Features & Capabilities
User Growth & Download Statistics
- By:
- Google Ireland, Ltd.
- Users:
- 200,000
- Rating:
- 4.78 (275)
1 ratings
- Version:
- 0.4.10 Last updated: 2024-11-20
- Creation date:
- 2020-06-26
- Publisher country:
IE
- Risk:
- Very low risk impact Moderate risk likelihood
- Permissions:
- Size:
- 5.38MB
- Email:
- pa*****@google.com
- URLs:
- Website
- Full description:
- See detailed description
- Source:
- Chrome Web Store
- Data ingested on:
- 2026-06-03
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Publisher Change History
2025-09-18: ar*****@google.com to pa*****@google.com
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Permission Change History
2024-04-18: Version 0.3.55 → 0.4.1
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User Reviews
Pros
- In-browser editing and direct manipulation (move elements, adjust sizes, colors, fonts, and spacing) with instant feedback.
- Easy to use and time-saving for design checks and edits.
- Great for design research, rapid prototyping, and visual QA; helps bridge design intent with front-end implementation.
- Powerful and versatile tool with broad appeal to designers and developers.
- Free to use as noted by multiple users.
Cons
- Missing undo function for edits.
- Lacks a snip/screenshot tool for pixel-perfect work.
- Intermittent reliability: doesnt always open or show up (flaky initialization).
- Occasional UI bugs or errors (e.g., trouble exiting or closing).
Recent reviews
Great extension overall. It takes a little time to get comfortable with at first, but once you do, it works really well for quickly rearranging elements on a page while building with Claude Code.
A few improvements would make it much easier to use:
1. Add a reset / revert option
There should be a button that resets the page back to its original state, or at least lets you undo all current changes and start over.
2. Add layer order controls
It would help to have a way to increase or decrease the layer position of elements while moving them. Right now, it is too easy to accidentally move a button or page element and drop it behind something else.
3. Add a collapsible layers panel
A collapsible panel on the right side showing the page structure and layers would be very useful. It should list elements such as divs, buttons, input fields, and other components in a visual hierarchy.
This would make it much easier to:
see the structure of the page at a glance
select specific elements from a list
highlight where an element is on the page when clicked
find and work on elements that are otherwise hard to locate in the browser
Overall, this is already a very useful tool. These additions would make it much more practical for layout work and visual editing.
by
Ra*****, 2026-04-19
Great! Help for design research: sizes, colors, fonts. I can move elements or change its
by
Ju*****, 2026-03-13
Work on an undo feature please, so frustrating!!!
by
Sa*****, 2026-03-10
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