Clico: AI Writing and Answers in Every Text Box, Without Switching Tabs
The tab-switch is the quiet tax on AI: copy the text, open the chatbot, paste, prompt, copy the answer, paste it back. Multiply by every email, comment and form of the day and the assistant starts costing attention instead of saving it. Clico's whole premise is deleting that loop: it is a browser extension that brings the AI to wherever your cursor already is.
The short version
Clico is a free AI writing assistant that lives in your browser. Press a shortcut in any text box on any website and it writes or replies in place, double-press to summarize the page you are reading, highlight anything for an instant explanation or answer. It works on Chrome and Chromium browsers like Edge, Brave and Arc, and the free plan includes a monthly allowance of AI generations with no card required.
The three moves it gives you
Write-in-place is the core: cursor in a text field, shortcut, and a draft appears where you were going to type it, an email reply, a comment, a form answer, tone and length shaped by what you ask. Summarize is the reading half, two taps and the article, PDF or long email compresses to a structured summary without leaving the page. And highlight-to-ask turns any word or passage into an instant definition, explanation or answer, the small lookups that used to each cost a new tab.
Who gets the most from it
Anyone whose day is scattered writing: support and sales people living in web apps, students reading long material, non-native English speakers who want a drafting safety net everywhere, and the broad category of people who like AI but hate the ritual. Because it follows the cursor, it upgrades every site at once, which is the practical difference from AI features locked inside one product.
Before you install
The usual extension sense applies: it works where your cursor works, so a few heavily customized web editors may behave oddly, and anything you send for drafting or summarizing passes through the service, so keep genuinely sensitive text out, the same rule as any cloud AI. The free tier's monthly allowance covers casual daily use, heavy users graduate to the paid plan for unlimited generations and premium models.
Where it shines
- AI drafting in any text box, any site
- Two-tap page and PDF summaries
- Highlight anything for instant answers
- Genuinely free plan, no card
- Works across Chromium browsers
Worth knowing
- Monthly cap on free generations
- Odd behavior possible in custom editors
- Cloud processing, mind sensitive text
Common questions
Is the free plan enough?
For casual use, drafts and summaries a few times a day, yes, 100 generations a month stretches surprisingly far. Daily heavy writers will feel the cap and know exactly when to upgrade.
Which browsers does it support?
Chrome and the Chromium family, Edge, Brave, Arc and similar, installed from the Chrome Web Store in a minute.
How is this better than keeping a chatbot tab open?
No context switching: the writing happens where it will be sent and the answers appear where the question arose, the value is the loop you stop running.
Bottom line
Clico is the lowest-friction way to put AI under your cursor, and the free plan makes trying it a two-minute decision. Install it, reply to today's emails with the shortcut, and count the tabs you did not open.