AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Open Claude in Chrome
Claude in Chrome, reverse-engineered and open-source. No domain blocklist. Any Chromium browser. Same 18 MCP tools, same performance. - noemica-io/open-claude-in-chrome
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Claude in Chrome▲491Let Claude see, click, type, and navigate in your browser
Dec 2025 · claude.ai · its alternatives →
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Glance ▲87Real browser for Claude Code Test, Screenshot, Automate
Mar 2026 · glance.debugbase.io · its alternatives →
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Let Claude use your computer from the CLI
Mar 2026 · code.claude.com · its alternatives →
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Free alternative to claude for chrome extension
2025 · claudechrome.com · its alternatives →
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A new way to delegate coding tasks right from your browser
2025 · claude.com · its alternatives →
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DevLensPro▲98AI-powered debugging for Claude Code. Point, click, fix
Jan 2026 · devlens.pro · its alternatives →
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Open Browser Use▲112Open-source browser automation for local AI agents
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I got tired of playwright-mcp eating through Claude's 200K token limit, so I built this using the new Claude Skills system. Built it with Claude Code itself. Instead of sending accessibility tree snapshots on every action, Claude just writes Playwright code and runs it. You get back screenshots and console output. That's it. 314 lines of instructions vs a persistent MCP server. Full API docs only load if Claude needs them. Same browser automation, way less overhead. Works as a Claude Code plugin or manual install. Token limit issue:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Agent Bar▲162Run Claude Code from your menu bar
Feb 2026 · aayushbuilds.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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AlliHat▲96I think we all have a similar flow and pain with browsers and AI. Copy article, paste in Claude tab, come back to article, back to Claude, in circles we go. Anthropic has a Chrome extension, but my daily driver is Safari. So I made my own extension. It's not a clone as I've never used the Chrome version. One obvious change: the Chrome version I believe uses Chrome "request sidebar" thing. And Safari doesn't have that, so had to inject the sidebar right in the site html itself. There's been some fun things in here like figuring out the sidebar html/css sandboxing. Also there's an agent…
May 2026 · allihat.com · its alternatives →
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OP here. I built this because I recently caught myself almost pasting a block of logs containing AWS keys into Claude. The Problem: I need the reasoning capabilities of cloud models (GPT/Claude/Gemini), but I can't trust myself not to accidentally leak PII or secrets. The Solution: A Chrome extension that acts as a local middleware. It intercepts the prompt and runs a local BERT model (via a Python FastAPI backend) to scrub names, emails, and keys before the request leaves the browser. A few notes up front (to set expectations clearly): Everything runs 100% locally. Regex detection…
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Smooth CLI (https://www.smooth.sh) is a browser that agents like Claude Code can use to navigate the web reliably, quickly, and affordably. It lets agents specify tasks using natural language, hiding UI complexity, and allowing them to focus on higher-level intents to carry out complex web tasks. It can also use your IP address while running browsers in the cloud, which helps a lot with roadblocks like captchas (https://docs.smooth.sh/features/use-my-ip). Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62jthcU705k Docs start at…
Feb 2026 · docs.smooth.sh · its alternatives →
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claude-devtools▲144See everything Claude Code hides from your terminal
Feb 2026 · claude-dev.tools · its alternatives →
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I've been experimenting with Claude Code, ChatGPT Agent, and OpenClaw to perform more open-ended tasks for me online. A big blocker I've hit on shopping and research tasks is the agent getting a key piece of info wrong. For example, in one case, my agent decided to add a brand I don't like to the cart because the site flagged it as almost sold out The HN crowd is probably pretty aware of the threats and can avoid them while browsing. But what about their agents? I tried prompting, but it was ineffective, because once the AI saw the threat, it polluted/distracted its context Looking at…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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As I started to use Claude Code to do more random tasks I realized I could basically build any CLI tool and it would use it. So I built one that controls the browser and open-sourced it. It should work with Codex or any other CLI-based agent! I have a long term idea where the models are all local and then the tool is privacy preserving because it's easy to remove PII from text, but I'd definitely not recommend using this for anything important just yet. You'll need a Gemini key until I (or someone else) figure out how to distill a local version out of that part of the pipeline. Github link:…
2025 · cli-agents.click · its alternatives →
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Turn any OpenAI-compatible API into a Claude Code backend
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Claude Code in Chrome, looking at the same page as you
Aug 2026 · lizard.build · its alternatives →
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I wanted to be able to code with Claude anytime, anywhere — walking, commuting, or at a café. So I built a browser-based terminal for Claude Code! - Zero-config, instant REPL - Works on mobile and tablets (Chrome, Safari) - WASM-powered performance Let me know what you think.
2025 · webcode.sh · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, we just shipped a browser with an inbuilt MCP server! We're a YC startup (S24) building BrowserOS — an open‑source Chromium fork. We're a privacy‑first alternative to the new wave of AI browsers like Dia, Perplexity Comet. Since launching ~3 months ago, the #1 request has been to expose our browser as an MCP server. -- Google beat us to launch with chrome-devtools-mcp (solid product btw), which lets you build/debug web apps by connecting Chrome to coding assistants. But we wanted to take this a step further: we packaged the MCP server directly into our browser binary. That gives…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We built BrowserCode, a FOSS web app to run TUI agents (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, others coming soon) fully in the browser, locally. To use BrowserCode, you'll need to login to each CLI with the corresponding login, i.e. with your Anthropic account or API key. All the data and execution stays completely local to the browser and it's persistent across sessions thanks to a disk backend based on the Origin Private File System API or IndexedDB. This is running the unmodified Claude Code (and Gemini CLI) command-line tool in browser using BrowserPod (https://browserpod.io), a…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source AI coding platform with Web IDE and multi-agent
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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