Grayscale Overlay Chrome extension icon

Grayscale Overlay

👥 88 users
📦 v1.0
💾 31.3KiB
📅 2025-07-10
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Overview

## **GrayScale Overlay – Clean Monochrome Browsing**

### 🌐 Description

Bring clarity and calm to your web experience with **GrayScale Overlay** – a customizable Chrome extension that lets you apply grayscale filters to any website. Whether you're looking to reduce eye strain, focus better, or simply enjoy a distraction-free, minimalist interface, this extension has you covered.

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### 🎯 **Key Features**

#### ✅ Adjustable Grayscale Filter

* Apply a grayscale overlay to any webpage without disrupting interactions.
* Smooth, performance-friendly transitions.
* Customizable intensity from 0% to 100%.

#### 🎨 Multiple Visual Modes

* **Desaturate** (soft and subtle)
* **Grayscale** (true black-and-white)
* **Luminosity** (high contrast)
* **Color Dodge** (dramatic tones)

#### 🌍 Auto-Toggle Per Website

* Automatically activate grayscale on specific websites.
* Works with subdomains (e.g., `www.reddit.com`, `old.reddit.com`, `m.reddit.com`).
* One-click "Add Current Site" feature.

#### 💡 Real-Time Controls

* Instantly preview filter changes.
* Use a slider to fine-tune intensity.
* Choose visual modes from a dropdown menu.

#### 💾 Persistent Settings

* Saves your preferences across browser sessions.
* Remembers websites and intensity levels.
* Syncs settings across Chrome installations.

#### 🧠 Per-Tab Intelligence

* Each tab tracks its own grayscale state.
* Seamless transitions between enabled and disabled tabs.

#### 🧰 Easy-to-Use Interface

* Clean, modern popup design.
* Smart enable/disable buttons.
* Fully responsive and intuitive.

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### 👥 Ideal For:

* Students and professionals who need fewer distractions.
* Readers and researchers on text-heavy sites.
* Users sensitive to color brightness or visual noise.
* Minimalists who enjoy a clean, grayscale aesthetic.

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### 🔒 Privacy & Permissions

* **No data collection or tracking.**
* Settings stored locally using Chrome Sync.
* Requires only essential permissions: `activeTab`, `storage`.

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### ⚙️ How to Use

1. Click the extension icon to toggle grayscale.
2. Adjust intensity and mode in real time.
3. Use “Add Current Site” to auto-enable on your favorite websites.
4. Manage your website list directly from the popup.

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### ⚡ Performance

* Lightweight and fast.
* No impact on page load speed.
* Built using modern, efficient CSS rendering (`mix-blend-mode`, `backdrop-filter`).

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### 💬 Support

Need help or have suggestions? Reach out via the support tab on the Chrome Web Store.

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Privacy Practices

Not being sold to third parties, outside of the approved use cases
Not being used or transferred for purposes that are unrelated to the item's core functionality
Not being used or transferred to determine creditworthiness or for lending purposes

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