Privacy Policy
Chickadee does not collect, transmit, store, or share any personal data. There is no server, so there is nothing to collect it with.
What happens to the page you read
Chickadee reads the text of the page you are viewing so it can speak it aloud. That text is processed entirely inside your own browser. It is never sent to us and never sent to a third party. Speech is generated locally by one of two models running on your own computer, Kokoro-82M or Paradee.
The only network request
Paradee is included in the extension, so using it makes no network request at all.
When you use Kokoro, Chickadee downloads the Kokoro-82M voice model (about 310 MB) from Hugging Face the first time. This is a one-time download of a static, public file. It is then cached in your browser and the extension works offline afterwards. The request contains no information about you, the page you are reading, or the text being spoken.
What is stored on your device
Your chosen model, voice and default speed are stored with Chrome’s storage.sync API. If you are signed into Chrome these sync across your own devices through your Google account, exactly like your other Chrome settings. We have no access to them. The Kokoro model, once downloaded, is cached in your browser’s storage.
Permissions, and why each is needed
- activeTab — access to the one page you ask it to read, granted only when you start the reader (toolbar button, ⌥R, or the right-click menu). It has no access to any other tab and is never loaded into pages ahead of time.
- scripting — to run the reader on that tab on demand.
- storage — to remember your model, voice and speed.
- contextMenus — to add the “Read aloud from here” right-click item.
Analytics and tracking
The extension has none. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no cookies, no identifiers, no advertising.
This website uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page views. It sets no cookies and stores no personal identifiers; the extension never talks to it.
Changes
Any change to this policy will be published with a new version of the extension.
Contact
Open an issue at github.com/sahilmahendrakar/chickadee/issues.