Does SubcueAI have a Chrome extension?

SubcueAI ships a Chrome extension, and it does one job: mock interview practice from the browser toolbar. It is a second home for the same mock interview that runs in the web tool and the desktop apps, not a new kind of product.

What it does in a session:

• Asks real questions. An AI interviewer generates questions grounded in your active resume and target job description, the same context the web and desktop tools use.
• Listens and reads. It speaks each question aloud, then takes your answer by voice through the browser's speech recognition, and typing always works as a fallback.
• Follows up. It reacts to what you actually said rather than reading a fixed script, and you advance rounds at your own pace.
• Leaves a record. Ending a session lands on the transcript and analysis at subcue.ai, so the practice is reviewable, not just a one-off.

It signs in with your existing SubcueAI account and draws on the same credit balance as the other mock surfaces, so nothing about your plan changes by using it.

This is the distinction that matters, and it is worth stating plainly because the two are easy to conflate. The Chrome extension is for practice before the interview. It is not the tool you run during a real interview.

The live in-interview assistant, the one that listens to a real Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams call and shows answer suggestions in a floating overlay, is a native desktop app on macOS and Windows. It is deliberately not a browser extension: it captures system audio at the operating-system level and renders the overlay locally, outside the meeting client, which is the whole architecture behind how it works. The how it works cluster covers that capture path in detail.

So the honest one-line summary: practice in the browser with the extension, then run the real interview with the desktop app. Two surfaces, two jobs.

You might reasonably ask why practice gets a browser extension but the live assistant does not. The reason is architectural, and it is the same reason SubcueAI exists in the shape it does. A browser extension lives inside the browser and, for anything real-time, typically injects into the page or the meeting tab. For a mock interview that is fine, because there is no third party and nothing to be visible to; it is you, practising.

A live interview is different. Aaron Cao, the founder of SubcueAI, built the live assistant as a native desktop app precisely so it renders outside the meeting client's process space, with no browser plugin touching the Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams client. That is what keeps the overlay local to your machine.

Honest limit, stated as everywhere else in this library: no tool is invisible in every situation. Sharing your full screen shows what is on it, recordings capture what the camera and shared windows contain, and proctored or company-managed-device setups are out of scope. The detectability cluster walks through each case.

Getting started is short. Install the SubcueAI extension from the Chrome Web Store, pin it to the toolbar, and open it; a fresh install also opens the mock interview page on subcue.ai so you know where the practice lives. Sign in with your SubcueAI account, and the extension inherits your active resume and target job automatically.

From there, a session is the same loop as any SubcueAI mock: it asks, you answer aloud or by typing, and you end when you are done to get the review. Running a few rounds before a real interview is the point; the mock interview page explains what that practice is good for, and the desktop setup for the live interview itself is a separate step.

One practical note: because it runs on the same credits as the rest of mock mode, it draws from your balance per practice question, so it behaves exactly like the web and desktop mock tools on cost.