Tweaks for Google Voice™

Make your Google Voice page a little better.

Tweaks for Google Voice™ is a Chrome extension designed to enhance your Google Voice page by adding useful features. It provides a convenient call, message, and voicemail counter directly on the page icon and title, helping you stay updated at a glance. The extension also keeps your Google Voice page up to date in the background, ensuring that your information is always current without manual refresh.

With regular updates and improvements, including a major update and bug fixes, Tweaks for Google Voice™ optimizes your communication experience by streamlining notifications and improving usability. It requires permission to access voice.google.com to apply these enhancements directly to your Google Voice interface.

Manifest V3
Users:
4,000+
Rating:
3.90
(39)
Version:
3.2.5 (Last updated: 2024-10-02)
Creation date:
2018-07-18
Size:
19.54K
Full description:
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Updated:
a day ago

User reviews

Tweaks for Google Voice™ enhances the user experience by adding background refresh and a message notification counter, improving usability for heavy Google Voice users. However, multiple users report issues with unreliable or inaccurate notification counts, forced page reloads that interrupt calls, and compatibility problems with the new Google Voice interface. While the extension is praised for efficiency and simplicity, users desire more configurability and better integration with the updated Google Voice platform.
Pros
  • Effectively enhances Google Voice's features and overall user experience.
  • Provides useful background refresh capability to keep Google Voice updated.
  • Adds a notification counter for unread messages (though functionality varies).
  • Background refresh runs efficiently without heavy CPU usage.
  • Useful for users who rely on Google Voice extensively, especially since Hangouts shutdown.
Cons
  • Notification counter sometimes fails to update or counts messages inaccurately, especially with multiple messages from the same contact.
  • Extension forcibly reloads the voice tab, causing interruptions such as dropped calls.
  • Appears to be incompatible or obsolete with the new Google Voice interface; works mainly with the legacy version.
  • Lacks configurable options for notifications, such as a distinct red dot indicator.
  • Refreshes can be distracting, especially if they occur during typing or reading without an option to disable flashing.
Recent reviews
Does what it claims to do well. I was frankly surprised a notification icon was missing from the tab. Only suggestion would be to add a configuration to allow showing a simple red "dot" if there's any unread items (similar to Google Chat). It stands out much better.
by Jason Capriotti, 2024-03-14

This provides a Minor tweak. What i would really like to see is better "sync" between contacts, text messages and calls. IT is really choppy in the native GV interface. IT's like they are all separate and do not really work together as one. Would like to see the text/SMS/MMS functionality improved and work with contacts and call history, etc. IT is a very frustrating thing to find history of text messages for a contact - too many steps to get the full history when searching by name or by a keyword, etc. Probably the "BIG G" is going to let this die, along with many other features and tools, etc. It is an indication when they STOP improving and allow it to "degrade" instead of adding features or other enhancements. I wonder if it would work better on a Google phone...?

Does something. If I get 1 message from 1 number its counts as 1 on the counter. If I get more messages from the same number the counter just stays at 1 instead of counting up. Did not add counter to app version on taskbar. I use the install as chrome app function(upper right corner of address bar in google chrome when on the voice.google.com page). This installs google voice as an app to your PC. I was hoping this extension would put a counter on and highlight the windows taskbar icon. overall meh. Good idea. Pretty niche use, maybe hard to justify the work to make it do more.
by Richard Thomas, 2023-11-05
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Extension safety

Risk impact
Low risk impact

Tweaks for Google Voice™ requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details
  • High Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
Risk likelihood
Moderate risk likelihood

Tweaks for Google Voice™ is probably trust-worthy. Prefer other publishers if available. Exercise caution when installing this extension.

Risk likelihood analysis details
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