Page ScramblerChrome extension
Turn the text on any page into look-alike gibberish, so you can demo, record and take screenshots without showing real data.
One click hides every word on the page, and the layout barely moves.
Made for sharing
Calls, screenshots, recordings and customer walkthroughs: one click before you share, and the real data is not there to see.
How it works
Click the Page Scrambler icon in your toolbar and choose one. Both are instant, and both undo with one click.
Every word on the page becomes gibberish at once: headings, tables, buttons, even tooltips, placeholders and the tab title. It keeps up as the page changes, so new messages, feed items and screens in single-page apps arrive scrambled too.
Hover the page and a cobalt ring shows what you would hide. Click a customer’s name, a revenue card or a whole sidebar, and only that part scrambles. The rest stays readable, so your demo still makes sense.
Better than blur
Blur and black boxes tell everyone something is hidden, and they make a polished product look unfinished. Scrambled text keeps the page looking like itself, minus the real data.
Privacy
The text Page Scrambler hides never leaves your device. It has no servers to send it to, no analytics and no account. Originals are kept in the tab’s memory only so they can be put back. They stay there until you reload the page, leave it or close the tab.
activeTab and scripting, nothing elseFAQ
No. It only changes what your browser shows you. Nothing is sent to the site, form fields and editors are never written to, and Restore page (or the shortcut) brings back the original text. One caveat: some apps turn text into a field when you click it. Restore before editing there, or the app could save the scrambled text.
Yes. Scramble page stays on while this tab stays on the same site, through links, reloads and back and forward, until you click Restore page or go to another site. The same site means the exact address: a subdomain, such as app.example.com after example.com, counts as another site, and its pages show their real text. Pages you open by typing in the address bar may open unscrambled; check before sharing. Links you open in a new tab aren’t scrambled. Picks stay on the page you made them on.
Anything outside the page itself: the address bar, other tabs and browser notifications. On the page, text inside images, videos and canvas drawings is left as it is, and so are frames embedded from other sites, such as chat widgets, videos or ads: Chrome only lets the extension into the site you clicked it on. The popup tells you how many of those frames are visible, so take a look before you share. Letters in a few scripts it does not cover yet, such as Armenian, Georgian or Tamil, also stay readable.
On almost every website. Local files work only if you turn on “Allow access to file URLs” for Page Scrambler in Chrome’s extension settings. Chrome does not let any extension run on its own pages (like settings or new tab), its error pages, other extensions’ pages, the Chrome Web Store or the built-in PDF viewer; there, the popup explains why the buttons are off. Text a site’s stylesheet adds to the page (CSS content) stays readable.
Yes. Alt+Shift+S scrambles or restores the whole page and Alt+Shift+E starts picking elements (Option+Shift+S and Option+Shift+E on a Mac; Alt+Shift+H and Alt+Shift+E on a Chromebook), without opening the popup. You can change the keys at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
Scrambled text keeps the fonts and the length of every word, and the layout barely moves, so a screenshot or a call still looks like a working product. Blur draws attention to what is hidden, looks broken, and in some cases can be partly reversed.
Not by undoing it: letters are replaced using a secret key that exists only in that page’s memory, and digits are simply shown as X. But a screenshot still shows lengths, capitals, punctuation and symbols, and how wide each word is in the page’s font. With a list of likely names and that font, someone could often tell which name a short scrambled one is. Identical text in the same font scrambles identically on the same page.
For Chrome. Two buttons. Nothing sent anywhere.
Available soon on Chrome