Last updated: 6 November 2026 (v2.1)
Voxly is a Chrome extension that reads text on web pages aloud. This policy explains what happens to your data.
When you open the reader (toolbar button, right-click menu or keyboard shortcut), Voxly extracts the article text of the current tab, shows it in its reader and passes it to Chrome's built-in text-to-speech engine. The text is not saved or sent anywhere by Voxly.
Note: if you choose one of Chrome's online voices (marked "(online)" in the voice list, such as the "Google" voices), Chrome itself sends the text to Google's speech service to produce audio. That is handled by Chrome under Google's Privacy Policy. Choose an offline voice if you prefer text to stay on your device.
If you switch on Natural voice, Voxly downloads the open-source Kokoro voice model files once from Hugging Face (huggingface.co) and caches them in your browser. Speech is then generated entirely on your computer: the text being read is never sent to Hugging Face or anywhere else.
To make replays and slow computers smoother, generated audio is cached in your browser's storage for this extension only (up to about 200 MB, oldest removed first). It never leaves your computer and is removed if you uninstall Voxly.
Your chosen voice, speed and whether Natural voice is on are stored with Chrome's sync storage so they follow your Chrome profile. They contain no personal information.
Questions or problems: open an issue on GitHub.