Auto-refresh any tab with a visible countdown and get an alert the moment the page text changes.
Users
7
+1 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
1
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#220K
#184K among extensions
Version
1.0.1
updated 14 Aug 2026
Users
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 17 Oct 2026:7 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 17 Oct 2026:1 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
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About Auto Refresh with a Countdown — Refresh Loop
Auto-refresh any page on a timer, and Refresh Loop tells you the second the
text changes. A countdown sits right on the page, so you can see it's still working.
You're waiting on an order status, a grade, a decision, a reply that never
comes. So you sit there pressing F5 every two minutes instead of going about
your day.
USE IT FOR
· A grade that isn't posted yet
· An order that hasn't moved since Tuesday, and the tracking page never says anything new
· A decision you're waiting on: an application, an approval, a permit, a spot on a waitlist
· An internal tool whose status only updates when you reload it
· Anything that signs you out if you leave it alone
HOW IT WORKS
1. Open the page and click the icon.
2. Pick one: tell you when anything on the page changes, tell you when the page
says a word you choose, or just keep reloading.
3. Walk away.
HOW YOU KNOW IT'S STILL RUNNING
While it runs, you see the count: how many times it has checked, how long since
the last check, how long it's been watching. The numbers move while you look at them.
When something changes, you get a sound and an alert. On the paid version the
alert shows you the words that changed, so you can see whether it's the thing
you were waiting for without going back to look.
Nothing goes off until the same result shows up twice in a row. Ads and pages
that haven't finished loading won't set off a false alarm.
WHAT IS FREE
The countdown on the page, the timer, however often you want it to check, any
number of pages, the sound and the alert when something changes, the second
check that cuts down on false alarms, reloads that really go to the site instead
of the browser's saved copy, and reloads spread out a little so several watched
tabs don't all reload in the same second. All free, with no account.
THE PAID PART
$6.99 USD, one time. You'll see it in your own currency, plus any tax, at
checkout. No subscription, no account. The paid version adds:
· Watch for specific words, like "Approved" or "In stock", and jump straight to them
· See which words changed: before and after, side by side, with the change marked
· Watch one part of the page, a table, a row, a price, so nothing else counts
· Keep watching even after you restart Chrome, so you stop setting it up every morning
· Keep hearing about it until you click it. Chrome hides a notification after a few
seconds; this one comes back, and the toolbar icon stays flagged
· Keep watching past the first change, so you hear about the second one and the third
· Bring the tab to the front the moment something changes
WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
Refresh Loop reloads pages and reads their text. It never clicks, types, fills
out forms or solves captchas for you. If you need that, this is the wrong tool.
Anything faster than one check every 30 seconds works only while the tab is on
screen. Chrome slows down tabs you're not looking at. The popup says so when you
ask it to check more often than that, so you find out before you rely on it.
PERMISSIONS
Chrome asks for no permissions when you install it. You give it access to a site
when you start watching that site, and only so the countdown and the checks can
run there. Refresh Loop compares the page text on your own computer. No account,
no analytics, and the only thing that ever leaves your computer is your license
key, sent to Polar to check it.
WHO YOU BUY FROM
You buy from Stonecrop, the makers, not from Google or from the Chrome Web
Store. Payments are handled by Polar, who act as the seller of record and
handle tax. You can ask for your money back within 14 days, for any reason:
https://stonecrop.app/refund
Terms of sale: https://stonecrop.app/terms
Privacy: https://refreshloop.app/privacy
Support: support@stonecrop.app
Made by Stonecrop, a small shop that builds one browser tool at a time.