Free for Google Meet · works in web Zoom and Teams
Turn your Meet camera into a news channel.
Breaking news headlines, fighting game health bars that drain with the meeting clock, a video player that buffers on cue, a boss fight against the meeting and a nature documentary about you. Drawn right on your camera, so everyone in the call sees it.
Breaking News: Headline, LIVE clock, name strap and a crawling ticker
In Meet: Alt+Shift and the key (Option+Shift on a Mac).
Fill from my team calendar
Who's out today and this week from your Forgot board, so the joke is also the standup update.
How it works. Four steps, one of them is fun.
Step 1
Add the extension
On Air is a free Chrome extension. It works in Chrome, Edge, Brave and Arc.
Step 2
Pick On Air camera
In Meet, open the camera menu or video settings and pick On Air camera (Forgot). Turn off Meet's own background effects.
Step 3
Set it up here
Type your name, pick a show, roll the dice for a headline. Everything you change here lands in your call within a frame.
Step 4
Fire the moments
Alt+Shift (Option+Shift on a Mac) and a key while the Meet tab is open, or the buttons in the extension's menu.
One key, one moment. Timing is the whole joke.
Alt+Shift and the key while the Meet tab is open (Option+Shift on a Mac), or tap them in the extension's menu. Each one plays for a couple of seconds and gets out of the way. Write your own words for any of them, and star the ones you use so they wait at the top. Want only these? Pick Just moments and your camera stays clean until you press one.
1Shipped
Confetti and a green stamp, for the demo that finally worked.
2Caught in 4K
Zooms in on your face with a REC viewfinder. For the hot take you stand by.
3Could've been an email
An envelope slams in and gets postmarked. Use with care in front of your manager.
4 · 5+1000 aura, -1000 aura
Floats up over your head when someone nails it, or very much doesn't.
6Hearts
Live-stream reactions float up the side, with a combo counter.
7New challenger
For whoever joins eight minutes late.
8Be right back
Color bars and "We'll be right back" while you get the door. Press again to come back.
9Buffering
Your picture freezes and goes gray under a spinner stuck at 99%. On Video Player it stalls like a real video, down to 144p.
W · LBig W, big L
A giant green W with confetti, or a red L with its own rain cloud.
KLet them cook
A chef's hat drops onto your head while the flames come up. For the coworker on a roll.
NNPC
A game dialogue box with your name and one line you clearly say to everyone.
CCap detected
A cap lands on your head under CAP DETECTED. For "it's a one-line fix".
RAlarm
Spinning red beacons and hazard tape. PROD IS DOWN, or the client joined early.
QTumbleweed
The picture fades to dusty sepia, crickets chirp and a tumbleweed rolls by. For a joke that didn't land.
HHours later
A full-screen title card: ONE ETERNITY LATER, 3 HOURS LATER. For the update that ran long.
OWorks on my machine
A green stamp slams down: CLOSED, CAN'T REPRODUCE.
DSkip ad
An ad bar counts down under you with a Skip ad button. Sponsored by another meeting.
YLike & subscribe
A cursor smashes Like, Subscribe and the bell while arrows point at them. Every creator outro at once.
0Keep it 100
A big red 100 pops over your head and little ones fly out. For the honest answer nobody asked for.
VStay toxic
Slime drips down, a hazard sign swings in and STAY TOXIC glows green. Said with love.
; · ,Stonks, market crash
A green arrow rockets up past your head, or a red line plunges off the screen under PANIC SELL.
'Make it rain
Bills and coins pour down under MAKE IT RAIN. For the budget that finally got approved.
/Spreadsheet
A spreadsheet takes over the frame and cells fly around your head, turning into #REF! errors. Pairs with the spreadsheet background.
\Buzzword bingo
"Let's circle back" and "let's align on this" pop up around you and daub a bingo card until someone wins.
`Delulu
A pastel rainbow and clouds roll in under DELULU. For "this ships Friday".
ClickVibe check
A meter swings and lands on 10/10, or on 2/10 when the vibes are off.
ClickSide quest unlocked
"While you're in there..." A quest log pops up with one new task, then four more.
ClickScope creep
"One small change" crawls into frame. It brought its entire family.
ClickUnskippable cutscene
Letterbox bars and a locked Skip button, for "just some quick context".
Clickgit push --force
A terminal types the command, your teammates' commits vanish, and FORCE PUSHED TO MAIN slams in.
ClickIt was DNS
The haiku every on-call engineer knows, one line at a time, until the last one lands in red.
ClickFatal error
Your meeting ran into a problem and needs to restart. A full blue error screen, then you glitch back.
ClickNO.
A red stamp slams onto the frame. The polite version is unavailable.
ClickLeft on seen
Your message gets read at 2:14 PM, the typing dots give up, and a tumbleweed rolls through the chat.
ClickBug in production
A big bug crawls onto the frame in a red glow while the errors stack up.
ClickWorks on my machine
WORKS gets scribbled out and DOESN'T WORK lands on top. On yours, though.
ClickYou're absolutely right
A chat assistant apologizes and sends back the exact same code. Zero lines changed.
ClickThis is fine
Flames slowly fill the background while you stay perfectly calm.
ClickTo be continued
Your picture freezes, turns sepia, and an arrow slides in. Nothing was decided.
ClickPress X to doubt
The button pops up and gets mashed 40 times before anyone finishes the sentence.
ClickQuick chat?
An innocent calendar invite with no agenda, given the full horror-movie zoom.
ClickGreen status
A calm green dot says On track while the room cracks and falls apart around you.
ClickMoney printer go brrr
A printer by your shoulder shakes itself apart spitting out cash.
ClickMy two cents
Two pennies drop in. Footnote: $4.99, adjusted for inflation.
AutoRound 2, fight
Fight Night splits the meeting into rounds. Your bar drains over each one and fills back up when the next starts.
Z · XHit buttons
Take a chunk off your own bar or the meeting's. Empty yours for GAME OVER, theirs for a K.O.
AutoFinish the sprint
Flashes at five minutes left. Run over and it's sudden death, with red edges.
AutoK.O.
Ending on time knocks the meeting out. Ending early is a PERFECT.
Stays on your computer. Nothing to upload.
Your video stays put
The graphics and the background cut-out are drawn inside Chrome. No video, picture or name leaves your laptop.
Works where Chrome does
Google Meet, and the browser versions of Zoom and Teams. Pick On Air camera (Forgot) as your camera.
Free, with a small mark
A forgot.dev mark sits in a corner. That's the whole price.
Questions
Can the others in the call see it?
Yes. The graphics are drawn into your camera picture, so everyone in the call sees them, recordings included. Google Meet's own effects only change what's behind you; this adds the headline, the health bars and the forecast on top.
Why does my own text look backwards?
It doesn't with On Air. Meet mirrors your own preview, so text would read backwards to you, while everyone else sees it the right way round. The extension flips your own preview back while the On Air camera is on.
Does it work in Zoom and Teams?
In the browser versions of Zoom and Microsoft Teams, yes: pick On Air camera (Forgot) as your camera. The desktop apps don't load Chrome extensions.
Does it slow my laptop down?
Graphics alone cost very little. A replaced or blurred background is the heavy part, because it cuts you out of every frame; on an older laptop pick My room and keep just the graphics.
Is my video uploaded anywhere?
No. Everything happens inside Chrome on your computer, including the background cut-out. The extension sends one anonymous ping a day when a camera turns on (no name, no video, no ids), so we know it's being used.
Can I remove the forgot.dev mark?
The small forgot.dev mark is how a free tool pays for itself. Removing it will be a perk for Forgot customers.
What does Fill from my Forgot board do?
Forgot is a team calendar of who's out, who's on call and what's due. If your team uses it, one click fills the ticker with who's out today and turns Team Forecast into this week's real availability.
Made by Forgot, the calendar of who's out.
Forgot puts your team's vacations, public holidays and release dates on one board, so you see who's out before you promise a date. Then Team Forecast fills itself in.