GlassBar · Browser extension

Ask AI about any page.

One glass bar, docked to the bottom of every tab. Ask about what you're reading and get the answer in place — from Claude, GPT, Gemini, or a model running on your own machine.

Your key · No account · Nothing leaves your browser
slowtravel.blog/the-quiet-return
Essay · 6 min read

The Quiet Return of Slow Travel

For a decade the goal was more: more countries stamped, more sights ticked, more of the map colored in. Lately the mood has shifted. A growing number of travelers are trading the frantic itinerary for something older and slower — staying longer, moving less, and letting a single place come into focus.

The shift is partly practical. Trains are pleasant again, remote work untethered the calendar, and the math on flights looks different than it did. But it's also a quiet rebellion against the feeling that a trip has become a checklist to complete rather than a stretch of time to inhabit.

What people describe getting back, again and again, is depth — the second-favorite café, the shopkeeper who remembers them. Not distance. Presence.

↑ hover the bar and ask
Every model

Claude, GPT, Gemini — one bar.

Route each question to the model that fits — Claude, GPT, Gemini, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, each with its own key.

GlassBar routing to Claude, GPT and Gemini from one bar
What it does

Small on the screen. Serious underneath.

Everything you'd want from an in-page assistant, and nothing you wouldn't.

Every model

Claude, GPT, and Gemini — or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Switch per task; each provider keeps its own key and model.

Your keys, or local

Bring your own API key and your data goes only to the provider. Or point it at Ollama on localhost — nothing leaves your machine.

A bar, until you need it

It rests as a small frosted pill in the corner. Hover to expand, click to pin, Esc to tuck away. Never in the way of what you're reading.

Answers, formatted

Replies stream in live and render as real headings, lists, and code — not a wall of raw markdown symbols.

Light or dark

A theme switch that sticks across restarts, with the glass tuned to look right either way.

Every browser

Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Firefox. One codebase, loaded in seconds.

Private by default

Your key. Your data.

No account, no backend, no middleman. Your keys and chats stay in local storage. Your question and the page you're reading — its title, URL, and visible text — go straight from your browser to the provider you chose, with your own key.

Your key, your data — nothing leaves your browser
Fully local

Even fully local.

Point GlassBar at Ollama or LM Studio and it answers offline — thinking locally, nothing touching the internet.

Fully local — GlassBar with Ollama or LM Studio, offline
Pricing

Free to use. $15 to remember.

Everything you need is free — bring your own key and go. Pro is a one-time unlock for Saved Chats, never a subscription.

Free
$0 always
  • Every provider — Claude, GPT, Gemini & any OpenAI-compatible API
  • Fully local with Ollama & LM Studio
  • No account, no backend, no telemetry
  • Chrome, Edge, Brave & Firefox
Get GlassBar free
Pro · Saved Chats
$15 once
  • Everything in Free
  • Conversations persist per page, auto-restore when you revisit
  • Searchable chat history
  • Export any chat to Markdown or JSON
  • One-time — no subscription, free updates
Unlock Pro — $15
Every browser

Now on Firefox too.

One codebase across Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Firefox — loads in seconds and looks identical everywhere.

GlassBar on a web article — Chrome, Edge, Brave, Firefox
Get it

Add it to your browser

Live on Firefox Add-ons today — Chrome Web Store listing coming soon. On any browser, you can load the dev build yourself below.

Sideload on Firefox

  1. Open about:debugging.
  2. This FirefoxLoad Temporary Add-on.
  3. Select the Firefox manifest.json.
  4. Open Preferences, add a key.

Sideload on Chrome, Edge, Brave

  1. Open chrome://extensions.
  2. Turn on Developer mode.
  3. Load unpacked → select the Chromium manifest.json.
  4. Open Preferences, add a key.

GlassBar is a browser extension for Firefox 142+ (including Firefox for Android), Chrome, Edge, and Brave that pins a frosted-glass chat bar to the bottom of every web page and answers questions about the page you're reading, using its title, URL, and visible text as context. It is bring-your-own-key — Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, xAI Grok, Groq, DeepSeek, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, or local models via Ollama and LM Studio — with no account and no backend, free to use, plus a one-time $15 Pro that adds Saved Chats.