Open WebUI Assistant
Your Local AI. Right Where You Work.
🔒 The only Chrome extension that brings your self-hosted AI into every corner of your browser — without your data ever leaving your server.
You use your own user Open WebUI Account to log in! No blanket Ollama login – Direct access to YOUR USER Open WebUI Account!
Same account, same settings, same models, same credentials, same parameters!
Free to Install — No Data Leaves Your Network
Open WebUI Assistant connects to YOUR local Open WebUI instance, giving you instant AI assistance across Gmail, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, Outlook, and every website — without ever sending your data to a third party.
Install from Chrome Web Store
View the open source repository on GitHub
🎯 AI Actions, Right Where You’re Working
When You Select Text:
- ✏️ Rewrite – Improve clarity and flow, replaced directly on the page
- ✓ Fix Grammar – Silently corrects errors in place
- 🔍 Check Grammar – Detailed explanations in the side panel
- 📈 Expand – Add ~25% more detail while keeping your tone
- 📉 Shorten – Condense to key points, edited in place
- 📄 Summarize – Concise summary in the side panel
- 💬 Chat – Conversation with full page and selection context
- 🌐 Translate – English and Spanish free; 10 more languages with Pro
- 🔊 Speak Aloud – Read any selection aloud instantly
When Nothing is Selected:
- 📖 Explain This Page – Full AI summary and analysis of any webpage
✅ Built for People Who Chose Self-Hosted for a Reason
Unlike cloud AI tools that route your data through external servers, Open WebUI Assistant connects only to your own infrastructure:
✓ Works with your local Open WebUI deployment
✓ No data sent to third-party services
✓ All processing happens on your hardware
✓ Complete control over every AI interaction
Ideal for: Educational institutions, healthcare, legal, enterprise, and any organization that requires local AI processing.
🚀 Works Everywhere You Write
✅ Google Workspace – Custom menus injected directly into Docs, Sheets, and Slides
✅ Gmail & Outlook – In-place editing inside compose windows
✅ Any Website – Universal right-click menu on every page
✅ All Text Fields – Works in forms, editors, and rich text areas across Chrome
🆓 Free Features
The free tier isn’t crippled. You get all the core writing tools from the moment you install.
- All core writing tools — rewrite, expand, shorten, fix grammar, summarize, chat
- Translate to English and Spanish
- Browser text-to-speech on any output
- Saved prompt library
- Pinned items board
- Export chat history
- 3-day interaction memory log
- Full markdown rendering with copy as plain text or HTML
- Works in Gmail, Outlook, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and any website
⭐ Pro Features — $24.99 One-Time
1 Purchase | 1 License | 1 Machine
Every feature. No subscription, ever.
- 🎨 7 Tone Presets – Professional, Casual, Happy, Sad, Mad, Joyful, Enthusiastic
- 🌐 10 More Languages – French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Russian, Dutch
- 🖼️ Image Analysis – Right-click any image to explain it or open a vision chat
- ✍️ Smart Compose – Pause while typing in Gmail or Docs and AI offers to continue for you
- 📄🔊 Summarize & Speak – Summarize any page and read it aloud in one click
- 🔁 Auto-Summarize – Automatically summarizes the page every time the panel opens
- 🖥️ Embedded Open WebUI Panel – Your full Open WebUI interface inside the side panel, with auto-login
- 🔊 High-Quality TTS Voices – Use your Open WebUI TTS API instead of the browser’s built-in voice
- 🧠 Unlimited Memory – Full interaction history with no expiry, plus recall into chat
Complete List of Features
| Feature | Free | Pro | Explanation |
| TEXT ACTIONS | |||
| Summarize | ✓ | ✓ | Condenses selected text or full page content into a brief summary |
| Rewrite | ✓ | ✓ | Rewrites selected text for improved clarity and flow; replaces in-place or shows in panel |
| Expand | ✓ | ✓ | Lengthens selected text by ~25% while preserving tone and meaning |
| Shorten | ✓ | ✓ | Trims selected text to key points while keeping it concise |
| Fix Grammar | ✓ | ✓ | Silently corrects spelling and grammar errors in selected text; replaces in-place |
| Check Grammar | ✓ | ✓ | Reviews selected text and lists spelling/grammar errors with explanations |
| Explain This Page | ✓ | ✓ | Sends the full page content to the AI and asks it to explain what the page is about |
| Chat with AI | ✓ | ✓ | Opens the side panel chat for a free-form conversation with the AI |
| Export Chat | ✓ | ✓ | Downloads the full chat history as a plain text file |
| TONE | |||
| Change Tone > Professional | ✓ | Rewrites selected text in a formal professional tone | |
| Change Tone > Casual | ✓ | Rewrites selected text in a relaxed friendly tone | |
| Change Tone > Happy | ✓ | Rewrites selected text in an upbeat positive tone | |
| Change Tone > Sad | ✓ | Rewrites selected text in a somber melancholy tone | |
| Change Tone > Mad | ✓ | Rewrites selected text in an assertive frustrated tone | |
| Change Tone > Joyful | ✓ | Rewrites selected text in a celebratory joyful tone | |
| Change Tone > Enthusiastic | ✓ | Rewrites selected text in an energetic enthusiastic tone | |
| TRANSLATE | |||
| Translate > English | ✓ | ✓ | Translate selected text to English |
| Translate > Spanish | ✓ | ✓ | Translate selected text to Spanish |
| Translate > French | ✓ | Translate selected text to French | |
| Translate > German | ✓ | Translate selected text to German | |
| Translate > Italian | ✓ | Translate selected text to Italian | |
| Translate > Portuguese | ✓ | Translate selected text to Portuguese | |
| Translate > Japanese | ✓ | Translate selected text to Japanese | |
| Translate > Chinese | ✓ | Translate selected text to Chinese | |
| Translate > Korean | ✓ | Translate selected text to Korean | |
| Translate > Arabic | ✓ | Translate selected text to Arabic | |
| Translate > Russian | ✓ | Translate selected text to Russian | |
| Translate > Dutch | ✓ | Translate selected text to Dutch | |
| TEXT-TO-SPEECH | |||
| Speak Selection | ✓ | ✓ | Reads any selected text aloud via right-click menu using browser speech synthesis |
| Speak AI Output (side panel) | ✓ | ✓ | Reads AI responses aloud directly from the side panel output area |
| Summarize & Speak | ✓ | Summarizes selected text or the full page and immediately reads the summary aloud | |
| Open WebUI TTS Voice | ✓ | Uses your Open WebUI instance’s TTS API for AI voice instead of the browser’s built-in voice | |
| Custom TTS Voice | ✓ | Choose which Open WebUI voice to use for TTS output – Alloy / Echo / Fable / Onyx / Nova / Shimmer | |
| IMAGE ACTIONS | |||
| Image Analysis > Explain | ✓ | Right-click any image on the web to get a detailed AI description and analysis | |
| Image Analysis > Chat | ✓ | Right-click any image to open a chat session where you can ask questions about it | |
| Image > Save for Later | ✓ | Right-click any image to pin it to the Saved Items board for future reference | |
| SMART COMPOSE | |||
| Smart Compose | ✓ | After a brief typing pause in any editable field a bubble offers to continue writing with AI > press Tab to accept | |
| SIDE PANEL | |||
| Side Panel Output | ✓ | ✓ | All AI responses display in a persistent side panel with copy and TTS buttons |
| Copy Output (Plain Text) | ✓ | ✓ | One-click copy of AI output as clean plain text |
| Copy Output (HTML) | ✓ | ✓ | One-click copy of AI output with full markdown/HTML formatting preserved |
| Auto-Open Side Panel on Right-Click Actions | ✓ | ✓ | Side panel opens and populates automatically whenever a right-click action is triggered |
| Open WebUI Panel (full embedded interface) | ✓ | Embeds your full Open WebUI interface inside the side panel as an iframe | |
| Auto-Login to Open WebUI Panel | ✓ | Automatically authenticates into the Open WebUI panel using saved credentials — no login screen shown | |
| Always Start New Chat on Panel Open | ✓ | Opens a fresh chat session with your default model each time the panel is activated | |
| Auto Summarize on Panel Open | ✓ | Automatically summarizes the current page every time the side panel opens | |
| IN-PLACE EDITING | |||
| In-Place Text Editing | ✓ | ✓ | AI rewrites replace selected text directly on the page instead of showing in the panel |
| Works in Gmail | ✓ | ✓ | In-place editing and right-click menu active inside Gmail compose windows |
| Works in Outlook | ✓ | ✓ | In-place editing and right-click menu active inside Outlook web (live.com, office365, office.com) |
| Works in Google Docs | ✓ | ✓ | Full right-click flyout menu injected directly into the Google Docs native context menu |
| Works in Google Slides | ✓ | ✓ | Full right-click flyout menu injected into the Google Slides native context menu |
| Works in Google Sheets | ✓ | ✓ | Right-click flyout menu and in-place editing active inside Google Sheets |
| Works on Any Web Page | ✓ | ✓ | Right-click context menu available on any page with selected text or images |
| MEMORIES & HISTORY | |||
| Memories > Daily Interaction Log | ✓ | ✓ | Every AI interaction is saved to a local date-stamped log automatically |
| Memories > Download as .md | ✓ | ✓ | Export your interaction history at any time as a formatted Markdown file |
| Memories > 3-Day History Retention | ✓ | Free users retain the last 3 days of interaction history in the panel | |
| Memories > Unlimited History Retention | ✓ | Full interaction log kept with no expiry — recall anything from any past session | |
| History Tab > Keyword Search | ✓ | ✓ | Search across all saved memory and history entries by keyword from the History tab |
| History Tab > Click to Use in Chat | ✓ | ✓ | Click any history entry to load it directly into the chat input field |
| SAVED ITEMS | |||
| Saved Prompt Library | ✓ | ✓ | Save frequently used prompts and re-insert them into chat with one click |
| Pinned / Saved Items Board | ✓ | ✓ | Pin any AI output text or image for later reference; persists across sessions |
| CONFIGURATION | |||
| Model Selection | ✓ | ✓ | Choose which Open WebUI model to use from a dropdown; saved across sessions |
| Pro Badge on Context Menu Items | ✓ | Adds a visual label to right-click menu items that are Pro-only (Tone, Image Analysis) |
⚡ Setup Takes Two Minutes
Install the extension, open settings, add your credentials, and right-click anything. That’s the whole setup.
🔐 Your Data, Your Rules
- Connects only to YOUR Open WebUI instance
- Zero third-party services
- Zero data collection
- Zero tracking
- Credentials encrypted locally in Chrome’s sync storage
📋 Requirements
- A running Open WebUI instance (local or network)
- Valid Open WebUI account credentials
- At least one AI model configured in Open WebUI
- Chrome browser
🆓 Download Free
Install from Chrome Web Store
No sign-up. No credit card. Just connect to your Open WebUI and go.
Privacy & Compliance Note
Open WebUI Assistant is a browser extension that connects to your local Open WebUI instance. It does not collect, transmit, or store any data externally. Privacy and compliance depend on your local AI deployment configuration, network security, and institutional policies. Organizations are responsible for ensuring their complete AI deployment — including hardware, software, policies, and procedures — meets their applicable regulatory requirements.
