Auto Typer privacy policy
Last updated: October 23, 2026
Auto Typer is a Chrome extension that types text you give it into the page you choose. It works entirely on your own computer.
What Auto Typer handles
The text you give it. It is used only to type it into the tab you start typing in. If Remember my text is on (the default), your current text and your last few texts are kept in Chrome’s local extension storage on this device, so they are still there next time you open the panel. Forget these texts, at the bottom of the panel’s Recent list, deletes the recent texts, and turning the setting off deletes them all. With it off, your current text stays only in Chrome’s temporary session storage, and only while the panel is open, so the start shortcut can type it.
Files you drop onto the text box (plain text such as .txt or .md, or Word .docx). They are read in the panel to get their text. Nothing is uploaded.
Your clipboard, only when you press Paste. The first time, Chrome asks you to allow it. Auto Typer reads the clipboard only at that moment, to put its text into the box.
Your settings, such as typing speed and style, kept in Chrome’s local extension storage on this device.
The typing job: the text being typed, the tab’s title and address, and how far it has got. It is kept in Chrome’s temporary session storage so the job can be paused and resumed. It is deleted when you press New text in the panel, when the next job starts, or when the browser closes.
The page you type into. Auto Typer sends key presses to that one tab. To know where you clicked and where the text cursor is, and to confirm its key presses arrived, it looks at which element has focus and counts input events on that page while a job runs. It does not read, store or send the page’s contents.
The titles and addresses of your open tabs. While the panel is open, Auto Typer reads Chrome’s list of open tabs, without touching them, to show the current tab’s title and icon and to recognise Google Docs and pages it can’t type on. It checks the tab it types into the same way. Only that tab’s title and address are kept, with the typing job.
What Auto Typer does not do
It does not send any data anywhere. Auto Typer makes no network requests, has no servers and uses no analytics, tracking or advertising.
It does not sell, share or transfer any data to anyone.
It does not use data for anything other than typing your text.
It does not touch any tab until you press Start, and then only the tab you started typing in.
Permissions
debugger: to press real keys in the tab you choose and to lock that tab against stray clicks and keys while typing. It attaches only to that tab, only while a job runs. Without attaching, it also gives the list of open tabs’ titles and addresses described above.
sidePanel: to show Auto Typer in Chrome’s side panel.
storage: to save your settings and, if you choose, your text and recent texts on this device, and to keep the typing job in temporary session storage.
favicon: to show the current tab’s icon in the panel.
power: to keep the screen awake while a job runs (you can turn this off).
clipboardRead (optional, asked the first time you press Paste): to paste your clipboard into the text box.
notifications (optional, only if you turn it on): to tell you when typing has finished.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be raised as an issue in the project’s GitHub repository.