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Backdropia

by zhengyike712@gmail.com · Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 18 Oct 2026

A faint hand-drawn backdrop for your AI chats — calm, private, on-device — plus Pia, a quiet skeptic of the AI.

Users
5
+1 in 30 days
Rating
0.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
0
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#273K
#227K among extensions
Version
1.6.0
updated 20 Jul 2026

Users

monthly, 5 months
025May 2026Aug 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 18 Oct 2026: 5 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 5 months
001May 2026Aug 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 18 Oct 2026: 0 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

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About Backdropia

Backdropia draws a faint doodle behind your AI chats. It's low-contrast and sits well back, so you notice it the way you notice a poster on a wall you walk past every day — not while you're reading, just in the corner of things. Free, no ads. Pia There's a small face that hangs by a thread in the top corner. Pull her and the background shuffles. And every so often — usually right after you've read an answer and clicked into the box to reply — she says one word: "Source?" Or "Verify it." Or "Could be a hallucination." It's aimed at the AI, not you. She's the part of you that knows the confident answer isn't always the right one. If that's not your thing, she has a quiet mood where she just sits there, or you can switch her off and keep the wallpaper. What's on the wall By default it says "think aesthetically." You can replace that with whatever line you want to look at all day. Or pick a thought experiment — Schrödinger's cat, a brain in a vat, the trolley problem — drawn as a rough sketch. Or shuffle to a photo from a pool of public-domain images that refreshes every week or so. Or use your own picture: crop it how you like, and your last three stay one click away. Whatever you upload stays on your machine. Ink or Color Ink is a pencil-grey sketch. Color is the same lines in a soft, muted palette that changes with the image — no neon, nothing that fights the page. Both run light; on a dark page the doodle bows out and only Pia stays. The off switch is a real off switch — flip it and there's nothing there at all. There's also a slider if you want the doodle fainter or stronger. Privacy No server. Nothing about you is collected — no tracking, no account. Your photos never leave your browser.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days+1+25.0%00.00
30 days+1+25.0%00.00

Version history

3 versions recorded
1.6.020 Jul 2026
1.5.118 Jul 2026
1.0.029 May 2026

Details

Category
Tools
First seen
29 May 2026
Size
184 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
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Extension ID
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Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 3
Permissions
storageactiveTabscripting
Site access
https://commons.wikimedia.org/*https://upload.wikimedia.org/*https://openaccess-api.clevelandart.org/*https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/*https://collectionapi.metmuseum.org/*https://images.metmuseum.org/*https://chatgpt.com/*https://chat.openai.com/*https://claude.ai/*https://gemini.google.com/*and 20 more

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