Writing assistance vv1.1.1 2026 Rank: #118
Clico ✓
AI that lives where you type.
Verdict
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- Best if
- AI that lives where you type
- Skip if
- Limited accuracy in tone-matching
- Pick this when
- Lives where you type
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Overview
Clico AI Writing Assistant is a browser extension designed to assist users in their writing tasks across a wide range of applications. Incorporating artificial intelligence, this tool integrates with every text box, providing writing, search, summarization, and dictation features to enhance productivity.
The assistant lives where you type, eliminating the need for tab shifting or copy-pasting, hence reducing interruptions and improving focus. By using simple keyboard shortcuts, users can draft posts or replies, generate email responses that fit the ongoing conversation, continue writing where they left off in congruence with their writing style, or enhance the quality of their existing text.
Users can also utilise the highlight feature for quick AI automated searches, instantly summarize lengthy documents, and employ voice input for hands-free writing.
Clico is highly compatible; it functions seamlessly with various platforms including Gmail, Google Docs, Notion, LinkedIn, Reddit, Canva, Google Classroom, and many more, making it a comprehensive writing solution for different tasks across different platforms.The extension can be installed from the Chrome Web Store and starts working immediately across all websites visited, providing an enhanced browsing and writing experience.
Notably, no API key is needed for Clico's use, making its operation straightforward and user-friendly. The tool is free to use and compatible with Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, and all Chromium-based browsers.
- Clico It | Summon Clico With Cmd+o
- Hightlight | Select Anything And Search It
- Memo It | Double Cmd To Summarize Entire Page
- Voice Input | Hold Cmd To Use Voice As Input
Best for
Short scenarios where Clico tends to shine.
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AI that lives where you type.
Example outputs 1
Sample generations and before/after results for Clico.
Access & connections
Where you can use Clico, and what it plugs into.
Platforms
Capabilities
What this tool accepts, produces, and is strongest at.
Input
- Code
- Text
- Audio
Output
- Code
- Text
Highlights
- No Signup
Supported features
- Text Generation
- Writing
- Rewrite
- Search
- Web browsing
- Docs
- Social Media
- STT
- Transcription
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- Integrations
- Assistant
- No Signup
- Autocomplete
Pros & cons
Pros
- Lives where you type
- Eliminates tab-switching
- Reduces context gaps
- Extensive cross-platform compatibility
- Efficient in multiple applications
- Features dictate commands
- Provides instant search results
- Text and image highlighting
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- Text summarization feature
- Enhancing selected text
- No API key required
- Free to use
- Assists in drafting posts
- Responds to emails
- Improves writing style
- Applicable in Chrome Web Store
- Functional in Chromium-based browsers
- User-friendly browser extension
- Simultaneous writing and browsing
- Integrated keyboard shortcuts
- Continuous writing assistance
- Offers voice input
- Prevents unnecessary tab shifts
- Can enhance text quality
- Generate fitting email responses
- Email drafting support
- Helps with writing continuity
- Hands-free writing option
- Optimizes writing productivity
- Gmail integration
- Google Docs integration
- Notion integration
- LinkedIn Integration
- Reddit Integration
- Canva Integration
- Google Classroom Integration
- Functions on all websites
- Quickly summarizes lengthy documents
- Edge browser compatibility
- Brave browser compatibility
- Arc browser compatibility
- Simple deployment and operation
- Compatible with multiple platforms
- Works without configuration
- Adapts to user's writing
- Saves browsing and writing time
- Instant structured document summaries
- Extension installation from Web Store
Cons
- No mobile support
- No offline mode
- Limited style adaptation
- No multi-language support
- Potential privacy concerns
- No specificity in summarization
- Search could yield irrelevant results
- Dictation may misunderstand speech
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- Compatibility issues with non-listed platforms
- Limited accuracy in tone-matching
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Releases 3
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Now you can use @ to pull in multiple tabs as context when clico it.
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We rebranded with the new neo brutalism style and it looks sharp!
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We hid a little easter egg inside the extension and see if you can find it:)
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Your AI sidebar now works inside Google Docs. Whether you're drafting, editing, or reviewing, it's right there with you. No tab switching, no breaking your flow.
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Clico now runs on chatgpt.com too. Refine and polish AI-generated content on the spot, without ever leaving the page.
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The whole web experience is noticeably faster. Less waiting, more doing.
Imported reviews 4
Handy for cleaning up notes and emails without switching tabs. The page summary shortcut is useful too, but I feel like the rewrites sound a bit too polished.
shout out to the people who came up with clico. this tool actually helps a lot more than i first thought. summarizing page + instant rewrite make my life so much easier as a content writer.
It just feels seamless when I ask it to generate my Q2 marketing docs and polish my email replies. I mean you don't need to write a long prompt and copy all the Re:Re:Re:Re email to it like other LLMs do. You just give a clear instruction and it gets things done.
It makes drafting emails and cleaning up my LinkedIn posts easier.