Calm Scroll

Utility 01 Motion belongs under your control

Put restless web pages on hold.

Calm Scroll freezes parallax, autoplay, animated scrolling, and sticky motion—without rewriting the page you came to read.

Download for Chrome See 3-step install

Free core controls · Chrome / Chromium MV3 · No account · Local settings

A mechanical clamp steadies loose web page layers into a single aligned reading frame.
Figure A Motion is inspected, then held—not hidden.

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A visible motion budget for every site.

Generic reduced-motion preferences are easy for sites to ignore. Calm Scroll checks the page in front of you and shows what it found before you decide.

  1. 01

    Inspect the page

    See plain counts for autoplay media, animated elements, transforms, sticky layers, and smooth scrolling.

  2. 02

    Hold it steady

    One switch pauses autoplay and disables motion, including effects added after the page first loads.

  3. 03

    Keep useful controls

    Allow media or keep sticky navigation on the sites that need them. Each choice stays on this device.

Live interface specimen

No mystery switch.

Stable mode / on

Motion found

07on example.page
  • Autoplay media1
  • Animations / transitions3
  • Moving transforms2
  • Fixed / sticky layers1

Held still nowThe page remains ordinary HTML. Keyboard focus and media controls remain available.

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Install the pilot in three steps.

Until the store listing is approved, Chrome labels this a developer install. The zip contains only the reproducible extension build.

  1. Download and unzipSave Calm Scroll v1 somewhere you will keep.
  2. Open extensionsVisit chrome://extensions and switch on Developer mode.
  3. Load unpackedChoose the unzipped folder, then pin Calm Scroll.
Get the extension zip

Version 1.0.0 · Manifest V3
Package checksum is documented in the release handoff.

Optional / one time

Keep the controls free. Support the maintenance.

Every motion-control and per-site feature is free. A one-time Supporter edition adds a printable site-testing field guide and a supporter mark here—nothing you need for safer reading is paywalled.

$12 USD · once

  • All core extension features remain free
  • Printable motion-testing field guide
  • Funds compatibility updates
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Honest boundary

Comfort is personal. Control should not be.

Calm Scroll is not a medical device and does not promise to prevent nausea. It gives you direct, reversible control over common page motion. If a site breaks, turn stable mode off for that site or keep the controls it needs.