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WebChatGPT

Free

Augment your ChatGPT prompts with relevant results from the web.

FreeFree tier
Type
Open Source

About WebChatGPT

WebChatGPT is a free Chrome extension that enhances ChatGPT by providing real-time web search results, enabling more accurate and up-to-date conversations. It adds relevant web results directly to your prompts, allowing both free and ChatGPT Plus users to access internet data without relying solely on OpenAI's browsing feature (which is only available to Plus users). The extension also includes a one-click prompt library with hundreds of high-quality prompts for tasks like marketing, sales, copywriting, operations, productivity, and customer support, plus a prompt management tool to create and reuse custom templates. Additionally, WebChatGPT offers AI-powered answers alongside search results on popular search engines, supporting ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, and Bing AI. It is faster, lighter, and more controllable than built-in browsing, and works seamlessly with GPT-3.5 to reserve GPT-4 usage for other tasks.

Key Features

Web access: get web results, scrape entire search result pages, extract text from any URL
One-click ChatGPT prompts library with hundreds of high-quality prompts for daily tasks and small business problems
Prompt management tool to create, save, and reuse custom prompt templates
AI-powered search answers alongside search results on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and more
Compatible with ChatGPT (free and Plus), GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Claude, Bard, and Bing AI
Faster, lighter, and more controllable than OpenAI's built-in browsing feature
All processing happens locally in the browser; no backend server

Pros & Cons

Pros
  • Free to use with no subscription required
  • Provides web browsing capability to all ChatGPT users, including free tier
  • No backend server; all processing is local and private
  • Offers a large library of ready-to-use prompts for various business functions
  • Absolutely controllable: users choose what web content to include in prompts
  • Works with multiple AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, Bing AI) and search engines
  • Lighter and faster than OpenAI's official browsing feature
Cons
  • Requires permission to access all websites, which may raise privacy concerns
  • May conflict with other ChatGPT extensions, causing toolbar to not display
  • Compatibility issues reported; disabled other extensions may be needed
  • Free version may have limited functionality compared to potential future paid tiers (not confirmed)

Best For

Getting accurate, up-to-date information for ChatGPT conversationsMarketing copywriting with one-click promptsSales outreach and lead generationBusiness operations and productivity tasksCustomer support automationResearch and data extraction from web pagesSpeeding up repetitive tasks with custom prompt templates

FAQ

Why does the extension ask for access to all websites?
The extension requires access to all websites because there is no backend server to process web requests. Web searching requires access to search engines, and URL text extraction requires access to any website. Everything happens locally in the browser.
The extension does not work and the toolbar does not show up. What can I do?
Some other ChatGPT extensions are known to interfere with WebChatGPT. Try disabling any other ChatGPT extensions you have installed and reload the page. If issues persist, reach out for help on the WebChatGPT Discord server.