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The 4thewords Chrome Extension counts your words where you write and turns them into battle damage, streak progress, and daily challenge credit. Writing sites like Google Docs, Notion, and Substack count from the moment you install. Adding any other site, even your email, takes one click. No need to paste your writing back into 4thewords.
The 4thewords side panel open beside a Google Doc, showing tracking switched on, 879 words counted today from docs.google.com, an active battle against Tandrey with 18 of 50 words left, and the Daily Challenges progress bar
Built for Chrome 114 or later. Other Chromium browsers (Edge, Brave, Arc) can install it and it generally works, but Chrome is the only browser we test and support.

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See it in action

A two-minute walkthrough of the extension end to end: installing it, fighting your first battle, counting words anywhere, choosing your sites, connecting an account, co-op battles, where your words go, and the side panel’s themes and streak.

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In this section

Installing & Connecting

Add the extension to Chrome and link it to your 4thewords account.

Word Counting & My Sites

Choose which sites count, and see your writing broken down by site and session.

Battles, Streaks & Quests Sync

How words typed anywhere flow into your active battle, streak, and Questbook.

Side Panel, Themes & Settings

Popup vs. side panel, color themes, what the toolbar icon is telling you, and every setting explained.

Permissions & Privacy

What the extension can access, why, and what it never reads.