Upgrade+

All-in-one browser upgrade with focus controls, ad and tracker blocking, YouTube tools, themes and local activity insights.

Upgrade+ — your browser, upgraded. Fewer distractions. Useful tools. A browser that feels like yours. Upgrade+ brings focus, privacy, website controls and everyday tools together in one Chrome extension. Open the extension menu, find your favourite tools and adjust the features that matter to you. You don't need an account to use the extension. A calmer web • Block ads and common trackers, with controls for individual websites. • Automatically reject optional cookies in supported consent banners. • Remove tracking information from links before sharing them. • Hide distracting page elements and restore them when you want. Focus your way • Block selected websites or categories, for a set time, on a schedule, or until you turn blocking off. • Choose your own time limits and adjust what you see in your feeds. • Hide short videos, comments, counts such as views and likes, or notification badges on supported websites. • Stop the next video from playing automatically on supported websites. • See how much active time you spend on websites, with daily, weekly and monthly views stored on your device. Your websites, your choices • Find dedicated controls for popular supported websites. • Adjust YouTube Shorts, playback quality, theatre mode and caption preferences. • Show estimated dislike counts through Return YouTube Dislike where available. • Adjust recommendations with More and Less choices and rules for content creators or topics on supported websites. This changes what you see among the recommendations the website offers. • Hide GIFs in supported comment sections while keeping the comment text and replies. • Filter Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo search results by domains or phrases. Add your own search shortcuts and search engines. • Reduce shopping distractions such as countdowns and extra product suggestions on supported shops. Useful tools, right at hand • Record a tab, window, screen or camera, and take screenshots of a page or selected area. • Adjust a tab's volume and video playback speed, and use captions on supported sources. • Find open tabs, save tab sessions, search the web and manage inactive tabs. • Calculate, convert units and currencies, set a timer, keep local notes and generate passwords on your device. • Find tools for removing tracking information from links, controlling music, managing extensions and your browser's resource use in the same menu. Read and work with text Use the floating text toolbar for reading aloud, translation, word meanings, summaries and dictation. Some features need a language pack downloaded first. Optional AI writing tools that run on your device are experimental. Review their suggestions before using them. Make it yours Choose from 19 tools and arrange the extension menu around the ones you use. Customise the right-click menu and keyboard shortcuts. Choose from eight theme options, five display profiles and different accent colours. Use one look across Upgrade+ or adjust individual areas. Export and import your settings, and choose whether your browser syncs the settings that support it. Choose what stays on. Pause Upgrade+ on all websites or on one website when you need to. Available features depend on the website, Chrome version, language and installed language packs or models. Recording and screenshots require browser permission. Some speech, translation and AI tools require additional downloads or the Upgrade+ Companion helper app. Captions created from tab audio on your device and experimental tools are marked Beta. Return YouTube Dislike shows estimated dislike counts, not official counts from YouTube. Simple to use. Built with care.