Installing

  • Install from the Chrome Web Store.
  • To upgrade, restart Chrome — it auto-updates extensions on restart.
  • If that doesn't work, uninstall and reinstall from the Chrome Web Store.

Signing in

Click the Bravo icon in your Chrome toolbar to open the sidebar. You'll see two options: Continue with Google or Email me a magic link.

Either method works the same — there's no difference in how the product functions, what you get access to, or what we store. Pick whichever is easier.

  • Continue with Google. Bravo only asks Google for your email address — nothing else. No Gmail, Calendar, or Drive access at sign-in. (Those are separate opt-ins under Google integrations.)
  • Email me a magic link. Enter your email and we'll send you a one-time sign-in link. No password to remember.

One account per email. The two methods are interchangeable as long as the email matches — sign up with Google using you@work.com, sign in later with a magic link to you@work.com, and you'll land in the same account.

Opening the sidebar

Three ways to open the Bravo sidebar from any webpage.

Click the browser button

Click the Bravo icon pinned to your Chrome toolbar, next to the address bar. If you don't see it, click the puzzle-piece (Extensions) menu and pin Bravo so it's always visible.

A cursor clicks the pinned Bravo icon in the Chrome toolbar and the Bravo sidebar slides in from the right.
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Click the floating icon

Bravo also injects a small floating icon into the bottom-right corner of every web page. Click it to open the sidebar. After a couple of seconds the icon tucks itself partway off the edge of the screen so it stays out of the way; move your cursor near the corner and it slides back into view. Hovering reveals a tooltip with the keyboard shortcut (when the shortcut is enabled).

A web page with the Bravo icon. A cursor clicks the icon and the Bravo sidebar slides in from the right.
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Turning it off. Right-click the Bravo icon in the Chrome toolbar and choose Options.

Untick “Show the floating Bravo icon on web pages”. The icon disappears from open tabs immediately — no reload needed. The Chrome toolbar icon and the Cmd+B shortcut keep working.

Keyboard shortcut

Press Cmd+B on macOS or Ctrl+Bon Windows/Linux from any webpage to toggle the sidebar — open it if it's closed, close it if it's already open. The same shortcut works from inside the sidebar to dismiss it.

The shortcut yields to the page when you're typing in a rich-text editor (Gmail compose, Notion, Google Docs, etc.) so the editor's built-in bold action still runs. It only fires when no page handler claims the keystroke.

Turning it off. Right-click the Bravo icon in the Chrome toolbar and choose Options. Untick “Toggle the side panel with Cmd+B”. With the option off, Bravo never reacts to the shortcut and the keystroke passes through to the page (or the OS) unchanged.