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Be invisible on WhatsApp™ Web by disabling read receipts and presence updates
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See other people's read receipts, but control when you send yours.
Freely explore any chat thread or status without making it read, even for groups. And additionally, nobody knows you're online if you don't want to.
FEATURES
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+ Adds a new menu in WhatsApp™ Web that lets you toggle on and off the sending of:
- Read receipts for messages (two blue ticks mark)
- "Last Seen" updates (presence) and "typing"
+ Works for groups
+ Works for statuses/stories
+ Restores all deleted messages
+ See if a message was sent from a phone or a computer
+ Lets you download statuses
+ When read receipts are blocked, the unread messages counteres show up transperent, and when you read them they turn red. This helps to tell when you are in invisible mode and it is safe to click on chats.
+ If you want to mark a spesific chat as read anyway, you can open the sub-menu of it and choose "mark as read". A warning will show up and when you confirm, a read receipt will be sent.
GitHub repo:
https://github.com/tomer8007/whats-incognito
PRIVACY
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No data is ever transmitted to anywhere.
Privacy Policy here: https://github.com/tomer8007/whatsapp-web-incognito/wiki/Chrome-Extension-Privacy-Policy
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LEGAL
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WhatsApp is a trademark of WhatsApp Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. This extension is an independent project developed by Tomer H. and has no relationship to WhatsApp or WhatsApp Inc.
Latest reviews
- (2025-06-10) Camilo Bustamante Ríos: works great, the best solution for hide the state !!
- (2025-05-22) Naveen Srinivas: Really good, but it stops working on some times. Also I'm currently using a 2nd extension for blurring chats, messages so it would nice if I only needed one
- (2025-05-11) Swapnil: Now working properly from few days pls look into this. Its my daily extension for some extra personal activities.
- (2025-05-09) Aashu: Too good for spying on my EX(she's married BTW LOL)
- (2025-04-15) Lucas Chu: Some computers cannot show the "Next" button on the setting, can fix?
- (2025-04-13) Abdul Rehman Sudais (Dr sudais): The delete messge recovery option isn't working. Could you please help me with it? i am waiting for your reply
- (2025-02-03) Nathan Maingard: I can't believe I haven't reviewed you before! Thank you for an absolutely splendid app! I am so tired of everyone seeing when i'm typing, online, and all the other ridiculous invasions of my privacy which Whatsapp pushes on me! Finally, I can read in peace and reply when I'm dang well ready! Thank you again, for the hard work on this, I appreciate you 🙏
- (2025-01-28) Mujahid Siddiqui: Why is the restoration of deleted messages not working?
- (2025-01-17) Danyal Javed: really appreciated. after ban of unofficial WhatsApp versions.. this seems a revival to my dead WhatsApp
- (2024-11-30) Danish butt: This extension is really helpful and amazing. But I don't know for some days I am facing a issue. Whenever I click on this extension it appears with a loading bar. And loading bar loads and loads. I waited so long but it didn't go any further. Kindly help me to or suggest me how should I resolve this issue.
- (2024-10-31) randomic random: Since that last WhatsApp update, none of those bypass extensions are working anymore. Do you have any plans on making it work again?
- (2024-10-28) Mohit Bhandari: Its a very useful tool. With recent update to Google Chrome, it stopped working for me. View once isn't working the way it should be. Please fix this asap.
- (2024-10-28) Mishal: A very good extension that works well. But with the recent update, I can't seem to find the 'download status button' now. Also, I would be grateful if you could bring these minor changes if possible: A parallel button for 'mark as read' at the end of the chat so that it saves the effort to find that button again from the top among the chats. A button that could make mark as read for statuses too. I really enjoy using this extension and grateful that it exists. You are the best!!
- (2024-10-26) Kadir Bulut: Greetings from Turkey. Send read notification does not work. You mentioned version 2.1.9 but 2.1.8 appears as the latest version.
- (2024-10-26) GAMING WORLD: i think its now working but doesnt tell you to confirm the Read receipts
- (2024-10-25) Ilham Surianto: aplikasi ini sangat berguna, tapi baru baru ini ada perubahan. tombol "Mark as read" telah hilang. please fix. thankyou
- (2024-10-25) Syed Muhammad Taha: Brilliant Extension for whatsapp
- (2024-09-24) Dawood Munir: Excelent work in PC Is it possible to use it in Android? Ans me as soon as possible Please....
- (2024-09-12) confirm mail: Amazing! works great
- (2024-07-09) Ivan: Thanks for keeping it up to date! Very useful extension!! The best out there.
- (2024-07-09) Ivan: Thanks for keeping it up to date! Very useful extension!! The best out there.
- (2024-06-15) Black Night: Deleted message is not showing. Tried to refresh still that feature is not working
- (2024-06-07) Ensar Yıldırım: süper program tavsiye ederim
- (2024-05-12) Test: Improvement: It does recovers deleted message but when I load the whatsapp, it treats them as a normal message without red color. Let me be clear: I was offline on whatsapp web, I sent myself a message from my other phone and when I turned on whatsapp web, i could see the message but could not tell whether that was a normal message or deleted (Blue ticks are off). So make a feature like that so we could know that the recovered message was a deleted message. Another Improvement: Add a button on side of the typing section on which if we press, we could add most used texts, emojis, etc. for faster use
- (2024-05-07) Ari Sawali: This is so good. Working, even on once view messages(image,video)
- (2024-04-20) Ram Pal: hey owner "Tomer" Really it does perfect job but my small suggestion for you is If you can please stop marking of deleted messages in red instead **using a small symbol of deleted near time** it will be grateful... it would really be better to see deleted message more than marked in red. It would be great if you reply your remark over this suggestion.
- (2024-04-08) Monika Littig: It's being a little glitchy for me at the moment (I mark as read and, when there's a new message, it shows the previous number of messages not read again), but it's still one of my absolute favorite extensions.
- (2024-04-06) Amora Amora: Could this extension result in my being banned from using WhatsApp?
- (2024-04-06) Bheeshm Singh: Its started working, Thanks Devs :)
- (2024-04-05) SOUMAJIT MAITY: Wow , It's working again properly
- (2024-04-04) Nelson Garcia: Últimamente ha estado funcionado bien pero hace un tiempo da muestra el error "Código de error: Out of Memory",
- (2024-03-31) Alexander Landman: Hi Great Extension.... Thank you for letting us use it for free Some will complain even if they get a gift.... After the update the your pop up is gone but when I press the "mark as read" green button nothing happens.... Probably needs a touch up keep up the great work It would be great if you could post here as a reply when it is fixed so we can enable it on our end best regards
- (2024-03-29) Go Fins: "It's because of an update". As if Google doesn't keep devs up to date and gives them "DEV" builds...If you're making money/running a REAL IT company that excuse has ZERO merit...
- (2024-03-29) S: Currently it's not working because of WhatsApp's new update. But it is really helpful for us tech nurds who don't want to reply soon but wanna read messages. Its very useful when you want to see relatives status without noticing them.
- (2024-03-28) Haziq: best but not working for lastupdate but that will be fix
- (2024-03-27) Mr Mavvy: Currently not working as of the last update, but thank you for your work; I've rated it 5 stars :)
- (2024-03-27) shubham kumar: Not working anymore
- (2024-03-26) syahrul wicaksono: not working on lastest chrome update
- (2024-03-23) FF Gaming: love this extension ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
- (2024-03-17) Mostafa Mohamed: Is this extension is still working? i can not see its icon anymore and its not working, any updates?!
- (2024-03-10) Matias Sandes: This extension is now broken...will it have an update?
- (2024-03-07) tony masters: Hello, currently it stopped working, now it shows if we are in "online" status... and recently it shows the following notification: "interception is not working"
- (2024-02-26) Salva: Works great, but too many issues so I just disabled it: -Messages sometimes are never sent. -RAM and CPU consumption is extremely high (whatsapp web tab crashes sometimes even).
- (2024-02-03) IR L: 3.6 deleted messages cant able to restore again
- (2023-12-16) Akrash Office: When I send a voice note to someone, the voice note doesn't go, it doesn't get retried or anything, it just keeps spinning like a circle on top of it.
- (2023-12-07) EXPECTATOR Coming Live: deleted messages cant able to restore again please update as soon as possible
- (2023-11-22) Alberto: excellent extension, wish they will fix the recovery of deleted messages, it isn't working anymore.
- (2023-11-21) Edinson Betancourth Astudillo: It no longer recovers deleted messages.
- (2023-11-21) Sarah FILALI: Works like a charm
- (2023-11-16) Mahesh Bandara Wijerathna: Absolute killer extension. Been using for years. Thank you dev for keeping the extension regularly maintained.
Statistics
Installs
100,000
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Rating
3.6862 (290 votes)
Last update / version
2025-06-23 / 2.3.0
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