Refresh Loop
See the countdown
On the page itself, and on the toolbar icon. Free, and staying that way.
Stop watching the page. It'll tell you.
You're waiting on an order, a grade, a decision, a reply. So you sit there pressing F5 every two minutes instead of going about your day. Refresh Loop watches the page and tells you the moment it changes.
Add to Chrome — free
No account. No trial. Nothing collected.
0permission warnings when you install it
0bytes sent anywhere
0features taken away later
It shows its work
The worst thing a monitor can do is stop without telling you. So instead of a spinner you get real numbers: how many checks it has run, how long since the last one, and how long the timer has been running.
And there's a “Check now” button that checks immediately, instead of waiting for the timer.
It shows you what changed
When the page changes, you see the exact words: before, after, with the change marked. One look tells you whether this is what you were waiting for, so you never open the tab just to check.
Refresh Loop checks twice before it tells you anything, so ads and partly loaded content don't set it off.
A countdown right on the page
The time to the next reload sits in the corner of the page itself, with a pause and a stop next to it. Glance at it and keep working.
Auto Refresh Plus moved this behind a subscription in mid-2026. Here it's free, and it stays free.
About the 30 seconds
Intervals shorter than 30 seconds only run while the tab is visible. Chrome slows down tabs you're not looking at, and no extension can get around that. Every extension in this category has the same ceiling.
Waits while you work
Clicking or typing pauses it, so a reload never wipes out what you were typing.
Keeps your place
You come back to the same spot on the page after every reload.
Tells you out loud
A sound and a notification, with a button to hear it first.
Asks for nothing when you install it
You grant access one site at a time, when you start watching that site.
Nothing leaves your computer
The comparison runs on your own computer. Nothing is uploaded.
Free, and staying that way
The countdown, the watching, the sound, the intervals you set — all of it, with no account and no limits. If a paid version ever appears it will be for something new, never for something taken back.
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