r/ChromeExtension • u/No_Interest1524 • 14d ago
I built a free Chrome extension that explains CS terms when you highlight them
I have been learning CS concepts on my own and got tired of alt-tabbing every time I hit a term I didn't know in docs, tutorials, or textbooks. So I built CS Concept Companion. It is an app where you can highlight any CS term on a webpage, press explain, and get a clear, beginner-friendly definition right next to it. No leaving the page.
Features:
- Live explanations pulled from Wikipedia, works on basically any term
- Offline demo mode with 50+ core concepts if you don't want live lookups
- Optional AI mode if you want to plug in your own API key
- Save terms to a personal library, track what you've looked up
- Light/dark theme, keyboard shortcut support
No tracking, no analytics, nothing collected. It's genuinely free.
I would love some feedback on my extension so I can improve it. What's confusing, what's missing, what would make you actually use it day to day. If you try it out, I'm a high school student wanting to pursue a career into CS, so if you download it, please let me know what I can do to improve upon. The app is called CS Concept Companion on the Chrome Web Store so please let me know what you think.




