Free for Chrome
Open a new tab and type whatever is on your mind. Questions go to your AI. Websites just open. You never have to pick.
Try typing something. This box is really working.
Go on, type in it. It is the real thing, not a video.
That is the whole trick, and you never have to think about it. Scroll through a few things you might type and watch where each one goes.
what should I make for dinner
Asks ChatGPT Your question lands in ChatGPT, ready to go.
Anything that reads like a sentence goes to whichever AI you picked. No quotes, no special key, no menu. You type it and press Enter.
Type an address and you just land on it, exactly like the address bar. Archer does not get clever and turn it into a search.
This is where most launchers trip. They spot a dot and assume you meant a website. Archer checks properly, so node.js stays a question and claude.ai stays a website.
The point is not any single one of these. It is that you stop deciding. One box handles both, every time you open a tab.
The time, the weather, the handful of sites you really use, and whatever you were in the middle of. No news feed, no ads, nothing blinking at you.
Archer does not have its own chatbot and is not trying to sell you one. Point it at whatever you use and it stays out of the way.
Pick one and every question you type opens there, already written out in the box, waiting for you to hit send. Switch whenever you feel like it. You will need an account with them, the same free one you would use anyway.
Most people start here
Answers can appear on the new tab itself, without opening anything. This one is for tinkerers: it needs your own OpenAI key, and you pay them directly for what you use.
Questions can just go to your normal search engine instead. Nothing changes.
The buttons sit right above the box. One click, no settings page.
Shift and Enter forces a website. Command and Enter forces a question.
If you would rather nothing ever opened by itself, turn this on and every single thing you type becomes a search.
This is the part worth reading before you install anything, so here it is in plain words.
Nothing to sign up for and no password to make. Install it and it works.
There is no company server behind Archer collecting anything, because one was never built. Nobody is counting your clicks.
Your settings and your recent questions are saved in your own browser. Uninstall it and every bit of that goes with it.
Archer only exists on the new tab. It has no way to see the sites you browse, and it never asks for permission to.
When you send a question to ChatGPT, it goes to ChatGPT. That is the only place anything goes, and only when you press Enter. Read the full privacy policy.
Archer is not in the Chrome Web Store yet, so there is no one-click button to press. Adding it by hand takes about five minutes and you only do it once. If that is not for you, the honest answer is to wait.
Open the project page, click the green Code button, then Download ZIP. Unzip it somewhere you will remember, like your Documents folder.
Type chrome://extensions into the address bar and press Enter. Turn on Developer mode with the switch in the top right corner.
Click Load unpacked, then find the folder you unzipped and choose the one inside it called extension. Not the outer folder, the one named extension.
That is it. Nothing to sign in to, nothing to set up.
Want to know when it lands in the Chrome Web Store? Star the project and GitHub will tell you.
