WA Web Plus – Privacy Blur, Lock Screen & Chat Translator for WhatsApp Web icon

WA Web Plus – Privacy Blur, Lock Screen & Chat Translator for WhatsApp Web

by WA Plus Team · wawebgenie.com · Social Networking
Established publisherManifest V3 Free
View in Chrome Web Store Data as of 15 Oct 2026

Blur and lock chats, recover deleted messages, hide activity, transcribe voice notes, translate chats and customize themes.

Users
20K
0 in 30 days
Rating
4.8 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
78
+3 in 30 days
Store rank
#5,728
#4,911 among extensions
Version
1.5.2
updated 21 Aug 2026

Users

monthly, 13 months
010K20KSep 2025Apr 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 20,000 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month

Ratings count

monthly, 13 months
03978Sep 2025Apr 2026Oct 2026
Latest, 15 Oct 2026: 78 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 WA Web Plus – Privacy Blur, Lock Screen & Chat Translator for WhatsApp Web

WA Web Plus — Privacy & Productivity for WhatsApp Web Protect your privacy and work faster on WhatsApp Web. Blur or lock private chats, message unsaved numbers, download Status media, transcribe voice messages, and organize follow-ups — with core privacy features running locally in your browser. ✓ Compatible with the latest WhatsApp Web ✓ Local privacy controls with no account required ✓ Free core features with optional Pro tools ✓ Lightweight and actively maintained ✓ Available in 12 languages ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔐 PRIVACY & CHAT PROTECTION Keep your WhatsApp Web conversations private in public, shared, or workplace environments. • Blur messages, chat-list previews, media, profile pictures, and contact names — reveal them on hover • Instantly blur the entire WhatsApp Web page • Auto-blur when idle so your screen stays protected when you step away • Customize the blur intensity for different content types • Lock WhatsApp Web with a custom PIN • Private Chat — lock and hide individual conversations in a separate password-protected view • Hide text input while typing Open WhatsApp Web and your selected privacy protections activate automatically. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ MESSAGING & PRODUCTIVITY Save time with practical tools built directly into WhatsApp Web. • Quick Chat — send a WhatsApp message to any phone number without saving it as a contact • Status Download — save images and videos from WhatsApp Status updates • Voice-to-Text — transcribe voice messages locally on your device • Screenshot & Annotate — capture any area of the page, then add arrows, text, and highlights • Side Panel — keep WhatsApp Web open in Chrome's side panel while working in another tab • Translation — translate selected messages in 24 languages (Pro) • Pin unlimited chats • Mark all chats as read in one click • Export contacts and group members to CSV • Create Click-to-Chat links and WhatsApp QR codes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🗂️ WORKSPACE TOOLS Turn WhatsApp Web into a more organized workspace. • Notes — add private notes to individual contacts • Smart Inbox — filter chats by unread, awaiting reply, or needs follow-up, and create custom tabs (Pro) • Quick Replies — save message templates and insert them using a "/" shortcut (Pro) • Follow-ups & Reminders — flag conversations and assign due dates so you know when to reply (Pro) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 PERSONALIZATION Customize WhatsApp Web to match the way you work. • Set custom chat backgrounds using wallpapers, gradients, or solid colors • Replace WhatsApp's default green with 9 accent colors • Choose from 5 bundled fonts and 5 text sizes • Resize the chat sidebar by dragging its edge • Select from 22 built-in backgrounds or upload your own • Apply premium theme presets (Pro) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🧩 MORE WHATSAPP WEB TOOLS • See deleted messages — if someone deletes a message you already received, you can still read it in your browser • See online presence directly from your chat list • Hide read receipts and read messages without sending blue ticks • Hide typing and voice-recording indicators • View Status updates without sending a "seen" notification • Control your online visibility with Invisible Mode • View phone-number information such as country, local time, and currency ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌨️ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS • Alt + A — capture and annotate a screenshot • Alt + X — instantly blur the entire page • Alt + S — open WhatsApp Web in the Chrome side panel • Cmd + Shift + L / Ctrl + Shift + L — quickly lock the screen ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛡️ PRIVACY & DATA HANDLING Your privacy is central to how WA Web Plus works. • Chat blur, screen lock, Private Chat, deleted-message viewing, and Voice-to-Text run locally in your browser • Voice-to-Text transcribes audio on your device — the speech model downloads once and can then work offline • Your passwords never leave your browser and are stored only as a one-way hash • No account is required to use the free features • Translation is off by default and sends only the text you choose to translate to Google Translate • Anonymous usage statistics help us identify bugs and improve reliability; message content is never included ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ GETTING STARTED 1. Click "Add to Chrome" 2. Open WhatsApp Web 3. Choose the privacy and productivity features you want to use 4. Customize your settings anytime from the extension toolbar icon ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📬 SUPPORT & CONTACT Email: team.waplus@gmail.com Website: https://wawebgenie.com WA Web Plus is an independent browser extension and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by WhatsApp LLC or Meta Platforms, Inc.

Growth

WindowUsersChangeRatingsRating
7 days0+0.0%+20.00
30 days0+0.0%+30.00
6 months+17K+566.7%+69−0.24
1 year+20K+124900.0%+78+4.76

Chrome Web Store search rankings

Where WA Web Plus – Privacy Blur, Lock Screen & Chat Translator for WhatsApp Web appears when people search the store, with the 30 day change
Search phrasePosition30 days
whatsapp#53+12

Version history

23 versions recorded
1.5.221 Aug 2026
1.5.127 Jul 2026
1.5.025 Jul 2026
1.4.023 Jun 2026
1.3.913 Jun 2026
1.3.88 Jun 2026
1.3.78 Jun 2026
1.3.66 Jun 2026

Details

Category
Social Networking
First seen
17 Sep 2025
Size
6.4 MB
Languages
de, en, id, nl, tr, es, fr, it
Pricing
Free
Privacy policy
wawebgenie.com
Extension ID
malbhapfcgbblgipdpmbcaiemnkchhgh

Permissions and risk

Moderate riskimpact 2, likelihood 2
Permissions
storageoffscreenunlimitedStorageactiveTabsidePanelscripting
Site access
https://web.whatsapp.com/*

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