Sprachverstand by HyperCriSiS

Adjust gendered German spellings. Locally in your browser. You choose how you read.

Sprachverstand makes German websites easier to read by normalizing selected gendered spellings directly in your browser with conservative, configurable rules. The extension does not translate websites and does not modify server-side data.

The interface is available in 51 languages. Corrections apply to German-language websites.

Examples:
- Nutzer:innen → Nutzer
- Mitarbeiter*innen → Mitarbeiter
- NutzerInnen → Nutzer
- NutzerIn → Nutzer
- Nutzerinnen und Nutzer → Nutzer
- Student*innen → Studenten
- Studierende → Studenten
- Erwachsene:r → Erwachsener

Key features:
- individually selectable rule groups
- processing of normal and dynamically loaded website content
- correction counter for the current tab
- personal exceptions for words and complete phrases
- literal custom replacements without regular expressions
- live preview and conflict hints for custom rules
- local JSON import and export of the complete settings state
- optional browser synchronization per data category, disabled by default
- domain exclusions
- optional protection of quoted text
- optional processing of detected subtitle overlays
- optional processing of alt, aria-label, aria-description and title
- protection for input fields, editors, source code, URLs and technical data

Sprachverstand deliberately favors conservative processing. Unknown or ambiguous forms remain unchanged when a sufficiently reliable replacement is not available. Disabling the extension restores changes on open pages without requiring a reload.

Privacy:
- website text is processed entirely locally in the browser
- no website text or visited addresses are sent to the developer
- no proprietary cloud service and no external language API
- no tracking, telemetry, advertising or user profiling
- settings remain local by default
- optional synchronization uses only the browser provider's synchronization service and only for categories explicitly selected by the user
- import files are read locally only after explicit selection; export files are created locally

Sprachverstand is intended for people who read German websites and want selected gendered forms to be adjusted locally according to their personal reading preferences.