Contextly

Every AI chat tab starts the same way: copy something from the page you're on, switch tabs, paste it, explain the context you just lost, get an answer, copy it back. **Contextly deletes that entire loop.** It lives in a side panel next to whatever you're working on and already knows what you're looking at — your selection, the page, the exact field your cursor is in. Ask for what you want. Insert the result where you were typing. You never leave the page. ### What makes it different **It reads the page so you don't have to paste it** Your text selection, the page's content, the title and URL, and the text field you're editing are all captured automatically and shown to you in the panel before anything is sent. No context-setting preamble, no lost formatting. **It knows where your cursor was** The moment you click into a side panel, the page forgets your selection — which is why most side-panel assistants can't write back into a page properly. Contextly remembers the element and caret you were actually working in, so **Insert** puts the result exactly where you left off. It works in plain inputs, textareas, and rich-text editors alike. **Point at exactly what you mean** **Pick element** turns the page into a DevTools-style picker. Hover to highlight, click to pin. Use ↑/↓ to walk up and down the DOM tree if you grab the wrong thing. Pin one comment, one post, one table — and only that gets sent, instead of six thousand characters of whatever a page extractor guessed at. **Bring your own key — no subscription, no middleman** OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google Gemini, OpenRouter, or **any** OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including a model running locally on your own machine. You pay your provider directly at cost. There is no Contextly account, no signup, and no Contextly server your data passes through. ### Features **Writing** - Rewrite, improve, expand, shorten, summarize, explain, translate - Fix grammar; shift tone to professional, casual, persuasive, or concise - Continue what you were writing, or draft a reply - Site-aware quick actions that adapt to where you are - Default tone and language you set once in Settings **Images** - Generate images from a prompt, grounded in the page's context - Drag and drop an image in to work from it - Supported on OpenAI and Google Gemini image models **Context control** - A live readout of exactly what will be sent, before you send it - Element picker for pinpoint context - Independent toggles for cursor context and page context - A hard cap on how much page text is ever included (default 6,000 characters) - Per-domain exclusion lists that block capture entirely **Workflow** - Insert or replace text directly in the page - Session generation history with one-click regenerate - Right-click → Contextly for instant Summarize, Explain, Rewrite, or Reply - **⌘⇧Space** / **Ctrl+Shift+Space** to open the panel anywhere ### Privacy: read this part Contextly is honest about a thing most AI extensions are vague about — **it does send page content to an AI provider.** That's the product. Here is exactly how it works: - **There is no Contextly server.** The developer receives nothing. Requests go from your browser straight to the provider you chose, with your own API key. - **Zero page access when you install it.** Contextly cannot read any website until you click **Enable on this site**, which asks Chrome for that one origin. Sites you never enable are never read. - **Nothing is sent until you ask for something.** Opening the panel, browsing, or leaving it open sends nothing at all. - **Your keys stay on your device.** Stored in local extension storage, deliberately never in Chrome Sync — so they're never uploaded to your Google account. Wipe them anytime from Settings → Privacy. - **History is memory-only** and disappears when you restart your browser. - **No analytics. No telemetry. No tracking.** None. - **Block domains outright.** Anything on your exclusion lists is never read, even on a site you've otherwise enabled — the block happens before the page is ever touched. - **Want nothing to leave your machine at all?** Point Contextly at a local OpenAI-compatible model and it won't. Once your context reaches your AI provider, their privacy policy governs it — that's the trade you make with any bring-your-own-key tool, and it's worth reading theirs. ### Who it's for - **Writers and editors** who draft in the browser and want revision in place - **Developers** summarizing docs, issues, and Stack Overflow without tab-hopping - **Support and sales teams** drafting replies with the thread already in context - **Researchers and students** explaining and condensing what's on screen - **Anyone with an API key** who'd rather pay cost than another subscription - **Privacy-minded users** who want per-site control and a local-model option ### Getting started 1. Install Contextly 2. Click the toolbar icon — the side panel opens 3. Open Settings (⚙ in the panel header) and add a provider with your API key — or import from a `.env` file 4. Go to any page and click **Enable on this site** 5. Select some text and ask for something