Semantic HTML, ARIA roles, class signals, and visual cues guide each treatment.
A visual translation engine for Chrome
Make the web look like Windows 98.
Retr-0 reinterprets modern interfaces as if they were designed for a blue title bar, a beveled button, and a very good afternoon in 1998.
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Local-first · no accounts · no trackingMIT licensed
The translation layer
Retro by intent, not by filter.
Retr-0 reads the page's semantics and rebuilds its visual language: controls become controls, cards become panels, dialogs become windows, and dark interfaces find their way back to gray.
Bevels, focus outlines, menus, tabs, inputs, cursors, and title bars share one system.
Mutation observation and SPA navigation keep new content in the same alternate universe.
Brand colors and content stay recognizable. Exclude a domain whenever you want.
Three clicks from 1998
Install. Enable. Browse.
01InstallLoad Retr-0 in Chrome as an unpacked extension.
02EnableTurn it on globally, or just for the site you are viewing.
03BrowseWatch modern components translate into a classic UI system.
04TuneChoose Retro or Modern 98 and set your intensity.
Bring your own screenshots
Before / after, without pretending.
This area is intentionally ready for real captures from the websites you want to showcase. No fabricated screenshots—just a clear place to add the ones you take.
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Original website
Original website
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Retr-0 transformed capture
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Open source, on purpose
Built in the open for the web we actually use.
Retr-0 runs locally, asks for no account, and never sends page content to a server. Read the code, add an adapter, or bring a new site into the alternate timeline.