ClearAmp
Louder. Still clean.
A Chrome volume booster with a real limiter, so pushing a tab to 600% makes it loud instead of making it crackle. And it installs with no permission warnings at all.
The problem with volume boosters
Almost every booster does one thing: multiply the signal. Past a point that pushes the audio beyond what digital sound can represent, and the peaks get squared off. The result is harsh, tiring, and barely louder — which is why people report that 600% sounds much like 200%.
ClearAmp adds the stage those boosters leave out. Audio runs through a limiter and a soft-clipping stage, so extra gain becomes extra loudness rather than extra distortion. A live meter in the popup shows the limiter working, so you can see it rather than take our word for it.
At 100%, ClearAmp does nothing at all.
With the slider at 100% and nothing switched on, the limiter and the soft clipper are bypassed — not idle, bypassed. Audio comes out exactly as it went in. Processing engages only when you actually ask for more.
What it does
- Per-tab volume from 0% to 600%
- A real limiter, so it stays clean when pushed
- Night Mode — evens out loud and quiet, for watching late without waking the house
- Voice Boost — lifts the speech band so consonants stay defined
- Mono — combines both channels, for hearing loss in one ear
- A live headroom meter showing when the limiter is working
- Keyboard shortcuts, quick presets, and optional per-site memory
No permission warnings
This category has a genuine malware problem, and the install screen cannot tell you which extension is safe — because they all ask for the same thing: "Read and change all your data on all websites."
ClearAmp does not ask for that. It uses activeTab, so it can only touch
the tab you have open, at the moment you open it, and only because you clicked. It
cannot read your browsing history. It cannot see the pages you visit. It makes
no network requests at all — no server, no analytics, no account, no
third-party code.
You do not have to trust that. Chrome shows you the permissions before you install.
Honest about the limits
- Some sites stream audio from another domain in a way that makes boosting impossible — connecting it would silence the tab permanently. ClearAmp detects this first, tells you, and leaves the audio alone. Volume down still works.
- Local files opened straight in the browser cannot be boosted, for the same reason.
- Browser pages such as
chrome://cannot be touched by any extension. - The limiter is very good, not magic. The browser's dynamics processor has no look-ahead, so a soft-clipping stage catches what slips past. Dramatically cleaner than plain gain — not mathematically perfect, and we will not pretend otherwise.
A note on your ears.
600% is a lot. Start low and raise it gradually, especially on headphones, and remember that a boost set during a quiet scene still applies when a loud one arrives. The limiter is a sound quality feature, not hearing protection.
Free
No ads, no affiliate links, no account, no subscription. If a paid version ever appears it will be new features on top — everything here stays free.