Button Stealer Chrome Extension Analysis
Niche Lifestyle & Gaming HacksChrome extension ID: iiikidmnimlpahbeknmkeonmemajpccj
Button Stealer is a collection-based Chrome extension that captures visual buttons from websites the user browses. It serves as a playful way to build a personal gallery of web design elements and can inadvertently act as a visual way to revisit sites.
Overview
Installs
10K+
Rating
★ 4.9
68 reviews
Languages
19 locales
Includes Deutsch, English, Nederlands, Türkçe...
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Niche Lifestyle & Gaming Hacks
Pricing friction
Low review signal
Complaint intensity
Low review signal
Listing positioning
The product is positioned as a fun, lightweight, and free novelty extension that 'steals' buttons from visited websites. It emphasizes user privacy by processing data locally without sending it to external servers.
Inferred product pattern
A novelty visual collector that leverages web scraping of UI components for entertainment and light visual bookmarking.
Review-backed pain points
Users report buttons randomly resetting and re-adding previously deleted items, large images breaking the collection layout, and an inconvenient deletion process that requires opening new tabs.
Observed feature gaps
Missing features include a batch 'steal all' function, the ability to exclude specific websites, a way to manually select buttons, and a mechanism to download captured buttons.
- Casual internet users
- Web design enthusiasts
- Curiosity seekers
- Collecting unique UI elements
- Visual web element experimentation
- Playful web browsing
- Unique and highly engaging concept
- Lightweight and simple to use
- Unexpectedly useful for site recall
- Data persistence issues
- UI rendering bugs
- Lack of granular control
- No pricing friction observed; the extension is marketed as free.
Support
No specific support complaints found; users primarily offer feature suggestions and bug reports.
Reliability
Reliability issues include a bug where the collection resets and re-adds deleted buttons, and layout breakage caused by large image assets.
Privacy
No privacy complaints observed; the listing explicitly claims local-only data processing.
- Free usage observed
- No account requirement observed
- Free plan or free usage claimed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 3
- Videos: 0
- Languages: 19
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Version: 1.0.6.1
- Size: 179KiB
- Last updated:
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