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Prolific Assistant

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Description from extension meta

This is an extension designed to monitor https://www.prolific.com/ for new studies and alert you when it finds them. Features -…

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Description from store This is an extension designed to monitor https://www.prolific.com/ for new studies and alert you when it finds them. Features - Desktop notification for every new study found. - Displays how many studies are available on the extension icon. - Shows the last time studies were checked for. Settings - Alert Sound: The type of sound you want when a new study is found (none, voice, choice of 5 different sounds). - Alert Volume: The volume level for the alert sound (0-100). Permissions - Read and change your data on all prolific.com sites (needed to be able to check for studies) - Read your browser history (needed to open a prolific tab) - Display notifications (needed to display notifications)

Latest reviews

  • (2025-07-19) M R: Doesn't allow filtering camera/microphone requirements like the website
  • (2025-07-14) Jos butler: currently i am using it it is very useful
  • (2025-07-06) Jules W: Why is Prolific assistant constantly logging me out!? Its very annoying. I hope this can be fixed soon
  • (2025-07-02) Richard Scragg: Good it works. Recently I repeated requests to log which are not effective and therefore the notifications do not work.
  • (2025-06-30) Jamie Sladich: Its great when it works. I installed about 2 weeks ago and all was fine for about a week and helped a lot. But for the last week, I need to constantly log in to the app and I get a red ! Gets very frustrating
  • (2025-06-29) Ray Mitchell: Not sure what happened recently but as of the last couple of weeks or so this is continuously logging me out of Prolific multiple times per day. If I have to log back into the extension 15x a day it sort of defeats the purpose.
  • (2025-06-21) Svit Spindler: Doesn't work 90% of time, I rather use Prolific Studies Notifier extension because it actually notifies me
  • (2025-05-18) Margret Kabutangana: Amazing, There's no error. You may just want to check if the volume is high and you picked out an alert sound.
  • (2025-04-28) caba9327-f5f7-4ada-a621-093ef094b3e9 caba9327-f5f7-4ada-a621-093ef094b3e9: It usually does its job well, alerting me of new studies even when prolific isnt open in the background, but sometimes it takes too long to load so by the time I get to prolific from clicking the notif, all the spots have been taken. Also, recently it's been taking me to an error 404 message instead of the study.
  • (2025-04-02) 2547387d-f957-4eda-9a60-409f9cc5a8ac 2547387d-f957-4eda-9a60-409f9cc5a8ac: One of the best extensions.
  • (2025-03-09) NANDY PROLIFIC: Extension issues were resolved so, thanks. FYI Guys to enable the alert sound on desktop, go to the settings tab at the bottom of the PA ext. Most ppl miss this.
  • (2025-03-06) Michael Balentine (Mike): For me, this extension has always done what it has promised to do. There have been times when, if I do not have a Prolific tab open already, the extension itself will not work until I log IT specifically into Prolific, but that seems like it should be an expected behavior. I have no issues with it, and it gets updated regularly. It was showing up in my extensions screen as having an error due to not being V3 manifest a few days ago but it has apparently been fixed.
  • (2025-01-31) rock star: Can you tell us what changes were made for the update yesterday please?
  • (2025-01-21) Sean McLaughlin: Has been broken for the last two years. Please fix.
  • (2025-01-11) Rhonda Cooper: I think since I downloaded the extension a year ago, I have only received one alert and even then, the study was already full. Please fix it so it can actually be useful.
  • (2024-11-26) Dineo Rakoena: Useless. I haven't received any alerts since I downloaded in May this year, and when it worked previously, the studies were always full.
  • (2024-11-21) terry lock: Not really very useful - tells me about surveys - but when I go to them they are full and misses many others. Does not retain the voice alerts either.
  • (2024-11-05) Aga Pluta: Worked only couple of weeks, now it's useless. Many studies have been missed :(
  • (2024-11-04) Siphosihle Mkhefa: I barely get alerts. Also, the alerts I do get, the studies are already gone
  • (2024-10-26) Patrycja: This not alert at all. Please fix bugs.
  • (2024-10-21) Donna Farris: Worked great the 1st day it was installed, only very rarely since then. Oh, well, guess I'll just have to stay close to computer and check often for available studies.
  • (2024-10-21) Omni Farious: Absolutely garbage, hardly ever works. Has been reported multiple times in both Support emails as well as Reddit by numerous people and has yet to be fixed for the past six or seven months.
  • (2024-10-09) Joana Raquel: Does not alert at all. No sound or badge.
  • (2024-09-24) Rana Khurram: I am using it since I joined the Prolific. It worked well initially but now there is some kind of bug or it need an update, always asking for login after successful login to the account. Please Update it
  • (2024-09-06) sally lotter: Used to love this - but for past few months don't get audio alert and cannot find where to change anything - losing so much as all full no matter how quickly I check in or how many available positions there are
  • (2024-09-03) Salih Marangoz: asks for login all the time. refresh rate is low. I always miss studies with this extension.
  • (2024-09-02) Frank Paduano: If you are having the issues that you need to sign in again don't do it via extension . Just log out from the prolific account on the browser and login again then the extension works again. If you do it via extension pop up to log in you will get the account blocked for too many attempts.
  • (2024-08-29) T H: Keeps signing me out, and when trying to re log in gets my account locked due to two many login attempts even though I have the correct login information, and I have to wait for an email form Prolific to unlock.
  • (2024-08-26) Candy Apple: Works half of the time. Once you do get an alert for a study IF it works. It's already too late the studies are full. You get logged out too and have to log back in. I have to constantly uninstall and then reinstall to get it to work correctly again.
  • (2024-08-15) Retty Retty: I'm so disappointed that things have changed so much. A few years ago I used to get verbal notifications whenever new studies became available. Now I only get email notifications and frustratingly enough, they always appear in my Spam folder, so unless I'm vigilant in checking my Spam folder, I never know when new studies are available. Also, most times, by the time I do get notifications, they're already full. Plus when I do get lucky enough to be offered a survey, they are most times already full because it takes so long for the site to load. In addition, I notice I'm constantly being logged out of Prolific. I certainly don't log out, so it's obviously a glitch, I'd say, but it's bloody annoying. I get nowhere near the amount of surveys that I used to. I've been a member of prolific for years and am becoming disappointed with the lack of surveys offered, plus notifications and login issues. Prolific, please let me know what is going on. I've sent quite a few emails to Prolific, but nobody ever responds to my emails. Have I done something wrong, or are the problems a sitewide issue? I have just read a response that suggests I reinstall Prolific for the latest version and select to receive verbal notifications. But to reinstall it, it seems I'll have to just go on the waitlist, which I don't want to do! So how can I upgrade the software without having to join the waitlist yet again?
  • (2024-07-29) Mirosław Kołodziejski: The application is very useful, it helps to participate in more studies. Unfortunately, I see that it has changed a bit, as many people have noticed, including my colleague from Poland, namely after reinstallation (because the plugin apparently had not been updated for some time, so I installed it a second time because I noticed that it had stopped working), you have to manually change the setting to voice notification because the plugin is set to no notifications by default (this is an answer to many commenters here). And why is there no setting for the time with which the plugin checks for new studies? Could this be restored to the standard minimum setting of 60 seconds, as it used to be? Many studies are lost because some disappear even within 10 seconds, so the plugin has become much less functional because of this...
  • (2024-07-23) sam penny: Not as good as it used to be. It logs me out constantly, never verbally says when a new survey is pushed through. When surveys do pop up on the extension they are already full.
  • (2024-07-21) Branis: It is good but brings tasks late when they are full it's not accurate
  • (2024-07-11) Adam Binedell: Used to work perfectly. Nowadays, the extension logs you out against your knowledge, pretty much daily. I've also noticed that the extension sometimes stops checking for new studies. I'll click on the extension to verify that I'm logged in, and will realize that the extension last checked for a new study hours ago. If the above could be fixed, it would also be great if the extension could check for a new study every 1 minute (I think It checks every +-2 minutes). Prolific Assistant is broken. Please fix it.
  • (2024-07-09) Jonathan Phillips (JohnToffee): Being logged out is getting really annoying now.
  • (2024-07-04) Margarita Yotova: what did you guys have done to the extensions, it was working perfectly, now is constanly logging off and need to re login all the time , Fix it !!
  • (2024-07-04) Tharoth Jones: Works great if it can stay logged in, seems to get logged out several times a day and the latest update made the login page a popup so my password manager can't be used because it's a popup which is annoying because who doesn't use a password manager these days. Wish the dev had kept it as a normal webpage for login not a popup.
  • (2024-06-22) Hello Togintyg: The sound notifs stopped working a year or two ago. In the past month or two, it'll log you out at least once a day, and to log back in, it opens a new window that doesn't allow a password manager to fill in the info. As of today, I can't even paste in my email address. Pleaaase fix this ASAP!!!!
  • (2024-06-14) Chris Fawcett: Logs out continually - issue started around 2-3 weeks ago. I probably have to log the assistant back in maybe 7 or 8 times a day, and often don't realise it's logged out so miss surveys. Utterly useless. Would obviously be more stars if it worked!
  • (2024-06-14) Albert Calvet: Very useful but there must have been some internal change in the session renewal token because starting a few weeks ago the widget loses the credentials and can no longer fetch new studies from the API, and a page refresh does not solve it, you have to logout and then login again into prolific to keep the widget working. Clicking the widget also opens a page to login, but since it opens the browser in another user context it does not remember the login and password which is very cumbersome. It would be cool if it can be fixed to keep the session going on forever like previously.
  • (2024-06-12) Nandy Mlomo: Fix it!!
  • (2024-06-11) Dani: No alerts, logs me out constantly. What's the point when I can just stay logged in to the site and refresh it myself?
  • (2024-06-11) fakhruddin hd: Worked well but now doesn't give any alert, not sure if it is a issue with the plug in or a system issue
  • (2024-06-10) Rebecca E: No longer works. No alerts, and even when I try to adjust the alert tone and volume, there's nothing. No sounds-and like everyone else, it constantly signs out. What happened?
  • (2024-06-08) Sam: Had to uninstall, stuck in a endless login loop like many others. Red exclamation mark near the icon, and endlessly logs you in/out. Please fix.
  • (2024-06-07) Luisa Taylor: Extension is stuck in a contact log in cycle. The extension was very laggy before that and usually showed studies, once they had been filled up. Had to remove.
  • (2024-06-05) Shannon McCauley: Usually this extension works wonders, but lately it is broken. I am stuck in a login loop and it does not recognize my credentials. Two log-in screens overlap and after I attempt to log-in a red block appears to signify it is not working. I have removed it and re-downloaded the app to no avail.
  • (2024-06-04) Debra Lindsay: Not had a study notification since these updates started coming through. I've deleted and reinstalled and still nothing
  • (2024-06-03) Yvonne Fried: I installed the updated version and it still doesn't work.
  • (2024-06-02) Tanya Lees: I've updated and reinstalled - but it still doesn't work. I've not had notice of a study via this extension for over a week.

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2.6651 (430 votes)
Last update / version
2025-07-09 / 5.16.0
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