Screenick

Click when bored. Twelve full-screen visual pranks for whatever tab you are on, on demand or on a timer.

Screenick turns whatever tab you're on into a two-second prank. Click the toolbar icon, pick an effect, and a full-screen animation plays over the real page, then cleans itself up. Nothing on the page is changed. TWELVE EFFECTS • Prison bars: rusted steel bars slam down and cast shadows on the page. • Screen crack: the glass shatters and bends the page through every crack. • Glitch: the page corrupts like a failing video signal. • Confetti: paper flutters down and piles up on the page's own edges. • Fireworks: night falls and every burst lights up the page. • Bug invasion: ladybirds and ants explore the layout. Click one to squash it. • Web slinger: a masked figure drops from the page's header on a line. • Web shooter: click anything on the page to web it. • Underwater: water rises and the page wobbles under caustics and fish. • Deep freeze: frost grows over the glass and blurs the page behind it. • Thunderstorm: rain runs down the glass and lightning lights the page. • Black hole: bends the page around it, then swallows it whole. Or hit Surprise me for a random one. YOU CHOOSE HOW LONG Effects last 3, 6, 12 or 30 seconds. Each one plays its intro at full speed, holds, and finishes exactly on time. A countdown ring on the close button shows what's left, and Esc ends any effect early. BOOK ONE FOR LATER Schedules play an effect at a time and on the days you pick, on whichever tab you're looking at. Friday at 4 PM, every weekday at 9:30, whatever helps. KEYBOARD FRIENDLY Number keys 1 to = play effects straight from the popup, R plays a random one, and you can assign a Chrome shortcut that plays Surprise me without opening the popup. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no analytics, no network requests. Screenick never sends anything anywhere. • Effects read a screenshot of the visible tab so they can bend and relight it. That image stays in your browser's memory and is discarded when the effect ends. • By default Screenick only touches the one tab you clicked it on. Schedules need broader tab access because they fire without a click, so that permission is optional, asked for only when you turn schedules on, and can be switched off from the same place. ACCESSIBLE Respects reduced motion (no camera shake, softer glitch, fewer particles, no lightning flash), reduced transparency and high-contrast settings. Glitch caps its strobing at three short cycles and Thunderstorm keeps its flashes well below full white. Screenick can't run on Chrome's own pages (chrome://, the Chrome Web Store, other extensions, the built-in PDF viewer). The popup tells you when that's the case.