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HiYo

by HiYo · Communication
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Chat anonymously with anyone on the same website in real time — plus detect AI-generated text with a built-in on-device AI detector.

Users
29
0 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
10
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#131K
#109K among extensions
Version
2.1.1
updated 16 Feb 2026

Users

monthly, 3 years
21630Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 29 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
2610Aug 2023Apr 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 10 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month

The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.

About HiYo

HiYo — Chat Anonymously on Any Website | AI Text Detector | Private Rooms Ever wished you could talk to other people browsing the same website as you — right now, in real time? HiYo makes it happen. HiYo is a free Chrome extension that adds an anonymous chatroom to every website you visit. No sign-up. No email. No passwords. Just pick a username and start talking. Whether you're reading the news, watching a video, shopping online, or browsing Reddit — if someone else on that page has HiYo installed, you can chat with them instantly. It's like having a secret chatroom hidden on every corner of the internet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 REAL-TIME ANONYMOUS CHAT ON EVERY WEBSITE HiYo places a lightweight chat widget on every webpage. Open it with a keyboard shortcut or by hovering near the corner of the page. Messages are delivered instantly — no delays, no refreshing. You'll see who's online, who's typing, and new messages as they arrive. Chat about the article you're both reading. Ask a question about the product you're looking at. React to the video you're both watching. Share a tip on the forum you're browsing. The conversations are as spontaneous and real as the internet itself. • Real-time messaging — messages appear instantly • See how many people are on the same website as you • "Someone is typing..." indicator so conversations feel alive • Works on every website — news, social media, shopping, forums, videos, blogs, and more • Lightweight and non-invasive — the chat hides away when you're not using it ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏠 PRIVATE ROOMS — YOUR OWN SECRET SPACE Sometimes you don't want to chat with everyone. HiYo lets you create private rooms on any website with a unique invite code. Share the code with your friends, classmates, or coworkers, and only they can join. Perfect for: • Study groups — discuss assignments together while browsing course material • Shopping with friends — compare products on the same page in real time • Work teams — collaborate on research without leaving the webpage • Watch parties — react together while streaming the same video • Gaming communities — chat on game wikis and forums with your squad Creating a room takes two seconds. Just click, name your room, and share the code. No apps to install, no links to open — just a code and you're in. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤖 BUILT-IN AI TEXT DETECTOR — IS THAT TEXT WRITTEN BY AI? Not sure if that article, essay, review, or comment was written by a human or generated by AI? HiYo includes a powerful AI content detector built right into your browser. Select any text on a webpage, right-click, and choose "Detect AI — HiYo." In seconds, you'll see a probability score telling you how likely the text is to be AI-generated. What makes HiYo's AI detector different: • It runs entirely on your device — your text is never sent to any server • Combines statistical analysis with a machine learning model for higher accuracy • Works offline after the first setup • No subscriptions, no limits, no per-scan fees — completely free, forever • No data collection — what you scan stays on your machine Whether you're a teacher checking student essays, a reader verifying news articles, a recruiter reviewing cover letters, or just curious about the content you're reading — HiYo's AI detector has you covered. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 😊 EMOJI SUPPORT Express yourself with emojis. HiYo includes a built-in emoji picker so you can react, respond, and add personality to your messages. Click the emoji button, pick your favorite, and send. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR POWER USERS • Ctrl+Shift+H (Cmd+Shift+H on Mac) — Toggle the chatbox open/closed • Esc — Close the chatbox • Enter — Send your message • Right-click selected text — AI detection No need to click around. Open the chat, type, send, close — all from your keyboard. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔒 PRIVACY FIRST — ALWAYS HiYo was built with privacy at its core. Here's what we mean: • No account required — ever. Just pick a username and go. • No email, no phone number, no personal information collected. • No tracking, no analytics, no cookies, no fingerprinting. • Your username is stored only on your device. • Your IP address is never stored in readable form. • AI text detection runs 100% locally — nothing you scan ever leaves your browser. • No ads. No monetization of your data. No hidden catches. We believe chat should be free, anonymous, and private. That's not a marketing line — it's how HiYo is built from the ground up. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ SECURE BY DESIGN HiYo v2.1.1 includes comprehensive security protections: • Your identity is verified with a secure token so no one can impersonate you • Spam and abuse protection with built-in rate limiting • Offensive usernames and room names are automatically blocked • All messages are safely rendered to prevent any malicious content • The database is locked down so only the server can access it — no direct data exposure You can chat with confidence knowing that HiYo takes security seriously. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 USE CASES — WHO IS HIYO FOR? HiYo is for anyone who wants to connect with others on the internet in a more spontaneous, authentic way. 📰 News readers — Discuss breaking news with other readers in real time 🛒 Online shoppers — Ask "has anyone tried this product?" on the actual product page 📺 Video watchers — React together while watching the same stream or video 📚 Students — Study together on the same course website or research page 🎮 Gamers — Chat on game wikis, patch notes, and leaderboards 💼 Remote workers — Quick sidebar conversations while researching together ✍️ Writers & teachers — Check if content is AI-generated without leaving the page 🔍 Researchers — Verify sources and flag AI-generated misinformation 🏋️ Hobby communities — Connect with fellow enthusiasts on niche websites The possibilities are endless. Every websi…

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days−2−6.5%00.00
30 days0+0.0%00.00
6 months+17+141.7%00.00
1 year+20+222.2%+10.00

Version history

7 versions recorded
2.1.116 Feb 2026
2.1.011 Feb 2026
2.0.29 Feb 2026
2.0.13 May 2024
2.0.016 May 2023
1.0.115 Nov 2020
1.0.011 Nov 2020

Details

Category
Communication
First seen
11 Nov 2020
Size
12.1 MB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
saikat2019.github.io
Extension ID
nocfklgnphddgdaengibolefpmombome

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 3, likelihood 2
Permissions
storagetabsoffscreencontextMenus

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