Caret

Professional text editing for Chrome and Chrome OS

Caret - Professional Text Editing for Chrome and Chrome OS

Caret is an offline, professional text editor extension for Chrome and Chrome OS. Modeled after Sublime Text, its features include tabbed editing, syntax highlighting, project view, 'go to' functionality and multiple keystrokes. It's designed to assist developers, providing a serious programming environment without needing to install another OS.

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By: https://thomaswilburn.net

Users: -

Rating: 4.58

(1,261)

Version: 1.8.25 (Last updated: 2020-06-21)

Creation date: 2020-06-21

Permissions:

clipboardRead
clipboardWrite
contextMenus
storage
notifications
syncFileSystem
app.window.fullscreen.overrideEsc
{"fileSystem":["write","retainEntries","directory"]}

Size: 2.14M

Email: ca*****@thomaswilburn.net

URLs: Website

Full description: See detailed description

Ranking

# 172,098 ▼ 171,253

Other rankings

#2606 in Developer Tools ▼ 5

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Great text editor specifically for Chrome OS.
Fast performance even on large files.
Supports a variety of programming languages with syntax highlighting.
User-friendly interface with customizable themes.
Free to use.

Cons

Auto-launch feature cannot be disabled.
Some users experience freezing or crashing issues.
Missing features like project directory autoload.
Problems with certain encoding options (e.g., windows-1251).
Limited settings menu for user customization.

Most mentioned

Great for Chromebook users.
Syntax highlighting for multiple programming languages.
Issues with performance and stability.
Requests for dark mode and settings access.
Positive feedback on overall usability and functionality.

User reviews

Without this text editor, Chromebook is useless. Kudos to Thomas Wilburn.

Santhiratan Mandyam, 2024-12-02

Not great. Often freezes and loses data more often than I care to put up with. I'm now in search of a replacement given that these issues persistent across two separate devices (a Chrome OS workstation and Chrome OS laptop) and multiple OS versions.

Jessica Theodat, 2024-10-25

Very solid text editor with a lot of themes. Only giving it 4 stars because of the feature which lets you write multiple lines at one with Ctrl+Up/Down; that tends to get annoying very quickly.

Andrew P, 2024-05-26

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Caret requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

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Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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