Just Not Sorry -- the Chrome extension

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A Chrome extension that warns you when you write emails using words which undermine your message

Latest reviews

• (2022-02-04) Emeline Lawford: Amazed at this concept - but would love if it worked on text fields outside of Gmail, in the same way as Grammarly does. Imposter syndrome exists out side of gmail too! ;) Does this make sense?
• (2019-03-14) Amanda Moss: Love the idea, but cannot get it to work. I have Gmail...I have the extension installed and all settings are turned on. I don't understand why it's not working.
• (2019-03-05) This is great! Only issue is it does not offer suggestions for alternatives!
• (2018-04-25) Cory Forsyth: This extension is excellent. I haven't had any trouble with Gmail speed while using it.
• (2018-02-23) Michael Berliner: I used to love this, but over the last few weeks Gmail had been slowing to a crawl, only in Chrome, so I'd been using other broswers for Gmail - and was considering switching off Chrome altogether. Started turning extensions off and on, and discovered Just Not Sorry was the culprit :( If your Gmail is running INSANELY slowly to the point of not working, trying turning this extension off. A shame!
• (2018-01-17) Sheldon Zitzmann: It works, but it isn't nearly as intuitive as plugins like Grammarly. It only picks up on certain words and ignores the context. For example, it always underlines the word SORRY, whether you're starting a sentence with Sorry or if you're sorry someone's grandma died. Don't get it.
• (2017-12-28) Anthony Kao: The extension was great when it worked. Unfortunately, it silently stopped working a few months back. I'm running Chrome Version 63.0.3239.84 (64-bit) on Mac OSX Yosemite. I'm using normal Gmail, not Inbox. It would be excellent to see it functioning again!
• (2017-12-19) Elizabeth F: LOVE this idea. Great for my "too many exclamation pts" emails. Go Tami!
• (2017-06-13) Daniel Corner: Don't forget to restart chrome before checking whether it works :)
• (2017-06-05) Sarah Nelson: Doesn't work.
• (2016-11-08) Brenda Wallace: I love this and recommend it to friends often. I wish this worked on slack too.
• (2016-10-15) Heather Barrett: Doesn't work in inbox
• (2016-08-08) Michelle: It doesn't work. I installed it in Chrome and went to my gmail, composed a message with the words but it didn't highlight them
• (2016-07-23) Sarah G: doesn't work :(
• (2016-06-28) Jamie Morningstar: I like it for gmail but I wish it worked for inbox.
• (2016-06-08) Alexandar Hansen (Alex): Doesn't work in Inbox
• (2016-06-07) It's an interesting extension. I'm missing a bit of interaction and it would be great if this could be available in Outlook or Firefox as well.
• (2016-05-19) Quin: Not really useful. It only works when the exact words are used.
• (2016-05-07) Trevor Thomas: doesnt work
• (2016-04-18) David McNally: Would be cool if it worked in Inbox, but I usually compose emails in Gmail. The bigger problem is that it only works on my computer and not my phone. Regardless, it's a fantastic extension!
• (2016-03-07) Ben Zuckier: unfortunately does not seem to work with inbox....
• (2016-02-25) L C: this sounds great but it the icon will only appear for a moment after it's been added to chrome. It shows up in the extensions list as active but I can't get it to function. Great idea but it just isn't cutting it. Please work on this so I can use it!
• (2016-02-23) I love this extension! One additional feature i would request to empower my email correspondences, which shrinks the power of my replies is too many brackets. Please add a bottom line text written in brackets!
• (2016-02-17) Nora Wickman: Incredibly useful in empowering my language.
• (2016-01-13) Laura Walker: What a great idea! I'm a little reprehensive about the security/privacy issues, though.
• (2016-01-12) Nik Focht: Why would it not allow an option to customize which words or phrases to look for?
• (2016-01-11) Hilary Zalon: I like the idea. In addition to the suggestion of offering alternate wording, I also encourage a rethinking of the logo. When the favicon appears in the address bar and users see a red circle with a diagonal line through it, the initial reaction (as mine was) might be that it is a warning or a symbol for an untrustworthy site. Good luck with helping more people shed their apologetic tone!
• (2016-01-11) Mr. Lance E Sloan: *** USE WITH CAUTION *** It's not bad in concept. However, it has a very serious security/privacy bug: Under certain common circumstances, this extension *WILL* include the warnings in email messages when they are sent. The warnings may or may not include the underlines, but the text of them are there. That means the person receiving the email may know the sender was using Just Not Sorry and can see the warnings that were shown to the sender. This could be an embarrassing situation for the sender. My rating of this extension is because of this bug. I would give it a better rating if the bug were fixed. It has a few moderate problems as well: First, this is not a Gmail plug-in. It's a Google Chrome extension. That said, it only works with Google Mail, which is stated in a pop-up dialog box when the extension is installed. It does NOT work with other email websites. Second, the underlining is the same color and nearly the same style as Google Mail's spelling checker underlining. The screenshots here show a yellow or orange color, but that's not the case. It would be better if it were orange. Better still would be to let the user select the color and style themselves. Third, the extension only recognizes about eight English phrases. They may be the most frequently used ones, though. Only that language is supported and there's no option to let the user edit the list of phrases. Fourth, the messages that appear when the mouse pointer hovers over an underlined phrase are too wordy and do not include recommendations for correcting the problem. This extension needs to use an interface similar to the spelling checker contextual menu. Shorter messages (the author attributions are unnecessary) would be better, with links to more informative ones, if the user wants to see them.
• (2016-01-08) Michael Blass: People - men and women - should apologise more often. They should be willing to admit they are not experts. They should also say 'please' and 'thank you' and 'if you don't mind'. It's not 'undermining your message' or 'not being assertive'. It's being nice, and honest, and friendly, and tactful, and considerate, and human. This app is a bad idea.