Aether

Ambient themes, glass styling, and privacy controls for ChatGPT.

Aether is a Manifest V3 browser extension for people who want ChatGPT to feel calmer, cleaner, and more personal. It adds ambient backgrounds, glass styling, quick settings, and privacy-focused controls while keeping everything local to the browser.

Aether is not affiliated with OpenAI.

Highlights

• Ambient themes and curated background presets
• Glass styling tuned for the ChatGPT interface
• Quick Settings panel directly on ChatGPT pages
• Privacy Mode to blur chats and history until hover
• Toggles for noisy interface elements like upgrade prompts and side surfaces
• Blur, scaling, motion, and visibility controls
• English and Spanish localization
• No analytics, no telemetry, and no external network calls

Install

Load From Source

1. Clone or download this repository.
2. Open chrome://extensions in Chrome, Brave, Edge, or another Chromium-based browser.
3. Enable Developer mode.
4. Click Load unpacked.
5. Select the Aether/extension/ folder, not the repository root.
6. Pin Aether and open https://chatgpt.com.

Build A ZIP

If you want a clean distributable package:

npm run package

This creates Aether-vX.X.X.zip at the repo root with only the extension files needed for manual installation.

What It Does

• Applies ambient backdrops behind the ChatGPT interface
• Adds glassy surfaces and visual polish without sending data anywhere
• Exposes quick toggles for privacy, motion, blur, and visibility
• Lets you hide distracting UI like upgrade prompts and cluttered side elements
• Stores preferences locally with Chrome extension storage

Permissions

• storage: saves your preferences
• Content script matches:
  • https://chatgpt.com/*
  • https://chat.openai.com/*

No data leaves your machine. All processing is local.

Compatibility

• Chromium-based browsers with Manifest V3 support
• Not tested on Firefox/Safari
• Best experience on browsers with backdrop-filter support
• Known compatibility:
  • Works in Chrome-, Brave-, and Edge-style MV3 environments
  • Does not work in ChatGPT Atlas Browser

Development

npm ci
npm run lint
npm test

Load extension/ as the unpacked extension while developing. The repository root is only for tooling, docs, tests, and packaging scripts.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.