Free · Private · 100% Local
ClearKit wipes history, cache and cookies in one click — or on a schedule you set — while a whitelist protects the sites you stay signed in to. Nothing leaves your browser.
v0.1.1 · Chrome 102+ · Also works on Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi and Opera
13 data types · 12 time ranges · 27 languages
Every cleaner runs into the same trade-off: cookies are what trackers rely on, but they are also what keeps you signed in. Wipe them and the tracking goes — along with your mail, your repos, your bank and every other session you had open. So most people quietly stop cleaning. ClearKit removes the trade-off instead.
Without a whitelist
You clear cookies, the tracking is gone — and so are forty logins. The next morning goes on passwords and 2FA codes instead of work.
With ClearKit
Whitelist the handful of sites you actually live in. Everything else gets wiped — history, cache, cookies, site data — and those sessions stay exactly where you left them.
Features
Manual cleaning done the convenient way, scheduled cleaning other extensions charge for, and three things nobody else offers together.
Pick from 13 data types across 12 time ranges — the last minute through all time. Pin the types you use most so they are preselected, confirm before wiping (or switch that off), and get a badge, a notification and a quiet animation when it is done.
Protect the domains you care about: cookies, cache and site data for whitelisted sites are skipped, so your history clears clean while Gmail, GitHub and the rest stay logged in. A reverse mode flips it — clear only the sites you list.
One tap on the current tab wipes its cookies, cache and site data — and, if you want, every history entry for that domain, subdomains included.
Alt+Shift+C runs your preset instantly — no popup, no questions — and can close every tab and open a fresh window for a leave-no-trace retreat.
Rules that run in the background every 15 minutes to 24 hours, or at browser startup. Free, with no subscription and no upsell. Sensitive types stay off by default, so nothing vanishes while you are typing.
Search and filter your history, delete it grouped by domain, and read your own patterns off a top-sites list and a browsing heatmap. Every clean is logged locally, and official links jump to the server-side search history you cannot delete on your own machine.
Everything runs inside your browser. No account, no backend, no analytics, no tracking — nothing ever leaves your device.
Inside ClearKit
The popup for everyday cleaning, the dashboard for what your browser remembers, and settings you touch once.
Set the time range, tick the data types — or just use the ones you pinned — and clear. The site you are on gets its own card at the top, so wiping one domain never means wiping everything.
Search history by keyword and date, group it by domain to delete in bulk, and read your own patterns off a top-sites list and a browsing heatmap. Every clean ClearKit runs is logged locally, so you can always see what happened and when.
Build your whitelist, choose the preset the panic shortcut fires, and add auto-clean rules that run every 15 minutes to 24 hours or at startup. Dark and light follow your system.
Permissions
ClearKit asks for the minimum a cleaner can work with — and explains every one of them here rather than burying it in a policy.
| Permission | What it is used for |
|---|---|
| browsingData | Does the actual clearing — history, cache, cookies and site data. Your whitelist is enforced here, so protected sites are skipped. |
| history | Powers the local history dashboard: search, statistics and per-domain deletion. Read and deleted on your device only. |
| storage | Saves your settings, auto-clean rules and the local event log (the last 200 runs) in the browser's own extension storage. |
| alarms | Runs your scheduled rules on the cadence you chose — every 15 minutes to 24 hours, or at browser startup. |
| notifications | Tells you when a clean has finished. Only ever in response to your own action or your own rule. |
| activeTab | Reads the current tab's domain while the popup is open, so "Clear this site" knows what to target. |
No host permissions, no cookies permission, no scripting or tabs permission. ClearKit never runs code on the pages you visit, and no remote code is ever loaded.
ClearKit has no account system and no server. Your history, settings and rules stay in your browser's local storage. This website is static too — no cookies, no analytics, no third-party scripts.
Read the full privacy policyGuides
Short, practical walkthroughs: what Chrome can do on its own, where it falls short, and how ClearKit fills the gap.
FAQ
If yours is not here, email me — the address is on the support page.
Install ClearKit and spend one minute whitelisting the sites you live in. That is the whole setup.
Free · No account · Works offline