Beautify Post

Web extension that allows to bold and italicize text on the LinkedIn website.
What is Beautify Post?
Beautify Post is a web extension that enables users to format text by bolding, italicizing, capitalizing, and clearing text on the LinkedIn website. It is a helpful tool for creators to enhance the appearance of their posts.

Extension stats

Users: 20,000+
Version: 1.2.0 (Last updated: 2024-04-17)
Creation date: 2022-03-28
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Size: 102.29K
URLs: Website

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Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

Want to format the text in your LinkedIn posts? This extension allow you to bold and italicize text on the LinkedIn website (ONLY FOR POSTS, NOT COMMENTS). LinkedIn does not natively allow formatting, but that doesn't mean it's impossible.

Features :

  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Capitalize
  • Clear

Selecting a text inside the creation post modal will show a tooltip to bold and italic your current text.

This extension is very useful if you are a creator on LinkedIn.

If you are a developer, you can contribute to the development of this extension : https://github.com/viclafouch/beautify-post

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 Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.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
  • When it works, it effectively allows for bolding and italicizing text.
  • Some users found it worked well after troubleshooting steps like reloading the page or reinstalling the extension.
  • Positive feedback from users who appreciated the developers and suggested others to use the tool.
Cons
  • It often fails to work consistently, with many users reporting issues.
  • The extension changes the original sans-serif font to serif when applying formatting.
  • It does not work in comments, which is a significant limitation for users.
  • It struggles with non-Latin alphabets, such as Persian and Czech symbols.
Most mentioned
  • Inconsistent performance, only working intermittently.
  • Font changes to serif instead of maintaining the default font.
  • Does not work for comments on LinkedIn.
Recent reviews
It doesn't work form Mac.
by Luis Villamizar, 2024-11-08

It's great when it works but it only seems to work 10% of the time. Not sure how to make it work consistently, have tried altering the setting but no impact.
by Matt Catanzarite, 2024-10-22

Most of the time it didn't work.
by Gaurav Kumar, 2024-08-11
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Beautify Post requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Beautify Post has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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