According to AlphaMoat, as of 2026-09, the Chrome extension Popai has 24 users (+9.1% MoM), rated 5 (3 reviews) — ranked #6,999 of 9,324 AI browser extensions, and #1,774 of 2,418 in General AI.
Bring your own API keys, pay for usage. 🚀✨ Popai: Your Personal AI Assistant in a Popup! 🖥️
🌟 After using AI tools for over a year, I've pinpointed two crucial daily AI needs: a conversational chatbot and customizable tool bots for tasks like concept explanation, email composition, marketing copy generation, styled comment creation, and prompt engineering.
💬 Platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, and POE offer these features (I've subscribed to them all), but the constant tab-switching is a hassle.
🔍 Browser extensions seemed like a solution, but most quality ones use a sidebar, whereas I prefer a popup format.
💸 Also, both web platforms and browser extensions often charge a fixed monthly fee of around $20 or more, regardless of usage.
💡 This frustration led me to develop Popai - a popup-style browser extension powered by the Openrouter API, giving access to mainstream language models. It includes:
📣 I'm open to your feedback on what features you'd like to see!
🎉 Popai was born from a desire to boost personal productivity, and it has done just that, with room for more enhancements. Now, I'm sharing it with the community to help others with similar needs.
🙏 Thank you for reading. Hope you enjoy it!
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+ CompareData month: 2026-09 · User counts and ratings come from public Chrome Web Store data, aggregated monthly. See methodology.