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Smowl

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

Smowl Proctoring extension for Google Chrome.

Users
500K
+200K in 30 days
Rating
1.9 / 5
−0.04 in 30 days
Ratings
271
+9 in 30 days
Store rank
#703
#645 among extensions
Version
4.6.1
updated 24 Sep 2026

Users

monthly, 3 years
10K255K500KFeb 2024Jul 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 500,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 3 years
2136271Feb 2024Jul 2025Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 271 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 Smowl

Smowl Extension is a powerful Chrome extension designed to ensure academic integrity during online assessments. By providing a secure and monitored environment, Smowl helps educational institutions and students maintain fairness and trust in remote exams. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY FEATURES 🔒 Secure Exam Environment Maintains exam integrity through advanced monitoring technologies. 🎓 LMS Integration Works seamlessly with Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard and D2L (Brightspace). ⚡ Easy Setup Simple installation with automatic activation during proctored exams. 🛡️ Privacy-Focused Secure data handling with student privacy as a priority. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS 1. Install the extension 2. Log in to your institution's LMS (Moodle, Canvas, Blackboard, etc.) 3. Navigate to your exam. Smowl will automatically activate, performing a system check and entering the secure proctoring mode. 4. Focus on your exam with the assurance of a fair testing environment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REQUIRED PERMISSIONS This extension needs certain permissions to ensure exam security: • Browser and system access for exam environment integrity. • Display monitoring for assessment security. • Data storage for session continuity. You can manage the SMOWL EXTENSION by accessing the extensions menu in the browser bar: chrome://extensions/ Clicking on the icon in the browser's top right corner you can enable/disable SMOWL EXTENSION, configure the tool in detail, and remove it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS The browser extension is compatible with all those browsers based on Chromium, such as: - Google Chrome - Microsoft Edge - Opera - Brave - Vivaldi - And many others…

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%0−0.01
30 days+200K+66.7%+9−0.04
6 months+200K+66.7%+37+0.01
1 year+300K+150.0%+115+0.06

Version history

41 versions recorded
4.6.124 Sep 2026
4.6.031 Aug 2026
4.5.424 Aug 2026
4.5.26 Aug 2026
4.5.029 Apr 2026
4.4.227 Apr 2026
4.4.08 Apr 2026
4.3.15 Mar 2026

Details

Category
Accessibility
First seen
6 Feb 2024
Size
851 KB
Languages
en
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
smowl.net
Support
smowl.net
Extension ID
dmikmmbgppjjlgaoamkdbnfkddgnpenk

Permissions and risk

Elevated riskimpact 3, likelihood 3
Permissions
managementsystem.cpusystem.memorysystem.displaytabsstorageoffscreen
Site access
<all_urls>
Can read and change data on every website you visit.

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