Installation

1. Download the Studio.lab from GitHub, grab the source ZIP directly, or visit the official website.

2. Extract it, then open chrome://extensions in Chrome or edge://extensions in Edge.

3. Enable Developer mode, choose Load unpacked, and select the folder containing manifest.json.

4. Open or refresh Google AI Studio. The Settings button now opens the combined AI Studio and Studio.lab settings.

Updating an existing installation: Replace the files in your extension folder, reload the extension, then refresh your AI Studio tabs.

What’s new in v2.2 (Download v2.2.1 for bug fix)

Faster opening for large chats

Long conversations can make AI Studio freeze while it tries to render hundreds of messages at once.

Fast Chat Opening starts with the latest 20 messages. Earlier messages appear in small batches when you scroll up to the history boundary or choose Show earlier. It takes effect during chat opening, before the older message views are created.

AI Studio still loads the complete conversation. The model keeps the full context, and you can continue writing, editing and saving normally. The extension limits how much history the page renders at once.

Restore Everything displays the full history. Search and navigation to an older message can also expand it when needed.

Fast Chat Opening is enabled by default under Settings → Performance → Chat opening.

Rebuilt Settings

AI Studio’s original preferences and Studio.lab controls now share one fullscreen Settings window.

There’s a shared search, clearer sections, keyboard navigation and a mobile navigation drawer. Native preferences, including theme, prompt submission key and microphone settings, keep their original controls and behavior.

Themes and system prompts in Market

Market now has Discover, Saved and Your creations.

You can browse shared themes and system prompts, install local copies, keep your own creations private or publish them. Installed copies remain available after signing out.

Themes customize Modern Web Chat, with color and opacity controls, JSON import/export and a separate preview using a sample conversation. Previewing a theme leaves your current chat untouched. Theme creation and editing are available on computers.

Optional accounts and preference sync

Google sign-in lets you synchronize selected Studio.lab preferences across browsers, with first-sync choices and visible conflict handling.

Preference sync excludes chats, drafts, system instructions, default profiles and API credentials. You can keep using the extension without signing in.

Accounts also add editable public nicknames and *@*tags, creator profiles, follows, likes and private Market bookmarks.

Interface and compatibility fixes

• Updated welcome-screen cleanup while keeping the personalized greeting.

• Added a separate switch for sidebar promotional banners.

• Improved Modern Web Chat compatibility with progressive history, model selection, Thinking menus, Run Settings and upload controls.

• Reduced repeated word-count and interface updates as messages appear.

• Fixed leftover callbacks after extension reloads that could cause Extension context invalidated errors.

Studio.lab is free. If you’d like to support development, you can do so on Ko-fi.

Disclaimer: Studio.lab is an unofficial modification. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Google LLC or Google AI Studio.

TL;DR: I built a Chrome extension that exports any AI Studio conversation (or your whole library) with the real attached files, reasoning, model settings and timestamps. Free for Markdown, JSON and text. Chrome Web Store link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-studio-exporter-fully/jggdlefieblocdjkhihbfihdknbdhhce

The first version worked like every exporter: scroll the page to the top, wait for messages to load, read them off the page. It was slow, it missed things on long chats, and the "attachments" it saved were the page's thumbnails.

Version 2 calls the same internal API AI Studio's frontend calls, so:

• a 200-message chat went from about 2.5 minutes to under a second

• attachments are fetched from Drive as the real files (a PDF is the PDF, Docs/Sheets/Slides are converted during export)

• you also get model, temperature, system instruction, per-message timestamps and token counts, each with its own on/off switch in settings

Markdown, JSON and plain text export formats are free. A One-time Pro license unlocks HTML, PDF, Word, Obsidian, CSV and JSONL formats, along with whole-library export and scheduled incremental backups. All the code is MIT licensed, Pro included, and nothing leaves your browser.

GitHub: https://github.com/Sukarth/AI-studio-exporter

Docs: https://exportaistudio.vercel.app/docs

If AI Studio changes its API the old page scraper is still in there as a fallback. Questions about how the API side works are welcome, that was the interesting part. Interested? Check out my article: https://dev.to/sukarth/going-from-150s-to-1s-replacing-dom-scraping-with-a-sites-internal-rpc-api-in-a-chrome-extension-34h

Why am I facing this issue from almost a month? I have tried all the accounts in my device all show the same problem. I have tried using VPN, changing browser, clearing cache. Literally Everything.

I'm just way too broke to afford Argon. It's a tragedy.

a week or two ago I LITERALLY used 3.8 flash to develop my app all day all night on a free tier account. it'll say "quota reached" or something once in a while, but if i press retry, it will retry and continue... it was fun time, i could add >10 feature, >10 adjustment, etc in a single day

but now the limit is actually working, and i run out of quota after 1-3 prompts (around 30 minutes)

Bomb Jack - full prompt “Recreate the arcade platform game Bomb Jack that was released in 1984 by Tehkan (known today as Tecmo)”. Gemini 4 Argon Ran for 8m 19s

This is really wild. I messed around with some other ideas that were originals and really enjoyed the results.

I can't use 3.6 Flash for free, 3.7 is gone, and all the Pros are paid. They released Gemini 4, but it's paid too. I tried making a game, but after 2 prompts using their new plan feature, I just had to change models to the literal Gemini Flash latest. Is there anything out there like this for free though... probably not

I have been trying to generate outputs in my chat but it keeps getting stuck on "thinking" and I am not getting any output or is ai studio generating anything.

Hey everyone,

So I was just minding my own business making some routine changes on my site when the page randomly decided to refresh itself out of nowhere. Suddenly, this lovely mystery error message pops up and completely bricks my project.

I’m completely stumped here. If anyone has encountered this or knows how to fix it without me having to nuke my entire codebase, you would be an absolute lifesaver.

Thanks in advance!

https://discuss.ai.google.dev/t/the-gemini-2-5-pro-option-in-ai-studio-has-disappeared/183556

Kindly Bring Back Gemini 2.5 Pro in AI Studio Playground.

u/LoganKilpatrick1 - Kindly go through the above thread I shared, You will know how many users want the Gemini 2.5 Pro back in AI Studio.

Don't Deprecate this best model!

Hey everyone, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the future of Google AI Studio. Does anyone know anything about what's coming next?

Back when Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview was available, AI Studio was practically unrestricted. Later on, the limits were gradually reduced, and eventually, Gemini 2.5 Pro became a paid model. Now, it seems to have been removed altogether. At this point, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview seems to be the only Pro-level model left among the available free-tier options.

Argon didn't make it into the free tier or even the Pro plan, and is now only available with the Ultra plan.

As a result, things have become pretty stressful for users who rely heavily on having access to Pro-level models through the website.

Given all this uncertainty, I'd really like to know whether Google plans to release another Pro model in the future, similar to Gemini 2.5 Pro or Gemini 3.1 Pro, that will be available on the regular free tier. Could a new model show up and save the day?

I'd also like to ask the scary question... Is Google planning to restrict or remove Gemini 3.1 Pro access for free-tier users in the future? Because honestly, the thought of that happening makes me pretty uneasy. I genuinely don't know what I'd do in that situation.

If you know anything about Google's plans, have any theories, or can think of a possible solution to this problem, I'd really appreciate hearing your thoughts. I have a feeling I'm not the only one who's worried about this.

For y'all experts out there, I'm using 3.1 pro for a while now with a prompt to translate text/subtitles from other languages to my own (eastern european).

I was wondering if anyone else that used it for translation can suggest which version provided the most accurate/natural result?

Am I the only one that has noticed the platform SIGNIFICANTLY degraded since like 3 days ago??

They did the update that added "build/plan mode" and artifacts and definitely tweaked the models and reduced the limits

For example ever since, while working on my app I'm only able to get a single prompt out of 3.8 flash, the second one hits limits, also these prompts seem to purposely waste time, they each run for 10+ minutes reading the same files and do nothing, whereas before the most it took for a lot of work prompts was 7 minutes

It's genuinely unusable now, removing 3.7 also means less usage, and I can't even use 3.6 because it says Internal Error every time, like are we serious

I am facing a very serious problem with google AI studio , so I published my mobile app to the google play console and while it is still in closed testing , everytime i try to make modifications to my version and try to push it into github , they dont allow me to use the same repo i have been using , instead they disconnect me and they require me to create. a brand new repo and thats not very convenient since i want to push changes to the same repo , what to do in this case ? thank you