Chrome extension

Install from the Chrome Web StoreTurns the page you are reading into a narrated explainer, played in an overlay.→

Some pages are easier to watch than to read. The Scrimba Explain Chrome extension turns the page you're on into an explainer: a narrated video summary of what the page says, played in an overlay right on top of it.

How it works

The extension works through your Scrimba account, so sign in to Scrimba in Chrome first.

On any article, documentation page, or blog post, click the extension. Explain reads the page and builds an explainer of it, streaming in while you watch. You stay on the page the whole time; the explainer plays in an overlay, and closing it puts you right back where you were.

Explain reads about the first 12,000 characters of the page, so on a very long article the explainer covers the opening part and misses the rest.

Continuing on Scrimba

The explainer is saved to your account as soon as it starts. The overlay has an Open on Scrimba button that takes it to scrimba.com, where you can share it and ask follow-up questions.

Page explainers made through the extension are public: once finished, they're listed in the community, and the link is shareable as-is. If the page is something you'd rather keep to yourself, change the explainer's visibility on Scrimba. See Privacy, claiming and sharing for what each level means.

The extension reads whatever page you are on. To teach from files you choose, attach them on Scrimba instead.