Fogar’s recipes are small forms in front of a prompt: Draft & rewrite, Reply to a message, Summarize, Explain simply. The model that fills them runs inside your browser, so the performance review, the apology, and the letter to the landlord go nowhere. Rewriting is the thing a small local model does best.
Free. Open source. Works offline once the model is cached.
Each one is a form with two or three choices, so you do not write a prompt, you fill in a shape. Every recipe runs on whichever model you have chosen: the one on this device, or your own cloud key.
Paste a rough draft or a few notes. Pick a tone, a length, and a shape: email, bullet points, one sentence, chat message. Get your own words back, better.
tone · length · formatPaste what you received and say what you want to happen: decline politely, ask for a week more, say yes and propose Tuesday. Get a reply you can send.
what to say · toneLong thing in, short thing out. Three bullets, one paragraph, one sentence, or key decisions and action items. Names and numbers survive.
styleA paragraph, a term, an error message. For a smart friend, a ten-year-old, an expert in another field, or you, in one sentence.
audienceA recipe declares its inputs and a template with placeholders. Fogar draws the form, fills the template, and hands it to the model. Only a name and a template are required: labels come from the keys, and any placeholder you forgot to declare becomes a field on its own.
Because it is plain JSON, you can paste one to a friend or share it as a link that adds it in one click. Import forgives what people paste: smart quotes, trailing commas, line breaks inside strings, a code fence around the whole thing.
{
"name": "Tighten a paragraph",
"emoji": "✂️",
"inputs": [
{ "key": "text", "label": "Paragraph", "type": "textarea" },
{ "key": "cut", "label": "Cut it by", "type": "select",
"options": ["A quarter", "Half", "As far as it goes"] }
],
"template": "Cut the paragraph below by {{cut}}. Keep every fact, name, and number. Return only the shorter paragraph.\n\n{{text}}"
}
A small builder: up to eight inputs, each a text field, a text area, or a dropdown with options, and the template they fill.
Like the one on the left. Copy it, paste it, and it appears as a chip on your new tab.
The recipe rides inside the address. Anyone with Fogar who opens it gets an “Add this recipe” button, nothing else.
Add the Recipe widget and pick one, and its form sits on the page ready to fill, no chip to click first.
Recipes are data, never code. A recipe cannot run a script, fetch a page, or read anything you did not type into it. Manifest V3 enforces that; Fogar treats it as a product rule.
The Writing widget goes one further than a recipe: it learns your voice from a few samples of what you actually sent, keeps registers for email, chat, and essays, and rewrites, tightens, or drafts in it. How it works.
“Rewrite this politely: can’t make the 3pm, thursday instead?” works without a recipe. Follow-ups keep the thread, so “shorter” and “now as an email” do what you mean.
Select text on any page and right-click. The page’s title, address, and the text around your selection go along, so the explanation is about what you were reading, not a guess.
One menu on every answer: search the web and answer again with sources, let the model think longer, or ask your cloud model the same question. The better answer replaces the first.
The rest of Fogar is a new tab that answers from a model running in your browser. See what leaves in each mode.
On this device: nothing. The model is a file in your browser’s storage and the prompt never leaves the page. In Cloud mode the filled-in prompt goes to the endpoint you typed, with your key, and to no one else. The network ledger in Settings counts every request either way.
Yes, in local mode, once the model is cached. Turn off Wi-Fi and the recipes keep running.
Good enough to send, for the everyday cases: the 4B tier rewrote, replied, and summarized correctly across our test prompts. The smaller tiers are quicker and weaker; Fogar recommends the largest your machine runs well. For anything that needs a bigger brain, switch to Cloud with your own key.
Yes. New recipe opens a small builder: up to eight inputs, each a text field, a text area, or a dropdown, plus the template they fill and an optional system prompt. Or paste JSON into Import, or open a share link.
No. A recipe is data: labels, options, and a prompt template. Fogar renders the form and fills the template, nothing more. Manifest V3 forbids extensions from running remote code anyway; Fogar makes it a rule for everything users create or share.
A template holds up to four thousand characters, and what you paste into a field is limited by the model’s context window. The small models are happiest with a few paragraphs at a time: summarize a section, not a book.
Fogar is on the Chrome Web Store. One click to add it, and it updates itself from there. Then open a new tab.
Free, from the Chrome Web Store. Brave, Arc, and Edge install from it too.
On your phone, or not on Chrome? The same Fogar runs as a web app at app.fogar.ai. Open it once with a connection, add it to your home screen (Safari: Share, then Add to Home Screen; Chrome: the menu, then Add to Home screen), and set it up from there; after that it works offline. The widgets that need Chrome’s own APIs, Sessions, bookmarks, Inbox, Feed, Jira, and Agenda, stay on the desktop.
Loaded the zip before the listing went live? The store copy has a different extension ID, so your data will not follow on its own. Three steps move it over.
Todos, notes, recipes, widgets, sessions, and settings go into one file.
It opens on your next new tab, empty.
Once it looks right, remove the old copy in chrome://extensions.
Can't use the store? The same build is here as a zip: unzip it, turn on Developer mode in chrome://extensions, and Load unpacked. It will not update itself.