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ChatPanel — your AI assistnat beside every tab: notes, meetings, any model

Browser side panel (Chrome, Edge, Brave & Arc) · private by default · any model or agent

Your AI, your data, right beside the web.

Notes, meetings, and whatever tab you're on — in one panel that runs on your machine. Bring any model or agent and swap between them mid-conversation, while sensitive details are anonymized before they leave your browser and restored in the reply you read. No ChatPanel server in the middle.

Manual install

Chat the moment you install — a private AI model runs right in your browser, no API key, no account, nothing to set up.

Works in Chrome, Edge, Brave & Arc. Move to a local model, a cloud API, or your own agent anytime.

A side panel isn't the point — every browser ships one now. The point is that this one is yours: your model or agent, your notes and meetings as context, your sensitive data anonymized before it ever leaves the browser.

What actually makes it different

Six things a built-in browser assistant won't do for you.

Privacy first

Nothing leaves without your say

No ChatPanel server sits in the path. Emails, phones, cards and keys — and with on-device AI, names, orgs and locations — are anonymized on your machine before a request goes out, then de-anonymized in the reply. The same protection can wrap the agents you already use.

Note taking

A notebook your AI writes with you

Linked, wiki-style notes your AI can research, co-write and restructure alongside you — capture from any page, then turn a selection into a plan without leaving the panel.

Meetings

A meeting assistant for every major platform

Zoom, Meet, Teams and Webex — running notes, decisions and action items straight from the live captions. It all happens in your browser: no bot joins your call, nothing is uploaded.

Independence

Never locked to one model

The in-browser model, Ollama or LM Studio on your laptop, 20+ cloud APIs, or agents like Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity under your own logins — switch between them mid-conversation.

Shared context

One memory across everything

Notes, meetings and past chats live in a single searchable store, so an answer can draw on last week's call, a note from March, and the page in front of you at once.

Real tools

Actions, not just answers

MCP servers and browser actions give your AI real reach — and when you point it at a coding agent, its own tools come with it, so you get the full power of what you already pay for.

Privacy that travels with you

Anonymize sensitive data before it reaches any model

ChatPanel strips PII out of everything you send — emails, phones, cards and keys, plus (with on-device AI) names, organizations and locations — and puts it back in the reply you read. The model only ever sees opaque placeholders; your real values are restored for you.

Reversible anonymization swaps a value for a placeholder the model can still reason about, then restores it for you. Pseudonymize permanently swaps a name for an alias. Detection runs locally, you choose which categories to protect — and the same protection extends to the agents you already use, so Claude Code, Codex or any OpenAI-compatible client can sit behind it too.

Free: secrets Pro: AI auto-detect

You typeI'm John from San Jose — call 932-043-4444

↓ anonymized on your device ↓

The model seesI'm [[PERSON_1]] from [[LOCATION_1]] — call [[PHONE_1]]

↑ restored in your reply ↑

Model & agent independence

Never locked to one model

Start on the in-browser model, move to Ollama on your laptop, jump to a cloud API, then hand the same conversation to Claude Code, Codex or Antigravity running under your own logins. Switch mid-conversation — your panel, history and tools don't change.

A one-time helper app connects the local agents. Prefer a cloud or local model instead? Skip the helper and point ChatPanel straight at it.

Free Quick setup

Real abilities

Give your AI hands — and borrow your agent's

On its own, a chat model can only talk. Add MCP tools from a built-in directory and it can search, pull in live data, and work with your other apps on your behalf. Point the panel at a coding agent and its own tools come along too, so you get the full power of the agent you already pay for — right inside the chat.

Start with one tool for free; add as many as you like with Pro. Advanced users can even share their own browser back to other agents.

Free More with Pro Quick setup

Shared context

Your notes, meetings and chats — one memory

Everything you capture lands in a single searchable store on your computer: past conversations, linked notes, and meeting transcripts. Ask a question and the answer can draw on last week's call and the page you're on. Open a visual map of it all, grouped by topic, and jump straight back in.

Free

Meetings

A meeting assistant for every major platform

On Zoom, Meet, Teams, and Webex, ChatPanel turns the live captions into running notes, decisions, and action items — plus a transcript you can search or ask about afterward. It runs entirely in your browser: no bot joins the call, and nothing is uploaded.

Reads the meeting's captions only — never your audio or video. Free covers your first 10 meetings; Pro is unlimited.

Free: first 10 Pro: unlimited Quick setup

Skills

Your go-to prompts, one tap away

Save the things you ask for again and again — summarize, explain, review — as one-tap shortcuts. Use the built-ins, or write your own and drop them into any chat.

Free Custom with Pro

And a few more things

Smaller touches that add up. Most take a quick one-time setup.

On-screen context

Ask about what you're looking at Free

Pull in the current tab, other tabs you pick, highlighted text, or a link you paste — and only when you ask for it.

Browser actions

Let it fill forms & click Free

Turn on Act on Page and ask in plain words. ChatPanel fills in fields, picks options, and clicks for you — only when you switch it on, and it checks with you before sensitive steps.

Diagrams & whiteboards

Draw on canvas apps, cleanly Pro

On Excalidraw, draw.io, and tldraw, your agent builds shapes as structured data — exact positions, in one pass — instead of nudging the mouse around. Flowcharts, diagrams, and wireframes come out crisp. On Free it falls back to slow pixel-drawing.

In-browser AI

Chat instantly, no setup Free

The moment you install, a small private model runs right in your browser on WebGPU — no API key, no account, nothing to run. Your first message downloads it once (~700 MB), then it works offline. Want more power? Connect Ollama or LM Studio, or bring your own API key. Nothing you type ever leaves your machine.

Your own agent

Plug in any command-line tool Pro

Already use OpenCode, Pi, or a script of your own? Point ChatPanel at it and it works like any built-in agent.

Export & backup

Take your data anywhere Pro

Back up your settings and conversations to a single file, then restore them on another machine.

Switch freely

Many agents, one panel Free

Set up several agents and models, then switch between them in the middle of a conversation.

Notes

Capture anything, link everything Free

Capture anything into linked notes with [[wiki-links]], then let your AI co-write, research across your workspace and the web, and turn a selection into a plan — right in the note. Free keeps your first 10 notes; Pro is unlimited.

Voice

Talk instead of type Free

With the Gateway installed, speech-to-text runs on your own machine — dictate chats, notes, and questions, transcribed locally by an on-device model. Your audio never leaves your computer, and no cloud key is needed.

Bring almost any AI provider

Choose from 20+ ready-made presets or add your own. Many providers have free tiers. Sign in or paste a key — whichever yours uses — and your credentials stay in your browser.

Sign in

No keys to copy

For providers that support it, just sign in from the panel. No tokens to paste or manage.

OpenRouter Hugging Face Gemini

Paste a key

Hosted APIs & free tiers

Presets fill in the technical bits and link you to where each key lives. Some providers ask for billing or credits.

OpenAI Anthropic Google AI Studio NVIDIA Groq Mistral Cohere Cerebras DIDeepInfra FFireworks TTogether xAI GitHub Models Cloudflare

Your own server

Private & local endpoints

Point ChatPanel at a private gateway or a model running on your own machine. Full control over the connection.

Ollama LMLM Studio LCllama.cpp VLvLLM +Custom

Setting one up takes about a minute: pick a provider, add your sign-in or key, load the model list, and run a quick Test to confirm it works.

Private by design

ChatPanel has no cloud in the middle. Your prompts, keys, notes, meetings and history stay on your machine; what you send goes straight to the AI you picked — anonymized first, if you want it — and nowhere else.

On your machine

Local-first

Conversations, notes, meeting transcripts, keys and settings live on your computer. Content only ever goes to the model or agent you chose.

Anonymized on the way out

The model sees placeholders

Names, emails, phones, cards and keys are swapped for tokens before a request leaves your browser, then restored in the reply — and the same shield can front your existing agents.

No middleman

We never see your chats

There's no ChatPanel server in the path. We don't store, route, or read your conversations — ever.

Up and running in minutes

Free, no account, and it works on its own with the model you pick.

1Install the extension

Add ChatPanel from the Chrome Web Store or Microsoft Edge Add-ons. About a minute.

2Connect an AI — or don't

Chat on the in-browser model straight away, or point it at a provider, a local model, or your own agents. Run Test and you're set.

3Start chatting

Open the panel on any tab. Upgrade to Pro anytime — it activates instantly.

Simple pricing

Start free. Pay once and own Pro, or keep it monthly — your call.

Free

$0

One local agent — Claude Code, Codex, or Antigravity

One model of your choice — cloud or local

Ask about the current tab or a pasted link

Let it fill forms and click for you

One tool from the built-in directory

Anonymize secrets before they're sent

Your first 10 notes and 10 meetings

Searchable history across chats, notes & meetings

Get started

Best value

Pro

$89 $49 Limited offerone-time · yours forever

$42/yr~$3.50/mo, billed yearly

$5/mocancel anytime

Everything in Free

All your agents & models unlocked

Bring your own command-line agent

Unlimited tools from the directory

Use several tabs or your whole window as context

Clean diagrams on Excalidraw, draw.io & tldraw

Unlimited notes & meeting notes — Zoom, Meet, Teams & Webex

AI auto-detect anonymization — names, orgs & locations

Create your own skills

Export & back up your conversations

Buy once — $49 Get Pro — $42/yr Get Pro — $5/mo

or $5/mo · $42/yr

or buy once for $49

or buy once for $49

Lifetime covers the v1 Pro feature set, forever. Cloud/Team features are separate. Limited-offer terms apply.

Team

Let's talkannual or self-hosted

Everything in Pro

Cloud sync across devices

Shared team agents & skills

Hosted agents — no helper to run

SSO & admin

Contact us

Per-seat annual for cloud, or a one-time license if you self-host. We'll size it to your team.

Two ways to get Pro — both activate in the extension

On this site Buy here, then restore

Check out above, then open ChatPanel → the License tab → “Restore Pro on this device”, enter your purchase email, and we'll email a one-tap activation link. Other devices on the same Chrome profile activate automatically.

In the extension Buy inside ChatPanel

Open ChatPanel → the License tab → “Subscribe to Pro”. Pro activates on that device the moment checkout finishes — no email step — and follows your purchase email to your other devices.

Limited-offer terms. This limited-offer price is a promotional discount available for a lim

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