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Playground Thing

by Matěj Pešl · Developer Tools
Manifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 16 Oct 2026

Elevate your OpenAi Playground experience.

Users
18
+1 in 30 days
Rating
3.5 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
4
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#156K
#130K among extensions
Version
1.1
updated 1 Feb 2024

Users

monthly, 3 years
01530Feb 2024Jul 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 18 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
024Feb 2024Jul 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 16 Oct 2026: 4 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 Playground Thing

This extensions aims to improve the OpenAI Playground experience. Many people use OpenAI playground not only for raw api testing, but also as a replacement for the ChatGPT UI (e.g. to use GPT-4). The benefits of that are: - It is significantly cheaper - There is no filtration layer, so it is less censored & possibly slightly smarter - The generation speed can be faster - There is less rate limiting, if any - You can alter the system prompt, temperature, and other variables. However, for casual use (or for more than occasional testing), it is a bit rough. That's the goal of this extension: to improve the experience & polish some of the rough edges. ❇️ Features: - Markdown for A.I. messages - Code highlighting & copy-on-click - Automatically refocus input textbox & restore cursor position on page refocus - (very handy when creating a prompt and switching back and forth between windows) - Default system prompt - Decreased system prompt div width (more free real estate for messages) - More in the future 🛡️ How to use: The extension will automatically run in the background when you use the playground. You do not need to turn it on manually. 🔨 Info: There is a lot of room for other useful features, such as configurable defaults (system prompt, temperature, model...), UI, unblocking scroll lock etc. If you are a developer and want to contribute, you are more than welcome to make a PR https://github.com/AspireOne/playground-thing. Note: There is a possibility of bugs and if OpenAI changes the Playground page significantly, it might break until updated.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days−2−10.0%00.00
30 days+1+5.9%00.00
6 months−1−5.3%00.00
1 year−5−21.7%00.00

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where Playground Thing appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
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Version history

1 versions recorded
1.11 Feb 2024

Details

Category
Developer Tools
First seen
1 Feb 2024
Size
1.0 MB
Languages
en-US
Pricing
Free
Support
github.com
Extension ID
aabjnhepkjfhkkinjolohnapocajgilb

Permissions and risk

Low riskimpact 1, likelihood 1

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