What Is This? Guide

Understand what is visible in your current Chrome tab without leaving the page. > > What Is This? Guide captures only the visible area of the active tab after you choose “Capture visible tab privately.” Chrome’s built-in on-device AI analyzes that temporary image and returns a structured guide in Chrome’s side panel. > > Choose whether you want to identify, explain, troubleshoot, compare, or follow a step-by-step process. Add an optional goal, crop the capture to what matters, and answer one clarification question when the guide needs more context. > > Privacy by design: > • Processing happens on your device with Chrome’s built-in AI. > • Screenshots and your typed context are held only in Chrome session storage. > • Nothing is uploaded to us or another guide server. > • No account, subscription, advertising, analytics, or tracking is included. > • The extension does not separately access the page URL, page title, DOM, form fields, cookies, password manager, or browsing history. > • A screenshot can contain sensitive information that is visible on the page; review the page and crop before processing it.