Chrome Extension
Freedam for Chrome puts your library next to the page you are working on. Writing a newsletter, building a slide, filling in a product form: the approved image is in Chrome's side panel, a search away, instead of in a download folder you have to go and find.
What it does
The extension opens freedam in Chrome's side panel. You search the whole library with the same search as the web app, suggestions included, or browse your collections. From any result you can:
- Copy an image and paste it into the page - an email, a document, a slide, a chat message.
- Download an image or a video.
- Open the asset in freedam to see its full details.
- Drop it into the page as a file - an email draft, an editor, or the upload field of a form - once you turn that option on.
Images arrive in a format every page accepts - JPEG, or PNG when they have transparency - at a size suited to emails, documents and web pages. Nobody has to convert a file before using it.
How it works
Install Freedam for Chrome from the Chrome Web Store, open the side panel from the toolbar and click Connect. You sign in with your own freedam account and approve the access once. From then on the panel shows your workspace whenever you open it.
The extension works with what your account is allowed to do. It lists the images and videos you can see in the library, and an asset you may view but not download cannot be copied, downloaded or dropped. Nothing changes on the freedam side: no extra user, no shared login, and the connection can be revoked from your settings in freedam at any time.
Good to know
- Copy and paste needs no extra permission. It works in any page that accepts a pasted image.
- Dropping files into pages is optional and off by default. Chrome does not let a side panel hand a file to a web page on its own, so this option asks for Chrome's permission on the sites you visit. The extension then acts only when you drop an asset you dragged from its panel, and reads nothing else on the page.
- Each person connects their own account, so everyone sees exactly what their own permissions allow.
- Self-hosted freedam works too. Enter your server's address in the extension's settings.
- Six languages. The panel follows Chrome's language: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Simplified Chinese.
Step-by-step instructions are in the documentation. Designing in Canva? The Canva app puts the same library inside the editor.