Playfull by URLflows

Save your favorite streams and play them in a compact mini player. The toolbar icon shows how many are playing.

The streams you listen to while you work are scattered across bookmarks and tabs: a radio station here, a live channel there, a playlist you keep meaning to save. Playfull by URLflows keeps them in one list, plays any of them with one click, and shows on the toolbar icon how many are playing. HOW IT WORKS 1. Save a stream in Settings → Library: paste any address, from a radio station's live stream to a streaming site, a podcast or a direct audio or video file. 2. Click the toolbar icon and press Play. Audio plays right there, with no window, and keeps playing after the panel closes. 3. Want to see it? Pop it out into a small player window with no address bar or tabs, or into a normal tab. 4. The number on the toolbar icon shows how many things are playing, so a forgotten stream never plays on unnoticed. STATIONS TO START WITH A fresh install comes with a long list of live music and public radio stations, each checked in October 2026 and sorted by category. There are no talk or political stations. Two start switched on. Switch on the ones you like and delete the rest; you can put any back later from Suggested streams. THE TOOLBAR PANEL - Now playing: control each stream from the panel, pop it out, or close them all at once. - Your enabled streams, in your own order (drag them into place) or most recently played first. - Buttons that open the panel in Chrome's side panel, or in its own small window that reopens where you left it. Settings chooses which of the three the toolbar icon opens. THE MINI PLAYER - Common audio and video files and live streams play in Playfull's own player, with picture in picture for video. - Any other address opens as the page itself in the compact player window. - Choose where each stream plays, or let Playfull decide from the address. - Small, medium or large; player windows reopen where and at the size you left them. - Several players can run at once; playing one that is already open brings it to the front. OTHER TABS (OPTIONAL, OFF BY DEFAULT) Turn on Other tabs to list every other tab playing sound in the toolbar panel too, so you can control it or save it to your streams. Chrome asks once for permission to read your tabs, and turning the feature off gives that permission back. Pausing and playing a web page's own player needs that site's permission, which Chrome asks for the first time you press pause or play there; Settings lists every site you've allowed, each removable. SETTINGS A settings page with a search box (press / to jump to it) that finds any setting. A first install opens it at Getting started. - Library: manage and sort your streams, filter by category, and bring back the suggested stations. - Mini player: window or tab, player size, and whether files start straight away. - Toolbar badge: show the playing count, and whether other tabs playing sound count too. - Other tabs: the tab listing and the sites allowed pause and play. - Appearance: Dark and Light, plus seasonal and holiday themes (Auto follows the current season). Customize any theme's colors and keep your version alongside the original. An optional seasonal animation, off by default, plays behind the toolbar panel and the mini player window. - Backup & restore: export your streams and settings to one file, and import it again on this machine or another. - Resets: reset any area on its own, or everything at once. - About: the version, what the extension can access, and the other URLflows extensions. PRIVACY There are no accounts or servers. Your streams and settings are saved in Chrome's local storage on your own machine; nothing about your streams or what you play is collected or sent. The streams you choose to play are fetched straight from their own sites. It sends a few anonymous usage counts, such as which buttons get used, to help improve it; you can turn them off in Settings. If you uninstall, Chrome opens a short feedback form; answering it is optional. The extension runs nothing on the sites you visit unless you allow pause and play on that site, and then only to pause or resume its audio and video. Playfull by URLflows is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of the broadcasters or sites whose streams it can play. Station names are the trademarks of their owners. Part of the URLflows family: https://urlflows.app/