Frequently asked questions

Yes. Docognito is free, with no account, no trial period and no payment screen at any point. There is no paid tier today. If one arrives later, it would cover additional features rather than the disguise itself.

It redraws the visible page as a plain document, replaces the browser tab title with a generic document name, and swaps the favicon for a plain document icon. That is the entire scope of the disguise, and it does not reach anything below the page itself.

No. The address bar still reads claude.ai or chatgpt.com the whole time. An earlier build rewrote it to look like a document address, but that broke the assistant's own routing and was removed. An extension also has no way to change which domain the address bar shows.

Docognito has no effect on that either way. A managed device, a workplace network, or monitoring software installed on the machine itself all operate below the browser page, and see the same activity whether the disguise is on or off. The extension only changes what is drawn on screen.

Yes. It runs on ChatGPT and Claude, covering claude.ai, chatgpt.com and the older chat.openai.com address. Gemini and other assistants are not supported.

Shift and Escape, the only shortcut Docognito binds. Pressing it once hides the disguise and shows the real page underneath. Pressing it again brings the document view back, so the same two keys work in both directions.

No. Chrome on Android has no general extensions system for ordinary users, and Chrome on iPhone or iPad runs on Apple's WebKit engine, which does not support extensions either. Docognito only runs on a desktop or laptop copy of Chrome.

One: storage, which lets it remember small settings such as whether the disguise is on and whether it is set to light or dark. It does not request access to browsing history, other websites, or anything beyond its own settings.

It does not add network requests or send anything anywhere. The disguise reads the page that is already loaded and redraws it locally in the browser. On a very long conversation there can be a brief moment where the document view catches up as the underlying page finishes loading older messages, the same delay the plain site would have anyway.

Yes. Dragging a file onto the document page, pasting an image, or using the insert control in the menu bar all reach the same upload the plain site would use. A small chip above the typing line shows Uploading, then Attached, once the site itself confirms the file has arrived.

Yes. A model chip in the menu bar opens a dropdown built from the assistant's own live model list, so it always matches what your account can currently use. A model your plan does not include shows greyed out and cannot be selected through the disguise.

Removing Docognito from chrome://extensions deletes the extension and the small settings record it kept, such as your light or dark choice. It has no effect on your conversations, which live in your Claude or ChatGPT account rather than inside the extension.

No. There is no sign up, no separate login and no account tied to Docognito itself. You still sign in to Claude or ChatGPT the normal way, and the extension only changes how that page looks once you are there.

The Chrome Web Store listing installs on Chrome and other Chromium based browsers that use the same store, such as Edge and Brave. It is not currently published for Firefox, which uses a different extension system.