for advanced extension features, such as expanded assistant actions, writing workflows, page assistant tools, custom prompts, customization controls, and productivity features.

Premium plans do not include ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI API credits, or paid OpenAI access. ChatGPT availability, models, response limits, subscriptions, and account settings are managed by OpenAI through your own ChatGPT account.

⭐ Why Choose SideAI?

SideAI is built to be fast, focused, and useful across real browsing workflows. It is not just a separate chat window. It adds AI where you already work: selected text, webpages, search results, writing fields, screenshots, and reusable prompt flows.

It is designed for people who want a practical ChatGPT Chrome extension, a free AI sidebar, a browser AI assistant, a web page summarizer, an AI writing assistant, and a faster way to use ChatGPT on any website.

The goal is simple: keep AI help close without interrupting your browsing.

🚀 What’s New in SideAI 6.0.0

✅ Rebranded from Sidebar for ChatGPT to SideAI
✅ Cleaner SideAI interface and updated branding
✅ Improved text selection menu with better quick actions
✅ Writing Assistant for fields, forms, emails, and messages
✅ Page Assistant for summarizing and asking about webpages
✅ Google Search AI insights for faster research
✅ Screenshot capture and upload workflow
✅ Custom prompts and customizable action menu improvements
✅ Better onboarding and update notice inside the sidepanel
✅ Live license activation support for premium plans
✅ Stability, compatibility, and performance improvements

🔒 Privacy and Permissions

SideAI uses browser permissions to provide features such as the sidebar, text selection menu, page assistant, screenshot capture, writing assistant, Google Search insights, microphone support, and optional site controls.

SideAI is designed to work when you activate a feature, such as opening the sidebar, selecting text, asking about a page, improving writing, or capturing a screenshot.

No API key is required. SideAI uses your own ChatGPT session for ChatGPT-based workflows.

🌐 Compatibility

SideAI works on Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers that support modern Chrome extension features. For the best experience, use the latest stable version of Chrome.

📩 Support

If you need help with installation, compatibility, premium access, billing, licenses, or feature behavior, contact support at [email protected].

⚠️ Disclaimer

SideAI is an independent browser extension and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenAI. ChatGPT is a trademark of OpenAI. References to ChatGPT describe compatibility with the user’s own ChatGPT account.

Free and unlimited access refers to SideAI’s core browser sidebar feature, not free access to paid ChatGPT plans, ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI API usage, or other paid OpenAI services.

SideAI: AI Sidebar for ChatGPT brings ChatGPT into your browser sidebar so you can read, write, summarize, research, translate, and ask questions without constantly switching tabs.

Side AI is the rebranded and upgraded version of Sidebar for ChatGPT. It keeps the fast, familiar ChatGPT sidebar experience users already know, and adds a cleaner interface, better page tools, smarter writing workflows, screenshot capture, Google Search insights, custom prompts, and more.

The core ChatGPT sidebar is free and unlimited inside SideAI. You can open the sidebar whenever you need it and use your own ChatGPT account without adding an API key. Optional SideAI premium plans unlock advanced extension features, but the main sidebar access remains free.

🚀 Quick Overview

Side AI gives you a fast AI sidebar for Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. Open ChatGPT beside any webpage, select text to run quick AI actions, improve writing inside fields, summarize pages, capture screenshots, and use saved prompts directly from your browsing workflow.

Instead of copying content, opening a new tab, pasting into ChatGPT, waiting for a response, and returning to the original page, Side AI keeps ChatGPT available where you are already working.

Use SideAI for research, writing, studying, coding, shopping, email, documentation, forms, dashboards, product comparisons, support replies, and everyday browsing.

✨ Key Features

✅ ChatGPT Sidebar

Open ChatGPT in a clean browser sidebar from any page. The core sidebar is free and unlimited, so you can keep AI help available while browsing. Open SideAI from the extension icon, keyboard shortcut CTRL + SPACE , or right-click menu.

🔐 No API Key Required

SideAI works with your own ChatGPT account and session. You do not need to create, paste, or manage an API key. ChatGPT access, model availability, message limits, and subscriptions are controlled by your own OpenAI account.

🖱️ AI Text Selection Menu

Highlight text on a webpage and open a smart AI menu instantly. Use quick actions such as Ask, Summarize, Explain, Translate, Rewrite, Continue Writing, Fix Spelling & Grammar, and more. This is useful when you want help with selected text without leaving the page.

📄 Page AI Assistant

Chat with the current webpage. Ask Side AI to summarize a long article, explain a section, extract key points, answer follow-up questions, or help you understand the page faster. It is useful for research, learning, reading documentation, comparing products, and reviewing long content.

✍️ AI Writing Assistant

Improve text directly inside emails, forms, messages, comments, documents, and other writing fields. Side AI can help rewrite, polish, shorten, expand, fix grammar, improve tone, or generate better wording while you stay in the same field.

🔎 Google Search AI Insights

Use AI beside Google Search results to research faster. SideAI can provide concise answers, structured summaries, and useful context while you search, reducing the need to open many tabs just to understand a topic.

📸 Screenshot Capture

Capture a selected area or the visible part of a page and send it to the assistant for help. Use screenshots for debugging, explaining UI issues, summarizing visual content, asking questions about charts, or sharing context that is easier to show than describe.

🧩 Custom Prompts Library

Create and manage your own prompt library. Reuse prompts from the sidebar, context menu, or selection menu so your most common workflows are always close. This is helpful for repeated tasks such as rewriting in a specific tone, summarizing in a format, generating replies, or applying your own instructions.

⚡ Quick Chat

Open SideAI quickly and ask a question about the current page or your current task. Quick Chat is designed to reduce friction and keep your focus on the work you are doing.

🎙️ Voice and Microphone Support

Use voice features through your ChatGPT session when available. SideAI helps guide microphone access in the sidebar so voice workflows are easier to start when you want hands-free interaction.

🛡️ Per-Site Controls

Choose where SideAI tools appear. You can disable the text selection menu or page assistant on specific websites when you want a cleaner experience or when a site should stay untouched.

🎛️ Customizable Actions

Organize your text menu actions around your workflow. Show, hide, reorder, or customize actions so SideAI feels focused instead of crowded.

Popular ways people describe Side AI features include Chat GPT sidebar, Chat GPT Chrome extension, Chat GPT assistant, Chat GPT browser sidebar, Chat GPT writing AI assistant, Chat GPT summarizer, Chat GPT page assistant, Chat GPT for Google Search, Chat GPT screenshot assistant

💡 Common Use Cases

✅ Summarize long articles, blog posts, and documentation
✅ Explain selected text in simple terms
✅ Translate text while reading webpages
✅ Rewrite emails, replies, and form content
✅ Fix grammar and improve writing tone
✅ Ask questions about the current page
✅ Research faster with AI beside Google Search
✅ Capture screenshots and ask for explanations
✅ Create reusable custom prompts
✅ Get help with code snippets or technical content
✅ Draft social posts, support replies, and messages
✅ Compare information across pages
✅ Keep ChatGPT available while browsing

🧭 How SideAI Works

Install SideAI from the Chrome Web Store.
Open the sidebar from the extension icon, keyboard shortcut, or right-click menu.
Sign in with your own ChatGPT account if needed.
Browse normally and use SideAI when you want AI help.
Select text, open page tools, capture screenshots, or use custom prompts when useful.
SideAI does not replace your ChatGPT account. It gives you a faster browser interface for using ChatGPT and adds productivity tools around your browsing workflow.

🆓 Free Access Clarification

SideAI includes free and unlimited access to the core browser sidebar feature. This means you can open the SideAI sidebar and use it as your ChatGPT sidebar without buying a SideAI plan.

SideAI premium plans are for advanced extension features, such as expanded assistant actions, writing workflows, page assistant tools, custom prompts, customization controls, and productivity features.

Premium plans do not include ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI API credits, or paid OpenAI access. ChatGPT availability, models, response limits, subscriptions, and account settings are managed by OpenAI through your own ChatGPT account.

⭐ Why Choose SideAI?

SideAI is built to be fast, focused, and useful across real browsing workflows. It is not just a separate chat window. It adds AI where you already work: selected text, webpages, search results, writing fields, screenshots, and reusable prompt flows.

It is designed for people who want a practical ChatGPT Chrome extension, a free AI sidebar, a browser AI assistant, a web page summarizer, an AI writing assistant, and a faster way to use ChatGPT on any website.

The goal is simple: keep AI help close without interrupting your browsing.

🚀 What’s New in Side AI 6.0.0

✅ Rebranded from Sidebar for ChatGPT to Side AI
✅ Cleaner Sidebar AI interface and updated branding
✅ Improved text selection menu with better quick AI actions
✅ Writing AI Assistant for fields, forms, emails, and messages
✅ Page AI Assistant for summarizing and asking about webpages With Chat GPT
✅ Google Search AI insights for faster research with Chat GPT
✅ Screenshot capture and upload to Chat GPT workflow
✅ Custom prompts and customizable action menu improvements
✅ Better onboarding and update notice inside the sidepanel
✅ Live license activation support for premium plans
✅ Stability, compatibility, and performance improvements

🚀 What’s New in Side AI 6.0.1

✅ Improved upgrade path after the Side AI 6.0.0 release
✅ Improved text menu and Writing AI Assistant shortcut behavior
✅ Better separation between Text Menu usage and Writing AI Assistant usage counting
✅ Improved Chat GPT sidepanel rating prompt timing and visual layout
✅ Stability fixes for page tools, menu rendering, and AI assistant actions

🚀 What’s New in Side AI 6.0.2

✅ Writing AI Assistant dot now appears only on the active writing field for a cleaner page experience with Chat GPT
✅ Autofocused writing fields, such as search boxes, now correctly show the Writing AI Assistant when active
✅ Improved CTRL + J / CMD + J behavior for selected text versus writing fields
✅ Updated screenshot permission wording to clarify access works across websites
✅ Fixed duplicate website icon rendering caused by Font Awesome icon replacement conflicts
✅ Continued compatibility, UI, and reliability improvements across Side AI tools

🔒 Privacy and Permissions

Side AI uses browser permissions to provide features such as the sidebar, text selection menu, page AI assistant, screenshot capture, writing AI assistant, Google Search insights, microphone support, and optional site controls.

Side AI is designed to work when you activate a feature, such as opening the sidebar, selecting text, asking about a page, improving writing, or capturing a screenshot.

No API key is required. SideAI uses your own ChatGPT session for ChatGPT-based workflows.

🌐 Compatibility

SideAI works on Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers that support modern Chrome extension features. For the best experience, use the latest stable version of Chrome.

📩 Support

If you need help with installation, compatibility, premium access, billing, licenses, or feature behavior, contact support at [email protected].

⚠️ Disclaimer

SideAI is an independent browser extension and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenAI. ChatGPT is a trademark of OpenAI. References to ChatGPT describe compatibility with the user’s own ChatGPT account.

Free and unlimited access refers to SideAI’s core browser sidebar feature, not free access to paid ChatGPT plans, ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI API usage, or other paid OpenAI services.

May 19, 2026

description

Transform your browsing experience with Sidebar For ChatGPT, the ultimate Chrome extension that seamlessly integrates ChatGPT into any website. No API required—just click, and you're ready to chat!

Key Features:
Instant Access: Open the ChatGPT sidebar effortlessly by clicking the extension icon, using the shortcut Ctrl + Space, or right-clicking to select "Open Sidebar for ChatGPT."

Versatile Usage: Whether you're researching, writing, or simply curious, ChatGPT is at your fingertips, ready to assist you across all tabs and websites.

Screenshot Capture: Quickly capture any area or the visible page, then send the screenshot directly to ChatGPT for explanations, debugging, or summaries.

AI Text Selection Menu: Select text on almost any website to open an AI menu with smart actions and shortcuts that send the selection straight to ChatGPT.

Custom Prompts Library: Create and manage your own prompts in the options page, then trigger them from the sidebar, context menu, or selection menu.

User-Friendly Interface: Enjoy a sleek, unobtrusive design that keeps your focus on your tasks while providing easy access to ChatGPT whenever you need it.

Core Sidebar Free Forever: Use the main ChatGPT sidebar at no cost, forever. Optional advanced features can be unlocked with a simple one-time upgrade — no subscriptions, no recurring fees.

Elevate your productivity and make the most of your online experience with Sidebar For ChatGPT. Install now and bring the power of AI into your daily browsing!

Disclaimer:
This extension is not affiliated with or officially endorsed by OpenAI.

🚀 What's New in Version 3.5.0:

✅ Optimized Performance - Streamlined extension architecture for faster loading and better stability

✅ Enhanced Compatibility - Improved compatibility with latest Chrome updates and ChatGPT interface changes and Voice mode activation

✅ Reduced Permissions - Minimized required permissions for better security and privacy protection

✅ New Screenshot Tools - Capture selected areas or full pages and send screenshots directly to ChatGPT from the sidebar

✅ Bug Fixes - Resolved connection errors and improved voice mode activation reliability

✅ Smoother Experience - Enhanced sidebar functionality with better error handling and user feedback

Key Features: • Instant ChatGPT access via sidebar
• Screenshot capture overlay – capture page areas or full pages and send them directly to ChatGPT
• Voice mode activation after rating
• Hideable rating system

This update focuses on stability, security, and user experience improvements while maintaining all core functionality you love — including the AI text selection menu and custom prompts.

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Sidebar for ChatGPT
Fast, unobtrusive ChatGPT in your browser sidebar. Instant AI assistant for writing, coding, summarizing, research and voice chat — free and privacy-conscious.

QUICK OVERVIEW
Sidebar for ChatGPT integrates a full ChatGPT interface directly into a collapsible browser sidebar. Open it with one click, Ctrl + Space, or the right-click menu to draft emails, summarize articles, debug code, generate ideas, or speak to the assistant hands-free. Designed for speed, low friction, and maximum productivity.

HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES
- Instant ChatGPT sidebar in Chrome — fast access to ChatGPT, AI assistant, and GPT models (GPT-5 / GPT-4o support shown when available on your account).
- All-in-one AI writing assistant — create, edit, rewrite, and proofread text (emails, blog posts, social captions).
- Smart summarizer & research helper — summarize long articles, web pages, and documents without leaving the tab.
- AI text selection menu — highlight any text to open an inline AI menu with default and custom prompts.
- Custom prompts & prompt library — build your own prompts in the options page and surface them in the context menu and selection menu.
- Per-site controls — disable the sidebar assistant or text selection menu on specific sites when you don’t want it.
- Screenshot capture & page snapshots — capture any region or the visible page and send it directly to ChatGPT as an image.
- Developer/code helper — explain code, generate snippets, suggest refactors, and assist with debugging.
- Voice input & voice chat — enable microphone access for hands-free conversations and dictation.
- Keyboard shortcut & context menu — open/close the sidebar instantly (Ctrl + Space) or via right-click.
- Lightweight, non-intrusive UI — stays out of your way while giving powerful AI features.
- Core sidebar is free forever — optional advanced features are available with a one-time upgrade, no subscription or recurring fees.
- Privacy-first & minimal permissions — requests only what’s necessary (sidebar management, optional mic access). No API keys stored.

HOW IT WORKS
1. Install the extension and open the sidebar.
2. Sign in to your ChatGPT/OpenAI account in the ChatGPT/OpenAI website.
3. Select the ChatGPT model available on your account; responses are served through ChatGPT’s web service while the extension provides the convenient sidebar interface.

LATEST UPDATE — v3.5.0 & RECENT FIXES
- Voice Mode Activation: easier activation after closing the rating prompt; microphone permission prompt handled gracefully.
- Screenshot Capture Integration: capture any region or the visible page and send the screenshot directly to ChatGPT for analysis, explanations, or debugging.
- Hideable Rating Button: close or permanently hide the rating widget for a cleaner interface.
- Faster Loading & Preloading: optimized sidebar load times with smooth loading animation and intelligent prefetching.
- Reduced Permissions: minimized required permissions to improve security and privacy.
- Stability & Bug Fixes: fixed connection errors, improved voice activation reliability, and enhanced error handling and user feedback.

PRIVACY & PERMISSIONS
We follow Chrome Web Store guidelines and request only the permissions necessary for core functionality. Optional mic access is only used for voice input. No user API keys or private data are stored by the extension. For full details, see the extension permissions on the Chrome Web Store page.

COMPATIBILITY & SUPPORT
- Works on Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers (latest stable releases recommended).
- Requires a ChatGPT / OpenAI account to use the ChatGPT web interface inside the sidebar (model availability depends on your OpenAI/ChatGPT plan).
- If you encounter issues, contact the developer via the support link on the store listing — we prioritize quick stability and privacy fixes.

NON-AFFILIATION
This extension is independently developed and is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI. It provides a convenient interface to access ChatGPT for users who sign in with their own account.

SideAI: AI Sidebar for ChatGPT brings ChatGPT into your browser sidebar so you can read, write, summarize, research, translate, and ask questions without constantly switching tabs.

SideAI is the rebranded and upgraded version of Sidebar for ChatGPT. It keeps the fast, familiar ChatGPT sidebar experience users already know, and adds a cleaner interface, better page tools, smarter writing workflows, screenshot capture, Google Search insights, custom prompts, and more.

The core ChatGPT sidebar is free and unlimited inside SideAI. You can open the sidebar whenever you need it and use your own ChatGPT account without adding an API key. Optional SideAI premium plans unlock advanced extension features, but the main sidebar access remains free.

🚀 Quick Overview

SideAI gives you a fast AI sidebar for Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. Open ChatGPT beside any webpage, select text to run quick AI actions, improve writing inside fields, summarize pages, capture screenshots, and use saved prompts directly from your browsing workflow.

Instead of copying content, opening a new tab, pasting into ChatGPT, waiting for a response, and returning to the original page, SideAI keeps ChatGPT available where you are already working.

Use SideAI for research, writing, studying, coding, shopping, email, documentation, forms, dashboards, product comparisons, support replies, and everyday browsing.

✨ Key Features

✅ Sidebar for ChatGPT

Open ChatGPT in a clean browser sidebar from any page. The core sidebar is free and unlimited, so you can keep AI help available while browsing. Open SideAI from the extension icon, keyboard shortcut CTRL + SPACE , or right-click menu.

🔐 No API Key Required

SideAI works with your own ChatGPT account and session. You do not need to create, paste, or manage an API key. ChatGPT access, model availability, message limits, and subscriptions are controlled by your own OpenAI account.

🖱️ AI Text Selection Menu

Highlight text on a webpage and open a smart AI menu instantly. Use quick actions such as Ask, Summarize, Explain, Translate, Rewrite, Continue Writing, Fix Spelling & Grammar, and more. This is useful when you want help with selected text without leaving the page.

📄 Page Assistant

Chat with the current webpage. Ask SideAI to summarize a long article, explain a section, extract key points, answer follow-up questions, or help you understand the page faster. It is useful for research, learning, reading documentation, comparing products, and reviewing long content.

✍️ AI Writing Assistant

Improve text directly inside emails, forms, messages, comments, documents, and other writing fields. SideAI can help rewrite, polish, shorten, expand, fix grammar, improve tone, or generate better wording while you stay in the same field.

🔎 Google Search AI Insights

Use AI beside Google Search results to research faster. SideAI can provide concise answers, structured summaries, and useful context while you search, reducing the need to open many tabs just to understand a topic.

📸 Screenshot Capture

Capture a selected area or the visible part of a page and send it to the assistant for help. Use screenshots for debugging, explaining UI issues, summarizing visual content, asking questions about charts, or sharing context that is easier to show than describe.

🧩 Custom Prompts Library

Create and manage your own prompt library. Reuse prompts from the sidebar, context menu, or selection menu so your most common workflows are always close. This is helpful for repeated tasks such as rewriting in a specific tone, summarizing in a format, generating replies, or applying your own instructions.

⚡ Quick Chat

Open SideAI quickly and ask a question about the current page or your current task. Quick Chat is designed to reduce friction and keep your focus on the work you are doing.

🎙️ Voice and Microphone Support

Use voice features through your ChatGPT session when available. SideAI helps guide microphone access in the sidebar so voice workflows are easier to start when you want hands-free interaction.

🛡️ Per-Site Controls

Choose where SideAI tools appear. You can disable the text selection menu or page assistant on specific websites when you want a cleaner experience or when a site should stay untouched.

🎛️ Customizable Actions

Organize your text menu actions around your workflow. Show, hide, reorder, or customize actions so SideAI feels focused instead of crowded.

💡 Common Use Cases

✅ Summarize long articles, blog posts, and documentation
✅ Explain selected text in simple terms
✅ Translate text while reading webpages
✅ Rewrite emails, replies, and form content
✅ Fix grammar and improve writing tone
✅ Ask questions about the current page
✅ Research faster with AI beside Google Search
✅ Capture screenshots and ask for explanations
✅ Create reusable custom prompts
✅ Get help with code snippets or technical content
✅ Draft social posts, support replies, and messages
✅ Compare information across pages
✅ Keep ChatGPT available while browsing

🧭 How SideAI Works

Install SideAI from the Chrome Web Store.
Open the sidebar from the extension icon, keyboard shortcut, or right-click menu.
Sign in with your own ChatGPT account if needed.
Browse normally and use SideAI when you want AI help.
Select text, open page tools, capture screenshots, or use custom prompts when useful.
SideAI does not replace your ChatGPT account. It gives you a faster browser interface for using ChatGPT and adds productivity tools around your browsing workflow.

🆓 Free Access Clarification

SideAI includes free and unlimited access to the core browser sidebar feature. This means you can open the SideAI sidebar and use it as your ChatGPT sidebar without buying a SideAI plan.

SideAI premium plans are for advanced extension features, such as expanded assistant actions, writing workflows, page assistant tools, custom prompts, customization controls, and productivity features.

Premium plans do not include ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI API credits, or paid OpenAI access. ChatGPT availability, models, response limits, subscriptions, and account settings are managed by OpenAI through your own ChatGPT account.

⭐ Why Choose SideAI?

SideAI is built to be fast, focused, and useful across real browsing workflows. It is not just a separate chat window. It adds AI where you already work: selected text, webpages, search results, writing fields, screenshots, and reusable prompt flows.

It is designed for people who want a practical ChatGPT Chrome extension, a free AI sidebar, a browser AI assistant, a web page summarizer, an AI writing assistant, and a faster way to use ChatGPT on any website.

The goal is simple: keep AI help close without interrupting your browsing.

🚀 What’s New in SideAI 6.0.0

✅ Rebranded from Sidebar for ChatGPT to SideAI
✅ Cleaner SideAI interface and updated branding
✅ Improved text selection menu with better quick actions
✅ Writing Assistant for fields, forms, emails, and messages
✅ Page Assistant for summarizing and asking about webpages
✅ Google Search AI insights for faster research
✅ Screenshot capture and upload workflow
✅ Custom prompts and customizable action menu improvements
✅ Better onboarding and update notice inside the sidepanel
✅ Live license activation support for premium plans
✅ Stability, compatibility, and performance improvements

🔒 Privacy and Permissions

SideAI uses browser permissions to provide features such as the sidebar, text selection menu, page assistant, screenshot capture, writing assistant, Google Search insights, microphone support, and optional site controls.

SideAI is designed to work when you activate a feature, such as opening the sidebar, selecting text, asking about a page, improving writing, or capturing a screenshot.

No API key is required. SideAI uses your own ChatGPT session for ChatGPT-based workflows.

🌐 Compatibility

SideAI works on Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers that support modern Chrome extension features. For the best experience, use the latest stable version of Chrome.

📩 Support

If you need help with installation, compatibility, premium access, billing, licenses, or feature behavior, contact support at [email protected].

⚠️ Disclaimer

SideAI is an independent browser extension and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenAI. ChatGPT is a trademark of OpenAI. References to ChatGPT describe compatibility with the user’s own ChatGPT account.

Free and unlimited access refers to SideAI’s core browser sidebar feature, not free access to paid ChatGPT plans, ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Pro, OpenAI API usage, or other paid OpenAI services.

May 19, 2026

name

Sidebar for ChatGPT - Free Access

SideAI: AI Sidebar For ChatGPT - Free Access

May 19, 2026

permissions

storage, contextMenus, declarativeNetRequest, sidePanel, scripting

storage, contextMenus, declarativeNetRequest, sidePanel, scripting, offscreen

Apr 28, 2026

host_permissions

*://*.chat.openai.com/*, *://*.chatgpt.com/*, <all_urls>

*://*.chat.openai.com/*, *://*.chatgpt.com/*

Apr 28, 2026

permissions

storage, contextMenus, declarativeNetRequest, sidePanel, scripting, tabs

storage, contextMenus, declarativeNetRequest, sidePanel, scripting

Date	Users	Rating	Reviews	Version
Apr 18, 2026	10.0K	4.69	404	3.5.0
Apr 28, 2026	10.0K	4.67	409	3.5.0
May 8, 2026	10.0K	4.66	411	5.0.0
May 11, 2026	10.0K	4.67	412	5.0.0
May 15, 2026	10.0K	4.67	413	5.0.0
May 19, 2026	10.0K	4.67	414	5.0.0
May 24, 2026	10.0K	4.67	414	6.0.0
May 28, 2026	10.0K	4.66	416	6.0.1
Jun 2, 2026	10.0K	4.67	418	6.0.1
Jun 12, 2026	10.0K	4.66	423	6.0.2
Now	10.0K	4.66	423	6.0.3

SideAI: AI Sidebar For ChatGPT - Free Access

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